Denis Balbir deciphers the very special year 2023 of Lionel Messi and his painful divorce at PSG.
“What can we say about the year 2023 of Lionel Messi other than that we are not at all in the same type of career twilight as Cristiano Ronaldo. Over time, I have the impression that the Argentinian is less loved, less appreciated. It is perhaps the French prism which wants this, the little jealousy towards the World Cup in Qatar. This little voice which tells us that everything has been done so that Messi’s Argentina is crowned world champion with an incalculable number of penalties…
This season, Lionel Messi won the Ballon d’Or. A discussed ball. La Pulga now has eight and this is not the first time that it has been said that he stole the title from someone else. This was also the case in 2021 when Robert Lewandowski should have been crowned. We are not debating the fact that he is a great champion. It undoubtedly is. But Messi is so different from Cristiano Ronaldo: not the same style of play, not the same size, not the same personality…
That Lionel Messi arouses less admiration is almost logical. In the football faculty, he was and is superior to CR7 but he does not have the same charisma and certainly not the same love of the profession as Cristiano. Messi is experiencing a small end that the PSG episode accentuated. Where Cristiano Ronaldo always gave his all wherever he went, Messi came to Paris backwards, without wanting to be there. He didn’t make Parisians want to like him. He says that France did not celebrate it but I think he also has his share of responsibility…”
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2023-12-25 23:23:11
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