{"id":54507,"date":"2020-08-26T23:30:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-26T20:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/lionel-messis-potential-nycfc-run-at-yankee-stadium-would-be-ruthian-spectacle\/"},"modified":"2020-08-26T23:30:00","modified_gmt":"2020-08-26T20:30:00","slug":"lionel-messis-potential-nycfc-run-at-yankee-stadium-would-be-ruthian-spectacle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/lionel-messis-potential-nycfc-run-at-yankee-stadium-would-be-ruthian-spectacle\/","title":{"rendered":"#Lionel Messi\u2019s potential NYCFC run at Yankee Stadium would be Ruthian spectacle"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Lionel Messi\u2019s potential NYCFC run at Yankee Stadium would be Ruthian spectacle<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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August 26, 2020 |<\/span> 4:30pm |<\/span> Updated August 26, 2020 | 4:34pm<\/span><\/p>\n

\n Babe Ruth \u2026 Mickey Mantle \u2026 Lionel Messi.<\/p>\n

If Messi ever walks into Yankee Stadium as a member of NYCFC, regardless of his age, it would be a spectacle befitting of one of the world\u2019s most legendary arenas.<\/p>\n

For soccer fans, Messi\u2019s greatness needs no explanation. He is God-like, routinely making the best players in the world look like children in his presence. His skill level is not of this world and, it can be easily argued, he is the greatest the game<\/a> has ever seen.<\/p>\n

ESPN reported that Messi could leave Barcelona for Manchester City. Manchester City owns NYCFC with the Yankees having a 20 percent stake.<\/p>\n

In a potential contract, Messi reportedly could spend three seasons in the Premier League with Man City before heading to MLS at age 36.<\/p>\n

Like Messi in front of a goal, the timing could be exquisite. And, just maybe, he could bring his old coach Pep Guardiola, currently of Manchester City, who is sort of akin to Casey Stengel. All of it occurring with the \u201826 World Cup being partly in the US.<\/p>\n

\u201cRight before this continent hosts the \u201826 World Cup it will be hard to quantify his impact, but it will be a seismic moment that will trump Pel\u00e9 with the Cosmos,\u201d ESPN\u2019s lead soccer analyst Taylor Twellman told The Post. \u201cAt 36 he will still have something to offer.\u201d<\/p>\n

Twellman, who has an insider\u2019s ear for what is going on in the soccer world, wonders, \u201cWill Pep join him?\u201d<\/p>\n

There is a business and personal aspect to all this. Messi and Guardiola won championships with Barcelona before Guardiola left. They are stars.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Barcelona is run like the 1970 Steinbrenner Yankees, spending money and firing managers like a Boss. Messi is Reggie Jackson, the straw that stirs the drink without the strikeouts.<\/p>\n

But he has reportedly grown tired of the circus, which has resulted in Barcelona recently being embarrassed in the sport\u2019s highest competition, the UEFA Champions League. Last week, an 8-2 trouncing to eventual winners, Bayern Munich, preceded all the \u201cMessi wants out\u201d reports. He is the face of Adidas, which may be a factor in all this.<\/p>\n

The way soccer is constructed on the world stage, players can basically ask for free agency, but it can be complicated. A player of Messi\u2019s all-time stature could end up in a legal battle. If all works out, it would be special if he transfers to Manchester City before hopping on the 4 train to the Bronx.<\/p>\n

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Pele playing for the Cosmos at Yankee Stadium in 1976.<\/span>Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The growth of soccer has been happ<\/a>ening for decades in this country with predictions about when it is about to boom yearly. This discussion is rote because soccer has arrived from the mostly excellent coverage on TV to the outstanding in-stadium experience of MLS to the popularity of the women\u2019s national team to immense youth involvement to young, exciting men\u2019s players like 21-year-old Christian Pulisic.<\/p>\n

But Messi would be something out of this world, even at 36 and perhaps a slightly diminished player. He could make the game grow in the Bronx, where NYCFC has failed to get a stadium built, forcing them to play on a reduced pitch more fitted for an eight vs. eight youth game.<\/p>\n

Messi alone would not be able to bring a new stadium, because the bureaucracy of New York is not solved by stepovers. But maybe, just maybe, a new arena will finally arrive by the time Messi does.<\/p>\n

It could be \u201cThe House That Messi Built.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ruth \u2026 Mantle \u2026 Messi. Maybe it happens. Maybe it doesn\u2019t. It is fun to dream about it.\n <\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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