So that you can learn, Lineker's disregard for Cristiano when talking about Messi

Lionel Messi won the Ballon d'Or again and settled once and for all the discussion about who is the best player in the world between him and Cristiano Ronaldo. This debate had already ended when Leo won the 2022 World Cup in Qatar with the Argentine National Team, but his victory in this Monday's ceremony finally buried it. Now, CR7 does not give up and in the last few hours he supported a post that claimed that La Pulga did not deserve either the last award or two others that were previously awarded to him.

This ignited controversy and Messi's fans turned against Cristiano, but now the one who taught Ronaldo a lesson was Gary Lineker, a legendary former English striker who had already anticipated on the red carpet of the ceremony that the title of the best in the story was between Lionel and Diego Maradona. “If I have to choose the best player in history it would be between Messi and Maradona. We saw so many great players - Zidane, Cruyff, the Ronaldos - there is a huge list. But there are these two, who play a sport that the rest of us are not familiar with", he began in statements to the BBC.

And he stated: “For me, Messi is indisputable right now. There may be other people who compare him to Cristiano Ronaldo in terms of goals scored, but in terms of the enjoyment they offer you when you watch them play, there is no one who compares to Lionel Messi”.

Lineker always praised Maradona despite having suffered

Gary played in that legendary match between Argentina and England in which Diego scored probably the two most memorable goals in the history of the World Cups: 'The Hand of God' and 'The Goal of the Century'. In fact, Lineker was the author of the discount goal for the English. The normal thing would be to think that the footballers of that British team could have a bad image of Maradona, but the former striker has always shown great admiration for the '10' and in the last few hours he did it again.