Who is the best MARADONA or MESSI

Lionel Messi may surpass Diego Armando Maradona after 2010 world cup -
It will be very difficult to decide who is the best in between the past and the present.It may be predicted that a Lionel Messi will surpass Diego Armando Maradona's legendeary career if he will help his team Argentina to win the world cup in 2010.Messi had almost every thing that Maradona had during his playing time except a world cup so this time out he will try to put a world cup into his collection to equalise the legendary career of Diego.Both are Argentinians and have same dribbling skills which sets them apart from other players.Argentina is placed along with Nigeria,Korea Republic and Greece in Group-B which is not an easy group to qualify.

Career stats of both the players-
Diego Armando Maradona-
Team ------------------Appearance ------------------Goals--
Argentina Juniors---------------167----------------------------115--
Boca Juniors--------------------40 ----------------------------28---
Barcelona-----------------------36-----------------------------22--
Napoli--------------------------188----------------------------81---
Sevilla--------------------------26-----------------------------05--
Newell's Old Boys---------------07-----------------------------00--
Boca Juniors--------------------30-----------------------------07--
Argentina(National team)-------91-----------------------------34--

Maradona was one the most gifted player that the world had ever seen and was an attacking midfielder/supporting striker.He had won the player of the century along with Pele'.He had scored the two best goals ever in the 1986 world cup semifinal against England known as "Hand of God" and "Goal of the century".He had also won that world
cup as the captain.

Lionel Messi-
Team-----------------Appearance---------------------Goals
Barcelona-B-------------------7--------------------------------0
Barcelona --------------------131------------------------------73
Argentina(U-20)-------------7---------------------------------6
Argentina(U-23)-------------5---------------------------------2
Argentina--------------------43-------------------------------13

Messi is now considered as the best player in the world along with C.Ronaldo having fantastic
dribbling and goal scoring ability.He had played only one world cup in 2006 where they were
knocked out by Germany in the quarter finals.Messi had recently won the best European footballer of the year award for 2008-09 season and already had an Olympic gold medal in his history list.
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