After three unsatisfactory defeats in the
final of the Copa America, as well as an worrying 2014 World Cup final
loss, Messi finally haul up an international trophy this
past weekend when La Albiceleste defeat Brazil 1-0 at the Maracana stadium.
Since after Angel Di Maria scored
the winner and Lionel Messi was overcome with feeling
at the final whistle subsequent many minutes of unhappiness with
the national team.
The 34-year-old lit up the tournament in Brazil, with 4 goals and 5 assists in a superb campaign.
Plenty feel as though the Copa
America win puts L.Messi in pole spot to win a 7th Ballon d'Or and further strengthen his position as the greatest
player of all time.
But Kempes, who wore the iconic
No.10 shirt for Argentina en route to winning the 1978 World Cup, is adamant
that 'El Diego', a 2 times World Cup winner, shall ever be the supreme to ever
do it.
"Messi's big hard luck is that
he came onto the scene right away after Diego Armando Maradona. Furthermore Maradona is very
tricky to obscure. The player who was glorify by one and all. The sixty-year-old
told ESPN Mexico, as per The Mirror.
"If Lionel Messi (Argentina
Captain) wishes to be superior than Maradona.... He will never achieve that even
if he wins four subsequent World Cups. Messi still has not been a top world
champions.
Well, It doesn't matter what he wins
or how much he wins, he will by no means be able to be compared to what Diego
did."
Worth mentioning that, due to their dissonantly similar playing way and technical sorcery with the ball, Maradona and Lionel Messi have habitually been compared to one another.
In November, days after Maradona's
passing, Messi paid tribute to his previous
coach by get rid of his Barcelona shirt and revealing an old
Newell's Old Boys No.10 strip.
When Maradona made his entrance for
Newell's, a five-year-old Messi was on the ground beforehand doing kick-ups.
Messi dedicated Argentina's Copa
America victory, their first since 1993, to Maradona as well as the Forty-Five
Million Argentines.
"This is for all, and surely
also for Diego, who indeed was supporting us from wherever he is," the
six-time Ballon d'Or winner wrote on social media Instagram.
"Let's not forget that there is still a long way to go to return to normality and I hope we can acquire advantage of this joy to increase a little strength to fight the virus together."