Maradona: Messi didn't deserve Golden
Ball
The 1986 World Cup winner felt Fifa
made the wrong decision to hand the
award to the Barcelona star and rued
Argentina's defeat to Germany
By Stefan Coerts
Jul 14, 2014 08:34:00
Argentina icon Diego
Maradona feels Lionel
Messi did not deserve to
win the Golden Ball
following his
performances at the
World Cup.
The Barcelona star beat the likes of Thomas
Muller, Arjen Robben and James Rodriguez to
the prestigious individual award after scoring
four goals in seven performances at this
summer's tournament and guiding his team
to the final, yet Maradona feels the 27-year-
old only won it for commercial reasons.
"Messi? I would give him heaven if
possible," Maradona said during his show on
Telesur.
"But it's not right when someone wins
something that he shouldn't have won just
because of some marketing plan."
Maradona then went on to voice his
disappointment with Argentina's 1-0 defeat in
Sunday's final against Germany following
Mario Gotze's goal in extra-time.
"I feel sorry for my country. Mario Gotze's
goal really hurt. There's a huge sadness in
my heart that we lost the final.
"All things put together, I think Argentina
deserved at least penalties. That Germany
won was the result of a misunderstanding in
the Argentine defence."
The 1986 World Cup winner also had his say
on Alejandro Sabella's decision to replace
Ezequiel Lavezzi with Sergio Aguero at half-
time and argued that the Argentina boss got
things wrong.
"I don't understand the substitution of
Lavezzi. He was phenomenal down the wing.
Kun Aguero didn't have the same impact. It
was not his tournament."http://m.goal.com/x/en-ng/news/4958068

Yah..dat Lavezzi sub no go well at all...
dis Maradona sabi talk sha

You said the truth how it is... sir.


I knew he ll win that award when the shortlist was released based on commercial purpose and not performance.


He is sellable unlike others on the list.