Lionel Messi: Battle for Ronaldo ahead and back home

World Cup 2018 is about to start with the Argentina team. Own Messi, he started with Ronaldo in front and his hometown behind.
Lionel Messi: Battle for Ronaldo ahead and back home
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Lionel Messi is short of Cristiano Ronaldo, at least in terms of titles. Three consecutive Champions League titles help the Portuguese superstar win the title of the sixth Ballon d'Or, more than Messi.

Ronaldo also overwhelmed the most in European competition. With more goals to come, Messi now has less than 20 goals, more than a season to beat in the case of Ronaldo retired or no longer playing in Europe.

At the club level, the two teams' level also provides a contrasting image. Ronaldo has won the title of the first team with the EURO 2016 championship with Portugal despite only a few minutes of final. In contrast, Messi has not once reached the top of glory.

Rather, the glory still shuns him and the Argentine people harshly. 3 times in the Copa America final, Messi and all teammates lost. The same scenario took place in the final match of the World Cup four years ago, Goetze 113 minutes to tear the dream of the white shirt team.

Four years ago, Messi and Argentina had failed bitterly
Four years ago, Messi and Argentina had failed bitterly

And in the opening game of this 2018 World Cup, Ronaldo made a great leap forward with a spectacular hat-trick into the Spanish team. The performance was a hit to the critics who had criticized him only eat from the efforts of the team.

In other words, Messi is behind Ronaldo in the race to win the world's greatest player in the era of these two superstars. But, anyway, this is just a story between two individuals. Messi's main goal is the world championship for the whole Tango country is waiting to wait.

Every major tournament in the world, El Pulga brought with it heavy expectations of the nation, the pressures of the home media and the dependence of the whole team. The Argentine has put all its hopes on Messi, as a savior of the country's football, as much about religion as it is here.

But, unlike Diego Maradona, Messi is a Messiah ... Catalan. The Argentine always laughed at Maradona's drifting career. They are ready to pacify, comfort or cherish Maradona whenever he stumbles. The image of the country praying for him when he wrestled with death in 2004 proves that.

Messi is ready for the final World Cup
Messi is ready for the final World Cup

But, the Argentine is not ready to extend the armband of Messi. They are ready to criticize El Pulga every time Argentina fails catastrophically and the ax is aimed at him, not Carlos Tevez nor Javier Mascherano, Messi partners. Messi's tragedy is there and many times he failed.

However, Messi never fell before fate. Since he was a stunt boy with a burning passion, It's still the same. You still hurt the pain of the people, even no one hurt him. Specific evidence is that the decadent retired from the Copa America 2016 final.

But then Messi returned, more mature, more thorny and more brave, which means a greater influence. In the 2018 World Cup qualifier, he pulled Argentina through the narrow gate with a hat trick against Ecuardo in the last game.

Since then, the Argentines understand that Messi loves the homeland as well as anyone. And if there is no Messi, Argentina will not even go forward. So, with the encounter with Iceland, the phenomenon of EURO 2016, in the opening match, Messi is ready to enter the journey to conquer the gold cup. Although ahead is a challenging Ronaldo, but behind Messi is now the whole country.

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