#1 He is Leo
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Now for the final point—and perhaps the most important one of them all. Lionel Messi is a phenomenon. Some say that he is a force of nature, but I don’t think that is accurate because Lionel Messi is the nature.
When Lionel Messi sets foot on a football pitch and plays alongside everyone else, you begin to realise something after a while. Every move that he makes, every chance that he creates, every goal that he scores… it’s just… nature.
On the pitch, Messi is the nature and what he does are forces of it. According to his will, the other players move around. And according to his desire, the changes happen. At times, the earth reminds us of her powers with natural disasters; Messi does that too when his raging tempest consumes the opponents.
You see, a player like that… it is very difficult to put a lid on. After all, one can only go as far as making shelters to save themselves from the wrath of nature. And even then, they’d have to pray for it to not breach them.
But Messi will breach his opponents, at least for a couple more years.