A football match should be decided by an action of play. Not some contrived process whose end result is to mark a fine player such as Bossis, Baresi or Baggio for the rest of his career.

What differences were there between Maradona and Platini?

Messi is the great player of this generation, like there were great players in other generations.

I was playing the best football of my career at the time, finishing top scorer in Italy three year's running. There were other good players around but I think I was the best at that time.

At Euro '92 itself, we bowed out to the eventual winners, Denmark, in our final group match.

The most skillful is Thierry Henry, he has impressed me the most. He's played a great tournament(Euro '00). He has the pace of Anelka, and the sense of Trezeguet. He's got something that no French player has ever had. He can do everything: from scoring goals, to giving assists, crossing and creating space for other players, and he fights for every ball. I've never see a player in France like him

Messi has all the conditions to be the best, but first he has to beat Maradona, Romario and then eventually Pele.