Argentine star shines with his team and strongly approaches
and realizes the dream of his country in the final.
After Lionel Messi scored two goals against Nigeria and
helped Argentina to win 3-2, he may be approached to join the greats of
football through the history of the game.
the best player in the world four times starring with Barcelona and scoring 354 goals in 425
games in the Primera Liga and led the Catalans to win the Champions League
three times.
Before the World Cup finals in Brazil Messi was not made
his mark in the previous two tournaments.
And the level of Messi in the previous World Cup causes in
raising doubts about joining the list of great players such as his compatriot
Diego Maradona and Pele and Johan Cruyff.
and Messi entered in most of the time, compared with
Maradona, who led Argentina to win the 1986 World Cup. and this duo is Similar to
play left-footed, short stature and possess immense talent in the Shuffle can
pass any defense.
Maradona became a hero after winning the Argentine
championship in 1986, but in the eyes of others was a troublemaker because of
his goal in hand against England in the quarter-finals, a match that saw what
is considered the best goal in the history of football to win Argentina 2-1.
Maradona scored five goals and made five others a total of
14 goals recorded by Argentina in the tournament, including the pass that
helped Jorge Borchaja on goal to beat Germany 3-2 in the final.
Maradona dominated the finals in a way not done by any
player since Pele did it in 1970 and Messi scored four out of six goals for
Argentina in Brazil's joint top scorer in the tournament with fellow striker
Neymar in Barcelona and set the basis for a book for a similar outcome.
Messi scored ten times in the last eight games with
Argentina, today became the first Argentine player not Maradona to score four
consecutive goals in the World Cup.
Nigeria coach Stephen Keshi said at a news conference after
his team qualified with Argentina to the second round, "Messi is a great
player."
He added, "Argentina have excellent players but Messi
from another planet."
and Messi suffered from a poor season with Barcelona and
missed two months due to injury, but scored 41 goals in 46 appearances in all
competitions.
This huge number of goals dreamed by many players in
accessible, however, there were allegations that he did not give his all for
the club and preferred to focus on the World Cup.
Messi looked like a shadow of the known level, especially in
the latter part of the season where Barcelona, who failed to win any major tournament,
but regained its vitality in Brazil in time for his country.
If Argentina wants to win the World Cup, it should cure the
problems in the defense and center that appeared again in front of Nigeria.
But with Messi the Argentine masses feel very confident that
it will go down more goals than those received by the team nets.
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