You think you can tackle Messi without committing a foul? Keep in mind he's a stereotypical small striker, very high speed and acceleration, he dodges world-class athletes routinely...
This reminds me of that viral survey that went around not long ago asking people if they thought they could win a set against Serena Williams and the result being a huge amount of responders saying yes.
Unless you played soccer at least semi-professionally in some small league team for at least some part of your not so distant past, there is just no way you are gonna win a 1v1 with Messi, either by committing a foul or not.
If you watch some scrim games during the off season, you can find games were a top tier team plays against minor-er league teams, and you can see the difference in skills. It's like they play two different games.
Yeah exactly, the pride of this person is just silly. Unless he played at a top D-I school and did very well, there's no way he could successfully tackle the ball from Messi in 100 tries...I'd give a solid D-I defender a couple of tackles on Messi in all of those 100, the rest Messi would just easily dodge away, control the ball, create space, and then burn them or pass away from the inevitable double team.
It's like me in my 5th year of coding claiming I could out-code Linus Torvalds...like what?!?!
Unless you were a college level athlete, I doubt you'd even be able to stop Messi from doing whatever he wanted ONCE in 100 plays. I was a sweeper for 10 years and I don't have any illusions that I could stop him from doing anything.
I don't know you but come on, we're talking about the 2nd greatest living striker (Ronaldo is first IMO) out of the most popular sport for 8 billion people, and you think you could hold a candle to him? After he has repeatedly embarassed the worlds' most athletic, well-studied and trained defenders?
