robosky02:
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Who should they to they retire the shirt for?


Diego Maradona or Lionel Messi


Let's talk

Diego was not consistent for 15 years
Diego did not win the champions league
Messi won everything
Messi is the better player because of consistency
Consistency at the highest level is very difficult to achieve
It should be up to Argentines not a football federation president
Maybe they should vote on it
That number inspires kids

slaawomirr:
Damnnn niggar
Messi my niggar

The little boy from rosario argentina santa fe!
on behalf of every little boy wearing his shirt!
messi on a million backs!
messi for a million flash bulbs!
messi crowned his Stella career

He was beautiful

He was the point of difference
He has always been the point of difference

Unparalleled
And maybe today there will of course always be those who argue
Always be those who debate and the debate can rage on if you like

But has He falls in love with the objects in the world that is heart most desired
It is hard to escape the supposition that he has rendered himself today
the "GREATEST OF ALL TIME"

Stop to dey smoke kpoli, you no go gree...

robosky02:
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Who should they to they retire the shirt for?


Diego Maradona or Lionel Messi


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None
Another no 10 will rise that will be as great as both

Although, Messi broke Maradona's record for both club n Country

yinkeys:

Diego was not consistent for 15 years
Diego did not win the champions league
Messi won everything
Messi is the better player because of consistency
Consistency at the highest level is very difficult to achieve
It should be up to Argentines not a football federation president
Maybe they should vote on it
That number inspires kids

He played 490 official club games during his 21-year professional career, scoring 259 goals; for Argentina he played 91 games and scored 34 goals. An Internet poll conducted by the Fédération Internationale de Football Association named Maradona the top player of the 20th century.

Hmm quite unnecessary. Why deny future players of the deserved honour? If number 10 was retired after Maradona, which one Messi for wear?

No doubt Messi is exceptional, but let's not take emotional decisions. Only women act this way

LOL. This guy always get undeserved accolade

Please when will dey retire the drug lord from irabaji kingdom....just asking for a friend

That's a HUGE honor...! A massive milestone. Simply historic.


For me, Messi has raised the footballing bar to an impossible height.

I doubt the next 6 generations will produce a footballer of better quality and with greater milestones.

Olachase:
I prefer Ronaldo to Messi

Mtchewweeeeeeeeee

atiku4President:
I will challenge that decision in supreme court

You would be shocked to find all the presiding judges wearing Messi's jersey that day...!!!

robosky02:
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Who should they to they retire the shirt for?


Diego Maradona or Lionel Messi


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Messi

Diego Maradona
Argentine soccer player
Also known as: Diego Armando Maradona


Diego Maradona (born October 30, 1960, Lanus, Buenos Aires, Argentina—died November 25, 2020, Tigre, Buenos Aires) Argentine football (soccer) player who is generally regarded as the top footballer of the 1980s and one of the greatest of all time. Renowned for his ability to control the ball and create scoring opportunities for himself and others, he led club teams to championships in Argentina, Italy, and Spain, and he starred on the Argentine national team that won the 1986 World Cup.

Diego Maradona
In full: Diego Armando Maradona
Born: October 30, 1960, Lanus, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Died: November 25, 2020, Tigre, Buenos Aires (aged 60)
Awards And Honors: World Cup (1986)
Maradona displayed football talent early, and at age eight he joined Las Cebollitas (“The Little Onions”), a boys’ team that went on to win 136 consecutive games and a national championship. He signed with Argentinos Juniors at age 14 and made his first-division debut in 1976, 10 days before his 16th birthday. Only four months later he made his debut with the national team, becoming the youngest Argentine ever to do so. Although he was excluded from the 1978 World Cup-winning squad because it was felt that he was still too young, the next year he led the national under-20 team to a Junior World Cup championship.

Antoine Griezmamm of France kicks the ball during the FIFA 2018 World Cup in the finals match between France and Croatia at Luzhniki Stadium, Moscow, Russia, July 15, 2018. (soccer, football, sports)
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Maradona moved to Boca Juniors in 1981 and immediately helped them gain the championship. He then moved to Europe, playing with FC Barcelona in 1982 (and winning the Spanish Cup in 1983) and then SSC Napoli (1984–91), where he enjoyed great success, raising the traditionally weak Naples side to the heights of Italian football. With Maradona the team won the league title and cup in 1987 and the league title again in 1990. Maradona’s stint with Napoli came to an end when he was arrested in Argentina for cocaine possession and received a 15-month suspension from playing football. Next he played for Sevilla in Spain and Newell’s Old Boys in Argentina. In 1995 he returned to Boca Juniors and played his last match on October 25, 1997.

