BalanceUnAutreJoint
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But your grandpa cares about the aesthetic side. And the player he is going to tell you about is the one who felt impressive to watch.Let's be real here. The thing that will keep Messi's name alive 50 years from now is the number of goals he scored and the trophies he won. Which is why winning the WC was such a big deal even though he had established himself as one of the greatest ever long ago. Everything else is anecdotal and wears off with time. Nobody apart from a tiny bunch of nerds is gonna be sat checking Fbref records of what his "expected non penalty goal involvement per 90 mins" or anything was. You care about aesthetic side of the game only when you are watching them day in day out, not when it's someone who you've only heard about from your grandpa.
From the pre 90s era my father never told me about Gerd Muller or Van Basten. It was "Maradona Maradona Maradona"