Messi probably just wants to enjoy himself for the remainder of his life.
For Ronaldo football is life.
For Ronaldo football is life.
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That's easy for us to say though.
I hope for him that he finds happiness, but I can see him having a rough couple of years mentally.
I expect Messi to be happy to be relieved from the pressure on the other hand. I have had a profound dislike for him throughout his career, but I'd say the last few years he has finally become something that resembles a person.
I hope for him that he finds happiness, but I can see him having a rough couple of years mentally.
I expect Messi to be happy to be relieved from the pressure on the other hand. I have had a profound dislike for him throughout his career, but I'd say the last few years he has finally become something that resembles a person.
I had a read through all of the lists and they always make me chuckle a bit. I remember years back World Soccer magazine used to do the same thing, they would pick out players from every corner of the world and mix them in with the established wonderkids known in Euro/SA leagues in an ulitimate football hipster fashion, so you'd have someone playing in NZ, some random West African country, Bolivia, Thailand etc. The likelihood is of course that those players are unlikely to make an elite level, and most of them never did, but they had to be inclusive.
Also likely is that the US will have someone U21 now who is going to be an excellent player (they have 3-4 obvious ones). Apparently Hopkins was a midfielder/winger for a long time and doesn't score any goals, so not sure how that qualifies someone to be a top 10 prospect in a CF category in the world, other than for reasons mentioned above.
https://www.football-observatory.com/IMG/sites/mr/mr81/en/
They've got Musah on there but not Reyna, because that doesn't look good for the spread for these lists lol.
Miretti is on there for CMs as well.
Also likely is that the US will have someone U21 now who is going to be an excellent player (they have 3-4 obvious ones). Apparently Hopkins was a midfielder/winger for a long time and doesn't score any goals, so not sure how that qualifies someone to be a top 10 prospect in a CF category in the world, other than for reasons mentioned above.
https://www.football-observatory.com/IMG/sites/mr/mr81/en/
They've got Musah on there but not Reyna, because that doesn't look good for the spread for these lists lol.
Miretti is on there for CMs as well.
That country is bound to produce someone of talent eventually 
But China will always be hindered by their own system where young athletes are never given a second chance and the time needed to develop. Classic communist system of bringing in 100000 athletes for try-outs, then advancing the ones who did well that one time by some retarded metric, dumping everybody else back into their villages.
They also struggle to export players, unlike the Japanese who specifically seek to do this to European markets. And now the league has bust when it comes to importing great foreign players, so they can't grow it domestically.
Xi wants China to be a major player but they aren't even a minor player, but like you say it's difficult to create great individuals in an authoritarian state. Zhang Linpeng is someone I can think of who would be nailed on to move to a European league being from any other country, he had good enough potential and personality, but will never leave China.
Xi wants China to be a major player but they aren't even a minor player, but like you say it's difficult to create great individuals in an authoritarian state. Zhang Linpeng is someone I can think of who would be nailed on to move to a European league being from any other country, he had good enough potential and personality, but will never leave China.
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