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Comparing Maradona & Messi is like comparing Picasso to Mozart - Ottavio Bianchi

Former Napoli midfielder Ottavio Bianchi has said that comparing Diego Maradona and Lionel Messi is like comparing Picasso to Mozart.

Messi and Barcelona travel to Naples - where Maradona is a club legend - for the first leg of their Champions League round of 16 tie on Tuesday night.

The two Argentine superstars have often been compared to each other, but Bianchi believes that it is impossible to say who is better due to the different eras in which they played.

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“I played with [Enrique Omar] Sivori, an impressive Argentine left-footer, I trained Diego [Maradona] and I would have loved to work with Messi,” Bianchi said exclusively to Goal.