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#1 Get back into ‘The Zone’
The zone in sporting terms is defined as a 'mental state of operation in which a person performing an activity is fully immersed in a feeling of energized focus, full involvement, and enjoyment in the process of the activity'. Multiple players throughout history have experienced it at one point or the other, with Pele’s coming in 1958 when he scored that wonder goal against Sweden in the World Cup final. Maradona had his in 1986 against England when he delivered one of the greatest individual performances in Wolrd Cup history.
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2012 Messi was in the zone, an absolute beast which destroyed all and sundry. The Argentine maestro scored a whopping 91 goals that calendar year (more than almost all clubs in Europe managed), breaking Gerd Muller’s 40-year record of 85 goals in the process.
The resultant effect was that Messi won the 2012 Ballon d’Or with a rather wide margin, getting almost half of the votes, as he was miles ahead of everyone else and was undisputedly the best player in the world.
Even though he has still maintained a more than decent goals return in recent years, they are nowhere close to the numbers he posted while he was in the zone, and to get acclaimed as the best in the world once more, Messi must find a way to get back there.
