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May 17, 2018
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Lionel Messi was not World Cup's best player and won Golden Ball for marketing reasons, says Diego Maradona

Argentina legend says Messi's Golden Ball win was "unfair" and should have gone to Colombia's James Rodriguez...

Undeserved: Lionel Messi picked up this year's Golden Ball award ahead of James Rodriguez, Thomas Muller, and Javier Mascherano Photo: GETTY

Lionel Messi : was not the best player at the World Cup and the Argentine won Fifa's Golden Ball grant for advertising reasons, says Diego Maradona.

A crestfallen Messi grabbed the gong for extraordinary player of the competition minutes after Mario Gotze's additional time champ sentenced Argentina to vanquish in the World Cup last.

"I would give paradise and earth to Leo, however when promoting individuals need him to win something he didn't (should) win, it is out of line," said Maradona, the victor of the Golden Ball when Argentina won the World Cup in 1986.

"I could see that he would not like to go up and gather it (the honor)."

Messi scored four objectives in Brazil, every one of them coming in the gathering phases of the opposition. The Barcelona man missed a magnificent opportunity to put Argentina ahead at the Maracana in the second-half, topping off a disillusioning keep running of matches in the late phases of the opposition.

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The 27-year-old is a conspicuous representative for sportswear producer Adidas, an authority Fifa accomplice at the World Cup.

Talking on his World Cup TV program De Zurda, Maradona said Colombia's James Rodriguez, who won the Golden Boot as the best scorer in the competition, was his decision for the Golden Ball.

Germany's Thomas Muller, Toni Kroos, Mats Hummels and Philipp Lahm were additionally among the 10-in number contender for the Golden Ball, close by Messi's colleagues Angel di Maria and Javier Mascherano.

Details from Squawka demonstrate that the playmaker made 23 possibilities and 46 take-on at the competition, more than some other player at Brazil 2014.

Argentina mentor Alejandro Sabella guarded the choice to grant his commander the honour, guaranteeing that it was luxuriously merited notwithstanding the South Americans' thrashing.

"He merits it since he played a phenomenal World Cup," said Sabella. "He was a principal factor in the group making it to the last, alongside everything done by his other partners.

"The World Cup is an exceptionally requesting competition and with respect to his notoriety, he is in that pantheon among the greats. Be that as it may, he was there before - he has been there for a long while."

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