Lionel Messi: Making the case to bring him to MLS

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Can the MLS entice Lionel Messi as a challenge?

Lionel Messi is arguably the best footballer to ever exist, from a gifted technical aspect at least. Whilst his never-fading, relentless rival, Cristiano Ronaldo, could also be considered to be the greatest of all time, they’ve won audiences over in different fashions.

Cristiano Ronaldo to me is what David Beckham was and still is. Global superstar, transcending sport alone and glamorously tip-toeing through a Hollywood type lifestyle, even miles away from Hollywood itself. Ronaldo, in my eyes, already half exists in the MLS.

Messi is different. He’s purer to the game. Maybe he doesn’t appear as…