Argentina: The country of football, "Messi" world's greatest footballer From the World cup 2010

I have taken some part of a BBC blog where blog title was: Are Argentina the new Brazil?

The title of the blog seems quite biased and we can say Argentina is Argentina, It can not be the Brasil. Argentina has greatest players who have faith and life in football. Messi the greatest footballer, his life is in football, he has born to be a footballer. But the author who thinks Brazil is the only country that wins the Worldcup, could not stay without saying the truth described below. The following Piece of text are taken from the BBC blog .

In choosing six strikers who between them have plundered 170 goals in the last 12 months domestically, Maradona was sending a message to the other 31 competing nations that his team would not be afraid to play on the offensive.

The Argentine coach is lucky, because no other coach can rely on such a potent strikeforce, which includes the sublime skills of the world's greatest footballer, Lionel Messi. So often criticised for his laboured displays for his country, Messi has started the World Cup like he means to win it with two peformances of dictatorial quality.

Maradona was severely criticised for not getting the best out of Messi in qualifying, but he has given his star man a roving role in South Africa and implored him to become the leader of the team in the same way he took on the mantle so successfully in Mexico in 1986.
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The chemistry between the two has long been a subject of fascination, but so far at this World Cup their relationship has worked to perfection, with a jubilant Maradona lifting Messi into the air and then hugging him all the way down the tunnel after the final whistle on Thursday.

It was after the Nigeria game that Maradona, ever the dreamer, gave away his feelings on how he wants his team to function: "I want Messi to be very close to the ball. As long as he has fun, then we are all going to have fun. Football wouldn't be beautiful unless Messi is touching the ball all the time."

"Two South African fans, draped in blue-and-white, told me before the game they were supporting Argentina for the rest of the tournament. When I asked why, they looked at me like I was from another planet. "Because of Maradona and Messi, why else?" they eventually replied."

Every time Messi touched the ball at Soccer City against South Korea, there was a genuine buzz of excitement among the 82,174 present, even among the South Korean journalists standing nervously to my right. When the score reached 4-1, one of them even told me he wanted Messi to score, just so he could say he'd seen it happen.

With Messi starting alongside Carlos Tevez, hat-trick hero Gonzalo Higuain and Angel di Maria, Argentina's attacking potential is frightening, especially when you consider they brought £35m-rated Sergio Aguero off the bench in the second half and left Inter Milan's treble-winning hero Diego Milito on it for the duration.

But as impressive - and most certainly as important - as their world-class quality in the final third is the astonishing work-rate of Maradona's team to close down spaces, win back possession when they lose it and panic the other team into making mistakes.

Led by the indefatigable Tevez, this was a frontline whose hard work and enterprise at times mirrored that of Messi's other team, Barcelona. They might enjoy the majority of the possession in the majority of games they play, but watch them when they don't have the ball - that's when they really kill their opposition.

That effort does not happen when a team is not playing for their manager. What is also only too clear when you watch them both on and off the pitch is that - after a difficult start during the qualifiers - these Argentina players not only adore their manager, but they trust him to make the right decisions as well.