Why are the best football players called GOAT? This is the praise that Muhammad Ali once introduced

GOAT is an acronym that stands for Greatest Of All Time The Greatest of All Time. In sports, she gained a foothold thanks to Muhammad Ali. In 1974, after defeating George Foreman, he said: It seems you have already heard from me that I am the greatest athlete of all time (abbreviation goat), write it down. No one can ever beat me.

Reporters have recorded his Greatest Of All Time as GOAT Once Ali even commented on this: I don't bring animals into this topic for anything. These are the inventions of journalists. I just wanted to emphasize my power and my greatness. I really believe that no athlete from the world of boxing can compare with me.

In 1992, the wife of Muhammad Ali mostbet-az.info registered Greatest of All Time, Inc. The term was registered by the Ali family as intellectual property. The Grammarphobia website (linked to by many English-language sources) claims that the term was heavily popularized by rapper LL Cool J in the track GOAT

What sports use the term

Yes, in all. Examples:

Former Lakers coach Luke Walton said directly in an interview: Look, LeBron is the greatest athlete of all time (Listen Lebron is the GOAT).

NFL. SMM managers of the league in social networks often called Tom Brady goat.

NHL. League clubs also often name their players on social media after highlights.

Football. Here, too, this concept is widespread. And they are used by modern media. Even in 2022, articles are published where journalists find out who is the more majestic athlete Messi or Ronaldo. Such a text was, for example, in Football Talk.

By the way, Messi at PSG wears a GOAT shirt on the sleeve. Like the whole team

Yes, it is. But here GOAT is a company that sells clothes online. GOAT and PSG entered into an agreement in April 2022. GOAT publishes its advertising on the sleeve of all PSG kits, and the club receives $ 50 million per season in return.

It looks like this:

Sportbible tried to promote sensation and wrote that this cooperation has one important detail: PSG publishes GOAT additionally on the training kit of only one player, Lionel Messi. But this is not true. It is on the training uniforms of all players and even coaches. Here is an example of Neymar and Christophe Galtier.

The club's director of partner clubs, Mark Armstrong, said that there is no symbolism in signing an agreement with this particular firm. But Armstrong noted: The phrase on the sleeves of our players very accurately conveys their real level.