Messi: The Greatest Ever To Play The Beautiful Game

For more than ten consecutive seasons in the world

of football, there have been arguments about who is

the best player and greatest of all time, between C.

Ronaldo, great footballers in the past and Lionel

Messi. It is important to note that these arguments

started when Lionel Messi began to dominate

football.

Just so you know, Lionel Messi is from Argentina,

and Maradona who is one of the all time greatest

footballers is from Argentina too, and this has

always made football lovers in Argentina compare

Messi with the Late Diego Maradona. Some football

analyzers also compare Messi with the Brazilian all

time greatest player, Pele. Coming down to club

football, Messi is always compared to Christaino

Ronaldo by the media, but these comparisons are

not as realistic as they sound because Messi is not

just a goal scorer or play maker as it is the case

for some football greats. The following reasons why

he is considered the best will leave you

dumbfounded.

Right now, we about to do the one thing the

Legendary Pep Gaurdiola asked us not to do, which

is “Don't write about him, don't try to describe him,

just watch him”.

1. 91 Goals in a Calendar year: Sometimes when

people talk of impossiblities, I quickly remember

Lionel Messi's astonishing 91 goals in a calendar

year. As a football fan, how many centuries do you

think it would take up coming football players and

stars to equal this Lionel Messi's unbelievable

record. Not 50 goals, 60 goals, 75 goals or 80

goals, but 91 solid goals. This will go down as one

major or solid reason why Lionel Messi is the

GOAT.

2. 4 consecutive Ballon D'or/Golden Ball Awards:

Sometimes goal statistics make Lionel Messi look

like he is on the same page with some goal

scorers. Well, if you feel this way, you have to take

a look at Lionel Messi's flabbergasting Ballon D'or

records.

Some star players like Ronaldinho did not even win

up to 4 Ballon D'ors, but as shocking as it seems,

the Argentina won the top most prize in football for

4 consecutive seasons, uninterrupted. He made this

record from the 2009-2012 football seasons. Lionel

Messi also has the highest number of Ballon D'ors.

He received his 6th Ballon D'or/Golden ball on the

3rd of December, 2019 after an amazing

performance in the Champions League, and La-liga,

with one super goal against Liverpool in their Semi-

final Champions League clash.

3. 6 Golden Boots: Christiano Ronaldo is a goal

machine, I agree, but how on Earth did Lionel Messi

win 6 Golden Boots while Ronaldo still has 4

golden boots. Even Ronaldo himself confirmed that

the ‘Golden Boot award’ is the best award anybody

can win as a goal scoring player.

Remember that the Golden Boot Award unlike the

Ballon D'or is not decided by votes. The highest

goal scorer in European top Leagues wins the

award. So, Lionel Messi's Golden Boots show the

reason why he is the ultimate goal scoring machine

and not C. Ronaldo. This is coming from Golden

Boot Award statistics.

4. Highest Assist: Some of you may not know that

Lionel Messi has the all time highest number of

assists in the history football. Few week ago, the

world of football celebrated Messi as the first

footballer in the history of football to reach 1000

goal contributions. Lionel Messi has a mind

blowing 306 assist and still counting.

The Argentina also has 695 goals and still counting

to top it all.

Judging from the above, Lionel Messi is the

Greatest Footballer Of All Time because no player

on Earth in the past and present has any of these

four records.