Lionel Messi one step away from becoming the best player of this generation

“Who’s better Cristiano Ronaldo or Lionel Messi?” The debate never seems to come to a close. The Portuguese enjoyed a superb season with Real Madrid last term and is currently leading the race between the two having also picked up the latest Ballon d’Or. Messi on the other hand, suffered a torrid season with Barcelona. The superstar failed to lift a trophy and rumours are doing rounds that he is exhausted right to his bone.

Messi will never have a better opportunity to prove he is one of the greatest players of all time than in Sunday’s World Cup final against Germany. Having undergone a dry spell when it comes to trophies, what better way than lifting the most coveted football prize in the world. The little magician was also deemed “out of sorts” and “out of form” before the World Cup finals began.

For all the breath-taking goals and teeming towers of silverware he has accumulated with Barcelona, it is in the World Cup final that the true greats confirm their legacies. From a 17-year-old Pele in 1958 to Andres Iniesta in 2010, via Diego Maradona, Zinedine Zidane, and Ronaldo, football’s biggest personalities have bent the sport’s biggest occasion to their will.

Lionel Messi can finally step out of the shadow of Diego Maradona by winning it and stand far ahead of the Portuguese Ronaldo. Messi’s record-breaking brilliance over the last six seasons at Camp Nou cannot be understated, but until he wins the World Cup, he will never fully stand the comparisons. If he does in fact lift the World Cup, he will be compared to the previous greats and then he will make his mark as the best of the current generation.

One of the stars of Brazil’s 1970 World Cup-winning side, forward Roberto Rivellino once said “If Argentina win, he’ll be up there with Pele and Maradona, no doubt.”

But having enjoyed a spectacular career by winning innumerable trophies at club level, Leo hasn’t quite made a mark at international level. Not many footballers of this generation do too well for their national side and in spite of this fact, the Barcelona forward finds himself one step away from indisputable immortality. His four goals have led Argentina to the final.

If you are an unbiased football fan living and breathing right now, you will support Lionel Messi in the Germany vs Argentina final because he deserves it. The 27-year-old deserves to be up there with the legends and far ahead of today’s players.

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