He scores.
Lionel Messi made those two words mean so much that we can take them for granted. It's hard to describe him. It's hard to say exactly how Messi made us appreciate the game. But it is also just as easy to know that, time after time, Messi would give us something special each time we turned to watch him. Cristiano Ronaldo scores, Zlatan Ibrahimovic scores, Ronaldinho scores, but "Messi scores" means more than all. He created a certain kind of expected genius allowed him to blow our minds on the biggest stages possible, and allowed us to expect it to happen. His legacy is defined by what he accomplished on the field, but it stands out becuase of the reaction those accomplishments created in all of us.
