torok said:
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. |
Spot on.People making excuses about this team not be great,hahaha.This team was hell of a lot more talented than the Maradona's world cup team.
And yes mind was made up he will never be the greatest with no world cups,which is the pinnacle of football.It's funny how some people say Pele never left Brazil(he was not allowed to,he is a national treasure)yet everything Messi did was in one league with one team.
I said it before I will say it again,he is a choker along with his teammates,third final running.Now he goes and quit,while his team is struggling to qualify for the world cup.Yup what a great.