Maradona’s career with the Argentine national team included World Cup appearances in 1982, 1986, 1990, and 1994. He dominated the 1986 competition in Mexico. In a 2–1 quarterfinal victory over England, he scored two of the most memorable goals in World Cup history. The first was scored with his hand (the referee mistakenly thought the ball had struck his head), a goal now remembered as the “Hand of God” goal. The second occurred after Maradona gained possession of the ball at midfield and dribbled through a pack of English defenders and past the keeper before depositing the ball in the goal. He did not finish the 1994 World Cup, because he tested positive for the drug ephedrine and was again suspended. Maradona also played on South American championship-winning teams in 1987 and 1989.

A stocky and tenacious midfielder, Maradona became a hero of the lower classes of Argentina (from which he hailed) and of southern Italy, where he led Napoli to victories over the wealthier northern clubs. He played 490 official club games during his 21-year professional career, scoring 259 goals; for Argentina he played 91 games and scored 34 goals. An Internet poll conducted by the Fédération Internationale de Football Association named Maradona the top player of the 20th century.

In 2008 Maradona was named head coach of the Argentine national team. Shortly after leading Argentina to the quarterfinals of the 2010 World Cup, he and the country’s football governing body could not agree on a contract extension, and his tenure as the team’s head coach ended. In 2011 Maradona was hired to coach the United Arab Emirates club Al Wasl. However, the team struggled, and Maradona was fired the following year. He worked for several other clubs before becoming coach of Mexico’s Dorados de Sinaloa in 2018.

Lionel Messi

Lionel Messi (born June 24, 1987, Rosario, Argentina) Argentine-born football (soccer) player who received a record-setting eight Ballon d’Or awards as the world’s top male player (2009–12, 2015, 2019, 2021, and 2023). In 2022 he helped Argentina win the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA)’s World Cup.

Lionel Messi

In full: Lionel Andrés Messi
Also called: Leo Messi
Born: June 24, 1987, Rosario, Argentina (age 36)
Awards And Honors: Olympic Games

Early life
Messi started playing football as a boy and in 1995 joined the youth team of Newell’s Old Boys (a Rosario-based top-division football club). Messi’s phenomenal skills garnered the attention of prestigious clubs on both sides of the Atlantic. At age 13 Messi and his family relocated to Barcelona, and he began playing for FC Barcelona’s under-14 team. He scored 21 goals in 14 games for the junior team, and he quickly graduated through the higher-level teams until at age 16 he was given his informal debut with FC Barcelona in a friendly match.

In the 2004–05 season Messi, then 17, became the youngest official player and goal scorer in the Spanish La Liga (the country’s highest division of football). Though only 5 feet 7 inches (1.7 metres) tall and weighing 148 pounds (67 kg), he was strong, well-balanced, and versatile on the field. Naturally left-footed, quick, and precise in control of the ball, Messi was a keen pass distributor and could readily thread his way through packed defenses. In 2005 he was granted Spanish citizenship, an honour greeted with mixed feelings by the fiercely Catalan supporters of Barcelona. The next year Messi and Barcelona won the Champions League (the European club championship) title.

Messi’s play continued to rapidly improve over the years, and by 2008 he was one of the most dominant players in the world, finishing second to Manchester United’s Cristiano Ronaldo in the voting for the 2008 Ballon d’Or. In early 2009 Messi capped off a spectacular 2008–09 season by helping FC Barcelona capture the club’s first “treble” (winning three major European club titles in one season): the team won the La Liga championship, the Copa del Rey (Spain’s major domestic cup), and the Champions League title. He scored 38 goals in 51 matches during that season, and he bested Ronaldo in the balloting for both the Ballon d’Or and FIFA’s world player of the year by a record margin. During the 2009–10 season Messi scored 34 goals in domestic games as Barcelona repeated as La Liga champions. He earned the Golden Shoe award as Europe’s leading scorer, and he received another Ballon d’Or (the award was known as the FIFA Ballon d’Or in 2010–15).


