It's hard for me to like an Argentinian player after that whole Maradona hand-of-god thing but, present company excluded, Lionel Messi is probably the best soccer player in the world right now, and he's only 24.
This goal alone is poetry (yes, even better than when Archie Gemmill
scored against Holland in 1978!). So here's a 45-minute documentary on the world's greatest player. His ball control as a 4 year old is better than anything I'll ever be able to do.
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Watch it before it gets taken down as this seems to be an unauthorized copy.