When messi was facing Chelsea in 2006, the amount of career ending tackles messi got was absurd. This wasn't the first time either as every club would try to injure messi but he always stood back up again. You don't see this durability and endurance in modern football anymore. You had to be extremely healthy to endure all this. Back then, there were also many football legends playing as well but messi managed to shock the world. An example of this is when Messi dominated the real madrid galactos team and no one knew how to stop him. Football back then felt more like a war then a rivalry.   submitted by   /u/Low_Weekend6131 [link]   [comments]