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The Sistine Chapel of Football (also known as "The Creation of Football") is an artwork exhibited at the Sportivo Pereyra club from Barracas in Buenos Aires, Argentina.It honors the two greatest Argentine footballers, Lionel Messi and Diego Maradona, as well as other notable Argentine players including Juan Román Riquelme, Gabriel Batistuta, Mario Kempes, Sergio Agüero, Claudio Caniggia ...
[33] [295] Even when Messi was 18 years old, Maradona called him the best player in the world and hailed him as his successor. [291] Messi and Maradona would work together as player and manager for Argentina's national side from 2008 through the 2010 FIFA World Cup, the latter thoroughly impressed with the former's skills. [296]
New Maradona or New Diego was a title given by the press and public to promising Argentine football players in reference (and reverence) to Diego Maradona as a benchmark. Since Maradona retired, fans had been anticipating someone to lead the Argentina national team to a World Cup final, like Maradona did in 1986 and 1990.
For some Argentina fans, Lionel Messi will never be on the same pedestal as Diego Maradona — even with a World Cup final win on Sunday. Here's the problem with the Messi vs. Maradona debate Skip ...
RIP, Diego Armando Maradona, GOAT.(Corrects name of player on Pele’s 1970 team in seventh paragraph.)This column does not necessarily reflect the opinion of the editorial board or Bloomberg LP ...
Argentina went on to win 2–1, with Maradona scoring a second goal known as the "Goal of the Century", en route to claiming the World Cup. The goal's name derives from Maradona's initial response on whether he scored it illegally, stating it was made "a little with the head of Maradona, and a little with the hand of God".
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Maradona (right) and Lionel Messi in The Sistine Chapel of Football painting, on a ceiling of a sports club in Barracas, Buenos Aires. Maradona is widely regarded as the best player of his generation. [152] He is considered one of the greatest players of all time by pundits, players, and managers, [85] [186] [187] and by some as the best player ...