Lionel Scaloni, the head coach of Argentina, has decided between Lionel Messi and Diego Maradona as the best football player ever to represent his nation.
In 2022, Messi finally achieved the same level of success on the international stage as Maradona when he led La Albiceleste to World Cup victory, exactly as El Diego had done in 1986. It was regarded by many as Messi’s apogee, capping off a spectacular career that had already seen him win innumerable club trophies, honors, and records.
Since 2017, Lionel Scaloni has been coaching Messi at the international level, first as an assistant and then as the head coach. But Maradona was at the height of his powers and first attained deity status in Argentina while he was growing up in the 1980s.
“If I have to pick one, I’ll pick Leo, with whom I have something special,” Lionel Scaloni told El Partizado de COPE when asked to pick between the two.
“He is the best in history, although Maradona was also great. Training Messi is not difficult. At a technical level he cannot be corrected, but at times there is pressure or a way of attacking is explained to him. To press, steal balls and when there is blood, he is number one.”
Messi has won it all now that he has the World Cup in his personal trophy case. When Argentina won the Copa America in 2021, his long wait for an international victory finally ended. However, he went one better by winning the world championship in Qatar last month.
Messi is widely anticipated to win the seventh Ballon d’Or of his career at the award’s 2022/23 ceremony given his personal influence on Argentina’s road to victory.
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