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I am not a devoted soccer watcher but I do love a great story, and if there is a great story in this World Cup it’s about two teams: Argentina and Portugal. For those who have recently returned from a holiday to Mars, soccer is currently dominated by two of the greatest players who have played the sport: Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo, who are playing for Argentina and Portugal, respectively. The storyline is made more intriguing because Messi and Ronaldo are physically so different and play with such different styles. Messi is short, impish and tactical. Ronaldo is tall, statuesque and physical. For 10 years, one or the other has won Fifa’s player of the year award, and every year the one who didn’t win came second. Each has won it five times. No one else has achieved that. There have been times when one player has stood out: the other Ronaldo in the late ’90s, or Zinedine Zidane in the early 2000s. But to have two of the greatest players playing at the same time … how much mor...
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