Everyone is perpetually searching for the new Lionel Messi.  They proclaim. They anoint. They heap expectation upon expectation on every 16-year-old kid with a flick-flack dribble or swerving free kick. Lieke Martins and Sam Kerr and Marta have all, at times, been called the ‘female Messi’. There’s an Israeli Messi and a Serbian Messi and … Continue reading Yinzer. Messi? Searching for comparables for Hounds rookie Mertz