Mess messes with U.S.

[Rollo Tamasi]

Ever wonder why Messi is so good?
Is he better than Maridona?

 

[Corn Pop]

Can you back that statement up with scripture.

 

[Rollo Tamasi]

Can you back that statement up with scripture.

Colossians 1:26;

 

[Willie T]

Who is Messi?

 

[Rollo Tamasi]

Who is Messi?

He's the guy Classik wishes he was.

 

[Barbarian]

Greatness is performing when it counts. And although I don't think it's over for Messi, he clearly wasn't one of the greats in the last cup go-round:

World Cup: Messi blows chance for greatness
After Götze had scored, Messi looked exhausted, a ghostly figure stalking the turf in dejection. An injury-time free-kick offered a final shot at redemption; he blasted high and wide. In four years, perhaps there will be another chance, but he will be 31 by then, and the 2005 Under-20 World Cup winning side on which this team is based will be fading. Messi had his chance and, wonderful player though he is, he blew it.
http://www.scotsman.com/sport/football/world-cup-messi-blows-chance-for-greatness-1-3475411

 

[Rollo Tamasi]

Greatness is performing when it counts. And although I don't think it's over for Messi, he clearly wasn't one of the greats in the last cup go-round:

World Cup: Messi blows chance for greatness
After Götze had scored, Messi looked exhausted, a ghostly figure stalking the turf in dejection. An injury-time free-kick offered a final shot at redemption; he blasted high and wide. In four years, perhaps there will be another chance, but he will be 31 by then, and the 2005 Under-20 World Cup winning side on which this team is based will be fading. Messi had his chance and, wonderful player though he is, he blew it.
http://www.scotsman.com/sport/football/world-cup-messi-blows-chance-for-greatness-1-3475411

You may be right.
But Messi ain't through yet.
Many people in history have to rise from the ashes before they succeed to greatness.

 

[Barbarian]

Maradonna, for example,

CHICAGO— Diego Armando Maradona was simply the best, and the worst, soccer player of his generation. Beauty laced with poison, genius flawed by corruption, joy bedeviled by greed.


When the news broke of his latest flirtation with drugs, I thought of the 7-year-old Mexican boy with whom I had watched Maradona's last, astonishing 90 minutes for Argentina against Nigeria last weekend. Maradona was the apple of that child's eye, the role model, the aspiration.


How do you tell such a child to sort the good from the self-destructive. How did we tell ourselves, when we first set eyes on the genius, or our own sons when they were drawn to his flame. Copy the good, reject the bad? An easy parental maxim ignored by all of us in our youth?...

Maradona's interpretation of the word cheat is different from yours and mine. He had grown into the most evocative cry of the Argentine soul since Evita Perón, and he had been put on a pedestal by the nation's head of state, Carlos Saúl Menem. That is not conjecture. President Menem told us this himself when he flew to Milan for the last World Cup and bestowed on his little hero the honor of "ambassador to all the world of sport."


Menem's generosity backfired. When Maradona fled drug charges and a paternity suit in Naples, Menem welcomed him, suffered the indignity of Maradona's further arrest for cocaine abuse and trafficking in Buenos Aires, and still gauged public opinion to be that Maradona should escape the law and not go to prison but be rehabilitated by presidential decree.


Maradona thanked him with a vile tongue. He courted a future in Fidel Castro's Cuba, then in Japan, then the United States. Each door was closed to him.
http://www.nytimes.com/1994/07/01/sports/01iht-rob.html

 

[Rollo Tamasi]

Flawed human beings.
What are we to do?