Is it true that most Americans have no idea who this man is?

Ronaldo is more popular here desu

yeah I meant current players. though if you asked the average American they'd probably think he was still playing

I asked my grandma and she knew who Tom Brady is, but never heard about LeBron

Because Basketball is atleast somewhat popular outside the US.

No, he's considered a sports icon in America

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>dustin pedroida
maybe in Bombston lol

dude I'm a masshole and yeah that seems super fishy. it would be tom brady and then ortiz way before him

most americans don't even know who their neighboors are.

That's because literally not a single person outside of the US gives the faintest fuck about handegg, but many like apehoop.

who the fuck is tim brody

who is this

A Jewish-American pornstar

This is mostly true. People that don't follow footy probably would not recognize Messi but most would recognize Ronaldo. I chalk it up to him playing in England.

your grandma sucks.

Nah, people know Ronaldo from underwear commercials

No one outside of the US gives a fuck about handegg.

only retards that cant into a real sport

Only one of those players is recognizable to the average American. To most Americans Messis is "that guy on the FIFA cover".

most people only know him here because of his wife lmao

I'd say 1/3 of people have heard the name. Beyond that, they wouldn't know anything about him.

>goes to an blizzard beach
>literally no one cares
Wew
youtu.be/n7NmaA79CHg

lmao here people refer to Brady as "gisele's husband" 95% of the time.

And what exactly is a real sport, sir?

Well maybe if they didn’t spend every available moment inconveniencing my life, I’d get to know them

One that's not fixed.

ah gotcha, none then

He's known more as that guy who married a Spice Girl.

OP don't listen to these friendless incels. Literally everyone including basic ass sorority bitches know who Messi is. They don't necessarily watch him play but they know who he is and that he's considered the best.

Is this one of those dive grass faggots?

Darts and billiards

never heard of lebron before Yea Forums but tom brady was in a south park or family guy episode (can't remember which)

How come there are no decent American darts players? It's a popular bar sport over there right?

There is no way CR isn't considered the best in America

I know who are joe dimaggio and babe ruth
fucking american brainwashing

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Never heard of him until I came to Yea Forums a decade ago desu

>literally whom
Of course it’s true.

because of the simpsons and that baseball movie with teenagers playing it

That's because he was pretty much a nobody a decade ago compared to now

joe dimaggio was mentioned several times in pawn stars, I don't watch the simpsons since the 10th season

dude already played in the mayor 13 years ago

That's 100% not true. Show a picture of Messi to most adults in America and they won't recognize him. The majority of burgers/leafs don't follow soccer.

*major / senior, whatever

Methy

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>he doesn't know

so you are embarrassed that you know something even if it is from some show like the simpsons, simply because of the peer pressure on this board? kek what a faggot.

youtube.com/watch?v=n7NmaA79CHg
Messi at disney world

What a dirty frenchman

I'm American and I dont know any Tom Brody

Baseball and Niggerball is played outside of Burger land, Johan.

comfy

most sports fans know about him and ronaldo, at least they could name them if you showed a picture. the average american, i highly doubt it. most normies know michael jordan, babe ruth, michael phelps, and that's pretty much it.

That's because they polled only mexicans

If he was wearing expensive stuff and acting like hot shit amercians would gush over him regardless of ever hearding about him or not.

nah it's because yuropoors love fucking black cocks

get cucked you fucking BBC Arab fucks

to be honest, that's probably a more favorable depiction of him than how he's viewed here.

i've never seen anybody play darts but maybe that's just not part of the bar culture where i'm from. around my parts, the most popular game is "how many times in a row can 6 guys show up an hour before last call and still be surprised that nobody ever gets laid".

Isnt he seen as the greatest athlete ever in the US?

lolwat
holy shit user MLS attendance outdraws your domestic league, you tell me whether people know about Messi

he's widely hated as the best player of the "villain team"

Most Americans don't know about Messi.

if i saw him out with his family i'd just be looking at Antonella tbqh

yes way, arnie

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False. It's only North Americans (excluding canada)

He’s definitely more well known now but he used to be a literal who
youtu.be/n7NmaA79CHg

He's in the conversation for best quarterback in NFL history. That isn't "best athlete," not by a long shot. QBs get a ton of glory but their position is all brains, not much brawn. If you asked a rando on the street who the "best athlete" ever you'd probably get Michael Jordan or Lebron or like Deion Sanders/Bo Jackson/some other guy like that, Brady's won a ton and is great but he's not some sports-transcending talent that stands above everyone else like those guys I mentioned

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that was 10 years ago, in 10 years we've gotten 50 million spics (12 million alone in 2018) so everyone knows who messi is now, just because he'd be mobbed in that same location and attract even whiteoids wanting an instagram selfie

Are you just some ugly monkey desperate to throw in some jibe at Americans?

ronaldo

forreal forreal

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yeah, being the best will generally evoke resentment outside of somebody's immediate fan base and the team has been surrounded by a number of controversies. we can top it off with a couple more ingredients that make the narrative a bit hard to handle for a lot of people.
>all american white boy on the whitest team in the league that also happens to be the most dominant
>emblazoned in our flag's colors with trump on speed dial

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bitch in the black top needs to chill

that's because tim bradley is a literal cheater and i sure hope they don't teach you guys that cheating is ok over there

Brady is literally the embodiment of the All American Boy and it pisses everybody off.

