u/IamCassiusBrown

Have an exceptional life where you achieve global stardom and your goals, but die at age 27?

Have an average life where you achieve standard goals, but live to age 90?

For me I'll go with section of Time by Pink Floyd🩷

Tired of lying in the sunshine, staying home to watch the rain

And you are young and life is long, and there is time to kill today

And then one day you find ten years have got behind you

No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun

I don't think we talk about this as much as we should:

"Lionel Messi is the greatest youngster the world of sports has ever seen (all sports included)"

Let me present my case:

Achievements:

4 Ballon d'Or awards

Most goals in a single season (73 goals)

3 UEFA Champions League titles

Barcelona's all-time top goalscorer by age 24

2 European Golden Shoes (the most by any player at that age)

5 league titles, 2 domestic cups, and 2 Club World Cups

A FIFA U-20 World Cup title

On top of that, he wasn't just a goalscorer-he recorded 34 assists in the 2011-12 season alone. He could drop deep into the midfield and play as a "False 9," all while scoring a massive number of goals and bagging a crazy number of assists

With this dominance, he overtook Michel Platini's record for the most consecutive Ballon d'Or awards

And on top of all this his consistency It was purely out of this world

Look at the other legends at that age: a young Pele struggled with injuries, a young Maradona was incredibly popular but short tempered and controversial on the field, a young Mike Tyson couldn't maintain his early dominance

When you sum up all of these things, you have to come to the conclusion that Messi is by far the greatest youngster the world has ever seen across all sports and there will never be anyone like him again

The Greatest of All Time🐐