Here’s video of all seven goals scored in Argentina’s 4-3 win over Brazil in Jersey today. The reason this is on this here site is because three of them belonged to Lionel Messi. And I like Lionel Messi. A lot. And, this is the first time since the early eighties that someone dropped three on Brazil, according to a pair of Twitter friends.
Perhaps no athlete in the world is as ceaselessly impressive as Lionel Messi. In Spain, soccer’s reigning king has starred at the centerpierce of Barcelona’s surge toward 14 titles in four years. At MetLife Stadium today, in front of the largest crowd ever to watch a soccer game in New Jersey, Messi continued to reach ethereal heights.
In leading his national side, Argentina, past rival Brazil, 4-3, in the first Clasico contested on American soil, Messi scored three times, a hat trick concluded with a game-winning goal that illustrated the words of Mano Manezes, the Brazil manager who after the match responded to a question about harnessing Messi by saying, “No one has found a solution. That is why he’s the best.”
It was the first hat trick by an Argentinean against Brazil since Jose Sanfilippo accomplished the feat in 1959, and the first hat trick allowed by Brazil in 30 years. … [NJ.com]
Lotta classy goals in that match today. Fuckin’ wish I’d have gone.
In unrelated news, Cristiano Ronaldo almost had a nice assist in Portugal’s 1-0 loss to Germany at Euro 12.