Argentina National Team Quotes

Messi is a Playstation.

Who is the Best Player in the World? Leo Messi. Who is the Best Player Ever? Leo Messi!

For Argentina I'm a central midfielder. Always have been and always will be.

Michael Owen's wonder goal against Argentina in 1998 was one defining memory, and as a Sunderland supporter, I remember crying my eyes out after they lost that play-off final against Charlton. Much as that hurt, it made me realise how much I wanted to play the game.

I played for Santos at 16, and we had an excellent team, so it helped a lot. And then I played for Brazil at the Maracana against Argentina. So I get more experience. This was one year before the World Cup, and it made a lot of difference.

Missing the 1978 World Cup made Maradona an even better player, as he showed on the following year at the Youth World Cup, and he never looked back.

The goal was scored a little bit by the hand of God, another bit by the head of Maradona.

It's impossible to describe Messi. I like him so much, and I always say I feel so sad because he never won the World Cup with Argentina. It is an award he deserves because a world-class player like him must be a world champion.

Mauricio Pochettino - he was my captain at PSG and I always knew he would become a manager. He has taken a lot of influence from Marcelo Bielsa, who was his coach with Argentina; they used to talk about things a lot, and now you can see that his teams are really aggressive, both when attacking and defending.

Messi is a god, as a person and even more as a player. I hope that he wins the World Cup with Argentina.

It is possible to stop Messi. Teams do it when he plays for Argentina. But the Barcelona Messi is different.

To speak of Mexico '86, I can make it short and speak only of Maradona. I never saw a player who dominated a World Cup like he did in '86.

Maradona has done a lot for his clubs, as Messi does, and for the Argentina national team.