I'll never get over watching him score a hand of god goal during a la liga match on live tv, can't recall if it was vs Betis or Racing Club. no matter how awesome his stats are, there's still that unexplainable, red-cardable offense.
This was 4 Ballon d'Ors ago
Irrelevant to the article but 2014 is back in the era when we used to see even more of this:
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Messi for football is same as Gauss for math. Pure genius.
There's a subreddit dedicated to stats like this where Messi is so far and away from the competition that he's in the top right of the plot - https://www.reddit.com/r/TopRightMessi/