Please note that the posts on The Blogs are contributed by third parties. At Barcelona, he won ten LaLiga titles and four Champions League-winning medals. To answer that question, it might be useful to seek help from a Greek oracle, since both are, or were, in Maradonas case, exquisite players. The tension is rising and the spotlight is blinding as Messi feels the pressure to nail his fifth and surely last World Cup campaign in the way that Maradona achieved back in 1986. Incorrect password. To see all content on The Sun, please use the Site Map. So it's by no means a whitewash, don't get it twisted, but Maradona holding his own in the stats just about seals the deal considering that his winners' medal and 'Goal of the Century' probably gave him the edge to start with. You could say Napoli vs. Barcelona is the Maradona derby. Marvin has a degree from one of the top universities in America and offers his services as a sports manager. But it is not that simple. But statistics can't tell the whole story. For the most part, Ronaldo and Messi have been competing for the major trophies while playing for Spanish clubs. WebHowever because of the emotional peaks associated with Maradona its difficult for Messi to compete when compared in terms of iconic status. Portugal are a relatively mediocre team in comparison with giants like France, Germany, and Spain, but that did not prevent Ronaldo from leading the national team to Euro glory in 2016. If there's one non-negotiable differential, however, it's thatMaradona was capable not only of delivering himself, but of dragging his team-mates up a level (or ten). He was an unlikely choice as co-counsel to Julio Csar Strassera, the esteemed veteran barrister who mustered the gruesome evidence against Lt. Gen. Jorge Rafael Videla, Adm. Emilio Eduardo Massera, Brig.-Gen. 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His reputation as a diva means plenty of people hate him with a passion. From the mid-90s and especially since the turn of the century, football started to open its heart and hearth to attackers. says Moreno Ocampo, exulting in the anecdote. Now hes learning with the movie. Supremely effective and hugely prolific at Ajax, where he won three European Cups, eight league titles and, individually, three Ballons d'Or. "Argentina 1985" recounts the actual testimony of a terrified pregnant woman who spontaneously gave birth after being tossed in the back of a police car. (Photo by Mike King/Allsport/Getty Images). 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Lowe says its very hard to look beyond the significance of Maradona particularly when considering his impact at the 1986 FIFA World Cup, but does concede Barcelonas Messi is the best player Ive ever seen and will ever see. However because of the emotional peaks associated with Maradona its difficult for Messi to compete when compared in terms of iconic status.#ESPNFC Subscribe to ESPN FC on YouTube: http://bit.ly/SUBSCRIBEtoESPNFC Arrogant ex-Leeds United player who raped girl, 17, jailed for 17 years, Reading set to be deducted six points for breaching spending rules, Tributes paid to World Cup legend Just Fontaine after death aged 89, Man Utd legend Roy Keane surprises Laura Woods live on ITV with comment, News Group Newspapers Limited in England No. No one seems to know how to split the two, and in many ways it's a redundant debate; it's near impossible to compare football in the 1980s and 90sto football nowadays., Near impossible, but not entirely. In terms of impact, as Maradona passed away on Wednesday, 26 years after he played his last match for his country, Argentine President Alberto Fernandez declared three days of national mourning. Another USC colleague, Viet Thanh Nguyen, who fled Vietnam with his family, has written, "You fight your wars twice: first in the battlefield, then in the memory." He had to play through injuries more often than not, but there were no complaints from the little Argentine, who wheezed past his opponents as if they were invisible. With seven Ballon d'Or titles and a world record for the most goals scored in a calendar year, there's good reason to think that Messi has surpassed Maradona overall, but the little genius seems destined to forever be negatively compared to his compatriot at the World Cup. Three days' national mourning in his homeland and mass outpourings of grief and celebration on the streets of Naples highlight the esteem in which he was held. So if he were Merrick Garland, would he make the 45th U.S. president take the stand? Messi has nearly 700 goals for club and country, whereas Maradona's total is 345. Johan Cruyffs stint as Barcelona manager laid the foundation for a positive change. Maradona, on the other hand, had three league championships and a Uefa Cup to his credit. It would be almost impossible to think that the Ronaldo and Messi would have been able to achieve those incredible goal tallies without the help of these strict rules. Naples Mayor Luigi De Magistris proposed that the citys San Paolo Stadium be renamed after Maradona. Messi might come out on top in a number of the passing metrics and even completed more successful dribbles, but the defensive side of Maradona's game really shone through and he went toe-to-toe with his successor on finishing despite not being renowned for his goalscoring. 