Posting in legendary footballer thread..
Indeed he is very talented, can carry whole team single handedly, like in Villarreal. I think in WC 2006, his team do one of most teamwork (and beatiful) goal, against serbia iirc. 16 passes, before cambiasso scored. But eventually knocked out by german, after this guy subbed out lol

To be fair, i think that time messi still very young and lack inexperience, perhaps not even 1st team in barca (maybe/not, forgot the timeline lol), plus argentina that time have like 6 world class forwards including him, even tevez also subs behind crespo and saviola (iirc).