Lionel Messi has 90 minutes to step out of Maradona's shadow and save Argentina's World Cup 🟢 GARSIDEK
, a feature of the GOAT debate that has always counted against him.
While Ronaldo has no peer in Portugal – even the great Eusebio must accept a quantum downgrade – Messi has always been held to the Maradona standard in Argentina. That he came to occupy the same stellar lane ought to be testament enough. But for all that Messi has achieved, the national team conundrum is a stain that will endure should Argentina not prevail against Mexico. Thus in every sense is Messi playing against Maradona’s ghost.
This is a legacy of thinking which attaches more weight to international football. In Maradona’s time, the World Cup still represented the apotheosis of the global game. And in powering Argentina to a second World Cup triumph in 1986 – Hand of God be damned – Maradona set a new bar in football exotica. Those voodoo dribbles against England and Belgium, with all that snake-hipped wizardry, remain among the greatest goals the competition has ever seen.
Had Messi’s Argentina got over the line in the 2014 final against Germany, at the Maracana in Brazil of all places, the GOAT argument might have been closed for a hundred years. Whilst Messi holds that status for many outside Argentina, this represents an opportunity to muscle in on Maradona’s central place in the hearts of the people.
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