The 2024 Major League Soccer season has officially begun, and Inter Miami is off to a perfect start with a 2-0 win over Real Salt Lake, but the star who understandably stole the show was Lionel Messi. .
Goals from Robert Taylor and Diego Gomez gave Gerardo Martino's team the win in Fort Lauderdale. After years of turmoil since the team's inception, David Beckham and Inter Miami fans will be celebrating this classic victory.
Beckham's franchise got off to a slow start, but maybe it's finally getting somewhere.
I would like to suggest that it is due to the hard work of Phil Neville, an extraordinary leader, who laid the foundations before Messi's arrival. I can't quite wrap my head around what new level this Argentine player unlocked under the guise of a “fizzer”, but it simply wasn't meant to be.
And perhaps that was a good thing for humanity. Because it only took one game for Messi to remind us all of how ridiculously indestructible he is by inventing a completely unnecessary and completely outrageous new skill.
No one likes to admit it, but it's been a long time since we've seen the 8-time Ballon d'Or wonder winner pick up the ball wherever he wants, slip past several defensive lines, skate down the field and set up. Either a co-worker or yourself who have become extremely bored.
No matter how much I read Ray Hudson's absurd commentary, it never made me feel better. It's completely unfair that, despite Messi's greatness, we are constantly reminded that we will never be as talented or as close to immortal as he was.
But his latest stunt is so utterly ridiculous that we can't help but throw our hands up, laugh, and admire his great talent.
Tired of his usual style of skinning defenders alive and shoving their jaws to the floor, Messi came up with a new skill in which he disguised himself as an injured player, avoiding obstacles and rolling uncomfortably across the deck.
Upon seeing such an obstruction, most players would simply stop, pausing play to allow their opponent to receive treatment, or change direction and play in the opposite direction.
But Messi is not most players. And I'm really grateful.
Rather than do what most people do, Messi put his immortality and completely rewired brain on display for all of us to see.
After taking on one defender and finding himself in the path of a car as he went inside, the 36-year-old broke through the path simply by dipping the ball over the player who was rolling in pain on the deck. , then bunny-hopped over the players. His shot went off.
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This is probably the rudest and nicest thing we've seen in years. Quite literally, it's an invasion from outer space.
MLS and the Chase Stadium crowd witnessed history. This may be the first time in history that an injured player was sent to the shop while writhing in pain on the floor.
Seriously, it's genius. And it's hilarious. Whether it's feigning an injury and needing a magic spray, or being ambushed by a pitch intruder and tearing both his anterior cruciate ligaments at once, our peaceful king doesn't worry one bit and does it anyway. I'll send you
A long heel turn. WWE should think about grabbing him after that match.
No one is safe from Messi and his immortality. That immortality is now a murder punch that's beyond amazing and hilariously rude.
Written by Mitch Wilkes
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