Let's share our opinions about him..
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Let's share our opinions about him..
Massimo Moratti: "Javier Zanetti ha sempre onorato la maglia e ci ha sempre fatto sentire fieri di essere interisti"
i think that he is not something very specia
yes he is a verygood player
but when he play vs strong defenses he will do nothing
and without xavi and iniesta he is no thing like in argentina nation club with maradona and macherano !!!!
I don't agree...
He is one of the best players ever.. i'm not saying THE BEST, because there are other factors that determine that...
He is a champion and a star at barca.. But, to be the best, he must do several other things. He must win the world cup with argentina, and be their best player. Another thing, he must move our from barca, to a weaker team and there show what he can do.. If he can achieve the same he did with Barca, than I'll be saying, yes, he IS the best player of all times..
He is still 22, so there is more yet to be seen.
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Not winning the world cup will make his talent look poor? That is crappy logic with all due respect.
He is the best ever. Period.
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With all the superlatives that has been given towards to Messi, I'll try to look at things from a different angle.
It's similar to what Pajo is saying. It will be difficult for Messi to be considered as the best ever by the MEDIA & POPCORN FANS if he doesn't do anything in the World Cup. Hell, I'll take it further, it'll be difficult for Messi to be a bigger legend than Maradona if he doesn't anything spectacular in a World Cup to England.
Proof: Messi have been spectacular since the 07/08 season but it takes the media so long to recognize that he is the best in the world until he destroyed Arsenal yesterday. Many were still considering that Rooney or even Drogba or Torres was better and it takes a spectacular performance against Arsenal, who by the way only have freaking Silvestre & Vermaelen as defenders, for Messi to be considered this good.
Just to be clear, crushing England in the WC is what is required for Messi to be considered legendary by the press. But for me, clearly if he continues at this rate even if he doesn't win the WC in his career, Messi will be the best player ever.
He is very good but he is not the best ever. Diego is still better. Messi is a fantastic player but has been helped a lot by always playing in a very good/great side. Diego won games/trophies virtually on his own for napoli and argentini. The barca and the argentine sides that messi has played for has immensely more talented than those sides.Originally Posted by Suneet
Another factor is messi played in an open attacking league which allowed him much more space to express his talent while diego played in the toughest defensive league and made greats like baresi,bergomi,ferri,ect look like fools.
To me Messi is a great but its ridiculous to call him the best ever imho.
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Respect and understand your view Stef, but.... I believe footballers now are generally fitter and mentally/tactically way ahead of the past. To me Messi isnt playing against GF 3, Bergomi etc etc, but he is standing heads and shoulders above the rest of the talent he plays with. To me when you shine in a team of superstars and not just shine, OUTSHINE them you are special.
Maradona in this day and age would have struggled to be fit and start in any of todays football teams. Messi is not just another winger who is lucky to be playing in an open league he has that something extra you see in greats and he has the most of it. Hopefully he will change your view in the future. And also lets hope he sucks against us.
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What more can you say about him as a player? The best, the magician, the alien,... Like I've said, if Barca will beat us I can still claim that we have played against Barca and Messi. And we all were witnesses.
Now what about Messi as a person? Some of y'all may have noticed that "the best player on planet earth" or "The Majesterial" (Ray Hudson quotes) Lionel Andrés Messi is a very kind person. Just nice. Intelligent and down to earth. Humble and grateful for his success. Just follow his interviews. Off the pitch he doesn't need the spotlight for making the headlines. I think that's also one of the secrets to his success, what makes him so special at least.
If diego was born in this era he would have likely taken care of the fitness aspect. Fact is didn't need to in his era.Respect and understand your view Stef, but.... I believe footballers now are generally fitter and mentally/tactically way ahead of the past. To me Messi isnt playing against GF 3, Bergomi etc etc
Maradona in this day and age would have struggled to be fit and start in any of todays football teams. Messi is not just another winger who is lucky to be playing in an open league he has that something extra you see in greats and he has the most of it. Hopefully he will change your view in the future. And also lets hope he sucks against us.
