One of the great dilemmas. The “To be or not to be” of the Argentine soccer fan. Diego Maradona or Lionel Messi?
Difficult choice since they were not contemporaries. Maradona played his last game as a professional footballer on October 25, 1997, when Boca beat River 2-1 at the Monumental stadium. At that time, Messi was only 10 years old and would only debut in Barcelona on November 16, 2003.
Without a doubt two “geniuses”: one, Diego, “genius of the 20th century” and Lio, “genius of the 21st century.”
A viral video on X shared by the English account “Out of context Football” (4.2 million followers) focuses on the opinion of 40 Argentines (men and women) and when asked “Who are the three best Argentine footballers in history?”, obviously everyone answered between Madona and Messi.
“Asking people in Argentina to name their top 3 Argentinian football players in history”begins the video, which barely lasts four minutes and features a Gimnasia fan, a waiter, a bus driver, a worker in the Andean zone and a university girl, among others.
Angel Di Maria, Alfredo Di Stefano, Mario Alberto Kempes, Gabriel Batistuta, Juan roman riquelme and Emiliano “Draw” Martinezwith some of those who appear in the election.
But who came in third place? “They’re never gonna believe who finished third” is heard in the vira video. And yes, it is incredible… The third was nothing more and nothing less than Julián Álvarez, The native of Cachín, Córdoba, 24 years old, emerged from River, champion of the Copa Libertadores with Millonario, and champion of the Champions League and the Club World Cup with Manchester City, and world champion with the Argentine team.
There were oddities like that of a girl who put Mauro Icardi on par with Maradona and Messi and there were also surprises like the absences of Daniel Passarella and Mario Kempes, both world champions with the Argentine team in 1978.
The final positions show that Messi added 37 votes, Maradona 34 and Julián reached 12. The rest were further away: Di María, Emiliao “Dibu” Martpinez and Riquelme, 6; Di Stefano 5; Batistuta and Kempes, 3; Ricardo Enrique Bochini, 2; Juan Sebastián Verón, Mauro Icardi, Enzo Fernández and Carlos Tevez, 1.
Source: Ambito
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