He has had an interesting medical journey: <a href="https://journeys.dartmouth.edu/marcanovicoff22/messis-medical-journey/" rel="nofollow">https://journeys.dartmouth.edu/marcanovicoff22/messis-medica...</a>
Messi just won his first Football World Cup! <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34040277" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34040277</a>
There's a subreddit called r/toprightmessi which is a collection of graphs showing how much Messi excels in so many respects. Crazy how in the biggest sport in the world there can be a player so far above and beyond the rest.
He did it. He won. The ultimate GOAT! He finally got it before retirement!<p>I will remember this game for a long time. The dramatic twists and turns are so memorable.
When I navigate back to HN after reading the article, I get a page 'more stories before you go'. At least the first time I opened the link.<p>How is 538 able to intercept my navigation away from their page?
It would be immensely fun as a layperson to go up against Messi just to see how many seconds of trying to separate the ball from his possession I could go before I’ve tripped over my own feet and am laughing hysterically at the sheer magic of what he’s able to do.
> Messi and his compatriots a 16 percent chance of winning the tournament — second only to host nation Brazil.<p>How it started for Brazil was certainly different from how it ended for Brazil in that World Cup.
I love football, sometimes called soccer.<p>Messi is the greatest and purest player of football.<p>I study Michaelangelo the same way I study Messi.<p>Art
These athletes are beyond any of my abilities to even comprehend their level of skill by I always wonder if it is just recency bias or are these athletes truly the greatest of all time.<p>Multiple 100+ year old sports seems to have coincided their arguably greatest of all time players play at roughly the same time. Lionel Messi, Christiano Ronaldo, Tiger Woods, Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal, Sachin Tendulkar, Usain Bolt, Lebron James, Michael Phelps, Michael Schumacher, Magnus Carlsen.<p>No doubt they are just that good but so many of them playing at around the same time is very interesting to me.
Reminds me of <a href="https://twitter.com/xgphilosophy/status/1604202292139491328" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/xgphilosophy/status/1604202292139491328</a> that I saw this morning
Not to be a buzzkill, but being fooled by randomness is a thing that should at least be mentioned here. Of course Taleb has more to say on the matter in [1].<p>[1] <a href="https://www.amazon.in/Fooled-Randomness-Hidden-Chance-Markets/dp/0141031484" rel="nofollow">https://www.amazon.in/Fooled-Randomness-Hidden-Chance-Market...</a>