This Monday Lionel Andres Messi, the best footballer on the planet, received his seventh Golden Ball at the gala held in Paris, largely because it was the great figure of the Copa América 2021 that he achieved with the Argentine national team, where in the final they beat local Brazil 1-0 at the Maracaná Stadium itself.
When the award was announced, a video clip was broadcast with some scenes shot in Rosario, the Argentine city where “Pulga” is from, where a local inhabitant was forceful: “Here in Argentina, because he was not winning anything with the National Team, he was criticized by all journalists”.
Immediately, a fragment of a ruthless criticism of the journalist appeared Flavio azzaro for Messi at the 2018 World Cup: “Yes, that Messi leaves the Selection. Messi never made the Argentine national team win important games“Was his phrase after Argentina lost 3-0 against Croatia in a match to be forgotten.
That Selection would end up saying goodbye to the World Cup in the round of 16 against France, with Messi at the center of criticism by millions of fans and many journalists, who like Azzaro destroyed the Argentine star, minimized him for not having achieved until that moment titles in the Major with the national team and asked to leave the team.
Today, with the seventh Ballon d’Or at home (no one has won as many as he, Cristiano is second with five), with that Copa América in the AFA, happy in his new club and loved by all the Argentine people, It is a good moment to review all the criticisms that fell at the time against the “10”, totally unjustified and ruthless, and take the opportunity to punish those press workers who lashed out at him.
It is not resentment, it is not being successful now that you have won, it has nothing to do with that. Those of us who banked Lionel from the beginning, for having rejected the Spanish team to wear the blue and white, for having shown unconditional love with this shirt even in defeat, we feel that need that those who liquidated him for no reason, only taking advantage of his difficulty in obtaining titles with Argentina, “pay” for what they did.
We all have mistakes, no person is perfect, that is very clear. But when criticism is destructiveWhen you notice that it is bad milk, there is no possible tutía there. And many journalists, with Azzaro at the helm, only with the intention of “to be made viral“, to incite the fans to follow them, they have done it at the time and now they must come out to show their face, because Messi was, is and will be more Argentine than mate and dulce de leche.
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