The careers of Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo are a journey to eliminate prejudice, with talent that transcends space and time. Of course, there will be times when they have to stop. Maybe 2024.

Prejudice always exists. Over time, when one prejudice is eliminated, another prejudice arises. The careers of Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo are a journey to eliminate prejudice, with talent that transcends space and time. Of course, there will be times when they have to stop. Perhaps 2024,2024 is the 5th year in the 3rd decade of the 21st century. The world has changed a lot since the new millennium entered. More than 20 years ago, smartphones or social networks were still extremely strange concepts.

In football, the pace of change is even faster. Because simply, the career life of a football player is very short. If life is several times 10 years, then a player’s peak period is only about 5 years, it is very rare to maintain performance for 10 years. In 2004, the player who won the Golden Ball was Andriy Shevchenko. Just 2 years later, at the age of 30, the famous Ukrainian striker’s career began to decline when he decided to move to Chelsea. Turning 30 is also considered a milestone to move to the other side of your career slope.

Besides Sheva, the early 2000s were a time of blossoming talented strikers and the popularity of the 4-4-2 formation. One of the typical striker pairs in a typical squad using the 4-4-2 formation is Thierry Henry and Dennis Bergkamp at Arsenal.

The 2003-04 season marked the brightest milestone in the history of the “London Gunners”, when Arsene Wenger and the team won the Premier League with an undefeated record. After that championship, 20 years have passed, witnessing many changes in times, Arsenal has still not been able to win the Premier League again. Arsenal’s history might have been different if that day had successfully recruited one of the two young talents Cristiano Ronaldo or Lionel Messi. Coach Arsene Wenger once confided that one of the things he regretted throughout his life was not being able to sign a contract with C.Ronaldo.

“There was a time when I was very close to recruiting him. I regret not only because I couldn’t recruit C. Ronaldo but also because he later joined Man Utd. To this day, I’m still traumatized. I feel sorry for that.”this incident,” he said.

Regarding the missed Messi deal, Wenger once revealed: “We discussed with Lionel Messi when recruiting Fabregas, because Messi is a teammate of the same age as Fabregas.” The plan failed because Messi could not get a work permit in England. .

Of course, as the famous proverb from Wenger’s hometown goes: “With just one if, one can put all of Paris in a bottle.” Perhaps there is only one thing that remains constant, and that is C.Ronaldo and Messi’s talent transcends space and time.

In the early 2000s, when C. Ronaldo and Messi first started their careers, it was difficult to imagine the development and achievements that these two superstars would later achieve. When he debuted at Man Utd, the young Portuguese talent was known as the heir to David Beckham’s right wing midfielder position in the popular 4-4-2 formation.