FC Barcelona - ARHIVA POSTOVA

[PatrickBateman]

joj oranice od terena

[rio_Ferdy88]

Lionel Messi now bears comparison with Diego Maradona

The striker's five goals against Bayer Leverkusen have left many in no doubt that he is a better player than El Diego
http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/blog ... five-goals

"This was," said Santi Giménez in the sports newspaper AS, "like Chamberlain getting 100 points in a game, Ali knocking out Liston, Beamon flying in Mexico." Messi did not beat anyone else; he beat himself, he broke the limits. Again. He found something he hadn't yet done and did it : there have been two fours and 14 hat-tricks but this was the first time he had scored five in a match.

Whatever they say they will not do Messi justice. "Don't write about him, don't try to describe him," Guardiola once said. "Watch him." It is good advice.

The clue is in the name: football is a game played with a ball and with your feet. Yet for two of the world's great footballing communities, there is no greater symbol of the pursuit of perfection than the hand. From the manita or Little Hand to the Hand of God, for Argentina and for Catalonia there is nothing that defines a sporting era like it. On Wednesday night Lionel Messi brought them together – two epochs, two congregations, five brilliant goals. Five more. Two hundred and twenty-eight in all.

The hand as an icon of a game played with the feet: from 1986 and the symbol of Diego Maradona, Argentina's greatest talent in a generation, in any generation, to the almost mystical symbol of FC Barcelona's greatest nights. A manita, a goal for every finger: the 5-0 against Real Madrid with Johan Cruyff the player in 1974; the 5-0 against Madrid with Johan Cruyff the manager of the Dream Team in 1994; the 5-0 with Leo Messi leading the Team That's Better Than The Dream Team in 2010.

On Wednesday in the 7-1 win over Bayer Leverkusen, Messi invoked them both with a Little Hand of his own – each digit worthy of El Diego. The parallel was unavoidable on both sides of Spain's great footballing divide and beyond. "The little hand of God," declared the cover of Marca, while El Mundo Deportivo removed the diminutive to shout simply: "The Hand of God." Messi has made the extraordinary so routine that his brilliance often goes overlooked. But just when you think he can no longer surprise you, he does.

It was the first time that anyone had in the Champions League and it left Messi on 12 goals in this year's competition – seven ahead of his nearest rival. If he finishes as top scorer it will be the fourth consecutive season. His fifth goal on Wednesday night was his 47th of the season and he is on 49 European goals, as many as Alfredo di Stéfano. He is just seven away from César, FC Barcelona's highest ever scorer. And here's the real killer stat: he is only 24.

Besides, these were not just five goals, they were five wonderful goals; goals that prompted Wayne Rooney to describe him as the "best player ever" and Radamel Falcao to ask: "Sorry, was that a Champions League game or Messi playing on the PlayStation? " He has scored every kind of goal imaginable: earlier this season he even nodded one over the goalkeeper having first controlled the ball with his head, like some kind of performing seal. And it is not just the goals, it is that he can do everything. "Show me a player as complete as him," Pep Guardiola once said. You can't.

On Wednesday night, the Bayer Leverkusen coach, Robin Dutt, said: "whoever plays football knows that there are no words for Messi. He is a category all of his own: the best player in the world, another galaxy."

"One day I will be able to say I coached Messi," smiled Guardiola. There is not much you can add; the superlatives ran out years ago. Swearing worked for a while. No more. How do you come up with something that has not been said before? A new language? A symbol?

Only one symbol resists him: the Hand of God. And that one may not for much longer. The day that Maradona turned up at Barcelona he walked into the dressing room and saw that the socks had been left rolled into a ball; three hundred kick-ups later his new team-mates' jaws were on the floor; Messi's first day in the dressing room was marked by nerves.

On the pitch, though, the comparisons are inevitable and Messi is starting to win the battle. One of those 228 goals was a carbon copy of Maradona's second against England; there is a handball too. And trophy after trophy. More trophies than Maradona won. There is no World Cup yet, sure, but there was no World Cup at this stage of Maradona's career either – he was 26 when Argentina won it – and, uncomfortable though it may feel, it could be argued that the pinnacle of world football is the Champions League now. It is a pinnacle Messi climbs over and over.

