#5 To never again play with Higuain
Trending
Gonzalo Higuain is many things. Among them, he is the only player in the history of mankind to miss an easy chance in each of the three finals that he has played in since the 2014 World Cup.
He might have scored a blinder of a goal out of nowhere against Belgium in the World Cup—in a game where Messi was nearly invisible—but that doesn’t matter. What matters is that he misses in the final and denies Messi the opportunity to become the greatest ever.
Gonzalo Higuain is to Lionel Messi what Brexit is to the British youth: a disaster. And, hence, Lionel Messi has decided that he has had enough.
With his retirement, he will no longer have to play with the Napoli man and face the sorrow that he faced after losing the final—which was more than the sadness the audience felt when Will Smith had to kill his dog in ‘I am Legend.’
