Hoyos: There’s no one like Messi

• Angel Hoyos coached Lionel Messi during Barcelona from 2000 to 2003
• Explained to his bosses how good Messi was, comparing him with Diego Maradona
• Days before The Best Awards he says: “He is a best ever”

“I don’t customarily pronounce about Leo Messi,” pronounced Angel Guillermo Hoyos, who is, as it happens, one of a people best competent to pronounce about Lionel Messi. Despite that reluctance, a Argentinian coach, who was a initial to review a Blaugrana No10 to Diego Maradona, concluded to pronounce to FIFA.com in a lead-up to The Best FIFA Football Awards™ 2017, where Messi is in a using for The Best FIFA Men’s Player award.

“Comparisons are odious, and we try not to make them, though during a time we saw a lot of similarities between him and a Diego that detonate on a stage and starred with Argentinos Juniors and Boca, a Diego that usually went past people and didn’t tumble over, a Diego they could never hit down, a almighty Diego,” pronounced Hoyos, with no small tension in his voice.

Now conduct manager during Universidad de Chile, Hoyos was in assign of one of Barcelona’s girl sides behind in 2000. Finding it formidable to demonstrate accurately what he saw in that petite 13-year-old Argentinian kid, Hoyos felt he had no choice though to collate him to Maradona. 

“I’d never seen a actor like him before and a usually approach we could get that opposite to my bosses during Barcelona was by observant that,” explained Hoyos. “I remember them seeking me: ‘But we unequivocally consider he’s like him?’ And we told them: ‘That’s what we see, though you’ll have to make your possess minds up.’”

What memories do we have of a 3 years we spent with Messi?
His tact and a approach he wanted to learn, that was really natural. That was his hallmark and he showed it all a time. And he’s usually a same today: really down to earth. Then there was a sense he done on you, a extraordinary approach he played and all it worried in you, how he enjoyed using with a ball. It gave me pleasure and it still does today. That’s since he is what he is. He’s still that child who usually plays and plays, who’s in adore with a sport.

You see him as a personality now, though was that your perspective of him behind afterwards too?
Leo is a wordless leader. He’s never going to leave we on your own. Yes, we did see that in him when we were during Barça since he’s always been a leader. He’s tolerant adequate to grasp a concept. He’s not a egocentric leader. He leads for everybody by a approach he plays a game, by shouldering a weight and creation it lighter for a group as a whole. He’s really team-minded and that’s an bland doctrine for all of us. He’s a personality in a healthy way, like Zidane. He’s been coaching for 3 years and he’s won a lot. You watch him and he does things though creation a noise. He’s watches his step. There’s hardly a sputter on a aspect of a water.

How do we consider he’s grown as a footballer?
He has a ideal authority of each judgment of a game, each artistic aspect of it. And when it comes to decision-making, he anticipates all that can happen. There’s no extent to what he can do. He’s always building his game. we don’t know if we’re ever going to see another actor like him.

Pep Guardiola pronounced a small while ago that he’s a biggest actor of all time, by a distance. What’s your view?
That’s a approach we see it too, and we contend that with a pinnacle honour for everybody else. There’s Diego, [Alfredo] Di Stefano, [Johan] Cruyff, [Franz] Beckenbauer and Pele, though it’s 2017 and there’s so many foe that we can’t ever relax. It’s so competitive. You get all these programmes revelation we where he’s going to go and where he’s not going to go, and he goes and surprises you. And he keeps doing it some-more and more. Football’s a harder diversion to play currently than it was in a past. It’s unfit that he keeps creation such a large disproportion Sunday after Sunday. He’s scored some-more than 700 goals, that is ridiculous. He’s like a good artist or scientist. We’re going to have to investigate his brain.

Beckenbauer and Lothar Matthaus both started out in midfield before adopting deeper positions. Can we see Messi doing a same?
Leo started out on a right, though now he pops adult in all kinds of positions, picking adult possession on a flank, winning a round like a defensive midfielder, darting brazen like a pacy No9, dropping behind 15 or 20 metres, and so on. we can see him doing whatever he wants from a position where he feels happiest. Players are really versatile today. They can cocktail adult in a position and disappear from it usually as quickly. 

The Best endowment will be presented to final season’s many superb actor on Monday. Who would we give it to out of Cristiano, Neymar and Messi?
If it usually came down to silverware, afterwards it’s a flattering apparent choice (in anxiety to a titles won by Ronaldo). But I’d give it to Leo for what he gives to a world, for his values too. That’s also partial of a game.

Did we know?

• Hoyos was a team-mate of Diego Maradona’s during a Argentina training stay before to a FIFA U-20 World Cup Japan 1979. He did not make a patrol for a tournament, however.
• He played for 13 clubs in all, among them Boca Juniors and Real Madrid Castilla.
• He coached Bolivia for 6 games during a qualifiers for a 2018 FIFA World Cup Russiaâ„¢.

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