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Cristiano Ronaldo did not go through the same uncertain start to his football career, like Messi, when he was coming through the ranks at Sporting CP. https://t.co/6Qj2NKU7hN pic.twitter.com/Ku3s9FNJ63, Real Madrid C.F. Messi has won 10 league titles and four Champions League titles. In one class, Braun and Moreno Ocampo led their students in deconstructing the legal distinction between "enemy" and "criminal" combatants as it applies to Mace Windu, Anakin Skywalker and crew. So you conduct the investigation. WebLionel Messi will never be able to better Diego Maradona "even if he wins four World Cups in a row", according to Argentina legend Mario Kempes. While Messi is quiet, Maradona was boastful. Unsurprisingly, a person of such calibre has only gone through an uptrend throughout his career. You can buy your Maradona World Cup t-shirt in the GMS store. UCLA Law School professor Kal Raustiala, who has known Moreno Ocampo since they both taught at Harvard Law School, says the qualities his friend displayed in devising the case against the Argentine junta served him well while helping set up the prosecutor's office of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in the Netherlands when it was established in the late 1990s and early 2000s. But sport creates scope for such debates, which is one of its most enduring features. Afterwards, he recreated the famous shot of his idol Maradona lofting the trophy in the air. If brilliance is measured purely by statistics, Messi easily outperforms Maradona. It had been 28 years since Maradona left the city. It's no surprise that Messi has been so often compared to Maradona seeing as they're both left-footed, diminutive Argentinean males considered by many to be the standout player of their generation. Maradona retaliated and got a red card. I saw awful things I never cried. 16 Who has won the most trebles in Scottish football? These days Moreno Ocampo is exploring international justice not in the courtroom but in the USC classroom, where he often collaborates with colleague Ted Braun, a filmmaker whose "Darfur Now" prominently features Moreno Ocampo in his ICC role. If Argentina wins for the third time, he says, it'll be as good as Maradona or Messi scoring three goals in a game. Messi has played all his club football for Barcelona, Spanish footballs royalty. Children belonging to leftist parents were kidnapped and given away for adoption to supporters of the dictatorship. This is debatable. WebThe other Ronaldo and Messi were brilliant teenagers but had nothing like the same impact at that age. His overall record 71 goals in 142 games looks good thanks to a string of goals in friendly matches. The physical characteristics of both players are similar; they are both short, sturdy, and have a demoniacal speed which allows them to easily overcome their opponents. He is a product of the famous La Masia youth system at FC Barcelona. The PSG superstar helped end his nation's agonising 36 year wait to bring the gold home. Lionel Messi is an Argentina national team and FC Barcelona soccer player. "A hat trick," he says. Who is a better player, Messi now or Maradona then? Messi might not be a very physically imposing player, but he has the low centre of gravity that enables him to achieve quick movements on the field with amazing ease. During Messis first season under Pep Guardiola as Barcelona manager in 2008-09, the goals per match ratio in La Liga was 2.90. An example of data being processed may be a unique identifier stored in a cookie. The first, the famous (or, more properly infamous since it was scored with the help of his hand) became the now iconic Hand of God goal. WebWho is faster Messi or Ronaldo? Diego Maradona and Lionel Messi are two of the greatest footballers of all time. He wrote for leading newspapers all over the world and for the main medical journals, among them The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The Japan Times, The China Daily, The Moscow Times, The International Herald Tribune, Le Monde Diplomatique, Harvard International Review, The Journal of the American Medical Association, The Lancet, Annals of Internal Medicine, and The British Medical Journal. To make a comparison is perhaps unfair. Apart from the Olympic success in 2008, Messi has had little joy while wearing the national team colours. WebRonaldo is a very fast footballer- but Messi is faster and more agile than him. He was a more creative forward who knew how to find the back of the net with accuracy and inspiration. This service is provided on News Group Newspapers' Limited's Standard Terms and Conditions in accordance with our Privacy & Cookie Policy. 