Yep. They would absolutely butcher each other during the 90 minutes on the pitch, and afterwards you wouldn’t hear a peep from either side. The fact that family members are now getting involved via social media is so embarrassing. The game has gone soft.

Why can’t parents of footballers be like the mothers of the Moroccan NT in 2022? The coach invited them to stay with the players during the whole cup, during all matches and sometimes training, and it was a great idea, the once questionable moral of the squad was very very high. But at the same time they made sure to know how to manage it with the media, the mothers knew not to step during any interview or any social media, they appeared on images and clips but abstained from being nuisances. Imagine putting Rabiot and Mbappé’s mothers in the same room for longer than a minute lmao

Tangentially related, this is thought to be one of the reasons Suarez bit someone in the WC. He’d had his issues, obviously, but it was reported that seeing a sports psychologist was an FSG-mandated condition of his returning to play after his suspension. The counseling, anecdotally, seemed to improve his anger management abilities. His intensity on the pitch never wavered, but (iirc) his proclivity to pick up yellows for dumb shit like kicking balls away, went down significantly.

Then, the World Cup happens, he’s whisked away from Liverpool, his psychologist, and his support structure, and is told in so many words that the fate of the Uruguayan national team is on his shoulders. In that context, while in no way excusing his actions, it’s not necessarily that difficult to see why he relapsed.

Not just football. Similar shit happened with tennis star Djokovic’s family in their Covid drama.

This is pretty regular stuff, don’t know why rsoccer is going crazy about it. Someone shit talked his son and he is calling it that person behavior in the last games, what is so outrageous about it?

It’s the classic soccer mom/dad trope. Same shit happened with Gio Reyna and his parents.

lol, Messi is clearly grabbing a throat in the picture. This is not professional, however you look at it. And I’ve seen him do it more than once. So stop protecting him like he is your god and can do no harm.

i didn’t like the way Messi grabbed Rodrygo

They also aren’t very good it seems.

Are all these suddenly ~20 year old millionaires unlikeable? Well I’ll be…

They are a bunch of playboys with no empathy

You know that Argentina was beating the shit out of us the whole match like they always do.

And Messi is always portraid as this nice guy but people who watch the matches know that he is not that nice.

Argentinians are the worst out of all the south american teams to face because they hit you and them pretend that nothing happens.

We, from South America know how these guys behave on and off the pitch.

As for the police beating up argentinians, its terrible but they beat brazilians much worse, its Brazil nothing to do with beating up other fans.

And remember, there were several fights between both sides before the police did anything.

It does make sense to me at all.

I am not sure what his dad is trying to do here at all. Surely he is defending his son, but this was just one of the many arguments between players that happen every game or so.

I mean you could make a poor argument for Rodrygo that he might have not realise how terrible the cops were acting at that time, but after the game there is no way his father didn’t see bleeding and comatose fans leaving the stadium on stretchers.

School ground stuff by Brazil. Everything always loses context in the noise and media starts just picking on high profile players for sensationalism.

How’s the taste of messi’s cock you pessidog meat rider?

As a brazilian Rodrygo should have kept his mouth shut. When Messi said “How are we cowards if we just won the world cup?”. Rodrygo should have said “Congrats in winning the WC, Messi, now your NT has the same number of WCs as Pelé”. Can’t even trash talk properly ffs.

Petulant prima donnas who were raised on the stories of Brazilian footballing supremacy and didn’t put in the work to maintain the legacy. The mighty have fallen and they’re just a shadow of their former selves now.

It’s funny, I don’t know if it was here at the beginning of the post or some other thread but godDAMN were quick to shit on Messi following this. So many people being like “he’s a cunt” “despicable human being” “I always knew he was horrible.”

Like what?! Some people just love to hop on any bandwagon

He is saying that Messi is not the saint that he is treated as being as him grabbing the neck of two opositors clearly shows, which is true. I don’t see how Rodrygo doing what is pretty regular shit talking makes him unlikable either

The entire Argentinian squad is unlikeable

They are both on the wrong here and anyone who can’t see that is seriously biased.

Rodrygo should see what is going on in the stands. You can blame his age for being naive but at the end of the day what he said was wrong. A football game is never bigger than real situations going around. Its the same situation with Vini getting racially abused. No player should be complaining if the match is paused. He’s being a shitty human being here.

On the other hand, Messi is fucking 36 year old and the way he grabs people is stupid and should be facing a couple of games suspension. And it’s also up to him as the senior player and leader on the pitch to explain to someone ~15 years younger about the situation and how he should be acting.

The fact that Messi was even talking about how he’s the champion and how he won it there should show anyone that he is acting like a baby. He’s supposed to be a captain but his actions on the pitch looked like a school bully especially with De Paul being his bodyguard waiting to jerk him off the first second he got.