Lionel Messi, August 2016.
Messi led Barcelona to La Liga and Champions League titles the following season, which helped him capture an unprecedented third consecutive world player of the year award. In March 2012 he netted his 233rd goal for Barcelona, becoming the club’s all-time leading scorer in La Liga play when only 24 years old. He finished Barcelona’s 2011–12 season (which included another Copa del Rey win) with 73 goals in all competitions, breaking Gerd Müller’s 39-year-old record for single-season goals in a major European football league. His landmark season led to his being named the 2012 world player of the year, which made Messi the first player to win the honour four times. His 46 La Liga goals in 2012–13 led the league, and Barcelona captured another domestic top-division championship that season. In 2014 he set the overall Barcelona goal record when he scored his 370th goal as a member of the team. That same year he also broke the career scoring records for play in both the Champions League (with 72 goals) and La Liga (with 253 goals).


Lionel Messi, December 2018.
Messi helped Barcelona capture another treble during the 2014–15 season, leading the team with 43 goals scored over the course of the campaign, which resulted in his fifth world player of the year honour. He scored 41 goals across all competitions for Barcelona in 2015–16, and the club won the La Liga title and the Copa del Rey during that season. Messi topped that with 53 goals for Barcelona in 2016–17, leading the team to another Copa del Rey title. In 2017–18 he scored 45 goals, and Barcelona won the La Liga–Copa del Rey double once again. Messi scored 51 goals across all domestic competitions in 2018–19 as Barcelona won another La Liga championship. In late 2019 he won his sixth career Ballon d’Or and was named FIFA’s best male player of the year. In the 2020–21 season, Barcelona claimed the Copa del Rey title, the seventh of Messi’s career. He became a free agent in 2021, and financial issues—some of which were the result of La Liga rules—largely prevented him from re-signing with Barcelona. He left the club after setting a number of records; notably, he was the leading goal scorer in the league’s history (474).

Later in 2021 Messi signed with Paris St.-Germain (PSG), where he joined superstars Kylian Mbappé and Neymar, and that year he received yet another Ballon d’Or. He helped PSG win the Ligue 1 title in each of his two seasons with the team. In 2023 Messi joined Inter Miami of Major League Soccer.

International career
Despite his dual citizenship and professional success in Spain, Messi’s ties with his homeland remained strong, and he was a key member of various Argentine national teams from 2005. He played on Argentina’s victorious 2005 FIFA World Youth Championship squad, represented the country in the 2006 World Cup, and scored two goals in five matches as Argentina swept to the gold medal at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games. Messi helped Argentina reach the 2010 World Cup quarterfinals, where the team was eliminated by Germany for the second consecutive time in World Cup play. At the 2014 World Cup, Messi put on a dazzling display, scoring four goals and almost single-handedly propelling an offense-deficient Argentina team through the group stage and into the knockout rounds, where Argentina then advanced to the World Cup final for the first time in 24 years. Argentina lost that contest 1–0 to Germany, but Messi nevertheless won the Golden Ball award as the tournament’s best player. During the 2016 Copa América Centenario tournament, he netted his 55th international goal to break Gabriel Batistuta’s Argentine scoring record.

Argentina celebrating its 2022 World Cup victory
Argentina celebrating its 2022 World Cup victory
Team captain Lionel Messi (holding trophy) and other members of Argentina's national team after winning the 2022 Men's World Cup.
After Argentina was defeated in the Copa final—the team’s third consecutive finals loss in a major tournament—Messi said that he was quitting the national team, but his short-lived “retirement” lasted less than two months before he announced his return to the Argentine team. At the 2018 World Cup, he helped an overmatched Argentine side reach the knockout stage, where they were eliminated by eventual champion France in their first match. After a third-place finish at the 2019 Copa América, Messi led Argentina to victory in the tournament two years later, and he received the Golden Ball award. His success continued at the 2022 World Cup. There he guided Argentina to the finals, where he scored two goals—and made a penalty kick during the shootout—to help defeat France. Messi won the World Cup’s Golden Ball, becoming the first male player to receive that award twice. In addition, his outstanding play in the tournament was instrumental in Messi winning his eighth Ballon d’Or in 2023.

Other activities and legal issues
Off the field, Messi was one of the biggest athletic stars in the world. In addition to earning a football salary that was frequently, with Ronaldo’s, one of the two largest athletes’ salaries in all professional sports, he was an extremely successful product pitchman, notably for the sportswear company Adidas. In 2013 Messi and his father (who handled his son’s finances) were charged with tax fraud and accused of using overseas shell companies to avoid paying €4.2 million in Spanish taxes on endorsement earnings. Despite subsequently paying €5 million to the Spanish state, the pair were nevertheless ordered to stand trial on the charges in 2016. In July of that year, Messi and his father were each given suspended 21-month prison sentences (first-time offenders in Spain are given suspended sentences if the duration is under two years) and were fined €2 million and €1.5 million, respectively.