13 Who is faster Messi or Ronaldo? Let's be honest; this is a debate that doesn't really need to be had. Especially in the 80s, after Italy won the 1982 World Cup, playing ultra-defensive and reactive football but still subduing Brazils on-pitch poetry, catenaccio (door-bolt, a defensive system) or its variants became en vogue. For Maradona, it was revenge after Argentinas defeat by the British in the Malvinas/Falklands war. As the movie dramatizes, Strassera (played by Ricardo Darn) thought the relative inexperience of Moreno Ocampo (Peter Lanzani) actually was a plus. Moreno Ocampo saw it while working on the trial depicted in "Argentina 1985. After starting out as a relatively unknown at Manchester United, Ronaldo forced Sir Alex Ferguson to give him a free role and Ferguson is a manager who has always put the team ahead of a player. Although he has always been the teams poster boy, he didnt have to carry the team. Four years later, they made a tame exit. "I knew Maradona very well. Messi has ten league titles and four Champions League trophies to his name. Messi has won six Ballon dOr laurels to Maradonas none, for Fifa launched the award in 1991. He's on track to finish as the top scorer in Spain for a seventh season, and is La Liga's all time leading goalscorer., ?#Messi is now the outright top scorer in #LaLigaSantander! It was no wonder that Juventus decided to pay more than 100 million for a player approaching the end of his career. But what Messi also has is a Copa America trophy to his name, which he won last year. (Photo by Mike King/Allsport/Getty Images/Hulton Archive). Before Maradona, Pele was the undisputed greatest in most people's eyes. But, over four World Cups, Messi hasnt scored a single goal in the knockout rounds. 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And luckily, the data gurus at SofaScore have made working that out very easy because they've trawled through the record books to retrospectively provide statistics for players and teams at World Cups dating back to 1966. https://footballwhispers.com/blog/maradona-vs-ronaldo-vs-messi For Moreno Ocampo, the politics of the dirty war were personal and familial. However, barring a dramatic turnaround to bounce back from opening day humiliation that Spain in 2010 have demonstrated is indeed possible, we might just have to find solace in the fact that 2014 will forever endure as Messi's finest ever World Cup. Messi was coming through the ranks at Barcelona when the club was going through the highs of Ronaldinho. Yet, Maradona was able to weave his magic from the number 10 position with ease. Oo that is a topic indeed. I guess first you need to unify the measurement points, for a fair and structured referencing. We must first make sure o Maradona in 2000 won Fifa's Player of the Century and was in 1995 handed a Ballon d'Or for services to football. Yet, his failure to win the coveted International title lets him down badly in the ultimate comparison. The Argentine lawyer Luis Moreno Ocampo, who has put the screws to genocidal strongmen and placed dictators behind bars, isn't sure whether Donald Trump should be tried for the Jan. 6 riot. I lost a great friend: Pele leads tributes as the world mourns Diego Maradonas death, The sainthood and fall from grace of Napolis Argentine deity. If VAR was available, it might have ruled out his 'header' to open the scoring in Argentina's 2-1 win, but that came only after he'd laid waste to the entire England midfield with his signature close control and low centre of gravity. Also read |The sainthood and fall from grace of Napolis Argentine deity. Five years ago, madridismo said goodbye to Alfredo Di Stfano, the greatest footballer of all time and the man who changed #RealMadrid history forever. He is still famous all over the world thanks to his talents and charisma. Argentina had won the 1978 World Cup on home patch all right, but fixing allegations, against Peru, tainted their success. The most important American weapon is not the Pentagon. The true story behind Rani Mukherjees latest film Mrs Chatterjee vs Nor What was the UN event representatives of Kailasa attended? But Messi is yet to win a World Cup, which remains the missing piece in his glittering career. Eventually, Fifa merged their Player of the Year award with the Ballon d'Or. 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He racked up over 300 career goals for his slate of clubs (most of whom were never close to as good as theBarcelonateamsMessihas featured for, but we'll get to that later), but the stats don't lie on this one., If we're not here assessing the two greatest players to have ever played the game, then we're at least here assessing the two most effective dribblers. Successful dribbles: Messi 63%-59% Maradona. Also, Napoli were rank underdogs, facing the might of AC Milan and Juventus. 