The best but still most humble: Messi

Lionel Messi said he didn’t see himself as the world’s best as the Argentina star plans for the World Cup. Argentina and Barcelona star Lionel Messi demanded he was “simply one more player” in spite of being considered among the unsurpassed greats.

Messi, 30, is a record five-time Ballon d’Or victor, having delighted in a staggering vocation at the LaLiga goliaths. In any case, the whiz forward, who is planning for the World Cup in Russia, said he was much the same as different players.

“I don’t consider myself the best, I think I am just another player,” Messi told Paper Magazine, in which he posed with a goat for a photo shoot. “On the field, we are all the same when the game begins.”

“It will be important to prepare well, because in the qualifiers we were fighting up to the end and we didn’t have time to prepare ourselves,” he said.

“We still have to make ourselves stronger as a team to be in the running to win and be at the same level as other teams like France, Germany, Brazil or Spain.

“But we have a good group of players and the Argentine team is always going to be a candidate to win, it doesn’t matter how we get there.

“We always aim to win and we will try to go slowly but strongly to advance in the competition.”

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