Praise from a footballing God

By European Football
November 17 2005

Manchester United and England striker Wayne Rooney, has received praise from the very highest level of football, in the shape of Diego Maradona who said:

"Rooney is a very powerful striker, he's very talented and he can take England to World Cup victory."

He went on to say how he believes Rooney is the sort of player who can transform games and the fortune of the team he plays in.

Not unlike Maradona himself then, who in my opinion was the greatest of all time and the only man to ever single handily win a world cup.

Maradona is less sure of his own greatness though:

"I won't say I am the greatest. But. like everybody, I too believe my mother. And she says I'm the greatest."

"I believe parents are the biggest inspiration for their children and not stars who appear on the field for 90 minutes or celebrities who appear on television for a lesser period of time," said Maradona.

"I realised that only parents can be real examples and that's when I corrected myself. I changed my lifestyle and transformed a lot for the sake of my two daughters. Now I do everything for them," he said.