There's an incredible, predictable phenomenon in sports that the best player on the team gets the most criticism. I've seen awful teams with one superstar, and

There's an incredible, predictable phenomenon in sports that the best player on the team gets the most criticism. I've seen awful teams with one superstar, and the popular opinion of why they lose is that the superstar isn't doing enough or, God forbid, isn't superman/woman and has weaknesses. It's never that the other 4 / 10 / 21 / etc people on the field who are terrible. Then the superstar retires, memory of the absurd criticism is obscured by a haze of nostalgia, and they become examples of perfection which the next generation of superstars can't possibly live up to. Messi is arguably the best ever. If he's not good enough for you, if he's not perfect enough for you, you're going to be disappointed with life and the human beings in it.