World champion with Argentina praises Brazil '70: "One of the best I've seen"

World champion with Argentina in 1986, former midfielder Ricardo Bochini is in the United States to accompany Albiceleste in the World Cup.

Aboard a motorhome, with which he travels to follow the current world champion, Bochini has received affection from fans wherever he goes and, between one photo and another, finds time to give interviews.

In contact with the CNN Brasil report in Dallas, the Independiente idol analyzed the gift of Lionel Scaloni's team, which this Saturday (27) concludes its participation in the group stage against Jordan, starting at 11pm (Brasília time).

"You always have to speak with great caution. Step by step, as a Racing coach, Reinaldo Merlo, once said, because the rivals that will come after [in the knockout] are difficult. The games have to be played", says El Bocha.

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Ricardo Bochini was part of the team that won the world title in 1986, in Mexico.

Despite being a reserve in the team then led by Carlos Bilardo, he saw up close the great performances of Diego Armando Maradona, who had Bochini as one of his idols.

In the Maradona x Messi comparison, the former midfielder, now a motorhome traveler, prefers not to be emphatic about who is bigger, but shows a certain predilection for his former teammate.

They are the two greatest in the history of Argentina. I believe that a World Cup like the one Maradona played in Mexico is very difficult to repeat, because he played at his peak, at 25, 26 years old. He did great things, even though they beat him a lot, and there was no VAR. They knocked, he got up and followed. A spectacular World Cup

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Throughout his career at Independiente, Bochini had tough confrontations against Brazilian clubs. He was champion of the Copa Libertadores against São Paulo, for example, in 1974, when the teams had to play a third final game on a neutral ground (Santiago, Chile) to decide the continental champion.

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Respectful of football in the neighboring country, he recalled great Brazilian teams and especially highlighted one, the three-time world champion.

"I had great clashes with Santos, Cruzeiro, São Paulo, Grêmio... all games against teams that had national team players. I remember Brazil in 1970: Jairzinho, Gerson, Tostão, Pelé and Rivellino, Clodoaldo in the middle. One of the best teams I saw play", says Bochini, nostalgic for football from previous generations.

"The one from 1982, which wasn't world champion, was also spectacular, with Zico, Sócrates, Cerezo, Falcão. Today, Brazil lacks some of those players. [The Brazilian team] has talent up front, but that midfield, those midfielders that Brazil had, are sorely missed in world football."

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Source: CNN