"You could have put Maradona in with Cameroon, Spain or Nigeria and he would have won the 1986 World Cup," says Maradona's Barcelona team-mate Marcos Alonso, hinting at two things that evade Messi – the World Cup and the ability to carry a team alone. But, Alonso adds: "Diego did things I had never seen anybody do. Now you see things from Messi that are very, very Maradona." The coach of that Argentina team in '86, Carlos Bilardo, says: "Messi defies the laws of anatomy, he must have an extra bone in his ankle."

"Messi is better than Maradona and Pelé," says the Argentinian coach, Carlos Bianchi. "Every week he shows that he is capable of things that no one had done until now." Pablo Aimar, one of that long line of "New Maradonas" that could not compete with the old one until Messi turned up and could, says: "for years I thought that there would never be a player like Maradona. But now Messi is at his level." Even in Brazil, Messi has supporters. "Messi is better than Maradona; he is more complete, more consistent, more spectacular," says Tostão. "He is reinventing the game – a mix of the real and the virtual."

Whatever they say they will not do Messi justice. "Don't write about him, don't try to describe him," Guardiola once said. "Watch him." It is good advice.

[Petardaa]

joj oranice od terena

jbg kad mourinho nešto naredi to se mora ispoštovati

od te tekme mi je pao u očima... a od kako je došao u real skontao sam da bi i gu*ice dao samo da dobije barcu...ali ne ide ga baš nešto

a ako se dobro sjećam opet je tu tekmu barca dobila 1 ili 2-0... sjećam se samo da je Eto'o jedan gol dao

[xaviesta]

a ako se dobro sjećam opet je tu tekmu barca dobila 1 ili 2-0... sjećam se samo da je Eto'o jedan gol dao

Barca dobila 1:2 Onaj hadum Motta dao autogol, pa mu se Terry oduzio. Da bi kamerunski lav donio pobjedu Barci. Messi ih silov'o citavu utakmcu, daleko najbolji na terenu sa samo 18 godina

[edohz]

Messi je fantastičan, ali status legende, kao fenomena, se odnosi na Zidanea ili Maradonu. Za njega je vrlo važno da postigne to što su ostvarile te velike zvijezde nogometa, a to je osvajanje titule prvaka svijeta sa reprezentacijom.

A za Barcelonu kaže da je to najbolja ekipa svih vemena, barem on nikad nije gledao neki bolji tim

EL FENOMENO

[xaviesta]

Messi je fantastičan, ali status legende, kao fenomena, se odnosi na Zidanea ili Maradonu. Za njega je vrlo važno da postigne to što su ostvarile te velike zvijezde nogometa, a to je osvajanje titule prvaka svijeta sa reprezentacijom.

A za Barcelonu kaže da je to najbolja ekipa svih vemena, barem on nikad nije gledao neki bolji tim

EL FENOMENO

Vidim i on neki filozof post'o. Mogao bi kakve knjige napisati k'o Ibrahimovic.

[FKKrajina]

Dezurni svjetski kriticari Messija,ne samo ovi nasi forumasi, uzimaju kao mjerilo to sto nije osvojio titulu svjetskog prvaka s Argentinom, pa su zbog toga neki drugi igraci ispred njega. Sranje zivo , iskreno.

Ajmo to sad gledati ovako... Nagrada zlatna lopta, jedino Messi i Platini osvojili je po 3 puta cini mi se,ali to nije ni bitno. Messi ima veliku priliku osvojiti je 4 put i tako postati jedini igrac koji je najprestizniju nagradu osvojio najmanje 4. puta. Gdje su tu Zidane i Maradona ?

I tad ce zvanicno da postane najbolji svih vremena.

A vi mrzitelji , mozete da kazete da ste gledali nogomet u vrijeme kad je igrao NAJBOLJI SVIH VREMENA, LEO MESSI,ARGENTINA,BARCELONA !!!

