What If Messi Never Played Football

A world without Messi's magic. No impossible dribbles, no Barcelona dynasty, no World Cup glory

for Argentina. But here's what will shock you. If Lionel Messi never learned football,

we wouldn't just lose the greatest player of all time, we'd lose three World Cup winners,

an entire generation of footballers who'd never exist, and a $600 billion shift in global

football economics. And the most mind-blowing part? Another sport would have claimed him

first, and he might have been even more dominant there. Stay with me,

because what I'm about to reveal will completely change how you see football history.

Let's set the stage here. We're talking about erasing the career of a man with eight