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EXCLUSIVE: Argentina legends Ossie Ardiles and Ricky Villa talk Maradona, Messi and magical memories from their playing careers… and explain why a World Cup title would bring euphoria back to the country

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After all these years, they are still the Argentines most associated with England. Ossie Ardiles liked our country so much, he made his home here, settling in Hertfordshire, just north of London. Ricky Villa came, made an indelible impression on our football life with one of the great FA Cup final goals, and is now…

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MARTIN SAMUEL: This is Lionel Messi’s last chance to shape his legacy and rest in the pantheon beside Pele and Maradona… an off day against a great French side will be fatal. No pressure, then.

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Click:chinese novel There used to be a segment on the original Fantasy Football show, about Pele. It implied he was rubbish. There would be a clip of him skying a free-kick high over the bar, missing an open goal, getting his jump for a header entirely wrong. The joke, obviously, was that Pele wasn’t rubbish…

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JEFF POWELL: Forget the emotional outpouring, Lionel Messi still ISN’T the Greatest Of All Time… he’s behind Pele and Maradona in third – and Cristiano Ronaldo is ninth in the list of football’s GOATs

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Lionel Messi has ascended at last to football’s celestial rostrum, his elevation authenticated in the most scintillating of all World Cup Finals. Amid the heart-stopping euphoria of Sunday night in Qatar, the emotional outpouring to acclaim him as the Greatest Of All Time was inevitable. As the sands of that eye-scorching desert storm settle on…

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