At last a flaw!
He is not perfect after all!
Okay, he can score goals. Barrowloads of them. Just the 91 of them in 2012.
With his left foot, his right foot. The little genius can also head them in. Just ask Manchester United fans who witnessed him raise his tiny 5 foot 7 inches frame off the ground to head the ball past Van Der Sar in the 2009 Champions League Final.
And if he is not also hitting the back of the net via free-kicks and penalties he is setting them up for his team mates.
Regardless of this, I’m afraid the world looked on in horror, the gasps could be heard from Quebec to Queensland, as Lionel Messi picked up the 2013 Ballon D’Or as the world’s best.
Not at the fact he won. Again. Fourth year in succession in fact.
No, it was his suit and bow tie combo.
Black with white polka dots! Oh dear, maybe a quick call to Gok Wan wouldn’t have been out of the question. Ok I’m being churlish but come on, he’s just so damn good, it’s becoming so damn irratating!
The Barca ace with the boyish smile and talent which must only have came from the laps of ALL the Gods, blushed as he accepted the award. To think the Argentine is still only 25-years-old. The mind simply boggles at what else he can achieve before he hangs up his baby-sized boots.
There is still a school of thought out there which claims fantastic that he is, the Rosario raised phenomenon will never be classed as the greatest player ever to set foot on a football field until he holds aloft the World Cup like Pele and Messi’s hero Maradona.
However that theory is beginning to crumble, especially when you consider that the standard of play in modern day Champions League is a few notches higher than international football and it is on the stage of UEFA’s grandest competition where Lionel Messi has stamped his class on a regular basis.
Whilst I continue to be charmed by his sublime skills and desire to play as if he was having a kick about with his schoolboy mates on the dusty back streets of Rosario, I can see the argument that says perhaps it was time for someone else to claim the Ballon D’Or.
Cristiano Ronaldo is not everyone’s cup of tea, his prima donna antics are the opposite of Messi’s down to earth character, but the fact remains the Portuguese superstar secured a La Liga medal in 2012 as Real Madrid were crowned kings of Spain and Barca won zip.
And Messi’s team mate Andres Iniesta produced sublime showings all year round and was the undoubted star of the greatest side international football has ever seen, as Spain won the Euros.
Iniesta is easily the best midfielder on the globe, not since Zidane was in his pomp have we been given the pleasure of watching someone as graceful on a football field.
But Gerard Pique said it all, when he suggested Ronaldo is the best human footballer, but Messi is from another galaxy. Judging from that suit and bow tie combo, the aliens have a lot to learn about fashion.
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