Over in that other sport, FC Barcelona’s Lionel Messi is hot enough on the international level to have earned the sobriquet “greatest of all-time” from Barca manager Pep Guardiola; hype is high enough that Guardian UK readers are calling Messi better (by far) than the likes of Diego Maradona, Pele, Johan Cryuff, Zinedine Zidane and (sigh) Ferenc Puskas. A recently rolled-out advertising campaign by nutrional product supplier Herbalife suggests, however, that Messi secretly desires to excel on the basketball court.
Playing to 20 points against an unidentified player who plays some suspect defense early on (c’mon, dude, would you give *anyone* that much space on the outside jumper?), our hero appears to be in trouble until the old skills kick in at the buzzer.
Does Messi, in fact, have game? Well, let’s put it this way: He’ll always have football…
