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There Is No End to Lionel Messi's Copycatting

Aug 16, 2007 – 10:20 PM
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David J. Warner

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So Barcelona played a friendly yesterday against Bayern Munich yesterday, and Lionel Messi served up this corker of a goal:


The good folks at Reuters Soccer Blog looked at that goal and thought, "Gee, that looks awfully familiar..."


Yes, it seems Messi is no longer satisfied with just emulating Diego Maradona. Now he's emulating Zinedine Zidane as well. Messi must be a footballing genius if he's stealing all these moves. Whose famous feats will he swipe next? Pele? George Best? One of David Beckham's famed set pieces?

Barcelona fans probably don't care who Messi emulates next, so long as it's not Joey Barton.
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