Barcelona midfielder Ivan Rakitic has claimed that Argentina star man Lionel Messi does not need the World Cup to be regarded as the best player in football history.
Messi has won countless titles with Barcelona but is still waiting fpe his first senior title with his national team Argentina. Rakitic however defers from the opinion that the Argentine needs to win the World Cup to become the World’s best.
Surely he deserves to win it for who he is. Football isn’t tennis: you can’t put Messi under pressure by saying he alone has to win the World Cup,” he told Marca. He does deserve it but there are 32 countries with the same dream. If he wins it at the end, we will all be happy for him. However, his story is not going to change if he wins it or not. If you are the best, you are it independently of whether you win one or 50,000 titles. One World Cup will not change what Leo Messi means to football.”
Croatia are grouped with Argentina, Nigeria and Iceland in group D.