Is this biggest mistake in sporting history?

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He would have certainly won 2 euros 1 world cup and probably 2014 world cup as well.

Any goat debate would be over and settled.

Now he's on a 20th national tier team with players from clubs like Real Betis and Atlanta United.

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He would lose all respect if he did that.

For me the fact that he decided to play for Argentina instead of some yuropoor country makes it more based than anything. Fuck europeans.

He went when he was 12 years old. He's spent more of his life in spain than Argentina.

Ludicrous that he should play in Argentina because he was delivered in a hospital there. If he was born in the Falklands should he have played for england if he spent his entire life in Spain?

Ridiculous that you're arguing for something that he doesn't even want. He said that he loves his country and always wanted to play for Argentina

For the gorillionth time: Messi is Argentinian to the core, he does not feel Spanish at all. He was born and raised in Argentina, he is married to an Argentinian woman, he has kept his accent from Rosario, he lives surrounded by Argentinians, his house is like an Argentina-themed park, he does not even speak a lick of Catalan. No chance he would have ever picked Spain.

He clearly must be having second thoughts now. He had no idea that Spain would be the preeminent football power for the peak of his career.

He could have ended any discussion at all about the goat.

How Spanish is Costa?

his biggest mistake was being born weakmind. also
>tf

>He clearly must be having second thoughts now.
Every kid from football countries dream of playing for their NT. Someone from a two-time champion WC champion country like him must have some pride for the shirt even with the bad results.

Going by the absolute lack of scruples and honour he displayed when he shamelessly switched countries, very.

Sorry but winning a world cup with 10 Real Madrid and Barcelona players is not as impressive as winning a world cup with players from Benfica, Sporting CP, Lazio, Manchester City, Sampodria
He was 1 strike away from literally being undisputed GOAT. Staying in spain would just put system babby with him for all his life.

This will never happen.

Spain would have been a done deal. He would have been like Pele who won with a galaxy of stars and shone the brightest.

Di Stefano and Puskas didn't

That's because you leafs have no pride in your country.

Don't put Messi in your delusions

Neither of them won a world cup.

Nowadays it would be a big fucking traición. Just imagine one of your GOATs playing for another country. One thing is when guys who are average go to play to other countries because they can't get in the main one but one of your fucking GOATs and to just win a title on easy mode? That would be a disgrace. It loses all the meaning of winning the fucking thing.

Nope, Spain NT always was and it is shit. 2010 was a meme victory.

>It loses all the meaning

I'll just stop you there, Jaoa. A literal team of Africans won the last world cup for France, a previously European country.
Don't you get it? It doesn't have any meaning anymore period. If anything, it has less meaning now than it ever has.

Messi is an adorable retard, my friend. By that I mean he's stupid enough to believe he's obligated to deliver a WC to our white argentinian friends, like it's his sole duty, even though they treated him like shit for all of his career and blamed him for all of Argentina's failures.

I think he never considered for a second playing for Spain even after seeing them being world champions. It's a shame, really. At times I wish he did have a bit of Maradona in him because if Maradona was the one being dissed non-stop for so many years by his own countrymen he'd have let Argentina burn and fail to qualify for 2018's WC.

And the euros they dominated?

The hue knows. Daniel Sprong is one of Hollands greatest ever hockeyplayers but refuses to play for the Netherlands because we're a meme country when it comes to hockey. Wants to play for Canada now that he has a canadian passport. That wouldn't be the case if it he played football