>can't stop winning at literally everything
>super model wife
>adorable kids
>the definition of a living legend
>defying father time and still playing at a high level
>has enough money to do whatever the hell he wants forever
>dry dad-style sense of humor
>super model looks himself
>literally used to model underwear back in the day
>can't stop winning
>still winning
>won't stop winning
>super genuine guy and everybody loves him
>never says anything wrong or does anything that would suggest individualism

15/10 life

Don't forget his bro-mance with everyone's favorite meathead: gronk. Makes brady look serious and important CEO by comparison.

Christ he looks like a retarded 13 year old kid with a skinny ass frame, baggy clothes and no money hanging out with some fellow mongs

Can't believe that is a multi-millionaire and god of football.

Honestly, I doubt more than 1 out of every 4 people know who he is. Especially among people 40 and up most have no clue who he is, and the only ones who do would be women who followed pop culture and know about the spice girls.

I've never met an American who didn't know who David Beckham was.

Even moot knew who he was and he was hipster trash who was mostly indifferent to this board and sport in general.

I am rather sure at least 90% and definitely greater than 80% know who the Messiah is.

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is that 13 year old girl his wife?

Why do people pretend no one knows about soccer in North America? Don't you know how popular the FIFA games are?

also you can go to any major city's park/sports complex area on a saturday and see literally thousands of people packed into a mess of youth soccer leagues

I think it depends on where you live. I'm from rural eastern TN. I'm pretty sure nobody around here over the age of 25 knows who Messi is, or Pele, or Maradona, or Ronaldo. They probably do know Beckham though because he was in the tabloids a lot.

All the other burgers in this thread are either literal basement dwellers, post-expiration zoomers, or just contrarians. 19 y/o and have never, never met someone who does not know who Messi is. Almost everyone knows who Ronaldo is too.

everyone is saying the same thing retard, learn to read

Yeah but you live in Buttfuck, Nowhere, USA. I'm talking about civilized people that live in cities

Have sex.

nice reply

this is a shit meme reply because 90% of the time it's a virgin saying it

>civilized people that live in cities
Proper folk reside in suburbs.

It’s a meme reply because it’s literally a meme reply..

Are suburbs considered rural? I was lumping that in with cities (metropolitan area).

There are more people in Buttfuck, Nowhere, USA than there are in cities. And even if that isn't true, it's pretty fucking close comparatively.

This thread is about what people in America know, so discounting half of the population because of your own personal bias is Leaf-tier retarded.

No they’re not rural. Suburbs are usually not far from a city but have a lower population density (comparatively) and more forestry. Rural is like big farm lands in bumfuck nowhere.

>And even if that isn't true
It hasn't been true in a long time you absolute idiot. 20% of the population is rural. Why did you even bring it up if you didn't know?

Where is the line between what is rural and what count as suburbs? Just look at the last national election. It was neck and neck with the cities pretty much voting entirely blue and the rural areas red.

Why do you foreign morons always try to tell Americans about their own country? I don't know shit about the Communist Republic of Canada and I wouldn't want to.

>It was neck and neck with the cities pretty much voting entirely blue and the rural areas red
Even if I take this at face value it has a lot more to do with the electoral college system "doing its job" so to speak. Another thing to mention is that not every single person in America is able to vote/votes. If you want to know population data there's this little thing called a CENSUS and you can look it up online.
>Why do you foreign morons always try to tell Americans about their own country?
Because I literally know more about your country than you do in this instance.

Suburbs are very obviously not rural, perhaps only you backwood buffalo fuckers can’t tell.

No one in Aus would know who he is either.

>subrub
>rural
>suburb
>SUB URB
>SUB URBAN
>RURAL
no.

nigga most americans think it's september now nevermind who that argentinian nigger is lmao

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Nobody knows Lebron. We know Michael Jordan because of Space Jam

if you showed 100 americans pictures of Messi and Ronaldo

We do

This is fucking hilarious

I'd wager ronaldo is a little more well known

Simple thing to prove then. We just have to mail pictures of Messi and Ronaldo alongside a note reading "do you recognize either of these men?" and "send back your answer" to every person in the USA, then tally the results.

holy shit

youtube.com/watch?v=n7NmaA79CHg
Can you believe this fucking guy?

if americans saw messi or ronaldo at disneyland they would wonder how a maid or fry cook could afford to take their families to disney parks

>A FUCKING LEAF

what are you trying to pull off with that m8

is he Aron Kaufman from "Fast and Loud"?

Just wait for Space Jam 2 next year