Football’s craziest transformations must kickoff with the current superstar of the game,
Kylian Mbappe. Because he’s been around since he was a kid, we’ve been able to witness Mbappe
grow up right in front of our eyes. From this little kid who just wanted to take
pictures with his idols, Mbappe has totally transformed into a colossal idol himself.
Growing up, he was always one of the smallest kids in the pack, but right now,
he stands at 5 feet 10. Not the tallest, but surely far from being the shortest one. And
hey! Look at that body, too. You can tell that the France captain has been in the gym!
And you know who else has been in the gym? Robert Lewandowski. This guy really went from the lanky
guy up front for Lech Poznan to the monstrous striker who has been dominating Europe for years.
The Barcelona number 9 found a nutritionist wife, and she turned around his entire diet. Once Lewy
started to eat right and hit the gym, he was able to transform his body to what you see right now.
And you know, Bayern Munich have a reputation of building up their players and making them much
more ripped than they were before they joined. And the poster boy for that is Leon Goretzka.
If you knew Goretzka before he joined Bayern,
then you’d know exactly what we’re talking about here. This dude wasn’t just slender,
he was actually sickly. He was diagnosed with an inflammatory bowel disease in 2015 while he
was at Schalke 04 and it really affected him. Nearly ruined his career, in fact.
He was absent frequently, and when he picked up an injury,
the condition would make it even more difficult for him to recover properly.
So, the German midfielder started to do some serious work on himself. He started
a really healthy diet and in addition to that he started to hit the gym.
He slowly began to get healthier and fitter. But it all peaked when
he joined Bayern Munich in 2018. Bro, Goretzka practically blew up
in his first season at Bayern. Look at him looking like an absolute unit right now.
Only God knows what they feed them there at Bayern.
Okay, for sure Cristiano Ronaldo knows,
because that man’s transformation was completely out of this world.
Cristiano is insanely ripped and fit, and he has been for years, but he has not always
been like this. If you knew the lad during his first stint at Man United, before he actually
became a worldwide superstar, then you’d understand exactly what we’re talking about.
Back then, Ronaldo was just a lanky kid with flair, insane footwork,
and bad teeth. But the Portuguese icon began to invest time and effort into
his appearance and fitness, and boy has it yielded mind-blowing results!
He completely changed his diet, started spending more time in the gym, and had his nose and teeth
done. Now, he has a ripped 20-something-year-old body, a million-dollar smile,
and a well-carved face. All thanks to the insane transformation he has undergone over the years.
But if we’re talking about crazy body transformations,
we just cannot go without mentioning Adama Traore. This dude really went
from looking like just the kid next door to looking like Dwayne The Rock Johnson.
And you know why his body transformation is really insane? Because he said that he
didn’t gain any of that muscle in the gym. The Spanish winger
said he doesn’t lift weights and all that we see is just pure genetics.
Even Traore himself said he knows that that’s hard to believe. I mean,
how do you go from this to this without lifting weights? Well damn!
But one person you’ll easily believe doesn’t lift weights is Lionel Messi. Messi has always
been one of the smallest guys in the pack, and standing at 5 feet 7, that hasn’t changed so much.
But then, Messi has actually had two different significant transformations in his life. Firstly,
Messi standing at 5 feet 7 is actually a huge thing, because when he was diagnosed with a
growth hormone deficiency at the tender age of 10, not many expected that he’d
ever grow up to look like a man. But thanks to the treatment he got early in his life,
Messi was able to undergo a pretty significant transformation which facilitated his growth.
Now, fast-forward to 2016, we witnessed another significant Messi transformation. Messi showed up
at the 2016 Copa America tournament with a full beard and everybody was so pleasantly shocked.
We were all so used to a fresh-faced Messi with little to no facial hair,
but all of a sudden, we saw Messi with a full face of hair. What a transformation, man!
But it wasn’t just his face that went through a transformation. Messi also changed his diet
in 2014, completely abandoning junk food and fizzy drinks, and ever since then,
his body has thanked him for it. He stopped puking so often and started looking fitter than ever.
His friend, too, also underwent a big transformation. Neymar used to be this
lanky little wonderkid who just loved showing off his dazzling skills on the football pitch.
But once he moved to Europe in 2013, he slowly began to undergo some changes.
But the biggest changes came after he moved to PSG. He had his teeth done,
grew a beard, and went from being a lanky kid to being a big boy. PSG
gave him a fat paycheck and he decided he would use it to totally change his look.
Neymar’s teammate, Sergio Ramos, also had a big transformation. Back when Ramos was at Sevilla,
he surely wasn’t bullying anybody with the way he looked. He was lanky,
had no facial hair, and had the classic middle school boy hair.
But he moved to Madrid and really began to work on himself. He started
to spend an insane amount of time in the gym and that led to him becoming ripped as
hell. He also began to style his hair to look more manly and then grew out his facial hair.
Now, the Spanish defender looks like a total specimen and that’s a far cry
from what he looked like in his first few years at Real Madrid.
Let’s now talk about Salah. This is one guy who experienced all-round
transformation. When he was at Chelsea, Salah looked like a computer nerd. He
was lean and didn’t look like he could really do much on the pitch.
Then he was rejected by Chelsea and moved to Italy where he started to
work on his revenge body. Salah hit the gym just as often as he hit the training ground,
and there were immediately massive improvements all round.
He did so amazingly at Roma that Klopp noticed him and brought him
back to the Premier League just a year after he was chased out by Chelsea.
Salah was ready for the call when it came and he made sure Chelsea regretted ever letting him go.
He hit the ground running with Liverpool, leading them to the Champions League final, winning the
Premier League Golden Boot, and breaking numerous records in just his first season at the club.
And ever since then, he has kept up that brilliant form. And anytime he faces Chelsea,
he always seems to find the back of the net. Celebrate? You bet he does!
Speaking of celebrations, every now and then,
Mo Salah makes sure to take off his shirt to celebrate a goal
so you guys can appreciate the amount of transformation his body has been through.
We’ll wrap this list up with the Ballon d’Or winning pair from
Real Madrid – Benzema and Modric. Now, the transformation these two
have undergone less about how they look and more about how they play.
Modric went from being named the worst signing in
La Liga in his first season at Madrid to becoming a Ballon d’Or winner and
one of the greatest midfielders ever. That’s one hell of a transformation!
Benzema, too, went from being nothing more than Ronaldo’s second-in-command
to being Real Madrid’s captain, their major source of goals, and best player. In fact,
nevermind being Madrid’s best player, he’s the current holder of the Ballon
d’Or which makes him the reigning World Best Player. What a transformation that is.
If you were told in 2009 that Modric and Benzema would be Ballon d’Or winners while Suarez, Neymar,
Xavi, and Iniesta would never win a Ballon d’Or, you would probably have laughed in that person’s
face. But that’s how unpredictable the game of football is and that’s why we love it so much.
But which player do you think has undergone the most transformation in recent years,
whether physically or in their gameplay? Let us know in the comments.
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