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[Alebrije]

 

[FuturusX]

Until Messi does this:

it kind of does. Sorry.

That's just your opinion man....

 

[Regulus Tera]

Copa América 2004 - Argentina 2nd Place
Confederations Cup 2005 - Argentina 2nd Place
Copa América 2007 - Argentina 2nd Place
World Cup 2014 - Argentina 2nd Place
Copa América 2015 - Argentina 2nd Place
Copa América Centenario 2016 - Argentina 2nd Place


I mean... you can blame Tata, or Messi, or Higuaín, but at some point it has to go beyond what happens on the field.



Also congrats on the Chileans! I had an inkling it would end up this way after the Mexico game. Can't be that sore after you became champions.

 

[Tagyhag]

I really feel like shit for Messi, seriously. He will receive such amount of flak (a lot of it truly undeserved).

Also, poor Mascherano and Romero, I really like both guys. They are classy.

Hopefully they're left alone, they both did great in this tourney.

Mascherano should definitely be the team's captain.

 

[Unknown Soldier]

"The next Copa America will be in 2019. Brazil will be the host of that one."

ARE YOU GOING TO TELEVISE THIS IN THE UNITED STATES FOX?

 

[Error]

Until Messi does this:

it kind of does. Sorry.

Messi is the best player in history, an entire career ignored just because of a month long tournament is not really being fair at all.

 

[Chris R]

"The next Copa America will be in 2019. Brazil will be the host of that one."

ARE YOU GOING TO TELEVISE THIS IN THE UNITED STATES FOX?

Nope, enjoy streaming it on Fox Sports Go!

 

[TheFatOne]

Messi is still the greatest...it's a big miss, but his talent is not comparable.

I'm going to disagree with this completely. If you want to be the best of all time you absolutely have to show up in moments like this. What a choke job.

 

[LAM09]

Pitbull performing AFTER a final. That's a first

 

[bomb]

Can we get a crying Jordan on the ball as it's going over the post.

 

[Beach]

Dale

 

[gutter_trash]

Until Messi does this:

it kind of does. Sorry.

 

[Line_HTX]

Oh my God, fucking dying.

 

[Clydefrog]

Pitbull performing AFTER a final. That's a first

can't go a whole game without MR WORLDWIDE

 

[Unknown Soldier]

That's a pretty fucking sweet trophy, with the entirety of the Americas embossed on it

Nope, enjoy streaming it on Fox Sports Go!

Fuck everything

 

[MrPink93485]

Pitbull performing AFTER a final. That's a first

'Of course, it wouldn't be an international soccer tournament without Pitbull'

/dead

 

[mreddie]

"The next Copa America will be in 2019. Brazil will be the host of that one."

ARE YOU GOING TO TELEVISE THIS IN THE UNITED STATES FOX?

FOX/Telemundo has the TV rights right?

 

[Kalre]

Until Messi does this:

it kind of does. Sorry.

You mean stealing a cup literally with his hands ? Meh

 

[Niks]

I truly feel sorry for Messi.... he is destroyed.

 

[L0st Id3ntity]

I'm going to disagree with this completely. If you want to be the best of all time you absolutely have to show up in moments like this. What a choke job.

But he did, Aguero and Higuaine missed his setups

 

[sunshine and gasoline]

Copa América 2004 - Argentina 2nd Place
Confederations Cup 2005 - Argentina 2nd Place
Copa América 2007 - Argentina 2nd Place
World Cup 2014 - Argentina 2nd Place
Copa América 2015 - Argentina 2nd Place
Copa América Centenario 2016 - Argentina 2nd Place


I mean... you can blame Tata, or Messi, or Higuaín, but at some point it has to go beyond what happens on the field.

Someone has clearly cursed Argentina's football team.

 

[Jean Valjean]

It's been 23 years...

 

[Sub_Level]

So do they just have a Copa America on a random year or what? The numbers on the wikipedia follow no pattern.

 

[DominoKid]

Diego Maradona has two Serie A titles to his name his entire career. four great weeks in 1986 does not make up for a decade of Messi's incandescent brilliance.

tell that to the argentinians who just saw a messi led team piss away yet another title.

 

[Hasphat'sAnts]

Yeah right Diego only player well for 4 weeks during his life. LOL.

And Diego alone made Napoli into something singlehandedly. Messi has always played along other goat level players in Barcelona.

