messi has more Ballon d'Or than both pele and delima all together, messi won more individual international awards, he recently won the copa America and won the best player of the tournament and the highest goal scorer and still the highest assist provider of same tournament, he is the first and still the only player to do such in the history of international tournaments and dont forget that he is the first and still the only one to do it in championship league
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The things is such argument will continue to exist. He is a great player no doubt but I wouldnt say he his the greatest has players like the above mentioned still has something that outweigh all his individual records which he has, whether you like it or not which is the FIFA World Cup.
maradona never won copa America and he has won the cup now, he doesn't have a world cup but he was once a world cup best player and the runner up which is second, he is going to have is 7th Ballon d'Or which covers the loss of world cup @jersteemit try to understand leo messi is the greatest player of all time
Yeah now you are finally coming back to where I originally stand at the end as it concerns this subject matter. This is the single reason no player deserves the greatest of all time has they all have one dent in their legacy as they all never achieved everything all. He can have as many individual accolades has he can that still doesn't accord him with that status of GOAT has no one player deserves that
but among the past and present players he has achieved more and play better than them so that makes him the greatest among them,in the coming generation we can still have a player better than him and such person take over that title
Concerning individual achievement yeah maybe. But been a better player than them you mean in terms of what metrics exactly? As he isn't the highest goal scorer or Highest assist of all time. Cristiano Ronaldo has more goals in all competition than him when compared in that regards. So you see that aspect will continue to be subjective.
For sure in the coming years, new breeds of players will come up and will shatter those records as I guess that's why records are there for in the first place, a standard to be conquered
messi has the highest assist of all time and highest man of the match award of all time, he is still has the best play maker award mean while he is still a great scorer
You seem to have skipped highest number of goals as that to me means a lot when weighing a great forward or don't you think so? :-). By the way who currently is the top scorer in south America? or in the world? Then he still a lot to prove to me