3ice9ce:
That's not enough. The FA President should donate his wife and 2 of his daughters to the ekuke dwarf.

Hatred don bend this one life like crayfish...!

Just retire the Jersey for Jay Jay Okocha

Messi see,10 jersey , everyone forsee.pls don't hiss ,the talented player to b feel ,,🥂👏

They've got another God. Nonsense. As if there couldn't be someone better than Messi tomorrow.

Those who know football from the groundpoint of neutrality and watched Messi from his prime till today, can tell that no one is up yet to wear that number 10 in Argentina and Barca for now.
In fact, even FIFA too doesn't have any of his class now, to be honest

Maybe in the future, there maybe.

atiku4President:
I will challenge that decision in supreme court

Hahahaha, safe journey.

slaawomirr:
Damnnn niggar
Messi my niggar

The little boy from rosario argentina santa fe!
on behalf of every little boy wearing his shirt!
messi on a million backs!
messi for a million flash bulbs!
messi crowned his Stella career

He was beautiful

He was the point of difference
He has always been the point of difference

Unparalleled
And maybe today there will of course always be those who argue
Always be those who debate and the debate can rage on if you like

But has He falls in love with the objects in the world that is heart most desired
It is hard to escape the supposition that he has rendered himself today
the "GREATEST OF ALL TIME"

chei see how goosebumps comot for my body ...Peter drury fit make person cry with commentary

Absolute nonsense by Aregentina. They failed to do it with Maradona who made the no 10 shirt iconic. Now they wanna retire the no 10 during Messi era. This is pure Bull.....

slaawomirr:
Damnnn niggar
Messi my niggar

The little boy from rosario argentina santa fe!
on behalf of every little boy wearing his shirt!
messi on a million backs!
messi for a million flash bulbs!
messi crowned his Stella career

He was beautiful

He was the point of difference
He has always been the point of difference

Unparalleled
And maybe today there will of course always be those who argue
Always be those who debate and the debate can rage on if you like

But has He falls in love with the objects in the world that is heart most desired
It is hard to escape the supposition that he has rendered himself today
the "GREATEST OF ALL TIME"

Words on marble from Peter Drury... A real niggar in commentary

hisexcellency34:
Will Portugal do same for Ronaldo?

They should.. love him or hate him, Ronaldo is one of the greatest spokespersons the world has ever seen...

Fake news. For international tournaments, especially the World Cup, consecutive squad jersey number from 1 to 26 (or 27) must be registered. So it’s impossible to retire the number 10 jersey unless the rules change.

It’s the same way one fake news channel stated that Jersey no. 10 would be retired at Barca in honor of Messi which was against La liga rules.

He's the GOAT. He deserves it.

Maradona did well for his clubs but it's just that he is way below Messi in this area while Messi's national career is on par with Maradona's or even better as some may say.

Retire the goddamn number please.

This is wrong trust me I hope Portugal do d same

Patriotic9ja:
Hmm quite unnecessary. Why deny future players of the deserved honour? If number 10 was retired after Maradona, which one Messi for wear?

No doubt Messi is exceptional, but let's not take emotional decisions. Only women act this way

They can’t retire the jersey number, especially for the jersey number in discussion. It’s against FIFA rule.

atiku4President:
I will challenge that decision in supreme court

Justice okoro loading.

Judolisco:
I still don't understand how you'll watch Messi play football and say someone else is better than him... Playmaking, goal scoring, dribbling... He plays from d midfield while d so called hardworking marchant camps in d 18 yrd box

we know people like you na back of TV you dey watch... Messi plays from midfield nonsense rubbish I hrd today... He drops deep and finish in the 18... Messi that was spoon fed by Xavi, iniesta and neymar... Ronaldo also played from the wings...

I think it is not necessary.... Game of football is bigger than any player.

Judolisco:
I still don't understand how you'll watch Messi play football and say someone else is better than him... Playmaking, goal scoring, dribbling... He plays from d midfield while d so called hardworking marchant camps in d 18 yrd box

The thing tire me oo, them no dey see abi wetin?