Lionel Messi's Magisterial Performance | Local Hour
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Is Lionel Messi being underappreciated on the global stage?
Nick Wright has developed a funny lane in becoming like one of the best ever at the giving of takes. And he's going to be on with us later today. But he's part wrestling character and just super smart about being a media person. savant. And so I have made fun of him for I'm going to say six or seven years because he decided that the controversial lane he was going to take for all time is that LeBron is better than Jordan. And he was just going to keep doing that. And it's a silly discussion and empty. And you can argue it and not be right forever. I have what I believe to be a quintessential Nick Wright take today in that I fully believe and somehow discovered this just yesterday, that in the modern age of we cover the hell out of everything super well, super intensely, and Lionel Messi is the most famous athlete in the world, he is wildly underappreciated.
That's my shocking take, like wildly underappreciated, that as Zazz makes the argument, yeah, if our athletes played, they'd be the best, and this 5'6", 160 pound dude, he's a fucking genie. He does things with his feet that I believe the world understood and America did not, because it's been behind a paywall on Apple. America does not understand. I've been sitting here saying, this guy's been playing against plumbers. He ain't now. And England's sending three ghosts from centuries beyond to go chase him. He's like, no, I'm just going to put it right there. You know we have other guys who can score, right?
For me, I look at Messi yesterday. I'm watching this game. I see that last goal. And my first thought to myself was, man, I should probably go see this guy play for Inter-Miami, right? Like, he plays here. I should probably go to one of those games.
Yeah, you have Michael Jordan playing a professional sport in your town.
Yesterday was the first day I realized it. We've been talking about this man nonstop for years. It's the paywall. He's amazing.
No, I've been watching this, but yesterday it clicked. It's the paywall. It is. We're holding it against him retroactively. England brought in a 6'7 dude so he wouldn't do that, and he, for fun, skinned his hair with the ball. Just thought it'd be funny to just give him a little bit of a haircut.
With his off foot. Let me do something funny here.
Pinpoint assist with my off foot.
He's got to believe at the end of these games that he knows he's going to win it, right? He knows it the way Michael Jordan did against Utah in the famous photo where all of the Utah fans are terrified and there's that one Bulls kid with an arm raised because of course Michael's going to hit the jumper there.
I just love maybe it's because it's so hard to score in soccer, but like when Jordan would do that kind of stuff, Jordan looked like, yeah, I did that because that's what I do. When Messi or Argentina score in these games, like Messi is still ecstatic.
I think there have been times in this tournament where there has been sincere doubt. And I think that we saw the outpouring of emotion against Egypt because Egypt was still having interest in playing. They were threatening. I think yesterday.
Got it yesterday.
I think yesterday he knew. I think he knew.
His reaction post-game, he was, man, on his knees.
Yeah. I mean, it's been an incredible, from just a perseverance standpoint, it's been an incredible tournament if you're an Argentina fan. How do you have hairs still on your head? But I think he knew. That was, I know it was another comeback, and it was astonishing late. That was the best Argentinians played this entire tournament.
Well, and we also know the moment that he knew yesterday. We all know.
Bad ball, Jude Bellingham. You're young. You can't do that.
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Sports are the greatest. And I'm going to tell you yesterday how it is that I watched this game because you guys are going to think that this is funny. As I tried and have been trying to explain to my wife Hey, this is the greatest. You have to come watch this.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
Is Lionel Messi being underappreciated on the global stage?
0:00–5:59
2
How did Messi's late-game performance vs England demonstrate his clutch genius?
5:59–15:10
3
Why did listeners feel the World Cup match had a 'religious' or 'biblical' intensity?
15:10–17:33
4
How did local crowd reactions and the neighborhood atmosphere shape the live viewing experience?
17:33–33:21
5
What tactical mistakes did England and coach Thomas Tuchel make against Argentina?
33:21–44:02
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