I’m a responsible, 50-year-old man with three grown up children, but when Lionel Messi played football for Barcelona, I might as well just have been an excited young boy.
That’s what watching Messi always did for me. Transported me back to that time of wonder, when dreams could still be made manifest.
He was, indeed is, football, in the most purest sense.
What I’ve always personally admired about him is the ability to keep his feet firmly on the ground despite his standing in the game.
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We only need look to Neymar as the prime example of how easy it is to waste your God-given talent.