Cesar Luis Menotti
“I am happy to be able to meet him for what he means in our history because he is added to the four greatest: Alfredo Di Stefano, Pele, Diego Maradona and Johan Cruyff,” Cesar Luis Menotti, who led Argentina to their first World Cup in 1978, has said about Leo Messi.
Menotti loves creative and well-played football, the most Barcelona-like way of playing you’ll find in South America. In fact, he was a good colleague of Johan Cruyff, with whom he shared many talks.
Currently, Menotti is a coordinator of the youth teams and therefore wants Messi to triumph with the Albiceleste: “I don’t think there is a guy happier than Messi to win a title with the selected team. I ask you to accompany him”
Carlos Bilardo
On the other hand, there is Carlos Bilardo, world champion with Argentina in 1986 and a follower of a philosophy similar to the one that Atletico Madrid and Getafe implement today. Despite this, he was as complimentary about Messi.
“Messi deserves the Ballon d’Or, I think there is quite a difference with the other boy (Cristiano Ronaldo). He won a lot. Messi is recognized all over the world; where you go it’s ‘Messi, Messi, Messi’.
“Regarding his personality, he never had an argument, he never had a fight with anyone. I put him among the best. You cannot say that he needs to win the World Cup because it is something difficult.
“I put him among the best, but not in history, but at this moment,” he concluded.
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