** World Cup 2026 - USA, Canada, Mexico Thread **

¡¡QUE VIVA ESPAÑA JODER!!

Can we please abandon this insane notion that Messi is the goat?

0 ****ing shots as a team in 120 minutes in the finals

Get ****ed, bum

I dislike pretty much all GOAT arguments & discussions but the easy rebuttal for that one is that he's 30 ****ing 9 and still performing at the very highest level in a sport where almost everyone has tailed off badly by 35.

he is, however, Argentinian & so he can still go & get ****ed

They had 2 shots, but also he is 20+ years into a career where he's led his teams to literally every trophy worth winning.

If it isn't him, who is it?

only incontrovertible GOATs

donald bradman
jahangir khan
phelps
gretzky

maybe bolt, duplantis

The GOAT argument died a long time ago.

A 39 year old dragging an OLD TRASH roster to a World Cup final and losing to a far superior team is somehow a negative now. Spain brought Pedri, Nico Williams, and Merino off the bench. Argentina played a 38 year old CB.

Lots of people are really ****ing stupid. Anyone that thinks this WC somehow makes Messi's legacy lesser has a mental illness.

Joey Chestnut

Spain was clearly a far superior and deeper team and Messi was one game away from the boot at his old age. Definitely agree you can't expect him to carry it again on his own.

Having said that im happy stop seeing him take corners for the sole purpose of giving him the ball back immediately. While it has its advantages he used that far too often this world cup.

I like that football for the Argentinians genuinely seems like it's about life and death. What's the point of spending all this time on it if the guys playing are not borderline insane about it?

Hakuho also. 45 sumo championships will never be beaten. Everyone racks up way too many injuries to ever come near that.

I blame the coach for this

also not immediately subbing him out after the red was completely idiotic, he's a liability on defense and sucks at penalties

Yeah, subbing out Messi in the WC final would definitely not get you whacked back at home, right?

Hmm will check him out. I stopped following Sumo when I left the UK as I can’t find it on the TV out here. That was about the time he debuted.

I spent 5 mins researching & saw this - have you seen?

https://www.reddit.com/r/Sumo/comments/1...

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GG, see you all in four years.

player hater of the year oat

(we can abandon the goat discussion and had finally done so 4 years ago, thankfully, when team blind ran out of arguments)

Messi crying needs to be a meme.

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What is the deal with Haaland - how come England couldn't give him a bunch of money like England does with cricketers to make them play for England?

Is there anything more lol bad than the hand over the mouth thing?

paredes

Well... he has many bunches of money from Man City & Nike. Many bunches. More per month than any England cricketer would get per year

& he's also been playing for Norway since he was 14 & was playing for their senior team at age 18 iirc, which was before he left Norway to play overseas.

Besides Techno Viking, Haaland is also possibly the most Norwegian looking dude you could come up with.

Little late to the party but thank **** Argentina didn't win. Disgraceful performance followed by disgraceful behavior by Paredes(who else).

Yeah man, Messi isn't the goat. He had 0 shots on target in this world cup final therefore everything he did before this final means nothing.

0 shots on target in wc final > 8 ballon d'ors.

I mean theoretically he could have played for either country, but he wanted to play for Norway. Same as Olise wanting to play for France and Musiala wanting to play for Germany.

Also Robbie Earle wanting to play for Jamaica and Chris Birchall wanting to play for Trinidad and Tobago.