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What the flying fuck is positional effectiveness", index of early positional bla bla bla......

Extremely overrated by those who say he is a top 10 or top 20 of all time. I can name 10 Brazilian players who were better than him. Zizou was a fantastic player but he's already been overshadowed by much more prolific dribblers, passers, and goalscorers. As far as midfielders are concerned...

Why the emphasis on the mate?

Messi is not a metronomic passer like Xavi because that's not his style. But he has the best final pass in the world. There is no one better at linking the midfield to forwards than Messi, and he can do it in a false 9 role (Barcelona) or in a 10 role (Argentina). The fact that many of his...

Nope nope nope nope nope First of all this is the same crap from the start of last season Guess what? Muscles DO NOT make you slower They make you FASTER -- up until a certain point (extreme bodybuilding, which Messi is NOWHERE near) Look at the fastest men on the planet: They are all...

I think everyone here (no one in particular) is looking for a scapegoat and attacking Messi is sad because he was one of our best players during the Milan match. I don't see people criticizing the pathetic playmaking from our CMs or the lack of support from our other forwards nearly as much as...

Awesome distribution in the first half to Dani Alves, we should have scored a couple of those.

Are you just a troll or what? I'm a Barca supporter like most everyone here. I was just pointing out that Hudson reacts extravagantly to players from all teams, and I used Real Madrid to point he does not only praise Barcelona players. In fact, I remember Ray Hudson saying that Juan Roman...

You guys do know Hudson is on everyone's "dong". He is on Cristiano's dong, on Di Maria's dong, on Mesut Ozil's dong, Xavi's dong, Iniesta's dong, etc. That's just his thing.

SELL! I would rather have the money than this player. He can't keep possession, he can't tiki taka, he can't score, and he can't stay on his feet. He is usually a dead end.

I'm in agreement.

Argentina has produced great boxers and world champions over the years. Boxing is Argentina's most successful sport in the Olympics.

You missed all of my points entirely.

(a) Your statistics are misleading, irrelevant, and biased towards your argument. Those aren't basketball free throw percentages, which are done from the same spot. You cannot use statistics like that to make a claim that A > B; you can only say Messi takes more shots and a fewer percentage went...

Villa is nowhere near as good as Messi at finishing, passing, or dribbling. This team depends on Messi for nearly every creative offensive outburst. Messi (and Iniesta, sometimes) are the only midgets that can break a line and create goal scoring opportunities--Villa, Pedro, Xavi can't. The team...

You give me the impression of being a person who has never done any serious strength training in his life. You apparently know nothing about basic strength training and its affect on athletic performance. A person who does strength training will be stronger and more explosive than a person who...

Great post. See bold text above.

So you think pace is something that a professional athlete can lose for a limited number of games and then recover it? Or how about this instead: it was never lost, he just didn't have as many high speed open space runs as in other games.

I remember watching the press conference. It was either in Spanish or Catalan, and being a native Spanish speaker I remember the message that came across being as how if Messi looked slow to the reporters than it is a temporary thing. Pace is not something that really comes and goes. Once it is...