Lionel Messi and Diego Maradona cannot and should not be compared, says Roberto Ayala, with a man who played with both considering the former to be “Speedy Gonzalez” and the latter to have been “pure art”.
Ayala, who currently forms part of Lionel Scaloni’s coaching team with the Argentina national side, is fortunate enough to have graced the same side as two iconic countryman over the course of his own distinguished playing career.
Maradona was approaching the end of his time as a star with the Albiceleste when Ayala made his international bow in 1994, with Messi breaking through a couple of years before the classy defender walked away himself in 2007.