By Chrysanthus Ikeh
Football legend, Diego Maradona believes his countryman, Lionel Messi should fashion out a unique style of scoring goals despite his exploits on the field of play.
Maradona admitted Messi is one of the best players in the world right now but feels the Barcelona star is no way close to him when it comes to his style of scoring goals in his playing days.
Speaking with CNN in a recent interview, Maradona who also played for Barcelona said Lionel Messi is yet to discover a style of scoring goals.
‘I think the goals come with the style, ‘I think Messi is finding his own style, but he is killing it with the goals. This makes you accelerate the pace. Most likely, he will find his style very soon. I think that I had my own style from the very beginning, so that is the point at which I could be better than Messi.
‘But Messi has scored 300 goals, whereas I think I scored a little over 200 in my whole career. But the thing is, my goals were more beautiful.’
Diego Maradona, who played for Barcelona, Napoli, Sevilla, and Boca Juniors is well known as one of the game’s most recognisable figures of all time. He is famously known for his ‘Hand of God’ goal against England in the 1986 World Cup quarter-final clash.
