For almost a decade and a half, writers around the world have been hunting for the right words to describe this man who was born to make us fall in love with the game, over and over again.
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Owing to the same reason, you won't find anything here that can surprise you or anything that you haven't seen or heard before about Lionel Messi. Just when it was starting to look like Zinedine Zidane's Real Madrid were setting themselves up for world domination, Messi decided to go full GTA with Barcelona.
He got into the driving seat and has driven on to rob defenders of their dignity and teams of their willingness to fight. Upending defences, causing arch-rivals to eat the humble pie... yes the whole deal. Leo Messi is at it again.
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Messi has amassed 20 goals and 10 assists from 22 appearances so far this season. This man is quite simply, the gold standard by which other footballers ought to be gauged. He has a Whoscored.com average match rating of 8.82.
If Luis Suarez was on top of his game, a lot more out of the 59 chances that Messi has created in total would have been converted to assists for the undisputed king of football.
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With the recent addition of Philippe Coutinho and the return of Ousmane Dembele, Messi and Barcelona are only going to get better. And that's bad news for all save the Catalans who have a lot of baskets of popcorn to invest their money on.
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Shambhu Ajith
Shambhu is a European and international football journalist at Sportskeeda who focuses on previews, listicles and news articles. An ardent Manchester United supporter since before his teenage years, he started following the Red Devils by age 10 watching MUTV on television. Shambhu is also a highly-revered rapper and a playback singer on Spotify, having a whopping 1 million monthly listeners.
For his articles, Shambhu believes in triple-checking every piece of information, relying on trusted websites like Transfermarkt and Opta, and staying away from speculative publications. He believes that his law degree helped him to be more articulate and meticulous with his content and one of his core strengths is seamlessly involving emotion in his write-ups owing to the love for the sport. For Sportskeeda, has done exclusive interviews with Spanish legends Gaizka Mendieta and Fernando Morientes so far, and his articles boast of a huge readership of close to 50 million.
Shambhu's favorite footballer is Lionel Messi, and the Argentine attaining glory in 2022 is his favorite FIFA World Cup moment. He believes only Kylian Mbappe and Erling Haaland could replicate Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo's rivalry in the years to come. His favorite manager is Sir Alex Ferguson due to the Scot's unmatched longevity at the top.
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