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Originally Posted by royalblue
Just put Messi in central midfield at this point
My kid's seven man team was horrible until the coach did the heterodox thing of moving the best player to center back (whatever it's called at that level - it was sort of a 1-2-1-2 with him as the second 1). Almost no more goals conceded the rest of the season, on the short field he initiated all the play, made occasional counterattacking runs, made long passes to the forwards in space, occasional goals from midfield, basically just bossed the whole thing from the back. Obviously his father was on board or the thing would never have worked.
Argentina could do the same with Messi. I think he can probably understand the idea. Someone just needs to talk to his father.