Former Argentina striker Gabriel Batistuta believes that Lionel Messi is far from Diego Maradona.

Gabriel Batistuta is confident that Lionel Messi has not yet reached the level of Diego Maradona and is unlikely to ever reach him.

"Diego is the best football player of all time," said ex-best scorer in the history of the national team of Argentina in an interview with Corriere dello Sport. - Diego became a true symbol of Argentina, and not only in football. Perhaps Messi is also strong in technology. Perhaps even stronger than Maradona. But Lionel does not have the charisma that Maradona has..

Diego could control the whole stadium, make everyone look only at himself, and this brought tremendous benefit to the team. Maradona is poetry, and Messi is just prose, even if it's a wonderful ".

Not so long ago Messi beat Batistuta in the list of the best scorers in the Argentine national team - 61 goals (123 matches) against 54 (77 matches).

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