Benfica's Pablo Aimar is and always will be my idol - Barcelona star Lionel Messi
Barcelona star Lionel Messi has revealed that Benfica’s Pablo Aimar has always been his idol since childhood, and that he has been following the attacking midfielder’s career since his days with River Plate.
http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Argentina-c2841 superstar and Barcelona goal-machine, Messi, has revealed that Pablo Aimar is childhood hero and that he would love to play with the veteran attacker.
Messi has gone from being a player with huge potential to simply the best footballer on the planet in the last few years. His diminutive stature and dribbling style has been compared with http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Diego-Maradona-c11160, but the 24-year-old claims that Aimar was the one
who truly inspired him.
Speaking to reporters, the Argentine said that he would love to play with his fellow country-man and also admired his different playing style.
"I would love to play alongside Burrito Ortega, as he [http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Lionel-Messi-c22296 was quoted as saying.
Benfica forward, Aimar, was one of the most talented players of his generation but a string of niggling injuries prevented him from truly filling his potential.
His spells in the Spanish league with http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Valencia-c40863 and Zaragoza were blighted with stops on the treatment table; as a result he wasn’t able to showcase his undoubted skills on a consistent basis.
Now at Benfica, Aimar is 31 but has experienced a mini Renaissance at Estadio da Luz.
Plying his trade alongside the likes of http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Javier-Saviola-c18090 and Luisao seems to have elevated his game to the heights he was destined to reach much earlier in his career. Armed with a plethora of tricks to baffle his opponents, the former River
Plate star still remains a lethal weapon in http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Arsenal-c38429.
However, given his age and the fact that he no longer possesses the pace he once had, Pablo Aimar is likely to hang up his boots soon but his contributions on the pitch will not be forgotten by anyone, least of all, Lionel Messi.
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