A tweet that has since gone viral states that LA Galaxy captain, Lionel Messi cannot be the face of football. Messi is regarded as the best football player of his generation and arguably the greatest of all times.
Lionel Messi is regarded as a cold or would say non-social player compared to his arch rival, Cristiano Ronaldo who is very social and have interviews. Ronaldo is most times in the news for something directly related to him or something he said himself, unlike Messi who is barely grants interviews or stir up topics.
Aside their social life off the pitch, Ronaldo commands a great presence on the pitch with the way he dribbles, all round plays and mostly his celebrations. Messi on the other hand doesn’t have a signature celebration, he mostly raise his hands in appreciation to God.
The 2022 World Cup winner recently started dishing out cold celebrations particularly mimicking moves from avengers movies. His last celebration, he did the popular Wakanda Forever sign from the popular ‘Black Panther’ movie.
While many were wowed by his new celebration, others felt like it wasn’t his thing and it doesn’t suit him. This lead to a troll implying that Lionel Messi cannot be the face of football.
dunno how to explain this but Messi simply cannot be the face of this sport. https://t.co/c6UFMZGmNo
— ً (@elsdawg) August 3, 2023
While Messi doing such celebration feels odd to some football fans, it’s different for Ronaldo, whose celebration styles receive high praises and other footballers tends to copy.
This details that, Lionel Messi can’t be the face of football off the pitch because of his anti-social lifestyle, but he is the face of football on the pitch, with the ball on his foot.
