Oh, is that why he's such a little bitch?

Messi is barely Italian. His great grandfather was from Italy and moved to Argentina in the 1880's.

Messi was born in Argentina and moved to Spain.

There is history here. If you knew it you would understand. The stuff that happened in this game. Not only were the Netherlands players trash taking before and during the game and then harassing the players during the pk shootout (which the gk distractions are fine, but the walk ups, especially at the end when 4/5 Netherlands players harassed Lautaro was bs. (Hence the yellow cards)

The coach of the Netherlands has ruined and benched multiple Argentina players including Roman at Barcelona (who used to be the captain of Argentina) hence why Leo celebrated with the same celebration after the pk. Di maria experienced the same biases At Manchester United.

Both teams went super hard and both were hot.

If you watch Copa America 2021 this same team after beating Brazil - you could see them hugging their biggest rivals - there is a photo of Neymar / Messi / Paredes sitting down together after the game that is iconic.

This was a heated game and both teams felt slighted towards the ref and the energy was incredible. Usually all this stays on the pitch and after the game is over cooler heads prevail… just needed extra time on this one… when Messi is trying to do an interview that’s what he is telling 19 - he didn’t want to talk to him and he has obligations - wasn’t ready to have that cool conversation.

Messi has been more critical about fifa over the last few years because he sees the corruption - on the field.

Messi acted like a little spoiled bitch after the game and there’s no excuses for it. His statement about Van Gaal made him look like a complete ****ing moron. “Van Gaal sells that he plays good football and then he puts forwards in the box and starts throwing long balls“… LVG used a tactical masterpiece to take advantage of the size mismatch he had over all the Argentinian midgets and Messi tried acting like it wasn’t “good football”. It made for the most exciting match of the tournament so far. It was fun, but there is no excuse for the way the Argentinian players acted. If this was a first then they’d have the benefit of the doubt, but all those players have reputations of being spoiled little bitches. Most Argentinians do in general. It’s not just their soccer team. Croatia should be able to control the match a little more than the Dutch did today. I’d love to see them try some of that bullshit against the Croatian players. That’s a team you don’t want to piss off. Should be a great matchup today. I think Croatia’s experience will be the difference and they should be able to grind out a win to get back to the final.

The Dutch are up there with Argentina for arrogance. Interesting that you make the snide remarks about height. A big reason the Dutch are assholes is that they are the nation with the tallest average height. They have an amazing number of tall players that are technically sound soccer players. In any sport, athletes that are taller try to lord over smaller players.

**** the Dutch. Any team that plays them knows that they are assholes also.

Croatia is a top 10 nation in average height, but they also have some great players that are not so tall like Luka Modric.

In a game like soccer, talking shit about height is not necessarily a good idea.

Maxi Morales is a 5'3" player from Argentina and really should be considered an MLS all-time great. That dude is always making a pass or shot that wins a game for his team.

Little guy spotted LMAO :Poke:

So you don’t think it was smart for LVG to use his major height advantage to tactically come up with a plan to come back from 2 goals down? What are you even trying to say here? You must be from Argentina. Your small man syndrome is definitely showing here. ROFL

Have a small little parlay for Morocco and and Croatia in case shit gets weird in next 2 days.

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:thumb: 5' 7".

I remember Freddie Patek wearing #37 batting leadoff at Municipal Stadium. He inspired a generation of shorter players to say **** it.

Not saying anything at all about tactics. I am just saying that this idea that the Dutch were not assholes is bullshit.

You used the phrase "Argentinian midgets", silly that you would act like you were not being snide about it.

I don’t know what the actual terminology is. Are they dwarves?

The fact of the matter is that Argentina was the ones to carry it over past the final whistle. Therefore they became sore winners and looked like little bitches.

I'm impressed that a guy who is 5'6" and 150lbs will go down as one of the greats in any team/contact sport. That's really quite a feat.

I almost always root for Dutch in World Cup or Euros, but they gave as good as they got in this dustup. So **** 'em.

Most of these Argentina players play for European clubs, so they know the assholes they were dealing with.

The Dutch have a great team that is enjoyable to watch because they're so good, but likeable? No, generally the Dutch teams are not that.

At least we don't have to watch Arjen Robben throwing 90 minute temper tantrums at the referee anymore

Maradona was 5'5, portly, and a drug addict. He's arguably the soccer GOAT.