The 10th dressed as an American football quarterback and at the last minute surprised with a great pass to continue to amaze the American public.
Lionel Messi continues to put the public of the USA. With his football and his charisma, of course. But also with that quota of suspense and drama that their matches are having in the Inter Miami. Sport understood as if it were a movie, a motto in those lands, with endings that seemed scripted: a free kick at the last minute, a comeback when everything seemed lost, endless penalty shootouts and, as on the night in Cincinnati, a pitch to the quarterback.
That’s what happened in the last minute of the US Open Cup semifinal, when Messi grabbed the ball 1-2 in the 97th minute and broke the strong local defense in the only possible way. He moved decisively to the side and surprised with something that was neither a pass, nor a cross, nor an assist: it was a football pitch. TO Tom Bradythe GOAT of them, would like this.
The right power, the perfect height, the ideal timing, the exact curve, and a receiver, the Ecuadorian Leonardo Campana, who only had to put his head and “catch” it by pushing it into the net. Leo made it seem so simple that the image of a hero must have come to the eyes of American football fans, Joe Montana.
It was on January 10, 1982, when the unforgettable quarterback of the San Francisco 49ers combined coolness, talent and intelligence to find receiver Dwight Clark in the dying moments of a divisional matchup against Dallas and created that moving work of art that called “The Catch,” one of the most memorable plays in NFL history. Touchdown, great goal and victory.
Messi was Montana in Cincinnati, and in the stands of the flirtatious TQL Stadium was present Joe Burrowwho has nothing of “donkey”: at 26 years of age, he is one of the stars of the NFL and the young quarterback of the Cincinnati Bengalsa franchise marked by frustrations, among the twelve that could never win a Super Bowl.
Hand in hand with this “bad boy” with the face of a child, but especially thanks to his arm, “Cincy” was about to surprise and end that curse last year, when he fell 20-23 against the Los Angeles Rams, in another movie ending That afternoon, the good old Burrow was stopped by the defense and left defeated: it couldn’t have been Montana, Brady or Messi.
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2023-08-24 20:04:02
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