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Mikel Arteta: "Lionel Messi is the most influential player ever in the history of football. We have never seen someone do what Messi has been doing on the field for all these years before." (www.planetfootball.com)

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[–] mortenharket32@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

How many coaches do you think spent days upon days coming up with different schemes to stop that man? How many coaches said they "know how to stop Messi" ?He's influence is in the way teams had to adjust to his skill set.

Go watch any star from 2008 downwards , if they got doubled teamed on defense then a commantor would mention it. By the time Messi peaked no one would mention Messi is getting triple teamed ,four players jailed, it just became the standard.

Go ask watch Jose Mourinho how he used to prepare for Messi. That's actual influence right there...

[–] Dorkseid1687@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Good point.

There is no one else with his skill set though.