MessiLionel Messi is a world renowned player famous for his slick skills, fast pace and cunning agility. He plays a big part in the Barcelona side making marauding runs throughout the pitch and smashing through opposing defences like an argentine bull dozer. All defences detest the magical footwork of this football magician and dread the day they hear they are playing Barcelona next.
Lionel shone even from a young age. He was much better than the other children surrounding him and you could see that he would amount to something stunning.Everyone would know that this young boy would soon become a football icon. Nations love to watch this marvel of a player even if they are not a fan of Argentina or Barcelona, the moment the ball touches his feet you can feel something magic is about to happen. Despite the fact that Messi is a wizard on the ball, people argue the fact that he can be very selfish with his runs.
He may be a ferocious lion when he runs through defences like they are helpless cattle, but he should not always look for goal; he should look for a decent pass also.Lionel Messi has made a mark on history and his ability will live on as the fast dribbling, defence breaking, jaw dropping player he is. If there was to be a man of this time to ever be considered as the best of all time Lionel Messi would be a very strong contender.Messi Vs MaradonaMaradonaDiego Maradona – a name that anyone in the world recognises. People hear his name and normally think of one of the world’s greatest ever players and the man who could cut through a team like a knife through butter.
Most of these people are not English... Maradona IS one of the greatest people to ever kick a ball, but he is known for the disappointing “hand of God” incident; it was the quarter final of the world cup and the match was Argentina V England, the game was dying out and only one team could win, Maradona wanted it so badly that he resorted to using his hand to score an illegal goal.This did not go down smoothly with the English and some still loathe him today but most have reconciled themselves from that incident. Now people recognise that Maradona was no ordinary player; the way the ball seemed to just magically stop at his feet, how he could run at a pace no player could cope with, how he could keep anything round up in the air with his feet.
It is a struggle to think of a player that can compare to Maradona. He could not only shatter a whole team but what he did you could compare to art, he made football an art to be admired by all.Even though Maradona was an angel on the football field, his angelic qualities were not so apparent off of it; Maradona was also proven to have taken cocaine and to have been addicted to the drug. This unfortunate weakness interfered with his ability to play football and eventually led to his retirement as a player. A very sad day in football indeed.
Diego Maradona may have had a rollercoaster life but his football ability can never be negated by anything... That magic he had that would make parents tell stories about him and make people across the world search YouTube for “Maradona Tricks” is the reason he is one of the greatest players of all time.
These two players are both amazing sergeants of the army that is football and the fact that they are both argentine shows that football is treated much higher in Argentina than other countries. We may treat football very highly in this country but as we can see, for Argentina, football is a religion everyone follows. But that is the special truth about football; it is not just a game which people enjoy, it is an unstoppable force spreading throughout the world bringing people together, it is the religion everyone follows and it is the life that everyone can live.
