Lionel Messi and Diego Armando Maradona, coincided and had differences in many respects, but the respect of the current player of the FC Barcelona to the star albiceleste and champion of the world in the World-wide Glass of Football of Mexico, in 1986, always perduró. After the announcement of the death of the "Lint", the rosarino used the social networks to sack of the exjugador, the one who also went his trainer in the selection of his country between 2008 and 2010.
As it is usual already, through his Instagram, Messi communicated to his followers and to all the surroundings of the football his thoughts in this regard of the recent decease of Maradona. In the post, the rosarino showed two his photos with the historical exjugador, in addition to a textual message that says: "A very sad day for all the Argentinians and for the football. It leaves us but it does not go , because Diego is eternal. I remain me with all the beautiful moments lived with him and wanted to take advantage of to send him the condolence to all his family and friends. QEPD"
In spite of the heights and basses in his relation, the figure of Maradona is undoubtedly influential for Messi, the one who, as the majority of the Argentinians, grew with the destellos of quality of the exjugador of the Napoli, among others clubs, like main example. The most similar episodes between the two phenomena suramericanos were, perhaps, the ones of the similarities of the goals that Read annotated in front of the Getafe and the Espanyol in 2007, treading almost to perfection the pair of annotations that "Diego" did in front of England in the World-wide of the 86, driblando to the majority of the rivals and doing the mythical and criticised "Hand of God".
Newell's, common point of Messi and Maradona
The illusion of all the Argentinian nation went back reality between 2008 and 2010, when Diego Armando Maradona assumed the reins of the selection of his country and coincided with Lionel Messi of hardly 21 years, that had a while dazzling to the fanatical of the football in the FC Barcelona. Although the step of the "Lint" by the combined national was quite hard, attained to classify to the World-wide of South Africa 2010 "in extremis", after winning to Peru in the last date, with a goal of Martín Palermo.
Already in the global appointment, the Argentinian selection imposed without greater problems in front of Nigeria, Greece and South Korea in the phase of groups and in front of Mexico in the eighth of final. But the dream mundialista of the pair Maradona-Messi finish in the chambers, when a giant Germany deleted them by 4-1, doing that the suramericanos sacked of the tournament and leaving to the player of the Barcelona with a register of zero goals in the five parties that contested.