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FC Barcelona – Lionel Messi Pulls a Disappearing Act
You’re allowed to have bad matches, but when your teams is at its worst, you expect Lionel Messi, or any big star with the ability to make a difference, to change the momentum of a match through some stroke of brilliance. Nothing worked for Barcelona on the terrible San Siro pitch, with so much blame to share around the team it’s impossible to throw just one player under the bus.
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Messi vs Ronaldo – The Difference in Handling Pitch Invaders
The usual depiction of Lionel Messi is of this humble, down to earth person only focused on football. Cristiano Ronaldo is usually portrayed as arrogant, self-absorbed, self-indulgent and quite busy thinking about how he is perceived by others. According to the two handling the same pitch invader in Granada matches, the opinions and prejudice might be wrong.
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Lionel Messi – It’s All About the Numbers
It s not always right to measure footballers through statistics, when even goals might be misleading regarding a players’ ability, but Lionel Messi passing the 300 career goals mark for Barcelona is nothing but a tale of greatness, when there’s a good chance he still hasn’t reached his peak as a player.
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FC Barcelona – Lionel Messi Doesn’t Stop in Garbage Time
The Spanish La Liga is so over, and we’re only in the middle of January. Barcelona are on cruise control for the rest of the season while bigger challenges await in the Champions League, although it doesn’t mean Lionel Messi is going to stop scoring.
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Cristiano Ronaldo Will Always Be Behind Lionel Messi
Unless their careers suddenly take a very different path in the next few years, it’s safe to assume that despite Cristiano Ronaldo winning everything possible in club football and being as good as humanly possible on the football pitch, he’ll eventually be remembered as the second best player of his era, behind Lionel Messi.
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FC Barcelona – Lionel Messi & David Villa are Just Fine
One of the theories revolving the issue of David Villa not featuring too much in the Barcelona lineup has to do with some earlier moments this season, when Villa and Lionel Messi seemed to be having some tense moments together on the field. Fast forward a few months, and you realize that when everyone scores, everything looks quite happy.
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Lionel Messi, Now Also in the Spanish Dictionary
If it’s in the dictionary, it has to be true, right? It’s always amazing the spread of the Lionel Messi phenomenon reaches to. The latest installment in the growing craze around the Barcelona footballer is an inclusion of a new word in a certain Spanish dictionary, Inmessionante.
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FC Barcelona & Lionel Messi – Not Everything Lasts Forever
There’s nothing to suggest there isn’t anything cosmic about the connection between Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi. Always the feeling that someone’s chasing someone, trying to outdo the other. Ronaldo got a raise? Messi finally signed his new contract with Barcelona.
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Cristiano Ronaldo on Lionel Messi, Jose Mourinho and Manchester United
It never gets boring with Cristiano Ronaldo, who has some very interesting words to say about his “biggest rival”, Lionel Messi, his manager Jose Mourinho and about the upcoming Real Madrid – Manchester United Champions League clash, seeing he’s picked up on a thing or two from the man who coaches him.
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Pedro Needs to Start Scoring For Barcelona Like He Does With Spain
He wasn’t a major part of the treble in 2009, but after Samuel Eto’o and Thierry Henry left, Pedro seemingly came out of nowhere to become one of the best wingers in the world, helping Barcelona win two more league titles and another Champions League final, not to mention his success with the national team.