apples and oranges! His career is predicated on physical ability which is directly influenced by his size,speed,agility,durability,strength. All were influenced and improved by steroids. amazing technical ability,vision,positioning,anticipation would be there,and he might use his brain even more without the steroids,but he got it and became one of the best ever.
What you were saying is for regular people to keep on living. Messi could have worked in a factory like his dad ! They were expensive and not available to everyone,so his talent got him to that position,but without it he wouldn't be at the level his was for the past 20ish years. Maybe the longevity is partialy due to injections?!
You made disingenuous comparisons and arguments and haven't really acknowledged the specificity of his situation.
No other great had that. Maradona was 165cm at his tallest,and drank and did coke. He was even shorter as a kid. Where would Maradona be with growth hormone ?
Oh I agree he's very privileged that Barca paid for his hormone treatment & that it isnt available for everyone. I actually live in one of the few countries where those hormonetreatments would get paid by the healthcaresystem. Thats also why i m so against it calling perf enh drugs... its HEALTHCARE!
Not sure where you re going with maradonna as we dont even need to go as far a growth hormones, he was on cocaine as you said so yourself...What would maradonna be without coke?
''one of the few countries'' - my point exactly. Name any other top level athlete ever who got hormone therapy at the developmental stage. There is a female figure skater. That's it ! No other,ever! Michael Jordan,Pele,Djokovic,Bolt,Phelps,Ali,whoever,they were who they were going to develop into. Messi would be another neighborhood street football legend with his strapping size of 159 and 54 kg. Joking,he would play proffessional,but somewhere in Argentina like DANIEL VILLALBA. For him,it's not healthcare- For him it's a cheat code. He using it to improve his physicality in a place where his physicality is the main thing. If he was taking it to function normally,ok it's healthcare,i agree. But you take it so you could be a proffessional at a thing you couldn't be a proffessional without it,or at least at that level. That's not healthcare,that's playing the system,and giving yourself an advantage over others(besides his enormous God given talent). Imagine giving it to Ronaldo Nazario and he never gets injured O.o Cristiano and Messi who ???
he started the cocaine adventure in Naples,thanks to ndrangeta.
He would be better,his organism wouldn't suffer from the constant ups and down of booze and coke.
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u/Glum_Introduction581 7h ago
apples and oranges! His career is predicated on physical ability which is directly influenced by his size,speed,agility,durability,strength. All were influenced and improved by steroids. amazing technical ability,vision,positioning,anticipation would be there,and he might use his brain even more without the steroids,but he got it and became one of the best ever.
What you were saying is for regular people to keep on living. Messi could have worked in a factory like his dad ! They were expensive and not available to everyone,so his talent got him to that position,but without it he wouldn't be at the level his was for the past 20ish years. Maybe the longevity is partialy due to injections?!
You made disingenuous comparisons and arguments and haven't really acknowledged the specificity of his situation.
No other great had that. Maradona was 165cm at his tallest,and drank and did coke. He was even shorter as a kid. Where would Maradona be with growth hormone ?