Why is Messi’s American adventure with Inter Miami best example of his greatness
What can be said about a player who is considered the greatest of all time that hasn’t been said before? Perhaps we can explore how he’s making others great.
I will give a disclaimer here which is to say that this is one part ode to Lionel Messi and one part analysis of an aspect of his career that to my mind has not been discussed. I have to the best of my knowledge been accurate in quotation and the use of statistics, but this remains largely my opinion of the man I believe to be the greatest player ever to touch a football.
I can’t say that I remember clearly when I first saw him play, though many of my friends and teammates had already begun to tell me about him. At the time I was hopeful of a career in football myself and so like Lionel Messi, my Saturdays and Sundays were mostly spent playing the game for my club rather than watching it on television. I do, however, remember very clearly the first time that I saw him score. Incidentally, it was his very first Champions League goal which Google reminded me was scored on November 2nd, 2005, at the Nou Camp in Barcelona against Panathinaikos of Greece. He was 18 years old at the time and I recall the English commentator screaming, “Remember the name” just after he had deftly lobbed the ball over a helpless Greek goalkeeper with his left boot. What many may not remember, is that just a few minutes before, he had scored effectively the same goal, except with his right boot, only to have it disallowed for being off-side. ‘This boy is different’, I thought.
Yet, I’ll be honest, I wasn’t convinced. His talent was plain to see make no mistake, but I remember thinking in those early days that he held the ball too long, such that space often closed on his teammates before his
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