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| Messi with Golden ball,best player at the world cup trophy.- |
- Maradona says Messi did not deserve golden ball and Rodriguez should have won it
I like Diego Maradona,his actions might seem crazy atimes,but he always tries to be truthful and real and that is why Maradona has come out to say Lionel Messi did not deserve to win the golden ball at the world cup, arguing it should have been Colombia’s James Rodriguez who was named best player in the world.
“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. |
| Maradona says James Rodriguez is best player at the world cup. |
“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.
| Diego Maradona |
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.