Brazil legend Pele has insisted that Lionel Messi is not the best Argentina player of all time, believing that a former Real Madrid star was a more complete footballer than the FC Barcelona talisman is.
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The 75-year-old has revealed that he thinks Los Blancos legend Alfredo Di Stefano was a better player than the current Albiceleste captain is.
"If I am the king, then Messi has been the prince over the past 15 years," Pele told La Vanguardia.
"I cannot call him the king, because there is only one king. I believe that Alfredo Di Stefano was the most complete of the Argentine stars, he was more complete than (Diego) Maradona and Messi.
"I am glad that I played in my era, even if it's true everything is more simple now.
"Players like Di Stefano and I are not as well-known because there are far fewer recordings of our performances."
Di Stefano, who passed away in 2014, was the main star of the famous Real Madrid team that won five consecutive European Cups in the 1950s.
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He also won eight La Liga titles in 11 years at the club, and scored 308 goals in 396 official games for Real.
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