Tag Archives: Lionel Messi

Jun 9 2012

Brilliance With A Ball

In football, there simply is nothing more wondrous and beautiful to watch than this:

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Lionel Messi is the best player in the world.

In any sport.

No bias in me. True, he is my favorite player. But it is more than that. The quality of play that Messi brings to a game is gratifying, to a fan, to watch.

Gratifying is the key word. How many times, as a fan, can you say you were gratified to watch someone play. Satisfied, maybe but gratified? Hard to say that in sports. It takes a transcendent athlete or moment to make us pause and consume what we witness. Pause and reflect on the swirl of emotions they evoke in us. Joy, exhilaration, awe, wonder, excitement, respectfulness, disbelief, amazement and yes, gratefulness.

It is such with Lionel Messi.

What Messi can do on the pitch, with the ball at his feet is unmatched. His movement without the ball, to find a space where there is no space, whittles away at team/country alliances. Quite simply, he is

Brilliance with a ball.

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Reaction from the Twitterverse:

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Mar 7 2012

Messi

Peyton Manning may have dominated the American sports news today but there was another event going on that was pretty special.

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It was a Lionel Messi kind of day. In case you are new to my blog or my Twitter account, I am a Lionel Messi fan. Truth be told, I love Messi. There is something truly mesmerizing to me about watching him play.

The other-worldly skill he displays when he has the ball is intoxicating. Moving back and forth, to and fro, jumping over the flailing legs of defenders leaves one breathless. Twisting and turning while opponents and goalies drop to their knees forlornly.

That is why I love Messi. And during and after his 5 goal day, the Twitterverse (including current and former players) spoke:

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TWEET OF THE DAY

Jack Wilshere sums it up quite well.

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May 11 2011

Spanning the Twitterverse: Tworts Galore

Spanning the Twitterverse to bring you the constant variety of tweets….the thrill of the retweet….and the agony of the unfollow.…the human drama of the twitter timeline….This is CadChica’s Wide World of Tworts

FIFA UPDATE

Yesterday, news of corruption allegations broke across Twitter and of course that was a major point of my blog post yesterday. Could not help but follow up with a few more. Tsk, tsk, tsk.

TRAYLOR TRAGEDY

Former University of Michigan big man, Robert “Tractor” Traylor passed away today at the young age of 34. In Puerto Rico where he continued to play basketball, he was found dead in his apartment of an ‘apparent’ heart attack. Many folks will remember this below:

On Twitter, this tweet below was the predominant reaction across the Twitterverse; RIP Robert Traylor. RIP.

(side note: Isaac Washington for an avatar is kind of cool.)

VALUE OF TWITTER

In case there are still doubters out there about the ever-increasing value of Twitter in sports, take a look at these tweets from today. Who says tweets don’t pay?

TWEETS OF THE DAY

–Can’t just pick one today folks. First up, my love of Messi continues:

–I do enjoy a Tostito or two but maybe not this much. Salsa anyone?????

–Arizona Cardinals. What do you need most? Clink on the link to see:

–Somehow, I could see Hines Ward doing this:

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