We've seen clubs assemble GOAT level players before and other than Arrigo Sachi's AC Milan. No one has ever produced the level of play Barcelona has demonstrated in the last decade. The one constant has been Messi.

 

[PsihoPerihelion]

That's just your opinion man....

Maybe you don't care about Messi having a cup or copa, but he does:
https://twitter.com/2010MisterChip/status/747264844764749824 Oh boy he does.

 

[moai]

Maradona singlehandedly made napoli a contender on calccio, messi is the greatest player in the world right now, but maradona was better. Also you have to trust argentinians when they say that maradona is bigger.

 

[Unknown Soldier]

FOX/Telemundo has the TV rights right?

Probably, but will it be on TV? ESPN never cared enough to televise Copa America even when they held the rights. Copa America 2015 wasn't on US television with the exception of Telemundo.

 

[MPW]

I'm sorry. Has Getafe ever won the Copa Del Rey? Because Napoli was two time winners of Coppa Italia before Maradona got there and have done so twice since. They're not Serie A minnows.

Messi would win La Liga with this year's Sevilla squad. No question.

lol no

 

[Clydefrog]

at least Messi won't have to accept the MVP award this time

 

[Alebrije]

 

[Dinokill]

I'm sorry. Has Getafe ever won the Copa Del Rey? Because Napoli was two time winners of Coppa Italia before Maradona got there and have done so twice since. They're not Serie A minnows.

Messi would win La Liga with this year's Sevilla squad. No question.

80s Serie A is considered the best football legue of all time. Maradona won that two times with a midtier team. The amount of talent a competitiveness in 80s Serie A was unprecedented.

 

[Altazor]

dat save.

man, dat save.

worth a championship.

 

[TheFatOne]

But he did, Aguero and Higuaine missed his setups

But he didn't by missing this pk. One on one in an intense pressure situation. That is when you are supposed to show up. He choked when the pressure was the highest and that is simply inexcusable. You can't be the best of all time when you miss shots like this. That's what the best of all time players from any sport do. They show up in these moments.

 

[tim.mbp]

Probably, but will it be on TV? ESPN never cared enough to televise Copa America even when they held the rights. Copa America 2015 wasn't on US television with the exception of Telemundo.

2015 was on beIN Sports in America.

 

[Corronchilejano]

dat save.

man, dat save.

worth a championship.

That's a frameable picture right there.

 

[Javier]

Congrats to Bravo, Vargas and Sanchez for their awards.

 

[PureYeti]

boo this man!

 

[jett]

Until Messi does this:

it kind of does. Sorry.

Maradona single-handedly gave Argentina a World Cup title, and then put an Italian team that had never won anything on the map all by himself.

Messi is never going to do either of those things.

 

[gutter_trash]

the creepy bald guy was staring at his exposed leg

 

[Sr Kitsune]

That's a frameable picture right there.

Agreed.

 

[Holiday]

Maradona single-handedly gave Argentina a World Cup title, and then put an Italian team that had never won anything on the map all by himself.

Messi is never going to do either of those things.

Indeed lol, literally

 

[LSauchelli]

Maradona singlehandedly made napoli a contender on calccio, messi is the greatest player in the world right now, but maradona was better. Also you have to trust argentinians when they say that maradona is bigger.

Maradona also chocked in Barça.

 

[B-Dubs]

Maradona single-handedly gave Argentina a World Cup title, and then put an Italian team that had never won anything on the map all by himself.

Messi is never going to do either of those things.

LOL

 

[Kill3r7]

Diego Maradona has two Serie A titles to his name his entire career. four great weeks in 1986 does not make up for a decade of Messi's incandescent brilliance.

Messi is better than Maradona but you are understating the value of those two Serie A titles with Napoli. That was truly remarkable feat especially when you consider that arguably the greatest team of all time played only a few hours north of them.

 

[Regulus Tera]

Maradona also chocked in Barça.

Maradona got literally broken while playing for Barcelona, plus it was a very different Barcelona from the one in the Guardiola years.

 

[dallow_bg]

Indeed lol, literally

Lol

 

[bone_and_sinew]

I'll give Chile credit they're a resilient team with multiple world-class players and great team play. They slayed the Spain witch and beat Messi in 2 finals. Messi was broken like a teenage girl on the sidelines. Those are amazing feats that validate Chile's class.

 

[Unknown Soldier]

Wearing the flag of your country as a cape as you receive your championship medal. That has be something you'll remember forever.

 

[Condom]

I like the music