18 Who is the most capped Scottish footballer of all time? But despite his penchant for passionate outbursts "It's crazy, it's insane!" Messi was born on the 4th of August 1987 in Rosario, Argentina. Sorry Lionel, but it looks like what most fans would have predicted ahead of time has actually come to pass: 1986 Maradona was simply playing football from another planet. Right then, well, let the data do the talking as we see who the statistics think had the better World Cup prime out of Messi and Maradona down below: Shots on target per game: Maradona 1.9-1.1 Messi, Goals from outside the box: Messi 3-0 Maradona, Key passes per game: Maradona 3.9-3.3 Messi, Long ball accuracy: Messi 79%-71% Maradona, Football - Argentina v Bosnia-Herzegovina - FIFA World Cup Brazil 2014 - Group F - Estadio do Maracana, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - 15/6/14, Argentina's Lionel Messi celebrates scoring his team's second and his first goal, Mandatory Credit: Action Images / Jed Leicester, Crossing accuracy: Messi 29%-24% Maradona, Successful dribbles: Messi 63%-59% Maradona, Was fouled per game: Maradona 7.6-2.6 Messi, Possession lost per game: Messi 20.9-21.7 Maradona, Possession won per game: Maradona 0.6-0.6 Messi, Interceptions per game: Maradona 0.9-0.3 Messi, Average match rating: Maradona 8.39-7.86 Messi, MEXICO CITY, MEXICO - JUNE 29: Argentina captain Diego Maradona holds aloft the trophy after the FIFA 1986 World Cup final match against West Germany at the Azteca Stadium on June 29th, 1986 in Mexico City, Mexico. the debate over which player is the greatest of all time was dominated by Pele and Diego Maradona. During his 17 years at the Nou Camp, he scored 672 goals in 778 appearances. Diego Maradona claims that he was humiliated by Italian He has picked up an astonishing 33 trophies, which includes 10 La Liga titles and four Champions League honours, with Barcelona already. "The movie crosses 40 years and reaches with the same message to a new generation," he says. "But also because unconsciously we knew that if it was the case that we lost then Maradona would shoulder more of the burden, would be blamed more, than the rest of us. Messi is known for his speed and agility, while 14 What are 4 goals in football called? (@realmadriden) July 7, 2019. A poster of "Argentina 1985" leans against his stylish bachelor pad's white walls. The consent submitted will only be used for data processing originating from this website. Back in the early 1980s, Moreno Ocampo wasn't an urbane 70-year-old man of the world, but a young, very green attorney who'd never prosecuted a single case. Unsurprisingly, Messi has only managed 37 goals in almost 100 competitive appearances for Argentina. In Napoli, Maradona is still as revered as he is in Argentina, and portraits of him are placed throughout the city as if he were a saint, with candles under his picture. She called me and she said, I still love Gen. Videla, but you are right. He thinks no ruler is above the law, of course. His childhood was a spent in extreme poverty at Villa Fiorito, on the outskirts of Buenos Aires. Messi plays at a time when players, especially ball-players, get a lot of protection from match officials. They are both equally talented, each one a great player and both of them a glory to the game. He'll be at the Oscars ceremony on March 12. There has never been, nor will there ever be, a better pure goalscorer than Lionel Messi. Maradona even has a religious movement named after him called The Church of Maradona. Express Explained is now on Telegram. There is no easy answer, as both men are incredibly fast. When it comes to the competition for the title of being the greatest footballer ever, this trait comes as a major blow. A career that started with Argentinos Juniors in 1976 quickly transformed into a visual treat for spectators around the world. Cristiano Ronaldo certainly has had to do it the hard way, as he has created the need for maximum attention wherever he has gone. Maradona, on the other hand, had three league titles and a Uefa Cup. Footballing greatness is not judged purely on the number of goals scored and trophies won. Maradona scored or assisted nine of Argentina's 11 goals by the end of the semi-finals back in 1986, while Messi has contributed to eight of this current Argentina side's 12 goals. "I betrayed him, I betrayed the family, I betrayed the army!" What Maradona was doing, instead, was trying to see who was the best placed among his companions, sent him the ball and so it was easy for his teammate to score. 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