Lionel Messi – 5 things that come to mind?

#1 The greatest player I have seen

GOAT?

Yes, that is right. I have been watching football for a while – over 10 years, to be precise – and I have had the privilege to witness a number of star players including the likes of Raul Gonzalez, Thierry Henry, Zinedine Zidane, Pavel Nedved, Luis Figo, Steven Gerrard and the likes.

All of them had something unique about them but Lionel Messi is something else entirely.

Despite watching so many legends – and some of them at their peaks – it puts me in a place where I think could make a reasonable comparison and conclude that Lionel Messi is the best I have ever seen.

It is not just the dribbles or the goals or the passes… it is just… everything. When you combine all the abilities of the Argentine and do it on a regular basis, it becomes difficult to disagree that he is perhaps the greatest player our time has seen.

When he is at his pace, it is as though time just stops and he goes in the ‘Flash mode’ where he sees everything else in slow-mo and gets the better of his ‘enemies’.

Messi is just Messi and there is perhaps none better than him.