I’m from Argentina, and I think for the people of my generation (90s onwards) the image we have of el Diego is that he was a cheating fat coke head who supported all the wrong politicians, and left us with an infinite amount of memes and phrases, mostly related to cocaine.

My parents generation will probably have a different feel about the guy, as they saw him in all his glorious days, whereas we only knew his decadent state.

Messi is light years better of a person. If anything people should think of him as the greatest Argentinian player of all time

During the final we played like utter rubbish for 80 minutes, I don't see what Messi's got to do with it.

Please don't take HN threads into flamewar hell.

(I realize the GP was provocative and this is a passionate topic, but the solution cannot be to drive further to the hellpits)

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html