Former England and Barcelona striker, Gary Lineker, has selected Argentina captain Lionel Messi and Diego Maradona as the greatest sportsmen of all time.
Lineker says only the late legendary boxer, Muhammad Ali gets close to Messi.
He stated this while explaining why he considers the Paris Saint-Germain forward better than his arch-rival Cristiano Ronaldo.
In an interview with the Men’s Health magazine, Lineker said (via Express Sport): “Justifiably. I think he [Messi] and Maradona are the two greatest footballers of all time. I think there is a case to make that Messi is the greatest sportsman of all time.
“Only Muhammad Ali gets close and there are a lot more footballers than heavyweight boxers.”
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It is really a shame that Wilt Chamberlain is never mentioned as one of the greatest sportman of all time,
as he was the only sportman who dominated a teamsport like Messi did in terms of overall impact and skill.
But I do not blame Lineker for not knowing about a man who was playing a sport irrelevant in England and who was forgotten by his own American fellows in favor of Jordan,Kobe and Lebron
who would have been destroyed in a 1 on 1 with Wilt,
the same way Wilt destroyed Magic Johnson in a training game as retired 47 old man against a prime magic.