| CGcarmineCG said: Seriously you said the Maradona's Argentina was stronger than the actual Argentina? Higuain is one of the best offensive player in the world, currently maybe is the best beside Lewandowski, same Di Maria, Aguero and the same Messi. They choose to NOT convocate Dybala and Icardi, that could easily be the first pick in every national team, or at least the most, depending on the formation. Mascherano and Banega are other two top player, even Lamela and Lavezzi. The truth is that in the most important match with the Argentina Messi flopped. Remember the last year's final? The World cup's final? Maradona alone won the world cup, Messi, with other of best players in the world can't win nothing outside Barcellona. |
While I agree that Pelé had a better team, he won 3 damn world cups, with the 58/62 team and with a new one in 1970. Maradona's team was weaker than Messi's Argentina. Right now they have one of the best national teams in the world and cannot accomplish anything with it.
Even if he is a genius, Messi always underdelivered in the national team. He never had a decent sequence of good matches. It's always predictable, easy to be nulified by the opposite team's defense.
Football is a collective sport, but people forget that top players like Messi, C Ronald, Neymar and such are feared. The other team normally will use 2 dedicated players to defend against them and the rest of the defense is really handicaped.
As I said earlier, he will never be an all-time great until he wons the World Cup. Even then, he isn't a Pelé (his achievements are dwarfed by this guy) or Maradona (same play style, but El Pibe de Oro was one level above) and never will be.
