Messi didn’t deserve Golden Ball—
Maradona
on july 14, 2014 at 7:11 pm in 2014 world
cup
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(AFP) – Argentine football legend Diego
Maradona said compatriot Lionel Messi did
not deserve to be named best player of the
World Cup, arguing it should have gone to
Colombia’s James Rodriguez.
“I’d give Lio the sky, but when it’s not
deserved and it’s just marketers who want
to make him win something he didn’t win,
it’s unfair,” Maradona said Sunday after
Argentina lost the World Cup final to
Germany 1-0.
“Rodriguez was the best player of the World
Cup,” said Maradona on his TV program “De
Zurda,” which is broadcast by Venezuelan
network Telesur and retransmitted in
several Latin American countries.
The 23-year-old Rodriguez was the
revelation of the World Cup and the top
scorer with six goals.
Messi dazzled in the group stage with four
goals, but failed to score in his last four
games, including the final.
Maradona said Messi himself did not seem
to feel he deserved the trophy.
“It looked like he didn’t want to take it,” he
said.
But Maradona praised Argentina and said
the match could have gone either way.
“I’m sad about Mario Goetze’s (game-
winning) goal,” he said. “But we can’t forget
that we took this World Cup step by step. If
we had scored (Gonzalo) Higuain’s
(disallowed) goal we would be partying.
Germany were not dominant.”
Maradona, 53, was Messi’s childhood idol
and is his rival for the title of greatest-ever
Argentine footballer.
To many fans, the 27-year-old Barcelona
striker still needs to add a World Cup win to
his resume to match the greatness of
Maradona, who led his team to the title in
1986.

Oya go take the award from him

Na me talk am?

Maradonna ....True words of a jealous Grandpa.
Grandpa needs to come to the realization that " Records are meant to be broken", and that someone else is going to be remembered as Argentina's great, not him.