Manager Arsene Wenger to magnanimously declare that his team had been undone “by the best player in the world – by a distance.”
Diego Maradona, his national team coach, declared this week: “He’s at a select level, the best in the world and a star at Barcelona. Leo is playing kick-about with Jesus. How could I not be happy for Messi to win the World Cup? He also called him a “PlayStation player” for the ease in which he executes moves only thought possible in a computer game like the double feint and drag back.
“Football’s Picasso,” said the Catalan daily Sport.“We’re going to have to expand the dictionary to find new adjectives, because majestic, magic, incomparable and divine have all been used up.”
“Football’s Picasso,” said the Catalan daily Sport.“We’re going to have to expand the dictionary to find new adjectives, because majestic, magic, incomparable and divine have all been used up.”
“Messi could well become the greatest player of all time,” added the El Digital de Madrid. “His challenge is with history, with Pele and Maradona. In 50 years everyone will be talking about him.”
“Is Messi the greatest player ever?”
Although he has yet to lift a World Cup, the stats give strong support to Messi’s cause. Still only 22, he is already second in Barca’s all-time top scorers’ list in European competition with 27 goals. Only the sure-to-be- eclipsed Rivaldo, with 30, has more.
“Is Messi the greatest player ever?”
Although he has yet to lift a World Cup, the stats give strong support to Messi’s cause. Still only 22, he is already second in Barca’s all-time top scorers’ list in European competition with 27 goals. Only the sure-to-be- eclipsed Rivaldo, with 30, has more.
And on Tuesday, the World and European Player of the Year became only the second Barca player to score four goals in a European game.
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