Argentine coach reviewed today's World Cup and said that Messi will be the best player in the tournament, ahead of Real Madrid Cristiano Ronaldo
Argentine coach Diego Maradona, said the Barcelona forward Messi will be the World Cup star and noted that South Africa will be over Cristiano Ronaldo's Real Madrid, who this year has already exceeded the vote on the Golden Ball and FIFA World Player.
The coach, found in South Africa to inspect the places where his team focus during the tournament, has pinned his hopes on Messi, who just has not featured in the qualifiers, but that it caught a great 2009 with his club in Spain.
Leo over Cristiano Ronaldo "Currently, the best player in the world is Messi, no doubt, and let Cristiano Ronaldo as a second means you have to be very, very good," said Maradona, who will be responsible for lead Argentina to a World Cup victory, something not achieved since 1986, when the lint was one of those selected.
Maradona, who served a two-month suspension for charges against the press after the qualifying round, added: "Messi will make a big impression at the World Cup." "You have everything to be the best and we will help. Hopefully Messi out as the great player he is and all of us to embrace in the final," he added.
Confident of security in South Africa also coach the albiceleste the fear that has ruled on the safety of the tournament, to be played between June and July in several cities in South Africa, a country with one of the violent crime rates higher the world.
"We know that we come to play a World Cup in a safe country, I saw with my own eyes. Anything can happen in the world, but I just spent a week in South Africa and all is well (...) This will be a World wide, no doubt about the safety, "said Argentina coach, who will face South Korea, Greece and Nigeria in Group B.