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That was a fair bit before Maradona's time.The day he can run the game without dribbling and flying past opponents comes, he will be the best ever.
Until then, he is not.
Maradona could run a game without a single dribble. Pelé the same. Zidane also did it.
Not Messi, he can't.
Those 3 players won world cups. Messi didn't.
The Napoli team was nowhere near this Barcelona. Alemão is no Xavi. Careca was a great striker but he was more dependant on service.
Hell Napoli wasn't as good as Milan at that time.
Look at the argentine team at Mexico... Take Maradona out and you have a pretty ordinary team. One of the weakest since I remember.
In Spain, Maradona got his leg broke. That shows how much Messi is fortunate. Usually defenders let him get away without trying to bring him down. Football in Spain is a lot different from Maradona's days. It used to be tougher and uglier. The spanish national team used to be known as the "spanish fury" rather than the tiki-taka.
The day he can run the game without dribbling and flying past opponents comes, he will be the best ever.
Until then, he is not.
Maradona could run a game without a single dribble. Pelé the same. Zidane also did it.
Not Messi, he can't.
Those 3 players won world cups. Messi didn't.
The Napoli team was nowhere near this Barcelona. Alemão is no Xavi. Careca was a great striker but he was more dependant on service.
Hell Napoli wasn't as good as Milan at that time.
Look at the argentine team at Mexico... Take Maradona out and you have a pretty ordinary team. One of the weakest since I remember.
In Spain, Maradona got his leg broke. That shows how much Messi is fortunate. Usually defenders let him get away without trying to bring him down. Football in Spain is a lot different from Maradona's days. It used to be tougher and uglier. The spanish national team used to be known as the "spanish fury" rather than the tiki-taka.
Messi is still 24, "he didn't win a World Cup" is a little premature. It will be good to see how he gets on in Brazil. You can't class him as the best player in the world ever, whilst he's still playing, it's obvious
He's definitely the best at the moment, Ronaldo is obviously up there probably on a par. He's got everything going for him to become the best ever though. It will be interesting to see how he gets on when he's lost a bit of his pace
And look at this challenge here. Those pesky cones hey
Funny how history tends to favour winners isn't it? Lets bare in mind that had the assault by Schumacher on Battison been dealt with properly it would probably have been France rather than a mediocre German side that would have faced Argentina in the final. You'd have to have fancied France to win that. Would we then be talking about Platini being the best ever? After all he achieved as much as Maradonna did in club football. Or should we say Mathaus is an all time great because he inspired an average West Germany to the Italia 90 crown over another poor Argentina side, not to mention inspiring Inter to rare success around the same time?
And lets face it, if you want to see training cone defence you only have to look at the goal Maradona scored against us. Peter Reid god bless him was blowing out of his arse after a few metres of chasing him and the rest of the defence was abject at best. At least in the identikit goal Messi scored he was sprinting the entire way rather than jogging as Maradona was.