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He has had an interesting medical journey: https://journeys.dartmouth.edu/marcanovicoff22/messis-medical-journey/ https://journeys.dartmouth.edu/marcanovicoff22
by epivosism 4y ago
He has had an interesting medical journey: https://journeys.dartmouth.edu/marcanovicoff22/messis-medical-journey/ https://journeys.dartmouth.edu/marcanovicoff22/messis-medica...
- Aromasin 4y agoWow. That's an incredible read.
- rurban 4y agoThe call him "greatest soccer player of all time", but then the talk about Messi, not Maradona. Lol
- sweettea 4y agoMessi's captured the hearts of the casual World Cup fan unlike anyone else. I don't know a whole lot about soccer -- more or less all I know is that the World Cup happens every few years, is played by national teams, and Messi makes impossible plays. What I do know is all because of Messi, whose wholesome relatability and exceptional ability brings casual viewers like me; I generally avoid sports because the players are hard to relate to or have personal flaws, but I love Messi's strong family roots. I would propose that merely for being a truly exceptional face of the sport he's the GOAT. Maybe Maradona was that way in his day -- I'm barely aware that he was a good player of yesteryear -- but his drug problems (and the fact that his heyday was so long ago) make him much less relatable or exciting to investigate as a inspiration.
- bhrgunatha 4y ago> I'm barely aware that he was a good player of yesteryear As an English football fan, that cheered me up (it still hurts). I suspect no English football fan could accept Maradona as the greatest. Do you know about Pelé? When I was a kid, it seems everyone (even non fans) knew Pelé was the greatest.
- cryptonector 4y agoLol, yeah. That game in 1986 must have hurt. One of the most beautiful goals of all time (which Messi has replicated twice), then that awful hand-of-g-d goal (which Messi, sadly, has also replicated twice).
- heywhatupboys 4y ago> then that awful hand-of-g-d goal everyone celebrates this goal. No fan has ever given him shit about it
- cryptonector 4y agoI care, what can I say. I want clean fútbol.
- phlakaton 4y agoSoccer is played by gloriously messy human beings. A bit of schmutz now and then is not so terrible a thing.
- cryptonector 4y agoThat adds to Messi's greatness, since he's not "gloriously messy".
- mongol 4y ago
- qsort 4y agoAnswers to "who is the GOAT" that won't upset hardcore soccer fans are the exactly the following set: {Maradona, Pele, Cruyff}.
- Scarblac 4y agoNah, Messi was already part of that set for many years, and today he added the only thing missing in his career. Messi is the sole GOAT.
- cryptonector 4y agoMessi or Pelé, then the other, and only then maybe Maradona.
- andrepd 4y agoOnly if you have very short memory x) he is part of the greats, but he is not the GOAT of the sport.
- radiator 4y agoRonaldo Luis Nazario de Lima
- kamarg 4y agoHealth issues cutting his career short ensured he won't be in consideration for most people. That said, he truly was phenomenal. Absolutely one of the most amazing to ever play the game.
- SSJPython 4y agoHe would've been the GOAT had he stayed healthy. Consistency and longevity are very important in this debate.
- radiator 4y agoDepends on the definition of GOAT. When he was at his peak, he played the best football ever played. By the way, both Maradona and Messi when previously asked, have answered something along the lines that that he was the greatest.
- ardit33 4y agoNah. I am C. Ronaldo fan. For many he was an inspiration as well. CR7 was unlucky this WC, due to his manager's poor decisions with the Morocco game.
- fnord123 4y ago> wholesome relatability Nice one. I think this post will go over most peoples' heads but I had a good laugh.
- andrepd 4y ago>Messi's captured the hearts of the casual World Cup fan unlike anyone else. I don't know a whole lot about soccer How on earth do you reconcile these two sentences lol x)
- cryptonector 4y agoMessi is a better player than Maradona, and also a better person. His humility makes him a lot more likable, what can I say. IMO.
- smcl 4y agoWeirdly I think Maradona's chaotic life off the pitch (and I suppose no shortage of controversy on it) sort of adds to his appeal :)
- ardit33 4y agoMessi is actually a jerk. He purposely wanted to sink Lewandowski Ballon D'or nomination (which was well deserved) by voting for a nobody.
- hello_moto 4y agoSource?
- eertami 4y agoMaybe the bar for "good person" is set too low, if convicted tax frauds are considered good people.
- zqfuz 4y agoMakes me like him even more.
- whywhywhydude 4y agoHave you actually seen Messi play?
- BeetleB 4y agoIf you compare Messi's record with Maradona's, there's not much to compare. The latter could have been the best of all time, but he sabotaged his own career.
- mgh2 4y agoMore background: https://www.npr.org/2022/11/30/1139976898/messi-economics https://www.npr.org/2022/11/30/1139976898/messi-economics
- rvba 4y agoWhen I was a kid, I always heard some Uncle claim that "rich people" bribe the doctors to give growth hormone to their children. That's why supposedly all the "rich people" children were tall (being well fed probably helps here) Is that real that the rich, VC types give growth hormone to their children?
- funnymony 4y agoGrowth hormone called food
- smrtinsert 4y agoOr just eat average American non-organic food varieties.
- yazzku 4y agoYou will certainly grow.. along the horizontal and forward axes.
- iends 4y agoI’m not rich by American standards but we were offered growth hormone for our son since he is trending to 5 1/2 feet.
- killingtime74 4y agoDid it help?
- Hoyadonis 4y agoI haven't heard of physical growth hormones per se, but it's definitely true of the psychological equivalent that is Adderall and related methamphetamine prescriptions for ADHD or "ADHD." It does wonders for getting kids to sit down and study, but at who-knows-what cost.
- nextos 4y agoGood quality dairy is associated with high insulin-like growth factor 1 (IGF-1) levels in blood, which in turn leads to rapid cell growth. This explains why e.g. Dutch people went from being the shortest to the tallest in Europe.
- tootie 4y agoHe's only like 5'7" now so it's not like they made him a giant. Giving growth hormones to kids with deficiency is, I think, standard medical practice now. I know a boy who got HGH and ended up like 5'6". It was done to prevent dwarfism and promote healthy development.
- AQuantized 4y agoIt wouldn't be an advantage to make him a giant - arguably it would be a negative due to his style. However, HGH allows substantially faster recover, and basically any athlete would take it if possible. Messi was able to do so legally unlike most footballers due to his condition.