Nobody knew back then. There were lots of young players with enormous potential who wasted their careers or underperformed. In 2006 Messi was only one of those. A potential to be fulfilled. And no one expected that it will happen so well (with so few injuries).
2006/2007 everyone knew Messi would be one of the best ever and people had already started debating if he could be as good as Maradona!
Nobody knew back then. There were lots of young players with enormous potential who wasted their careers or underperformed. In 2006 Messi was only one of those. A potential to be fulfilled. And no one expected that it will happen so well (with so few injuries).
Yeah no way. I was into football back then and Messi was just some guy that would assist Ronaldinho or eto when I played fifa lol.
I knew who he was but he was ranked an 86 or something like that in fifa.