Laughing at the number of posts saying “ he’s not won a World Cup but he’s scored loads a champions league goals “ as if that’s some kind of insurmountable achievement. He played for one of the most dominant and powerful European sides of his era in Barcelona and he now plays for the richest club in Europe ffs.
We’ve seen first hand how easy it is for teams to smash goals in aplenty in that competition this season, unfortunately, and the whole competition has been geared towards helping about 8 teams get to the later stages by lining them up against low seeded sides. He’s had cannon fodder to score against like Celtic (7-0) to give one example.
To win a tournament that is only played every four years like the World Cup 3 times is the mark of greatness. Not a pidgeon shoot like the “champions” league. Messi doesn’t even have the most goals in that, Ronaldo does, or the best “ ratio” that some posters have mentioned, lewamdowski, Muller and di stefano all ahead of him.
Messi has been a great wee player to watch over the years but will never achieve what pele did , nor Maradona for that matter. Maradona made an ordinary Napoli win Serie A and led an average Argentina to World Cup glory. Messi has had the luxury of being in a world class team his whole career and when asked to take his club form to the world stage with Argentina folds under the pressure more often than not sadly.