It's a team sport. Portugal won the Euros because they had a team who can defend and were organised. Have you looked at the teams Pele played in? '58 & '62 the Golden Ball (best player) awards were won by Didi and Garrincha (two of his Brazilian team mates), in fact Pele played one game in '62 then was injured in the second group game and didn't play again yet Brazil still won the WC. Pele did win the Golden Ball in 1970, but the 1970s side is considered by many to be the best international team of all time. Croatia are a good team. I said that before the game.
Messi has done the impossible anyway. People win the World Cup every four years but if you had said to someone 'a guy in Europe's top leagues will score 73 goals in a season' ten years ago, they'd have said 'that doesn't happen any more, silly numbers like that only happened in the 40s and 50s, the game is too good now'.
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