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When we talk about (G)old midfielders, these are players who kept ageing better and better after turning 30.

Looking at players like Xavi, Modric, Kroos, Zidane, Pirlo, Makelele, and many more, this football phenomenon is very common with holding midfielders.

What kind of player do you expect Rodri to become the older he gets?

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Years of accurate leaks from reputable sources. and when there's one teeny tiny detail wrong, the pitchforks are up.

Not only that, f2ps harassing p2ws whether by making posts about them, or mocking them in comments. whenever someone posts that they reached 100+ stars or any achievement, "touch grass". Anyone who posts about an in-game issue, "skill issue".

Grow up!

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The goal record belonged to Raul.

The assist record belonged to Ryan Giggs.

The player with the most trophy wins was Paco Gento.

The teams that had achieved a 3+ consecutive trophy wins were Real Madrid with Di Stefano, Puskas, Gento and others, Bayern Munich with Gerd Muller and Franz Beckenbauer, and Ajax with Johan Cruyff and Johan Neeskens.

But who was considered the greatest player until the 2010s?

The amount of times I've seen people, especially new gen, praise him and say that he's the closest talent to Messi and the biggest "what if", is astonishing and I have zero clue as to how and why this exact player was/is getting hyped. I have watched both players and there were STRATOSPHERES between the two in terms of, well, everything. Bojan had decent abilities to dribble, and a good eye for the goal. But Messi was literal terror for defenders, his dribbling and link-up ability was absurd.

That doesn't mean Bojan was a bad player, on the contrary he was one of the best La Masia talent at the time (since many recent ones have overtaken him), but let's not kid ourselves here to appear like "look I have ball knowledge".

World Cup :

🥈 2014

🥇 2022

🥈 2026

Copa America :

🥈 2007

🥈 2015

🥈 2016

🥉 2019

🥇 2021

🥇 2024

Finalissima :

🥇 2022

Olympics :

🥇 2008

U20 World Cup :

🥇 2005