Messi beat the likes of Thomas Muller, Arjen Robben and James Rodriguez towards the prestigious award, but the 1986 World Cup champion feels the 27-year-old won it for commercial reasons.
“Messi? I will give him heaven if possible,” Maradona said during his show on Telesur.
“But it isn’t right when someone wins something that he shouldn’t have won simply because of some marketing plan.”
“The marketing and advertising solutions gave him what he didna’t deserve. This isn’t truthful. I noticed that he didn’t want to go,” Maradona explained in an interview. Read more…