From U9s in parks to Pep Guardiola’s champions, no one person has had such a vast impact on a major sport’s footprint as Barcelona’s superstar
There was some consolation this week for anyone feeling a little maxed-out by the relentless individual brilliance of Lionel Messi. We have at least found something he isn’t good at on a football pitch. It turns out Messi isn’t very good at punching Fabinho in the head.
Frankly, he’s terrible at it. The TV replays showed Messi doing something along these lines at the Camp Nou just before that mind-bending free-kick goal. Fabinho looked stunned at the time, but perhaps he was just shocked by the nature of the blow, a slappy, wristy thing executed with laughably poor technique, no follow through, no turn of the hips to engage the larger muscles, the kind of punch a cornered Jacob Rees-Mogg might throw fighting his way through an angry mob of undersized gingerbread men.
Written by Barney Ronay
This news first appeared on https://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2019/may/04/lionel-messi-remade-football-own-image-barney-ronay under the title “It really is Lionel’s world now: Messi has remade football in his own image | Barney Ronay”. Bolchha Nepal is not responsible or affiliated towards the opinion expressed in this news article.
