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I care, what can I say. I want clean fútbol.

Soccer is played by gloriously messy human beings. A bit of schmutz now and then is not so terrible a thing.

That adds to Messi's greatness, since he's not "gloriously messy".

I would say that Messi is gloriously messy.

At the very least we can say he is gloriously Messi.