Again not saying messi isn't a great, he is just not agreeing with him being the greatest ever. For me Diego is still that and none of the current generation gets close to unsurping him.
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Diego was a playmaker, a trequartista and a forward at the same time....Diego was the football...i mean...look how easy he kicked that ball and look at the result...and that's nothin..just a free kick during his presentation at Naples
overweight while sniffin cocaine..
give me a call when you see another player like Maradona.
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Hey, if we're talking about a player's TALENT, maybe Maradona is better.
But no, we're talking about what they achieved on the pitch, aren't we? Otherwise I'll put Balotelli's, Cassano's & Recoba's names also.
Maradona played for relatively bad teams at the time and made them great.
Messi plays with the best offensive team of the decade and Argentina is very strong at the time in comparison to let's say 1986.
When I see Messi winning the scudetto with a team like Lazio or Parma (of the current season) then I will say that he is on par with Maradona.
So far, for me, Messi is the best active player. But I am of the opinion that football quality has fallen.
Well said.
I think it's not fair to compare Messi as the best player ever.. but anyways he is doing fantastic job so far, and the main competitor to win the Ballon d'Or again.
Massimo Moratti: "Javier Zanetti ha sempre onorato la maglia e ci ha sempre fatto sentire fieri di essere interisti"
For the Ballon D'or... there is Messi then a little daylight later is C.Ron and then lightyears is the rest.
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You really want to compare diego with recoba,cassano and mario.
On the pitch diego had a goal ratio of .526(258 in 490 games) compared to messi's ratio of 0.588(80 in 136 games). So basicly diego playing deeper in a more defensive league for a large part of his career is only very slightly behind messi's ratio.
If anyone knows where I can find stats on the amount of assists that would be great. Personally reckon diego has more.
If you want to compare achievements on the pitch in terms of personal awards and trophies won han that's a bit hard. One of the main reasons being the balon d'or wasn't open to non european players till 1995 so diego never won it even though he would have won it quite a few times if he was elligible. While the fifa world player of the year award was only introduced in 1991 when he was past his prime. So which individual awards was there he could win.
As for club winning titles it was much harder for him because he played in smaller teams for the most part. If he had stayed with barca and not had the falling out things may have turned out differently or if he had gone to a bigger club then napoli but we got change history. Also remember in terms in winning champions league back then only the winner of the domestic league could enter the champions cup so diego only ever got two chances to play in the competition.
Its always extremely hard to compare across generations but for me nothing messi has done puts him above diego. Maybe in years to come he will do it. But I have my doudts.
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Generational comparisons are impossible. Pele was the best in his time. Maradano was the best in his time. Messi is the best now. Other than that we can't say anything else. The balls changed: real leather, synthetic leather, polystyrene, syntactic foam. No comparison. The pitches changed: unmaintained grass, hard surface grass, synthetic "plastic pitches", rubber infill, real grass. The shoes changed... the dietary care and nutrition changed. The training methods changed. The fabrics they wear, the laws of the game (majorly in 90, 92, 97), and even the refereeing standards, even the way fans chanted and supported players. Every single element of the game is different and if you were to time travel Maradona to 2010 or Messi to 1986 neither of them would have any clue what to do and they will both be lost.
But again, they were the best at a given point in time, and in that, they are equal.
He does these fantastic things when defence are more decisive in world football. That's th best argument beside him being World Number 1 ever.
When summer Argie will win WC, nobody wont question his status quo.
Maradona is the best player ever..There's no one like him. No one will ever be. God of football.
Don't forget R9 too.
Messi is n. 3 on my list.
Someone who didn't see in action Maradona, Beckenbauer, Eusebio, Van Basten should never talk in the debate of who is the best player ever, if you only follow football since the last 10 years and didn't see any old games, Messi, Zidane or Ronaldo can be better for you but that's not real history, maybe your history.
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