Diego Maradona Jr has weighed in on whether he thinks Lionel Messi is as good as his father was.
The Argentinian pair are often compared with one another, but the former player's son's opinion is clear.
"Messi is a phenomenon," Maradona Jr said to Sport.
"But nobody is comparable with my father. You cannot compare humans to aliens.
"We can say that Maradona is the God of football and that Leo is the best of the humans.
"I'm sorry, but nobody will reach my old man's level. It's impossible."
When comparing Messi to Cristiano Ronaldo, Maradona Jr was equally as clear.
"I adore Messi," he said.
"He's the best around and Cristiano doesn't even come close to him.
"Whoever in Argentina criticises him doesn't know a thing about football.
"My father loves him and talks to me about him a lot."
With Messi the second greatest player of all time in Diego Maradona Jr's eyes, it was natural for him to be asked who came next in the list of the best ever.
"Ronaldo [Nazario]," he said, "the real Ronaldo.
"After these three, then come the others.
"Although [Johan] Cruyff deserves a separate mention for the mark he left on football.
"He changed the sport by himself."
kuoikloy
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The only reason why maradona is always compared to Messi is because Messi has not won any trophy for agentina ..Apart from that maradona is not near Messi in terms of everything
puzbcdklpz
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Messi is Maradonna everyday! [Crylaugh][Hitface]
JamesWalker
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Question of the Day Does Alien smoke weed 👽??[Crylaugh]
SuperStores
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Maradona jr. I understand your partiality and sentimental feeling towards your father. Yes, he was a great footballer during his professional career. He is not and truly is no where near Leo Messi as a fantastic player!!! #1: Messi has proven time and time again both for Barça and the Argentina national team that he is a true leader. The problem is that he never had good enough players to support him in the Argentina National team. #2: Maradona is a complete irresponsible and opposite person!!! He doesn’t deserve all the accolades he gets because of his character and attitude. #3: Messi is a great personality that loves and respect his country. Despite all the abuse and embarrassment, he continues to go and represent his country and lead them to the best of his abilities even without enough quality players to help him. #4: Finally, Maradona is terribly jealous of Messi and the truth is that they are not on the same frequency, Messi is richer, graceful, responsible, cool headed and a great ambassador for his native country of Argentina while Maradona is a complete disgrace!!! He doesn’t have a pinch of integrity in my opinion ever since his shameless cheating in the ‘hand of God’ debacle against England 🏴 and his concoction of drugs in his system against Nigeria 🇳🇬 during the World Cup in the United States 🇺🇸!!! Maradona is in my opinion, a big let down. He should never be compared to Messi. A bad example for kids trying to be footballers!!!
Wasim_Ahmed_2024
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Messi is Maradona every day, even Maradona wasn’t Maradona every day...