Podcast Appearances
Yeah, in the soccer world, I wouldn't call it too quietly, but definitely in the mainstream kind of American sports.
Part of that is that it's behind a paywall.
And part of that is they haven't really promoted it that well.
But on the field, it's been awesome.
He scored or assisted each one of the team's first 12 playoff goals.
Each one.
He had, I believe, 22 goals or assists in like a seven-game span.
It is unbelievable, and I wish that we were talking about it more and talking more about the on-field stuff than, hey, why is nobody caring?
Yeah, he's just an alien.
There isn't real precedence for what he's doing.
Obviously, MLS is a lesser league than La Liga or England or France or whatever.
But he's still doing this with the Argentine national team.
He's still viewed as one of the very best players in the world.
At his age, obviously pace and agility and the physical attributes matter, but it's his brain, it's his technique.
While his left foot is the best of all time, I think his best ability is his intelligence of movement and his way to camouflage himself within the action because there is nobody that you should be paying attention to more if you're a defender.
And he constantly finds ways to just hide and then sprint and it's a tap-in.
And people are like, oh, why aren't you marking Messi?
He's just so smart, and I think that's his best quality.
It's jarring to me.
It's weird that he keeps saying, I don't know if I'm going to play at the World Cup, when at first it was, I just want to wear the crest one more time with the gold logo after winning the World Cup.