Imagine you design a garden to grow certain number and kind of plants, but some day you just wake up and notice there are few strange plants that blossomed in such unexpected ways that you are barely able to estimate their growing, the tones and forms your garden will take because of those incredible new plants, even paying real attention to them everyday. That's what Messi-CR7 means for football to this point. I think few people, sport journalists or specialists had considered these two men's actions would be SO determinating in their clubs since a decade ago (27 titles for Messi in FCB; 16 titles for CR7 in Real Madrid counting from 2009) and in this sport.

For instance, Messi-CR7's duality have pregressively made famous "El Clásico" match reach new levels of popularity around the world with nearly 200 countries interested in its broadcasting rights and more of 600 millions people stopping their lifes every time this game is about to begin. Source

What's more, their outstanding individual performances can be also perceived in outstanding concrete results: 5 ballons d'Or on each side. This make other football players achievements to be seemed so poor. It leads to think after them it will exist a huge emptiness in football that hardly other players will fill. So, yes, for me, Messi-CR7's duality is a once-in-a-lifetime event we should be so happy to experience (we're the lucky ones).

Now, let's move to the second point: VAR. In brief, the Video Assistant Referee is a recent innovation in the laws of the game made by the organism in case, the International Football Association Board (IFAB). The main purpose VAR was created for is to review arguable decisions a head referee could make during a match with special emphasis in four types of situations:

• Goals, specifing if there was an offside or a foul in between

• Penalties decisions

• Direct red cards

• Wrong yellow or red card calls

Got the basic VAR's explanation, I have to tell you that I see two possible roads VAR could go through: a positive one or a sad/cold one. Bad news first, ok?

I was a VAR enthusiast as I thought it would be the key to finally clarify many unfair (and sometimes unacceptable) decisions referees made in different tournaments or competitions, just in favor of a more pure sport...Later, the more I saw VAR application, the more I disagreed with it. Let me put this clear: it has nothing to do with «match interruption» many football romantics were against to, but the human factor involucrated in its use.

Either a bribery or a "fear-to-disfavor-an-important-club" case, there are referees or associations that have refused to use or install VAR when situations clearly demanded it. Also, and this is honestly the worst, referees have had wrong calls even when taking adventage on technology. So, in the end, does VAR really come to throw light on football?

Do you remember that 2014 Brazil World Cup video where animated football stars were replaced for perfect versions of themselves because future of football would be better without mistakes? In case you don't, here it is: