Lionel Messi Superman

I’m catching my breath after watching the nearest thing to a perfect football team, the side that Pep Guardiola has put together at Barcelona  is phenomenal, and  the Jewel in the crown is the pint sized genius Lionel Messi, the Argentinean is a footballing god. His single handed demolition of Barca wannabees Arsenal was breathtaking to watch.

Alongside Diego Maradona who incidentally is also Argentinean I believe you have the two greatest players that have ever lived, the frightening thing in Messi ’s case is he is only 22 years old, how much better can he become.

There are not enough superlatives around to describe Messi, the man is a superman where football is concerned, and to think that bar serious injury he has around another 10 years in him for us to enjoy,  footballers traditionally do not hit their peak till around age 28/29.

I urge anybody out there who is a betting man to put their money on Argentina to win the World cup, like Maradona who single handed won the 1986 tournament for his country Messi is that influential.

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Maradona

Argentina have scraped through to the World cup finals in South Africa next year, a late winner from Mario Bolatti gave the Argies a crucial 1-0 victory at Uruguay to finish fourth in the South American table and clinch an automatic qualifying spot.

A lot of British fans were hoping that Argentina would not qualify so that the competition would not be as great and England’s chance’s would improve, I don’t feel like that, the World cup is the greatest sporting spectacle in the world and teams like Argentina missing out devalue it.

I also happen to believe that Maradona will come good, his critics and he has many of them do not feel he is up to it, but for all his failings he has qualified, it cant be easy managing a national squad it’s not like day to day management where you get to spend all your time with your players, at best at international level you may get the players together for a fortnight in one go if your lucky, but more often than not it’s just for a few days.

As a player Diego Maradona had no equal, for  me he stands head and shoulders above any other footballer past or present, though there are current pretenders to his crown like Lionel Messi and Kaka even they fall a long way short of the great man, anyone who has followed Maradona’s career and saw him at the 1986 World cup will agree with my sentiments. That year Maradona was so awesome that he won it on his own.

No pundits give Maradona and Argentina a chance for the World cup next year, I am going to go against popular opinion and say that I think Maradona has one more  performance up his sleeve and think that the 10/1 on offer for them to lift the trophy is good value. Certainly better value than the measly 7/1 offered about England’s chances.

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