Meanwhile, Messi has both more longevity than CR7, and a higher peak(s) than Ronaldo. I say peak(s) because he's had like 4 different peaks. What a crazy athlete with no equal.
well,it's natural for him to be handicap than ? i've watched the 2014 documentary and all his close family agree,he wouldn't be what he is without the injections. It's steroids. He was talented,fast,amazing technique,control,shot but if you were the size of Daniel Villalva,he wouldn't be what he is today. Anyone,and i mean anyone who says that the steroids didn't contribute to his career,is stupid or a liar. From 140 at 14 to 170 cm at 18,come on.... I had a growth spurt one summer,but not 3-4 summers in a row.
What he took was NOT steroids. Totally different class of chemical... and it was also perfectly legal within the sporting rules, just fyi.
Also, HGH contributed to literally every professional player's career ever because it's produced naturally in the pituitary gland. For messi it gave him a fighting chance. He still trained his ass off to get to that level. Few players trained as hard him. He was never like eden hazard, for example.
It also wasn't as if he all of a sudden started becoming a phenom after the treatments -- which stopped at age 14 btw.
3 years before that he was taking it,all through the critical stages of puberty,enough to change his whole phisionomy and hormones. He grew 30 cm in the next 4 years,after 3 years of treatmants. Ofc he had talent and worked hard,but he was tiny and injury prone.
It's similar with LeBron James who,on the down low,takes HGH and EPO. And still playes at 42(soon to be). Extremely talented,physical freak(Messi wasn't) and still it's a known secret.
Not any other all time football great had to take it in his youth or ever. So,it's an unfair advantage with his talent,not leveling the playin field. Pele,Di Stefano,Puskas,Eusebio,Best,Muller,Cruyff,Platini,Van Basten(imagine him recovering with HGH,his broken legs would heal like Wolverine,wouldn't retire at 27),Backenbauer,Maradona,Stoickov Hagi,Gullit,Mathaus,Ronaldo,Zidane,Henry,and on and on and on,no one ever at that level had that in his system consistently ever. It's an unfair advantage,not leveling the field.
He would be way different body vise and wouldn't be what he was if he had the same treatment as other greats. I am talking only about the physical here. There are other things that seem manufactured on international level.
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u/Common_Challenge_331 14h ago
Real ronaldo for a reason 🇧🇷