[edohz]

mozete plricati sta hocete al dok se neosvoji svjetsko nista od legende, jer ce pele i kompanija uvjek imati slamku spasa i nacin da prigovore mesiju

[DesimaL]

mozete plricati sta hocete al dok se neosvoji svjetsko nista od legende, jer ce pele i kompanija uvjek imati slamku spasa i nacin da prigovore mesiju

Onda ni peleu nije mjesto ovde.Nije osvoio LP

[Donnie Darko]

a ako se dobro sjećam opet je tu tekmu barca dobila 1 ili 2-0... sjećam se samo da je Eto'o jedan gol dao

Barca dobila 1:2 Onaj hadum Motta dao autogol, pa mu se Terry oduzio. Da bi kamerunski lav donio pobjedu Barci. Messi ih silov'o citavu utakmcu, daleko najbolji na terenu sa samo 18 godina

Koliko mi je krivo bilo tad sto mu se precka isprijecila da zabije onaj eurogol, al sve je to nadoknadio u godinama poslije.

Jos poslije tekme sa Panathinaikosom 2005. godine sam govorio da ce biti najbolji igrac na svijetu i mozda najbolji svih vremena. Svi su mi se smijali, al eto ispade da nisam bio u krivu. Mogu se pohvalit da sam bio medju prvim Messijevim ultra fanovima u BiH, mozda cak i sire.

[LBJ MVP]

Messi mora nešto osvojiti s Argentinom(Copa or WC) do tada je Di Stefano najveći igrač svih vremena

[groka12]

da je najbolji svih vremena, proglasili bi ga najboljim !

ma ljubim dude proteinske

[edohz]

mozete plricati sta hocete al dok se neosvoji svjetsko nista od legende, jer ce pele i kompanija uvjek imati slamku spasa i nacin da prigovore mesiju

Onda ni peleu nije mjesto ovde.Nije osvoio LP

pele je smjesan igro u santosu gdje su mu ubrajali u statistiku golove sa treningaa........legende su maradona,messi i zidan a da bi messi bio iznad svih njih mora osvojiti SP

[tech]

Messi mora nešto osvojiti s Argentinom(Copa or WC) do tada je Di Stefano najveći igrač svih vremena

Dobar ti vic
SP traje maksimalno 7 utakmica za jedan tim koji ce doci do finala, a Messi se dosad dokazao u preko 200 da je najveci svih vremena.I to sa svoje 24 godine života.
Ponižavao je odbrane Reala (njih redovno ponižava i to ce nastaviti i dalje), Arsenala, Man.Uniteda, Bayerna, Bayera i koga sve ne. A ti sad možeš i dalje nastaviti pricati u prahistoriji Di Stefana, kad nam ni roditelji nisu bili rođeni

[HectorLopez]

Messi mora nešto osvojiti s Argentinom(Copa or WC) do tada je Di Stefano najveći igrač svih vremena

Naravno da ne mislim daj e messi najbolji igrac ali bi zelio znati sta je to tako bitno di stefano osvojio sa argentinom?

[LBJ MVP]

Messi mora nešto osvojiti s Argentinom(Copa or WC) do tada je Di Stefano najveći igrač svih vremena

Naravno da ne mislim daj e messi najbolji igrac ali bi zelio znati sta je to tako bitno di stefano osvojio sa argentinom?

Copa America

[Donnie Darko]

Messi mora nešto osvojiti s Argentinom(Copa or WC) do tada je Di Stefano najveći igrač svih vremena

[don_burza]

"When we don't know what to do, we just give it to Zizou and he works something out." -former teammate Bixente Lizarazu, on Zidane's talent

Najveci svih vremena

[Ado1921]

Messi mora nešto osvojiti s Argentinom(Copa or WC) do tada je Di Stefano najveći igrač svih vremena

Jel to onaj lola sto ne zna jel Spanac,Argentinac ili Kolumbijanac ! Messi izmislio fudbal za ovog kloca!

[tech]

Jbt kralj ko da imaju po 100 godina života i ko da su gledali svaku tekmu Di Stefana uživo 50-tih godina prošlog vijeka kad se igrao poluamaterski fudbal, pa sad kenjaju ko kakve dede " sinko moj, kakav je to igrac bio"
Isto važi i za ove što velicaju Pelea.