Recently, the five-time Ballon d'Or winner, Ronaldo, made history and became the first men's football player to score 900 career goals
Messi is in the Chinese capital with Spanish champions Barcelona for a friendly on Sunday against reigning Chinese Super League titleholders Beijing Guoan at the Bird’s Nest stadium.
‘I certainly did not want Maradona to leave. I believed then that he would stay. But maybe that is just football,’ Messi told a packed news conference.
The diminutive Argentine forward — who scored two goals against a team of K-League All-Stars in Seoul on Wednesday — refused to speculate when asked to rate his national team’s chances at the next World Cup in 2014 in Brazil.
‘There are four years to go. We have a lot of work to do. It is too early to talk about winning the championship,’ said the 23-year-old Barca playmaker, who failed to score in South Africa despite 30 shots at goal.
Last month in South Africa, Messi and Maradona’s World Cup ended in bitter disappointment as Argentina were humbled 4-0 by Germany in the quarter-finals.
Maradona was subsequently sacked last week after just 18 months in the job, but a spokesman for Argentina’s national football association has said he is on the list of candidates to fill the new coaching position.
The spokesman, Ernesto Cherquis Bialo, said the name of the new coach would be announced in October.
Recently, the five-time Ballon d'Or winner, Ronaldo, made history and became the first men's football player to score 900 career goals
The festival will run until September 27 at five key metro stations: Dubai Mall, Mall of the Emirates, BurJuman, Union, and DMCC from 5pm to 10pm
Verstappen leads Norris by 59 points in the championship with seven rounds remaining
A strike on Hezbollah's stronghold in Lebanon's capital Beirut on Friday killed eight people and wounded dozens of others
He will take part in the sixth Quad Leaders' Summit in Wilmington, Delaware, which is being hosted by US President Joe Biden
The event will be held at the Ski Dubai Hall in the Mall of the Emirates at 6am
India are looking to extend their lead at the top of the World Test Championship rankings as they begin a fresh Test season of 10 matches
Noise is considered uncivilised behaviour, tarnishing the community's image, causing disturbance, and instilling fear in others, the authority said