be a fan, not a fanatic
I was talking about NT perfomances.
In order to that, there's plenty of Juve players better than Messi: Platini, ZIdane, Baggio about n° 10, or Scirea,Cannavaro and others (24 in total) that lead Italy NT to win 4 World Champions title.
I can easily state that there are also some other Barcelona's players better than Messi on a international level: easily Xavi and Iniesta, above all.
Take it easy, and enjoy your MEssi
Listen here matey, I'll be honest.
The only reason people like you bring up the world cup argument, is because messi still hasn't won one, he's the best player to ever grace a football field and this nonsensical point is the only one left to belittle his overwhelming genius.
People like you are just trolls and haters, you don't care about facts or football, because just watching the little magician play can quickly convince anyone of his quality.
If higuain/aguero/palacio weren't completely useless last summer messi would have a WC now and people like you would say "yeah but he had higuain/aguero/di maria helping him, he didn't do it alone like maradona" or "yeah but pele won 3".
Now lets debunk the idiotic logic you used.
First of all, he doesn't have to win with argentina to prove anything, that's biased and faulty logic. Plenty of top players haven't won the WC but it's not held against them, it's only held against messi. Best, cruyff, weah and plenty of others didn't win. You dared even mention baggio, the man who failed to win for italy by missing the penalty, platini also didn't won the WC. You are a really bad troll man.
Messi could retire right now and he would go down in history as a GOAT.
Every way you look at this, by looking at him play, by comparing stats, by comparing trophies, whatever, messi is the greatest and has certainly joined pele and maradona in the GOAT category.