According to a journalist, Argentine football can be personified as a guy with a dirty face, a man of hair rebelling against the comb; with the intelligent, roving, trickster and persuasive eyes and a sparkling gaze that seem to hint at a picaresque laugh that does not quite manage to form on his mouth, full of small teeth that might be worn down by eating yesterday's bread.” Maradona fits the description much more than Messi, but both are demigods of a football-crazy South American country.