Life, Messi, Maradona and Ronaldo

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In a friendly match hosted by Buenos Aires last Tuesday evening, Argentina, along with many others in the world, bid farewell to the great star Lionel Messi... and amidst many words that could be said about Messi, his stories and successes with football, his talent, his goals, his championships and his awards... the most beautiful remains what Messi himself said about the late great Diego Maradona... Messi said that he could not, in these moments, forget Maradona, who led Argentina to football status. She deserves it and was with her players at every step, whether in his life or after his departure.. It was a sentence that had a lot of meanings and deserves more appreciation and respect.

Argentines always wonder who is their first star, and some choose Maradona and others choose Messi... and they compare what either Maradona or Messi provided for Argentine football, which Maradona led to win the World Cup in 1986 and played the final in 1990... and Messi led it to win the World Cup in 2022 and played in the final in 2026... and the two did not meet on a football field except in the 2010 World Cup, where Maradona was As technical director of the Argentine national team led by Messi.

But they formed one team to play tennis with a football, where each of them showed his wonderful talent and his legendary ability to control the ball, even if on a tennis court. And Messi, on the day of his farewell and people’s celebration of him, did not have to confirm that without Maradona, Argentina would not have achieved anything with all its players and Messi among them. His praise of Maradona did not detract from Messi’s status and his joy in people’s love for him. The true star does not derive his status and continues his successes by diminishing the destinies of others and insulting him. To them... and life sometimes needs temporary relief from the passion and obsession for the best or the greatest... and it is possible for there to be many stars without people having to choose just one of them.

There were words no less beautiful and respectful than those of Messi, which were said by the great star Cristiano Ronaldo. Ronaldo stressed that football will not forget what Messi gave to it and to Argentina, and his giving will remain worthy of respect. Despite the long struggle between Ronaldo and Messi over titles, lights, and golden balls, there are certainly moments in which there is no room or room for any disagreements and thorns. In all of Messi’s football career, no one attacked or criticized him like Ronaldo. Ronaldo was the one who confirmed that Messi did not deserve some of his golden balls and accused France Football of flattering Messi. Both of the great stars had fans and supporters who fought real football wars to prove that one of them was the best and most successful. At the moment of Messi’s farewell and retirement from international football, it was Ronaldo himself who respected and confirmed Messi’s talent, which football will never forget.

Quoted from “Al-Masry Al-Youm”