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If you base it on achievements then I doubt he'll ever do what Maradona did. Messi plays on maybe the greatest club side of all time, and even if he wins a World Cup with Argentina, it'll likely be with better players than Diego had around him - good ones, but not great.
Based purely on ability and performance, I've never seen anything like Messi. Closest was fat Ronaldo in his prime. It doesn't matter that he's one-footed or can't head the ball if you can't stop that one foot. |
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in terms of sheer technical ability he's as good as any there ever was, but i think there's another side to it. some of the romance of great footballers lies in the personality of their game and the spirit, attitude and style they bring to the field. it's part of what makes us cherish the likes of maradona, garrincha and best. i don't really get a sense of that from messi; he's a joy to watch, but at the same time there's something faintly anodyne about him.
of course it's a bit of a superficial argument - there's been all manner of great uncharismatic footballers - but the ones who become icons do carry a certain edge. |
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You're right tho. He's not very expressive, and if anything you get the feeling he's sometimes embarrassed by what he does and how easy it seems. The swagger of a Best or Maradona or the cool arrogance of a Beckenbauer or Cruyff helped make them seem bigger than the game. Whereas Messi, through no fault of his own, tends to just make his opponents look amateur. |
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But, the question about whether he's the greatest of all time imo comes down to consistency. It's the staggering consistency that sets him apart for me. Plenty of players have shone as bright as messi in the past, but how many have done it for this long and dominated for as long as he has? He scores shitloads of goals, but look at the type of goals he scores. If any of our lot scored even a fraction of the type of goals he does EVERY weekend, we'd be reminiscing about them for years. |
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My point is that George best couldn't win a world cup for northern ireland on his own - so he can never be considered as one of/the best player of all time? No, of course not. He is rightly mentioned among the best of all time because he was a genius at man utd. |
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