Messi

Messi, C.Ronaldo, Xavi Finalists of FIFA Ballon d'Or award. Who should win the Award?

  • Lionel Messi

    Votes: 13 48.1%
  • Cristiano Ronaldo

    Votes: 6 22.2%
  • Xavi

    Votes: 8 29.6%

  • Total voters
    27

kflex

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Nov 7, 2003
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#83
They Chinese channel 5 did a study based on the most popular foreign Club in China. Inter got 70 percent of the votes. They said that the reason the Chinese people love Inter so much is because of the passion that president Morrati has. They have a president that has so much passion fore the team, despite that the team fells to win every year.

On a League game last year Pirelli did even advertise its logo written in Mandarin. On top of that the Chinese under 23 keeper and player was even went at trail in July this year.

Moratti has over the 10 years spent over 400 mil Euros on players whitout winning a trophy.
This year Inter is the only big team left competing in Serie A, and they will be even the same next year. Imagine how much the will earn on Tv right when messi arrives? They will sell at least as much season tickets they did when Rolando arrived. Which was 52 000 - 54 000

Ronaldo at the time coast Morrati allot, but thanks to him Inter got a good deal whit Nike!
 

Behrooz_C

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Dec 10, 2005
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#85
This is another can of worms like Pele vs Maradona :) but a good one at the same time

Messi is a good player but really IMO not yet in the same class as the great man.

I can see this thread running for a while. I prediect 20 pages of good passionate 'discussion'!
 

Alixman984

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Feb 8, 2005
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#86
To be honest, I didn't mean to compare them together... It came out wrong.
Messi is great player but I do agree he is STILL has long time to go to be in same calibre as Maradona.
 

gooshkoob

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Nov 12, 2004
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#88
hehe, I would rather discuss, Getafe vs England ! Come on! That was fucking WC for god's sake. And though he is good, he is still far from being Maradona.
 

ghilich

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Oct 12, 2004
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#89
Based on all the previous "logical" arguments with people who think:

- Romario is better than Pele
- Maradona is better than Pele
- Jabbari, Navidkia and my cholaagh friend are ALL better than Karimi
- Branco was a great coach
- Our team was REALLY in the top 20 in the world
- Kia is handsome:)
- Unibrows are making a comeback:)
- Azizi would have saved our world cup
- Nikibakht is a "technical" player

WHY.....BY THAT sort of logic, OF COURSE:::you did NOT guess it... hush...












Maradona is better than Messi:eek:
 

westwienmaskulin

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Oct 18, 2002
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#92
The video is NOT about comparing Messi with Maradona but about the similarities between the two goals.

Although it's AS, and AS is a shitty Madrid club paper, but still...

I REPEAT, THIS IS NOT ABOUT COMPARING MARADONA WITH MESSI, BUT ONLY THE GOALS.

And of course, Maradona >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Pele.

You can even prove it logically and mathematically.
 

westwienmaskulin

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Oct 18, 2002
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#95
The new Diego Messi scores Maradona's goal

Sid Lowe in Madrid
Friday April 20, 2007

Guardian

To those who doubted Leo Messi's claim on the title of Argentina's New Diego Maradona, he provided a watertight case at Camp Nou - with a near carbon copy of the greatest goal in World Cup history.
The similarity between Messi's strike against Getafe to Maradona's run through the England defence in the quarter-final of the 1986 World Cup was uncanny. Catalan television played them side by side on a split screen and they were virtually indistinguishable.

Maradona raced in from the right, ran half the length of the pitch, beat five men and finished beyond a diving sixth. Messi did the same, only for Beardsley, Reid, Butcher, Fenwick, Shilton and Stevens, read Paredes, Nacho, Alexis, Belenguer, García and Redondo.

The Barcelona striker, still only 19, was the talk of world football yesterday, Spain's best-selling newspaper breaking its three-star marking scheme to give him four, while every daily in the country plastered him across the front page.

It seemed a hybrid had been born: Diego Messi or Leo Maradona. "Messi," the headlines all declared, "scores Maradona's goal." One reporter screamed: "I feel like crying. Holy Christ! Long Live Football! Long Live Leo!" And that was in a pro-Real Madrid paper.

"So, you can copy a work of art, after all," wrote AS's Alfredo Relaño, comparing Messi to Elmyr D'Hory, who forged famous paintings but always put the signature upside down. "This was a replica, with the same path, the same acceleration with every touch, the same pauses and feints, always escaping on the same side. The only difference was Messi finishing with his right foot - that was the upside-down signature."

Messi's face was on the back of the Catalan daily Sport, with a note saying: "If you want to disguise yourself as God, simply cut this out and put it on."

Guardian Unlimited © Guardian News and Media Limited 2007
 

westwienmaskulin

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Oct 18, 2002
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#97
speaking of pele...I say he was the best....

The best spokesperson Viagra ever had..



But even in Springfield they know that he is a damn sellout....

[Media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TTMDyJeqMo[/media]
 

Messi

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Mar 14, 2007
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#99
Whoa easy there with the comparisons dudes....let's all not turn into Fergie and compare someone to maradona.
And yes, Maradona was better than Pele, as Ronaldo said a few years back when speaking on Pele's "1000 goals"......"He probably got to a 1000 after counting the goals he scored in his garden" (something like that):D

And no, Messi is no Maradona, not YET anyway :D...he's only 19...give him a few more years, he'll reach his peack in his early-mid twenties.
And that Simpsons episode was class.