Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola has said Lionel Messi is the Greatest Of All Time (G.O.A.T).<\/p>\n
Guardiola, who enjoyed huge success with Messi at Barcelona, put him ahead of Diego Maradona, Di Stefano, and Pele as the best players in history.<\/p>\n
According to him, those who choose Maradona, Di Stefano, and Pele do so for \u201csentimental\u201d reasons.<\/p>\n
He said Messi would still be the greatest of all time even if he hadn’t win the world. <\/p>\n
Speaking at a press conference on Wednesday, Guardiola said: \u201cEveryone has an opinion but nobody can doubt he\u2019s the greatest of all time.<\/p>\n
\u201cFor me, he\u2019s the best, difficult to understand a player can compete with what he\u2019s done. The people who saw Pele or Di Stefano or Maradona, the opinions are sentimental, but [on] the other side, if he [hadn\u2019t] won the World Cup, the opinion and my opinion wouldn\u2019t change.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola has said Lionel Messi is the Greatest Of All Time (G.O.A.T). Guardiola, who enjoyed huge success with Messi at Barcelona, put him ahead of Diego Maradona, Di Stefano, and Pele as the best players in history. According to him, those who choose Maradona, Di Stefano, and Pele do so for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":184893,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"source_name":"","source_url":"","via_name":"","via_url":"","override_template":"0","override":[{"template":"custom","single_blog_custom":"211693","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"single-left","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"floatbottom","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_share_counter":"1","show_view_counter":"1","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"0","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"0","show_inline_post_related":"1"}],"override_image_size":"0","image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post":"0","trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post":"0","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","sponsored_post_name":"","sponsored_post_url":"","sponsored_post_logo_enable":"0","sponsored_post_logo":"","sponsored_post_desc":"","disable_ad":"0"},"jnews_primary_category":{"id":"","hide":""},"jnews_override_bookmark_settings":{"override_bookmark_button":"0","override_show_bookmark_button":"0"},"jnews_override_counter":{"override_view_counter":"0","view_counter_number":"0","override_share_counter":"0","share_counter_number":"0","override_like_counter":"0","like_counter_number":"0","override_dislike_counter":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[32416,26045,4532,147],"class_list":["post-236638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-greatest-of-all-time","tag-guardiola","tag-messi","tag-world-cup"],"yoast_head":"\n