The GOAT continues to rewrite football history

[Shussainshah]

It's was a Crazy start for messi. One of the famous quote I remember marcelo said don't angry messi if you make them angry your team are in trouble. Mbappe score 2 goal Haaland score 2 goal but people expect messi can score only penalty or taping but they show who is the goat of this sport and score a beautiful Hatrick.  2 beautiful goal outside of the box and 1 tapin . I hope messi can continue this form so they can win this tournament.  Argentina are already Favourites for this worldcup but they all depend on Messi and good news is messi score Hatrick and then sub off so they can rest and prepare for the next match

[crwth]

Hmm. I think if you were to base it on the current era, yes, he is the goat, but there are a lot of historical comparisons to eras like Pele.

Anyway, what I think we should hear from the teammates as well, like the leadership, mentality, and the clutch moments that would matter. I think this debate with Ronaldo and other legends is still ongoing.

[EluguHcman]

Lionel Messi  (The GOAT) has also again shows that he still has it and should never be compared to any player in the world because there has never been and will never be any player on earth that will or will ever be better than Lionel Messi, there is also no player on earth that holds individual award than Lionel Messi and there will never be.

With all these your hype on Lionel Messi for his historical football records, he of course deserves the awards for he had invested so much of energies and skills in his unique ways and had achieved the greatest recognitions that other footballers had not been able to reach the same height.

Lionel Messi had also proved his passion for football which is why he had still been on the table despite his age now.
But I must say that you are an hypocrite with the hypes saying no one will ever in the history to attain or break the historical record of the O.G. So you don't believe in the greatest future?

I hope your child don't grow up, become a footballer and hear you saying there will never be a footballer to be better than the great Lionel Messi. Don't bewitch or look down on the upcoming generation my dear. Some will be born and even plays like the AI.  . Don't let your child feel disappointed of you with this over hypes.

[Fivestar4everMVP]

Lionel Messi has shown to the world once again for the outmost time and being the only player to have participated in the FIFA world cup 6th times, at thirty-eight (38) years he has once again showed why he should be considered as the Greatest player of all-time (GOAT) with an outstanding performance of 9.4 rating, 80 minutes played, 3 goals scored and 5 shots against Algeria before walking off the pitch with the Man of the Match (MOTM) award once again.

Lionel Messi  (The GOAT) has also again shows that he still has it and should never be compared to any player in the world because there has never been and will never be any player on earth that will or will ever be better than Lionel Messi, there is also no player on earth that holds individual award than Lionel Messi and there will never be.

The result and performance of theis current FIFA world cup should end the debate and comparison of messi with any other player. Congratulations to the GOAT on securing the Argentine side with a victory and a bargged 3 point

I am  also a very die hard fan of Lionel Messi, and in this post, you were making a lot of sense until you began or started saying that there will never be any player in the world better than Lionel Messi, this is absolutely a very wrong thing to say because Lionel Messi is not God, he is the best football as of today and I understand, but never make such statement that there will never be any greater footballer in the world, saying things like this is outright disrespect and disregard for the future and coming generations.

Your son or my son could rise up in the future to become a better player than Lionel Messi is today after Lionel messi and many of us are long gone, stop limiting the coming generations from doing better, just same way we shouldn't throw stones into the market because you never know if it's your mother the stone will hit.
In the future, someone will definitely rise up to become far better than Lionel Messi but for today, I agree that he is the best.

[SmartCharpa]

Isn't this just an over-hype. Don't get me wrong, I love Messi. He is one of my fav players of all time. And yes, I consider him the GOAT because of his numerous achievements. But you can't say he is undisputed because of just this one game. Let's see his overall performance in the tournament before we jump into conclusions.

Maybe Algeria is a bad matchup for him, and he completely dominated because the game was in his favor (didn't watch the game BTW). So let's not just use this 1 game to draw our conclusions.

Algeria failed to withstand the pressure of Argentina, we can’t even compared the performance of both sides, yet some people think Messi can do this against every team he plays against in this World Cup. This is just an over hyped in my opinion, Ronaldo scored a hat trick in the 2018 World Cup against Spain, and nobody hyped him the way they are hyping Messi just because he scored a hat trick in the first game of the World Cup.

However, Leo Messi broke the record to be become the oldest player to register a hat trick in a single World Cup. Mbappe also did the same thing in the 2022 World Cup final against Argentina, and the internet does not hype him this way. This is his last World, they should allow him to enjoy his last games of the tournament, people are drawing too much conclusions after the hat trick in the first game.

[Hispo]

Sure, Leonel Messi is one of the most important assets with comes to Argentinian Football and perhaps one of the most important people when comes to football worldwide, there is no question about it.
But in the same manner we are praising him today and we believe he is invincible, the next generations are going to give up other legends who will be compared to Messi, and one of them will eventually challenge his legend.
Records are supposed to be broken, after all.

And I am not the kind of person who idolize other human beings.
Credits where credit is due, Messi is a supper star and a very important part of Argentina. He is just just a human being, like anyone of us, I would not bow before him. 

[DiMarxist]

Messi performance yesterday was just something special and it could only come from someone who is special like him. Scoring a hatrick in the opener of the world cup is something very special. He was the youngest Argentina player to score back then in the 2006 world cup and in 2026 he is once again the oldest Argentina player to score in the world cup. This only shows that players like Messi comes only Once in a long while, this shows that Messi is the greatest player of all time for those still doubting. Let's see how Ronaldo will perform against DRC in few minutes time.

[Asiska02]

Messi has always proven himself to be the savior of the Argentine team and has always delivered when needed, the hype for Messi should be reduced. I love both players (Messi and Ronaldo) they are exceptional in their different ways and we should always show our respect for them due to the history they have created in football.

Both players are good in their own ways and I haven’t seen them publicly wanting to show superiority over one another, it is always their fans that are making it look like a competition. Both of them are greatest of all time in their own time and their time happens to come by the same period which is why this comparison will never stop. Even though they don’t show it publicly that they’re in a competition with one another, how they see their fans act online will trigger them to want to break the record of the other one if already created in order to also have an edge against the other. These are what the fans like about football and they’re both living up to the task to make it memorable for their fans to get to gist and argue about all the time on who is the best player amongst them.

[JoyMarsha]

This is a well-known fact that Messi is the goat, many people know. I see no reason to debate this, for Messi being the goat. He has many times made new history in football, I will commend him on that for pushing through good football at the age of 38.

In the current World Cup, all eyes are on him, to do wonders in it as he knows how, to carry the weight of his fellow teammates to the semi-finals or finals of the World Cup.

[Findingnemo]

Stop worshipping the people, be it a great football player or a good dancer, just don't do it because they exactly want you to go crazy and them and start fued with someone in the discussion of who is the great player of all time and blah blah. Messi is a great player that is a fact and no one can change but he is the best of all might be debatable and we can't even come into any conclusion because of different era and different level of competitveness involved in each game.

[OsaiEmma]

Isn't this just an over-hype. Don't get me wrong, I love Messi. He is one of my fav players of all time. And yes, I consider him the GOAT because of his numerous achievements. But you can't say he is undisputed because of just this one game. Let's see his overall performance in the tournament before we jump into conclusions.

Maybe Algeria is a bad matchup for him, and he completely dominated because the game was in his favor (didn't watch the game BTW). So let's not just use this 1 game to draw our conclusions.

Really? Are you seriously  saying  Messi is overhyped? This statement will only mean highest  form  of disrespect  to the GOAT him self, If only you consider  him great  player as you've said you'll probably  not say he's  overhyped  and may be used another  phrase like overstretch, at his Age he still manege to put out a performance  that only one or two players  at there prime could do and you consider  him overhyped? It's Messi we are talking  about here and not just any other random  player.
 
However, Algeria are not just a small team as you may think they are among  the top country teams in Africa, did you realize  the great spain played  an African  team and didn't get a goal? Only if they had Messi they would have gotten  at least  one, one game isn't enough  to conclude  what about Messi? I mean haven't  you seen enough? What else do you  want to see?

As I said before. Messi is the best ever, the greatest of all.....time. But not because of one good game, but because of his achievements, his commitment to the game, his success, his contributions to the team, and his composure. I love Messi, not because he is the best, but because he's such a great player, and yet humble and disciplined on and off the pitch.

But I can't just come out here and start saying Messi is the goat, especially in this competition when it's just starting. What happens if maybe he had flopped in the game, are we going to call him a flop then? Cause he had flopped in some games. So that's my point. He's the GOAT, noted, but I won't conclude that just from a single game in a full competition.

Anyways I love Messi, both as a player and as a human being.

[Outhue]

Stop this already, there is always a GOAT when it comes to football since the old days when we don't have colour TV screens, saying that this Messi will remain undisputed is over exaggerating, he is a very good player but new ones will be burn in the future, they too will be the new GOAT, do you know that small kids who knows how to play football all want to be like Messi and Ronaldo?

Also don't forget that there are many pro players who are great in their own time, football doesn't start from Messi, there are greater players before him too, they were all GOAT, the only difference is they are old now, or dead already, there will always be a new GOAT.

[TopTort777]

Why dont you all football fans dont make all discussions in one FIFA World Cup topic, but instead create multiple topics as soon as something unusual happens during tournament? There are already like 5-6 topics on first page, as well as you have major football discussion topic.

Anyway, I want to congratulate scouts, coaches and Messi parents, who have found him, believed in him, supported him. It was a miracle how among million kids who play football, Messi was noticed, given chance and his career started to develop. So now we have a goat whos achievements will be unbeaten for many years.