{"id":366740,"date":"2011-04-04T12:11:04","date_gmt":"2011-04-04T12:11:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/04\/04\/%e2%80%9di-was-better-than-messi%e2%80%9d-ghana-legend-polo\/"},"modified":"2011-04-04T12:11:04","modified_gmt":"2011-04-04T12:11:04","slug":"i-was-better-than-messi-ghana-legend-polo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/04\/04\/i-was-better-than-messi-ghana-legend-polo\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201di Was Better Than Messi\u201d- Ghana Legend Polo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div readability=\"71\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<!-- google_ad_section_start -->Welcome to Ghanasoccernet.com, Ghana&#8217;s most authoritative football news website.<\/p>\n<div readability=\"7\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/97230f82Polo.jpg.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-26467\" title=\"Mohammed Polo\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/97230f82Polo.jpg.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"380\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mohammed Polo claims he was better than football supernova Lionel Messi<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em><strong>By Saddick Adams<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Ex-Ghana star Mohammed Ahmed \u2018Polo\u2019 claims he was far better than Lionel Messi during his playing days for club and country. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Messi, who has won the Fifa World Best Player several times, is touted by as the greatest footballer ever because of his silky skills for Barcelona and Argentina.<\/p>\n<p>Polo, affectionately called \u201cThe Dribbling Magician\u201d, admits Messi is an extra-ordinary player because of his super human football skills<\/p>\n<p>But the Ghanaian legend insists those who saw him will attest that he was head and shoulders above the Barcelona star.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMe for instance, I was such a good player on the ball than even Lionel Messi. I could do many things with the ball that he cannot do now,\u201d Polo told Sunyani-based Dinpa FM.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI watch him play regularly and hear people saying he is the best footballer of all time but I disagree and hope most people who watched me will also do same.<\/p>\n<p>He added: \u201cWe tend to hype footballers too much nowadays and I can tell you if we had got this kind of hype during our time then Messi would have been now here near me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Polo was part of the 1978 Ghana squad that won the Nations Cup on home soil and a member of Heart of Oak\u2019s \u201cFearsome Fivesome\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>He also played for Dubai-based Al Wasl in the 1980s.<\/p>\n<p>Ghanaian legend Abedi Pele and three-time African Player of the Year believes that Mohammed Polo was the greatest footballer.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Did you watch Mohammed Polo play? Do you think he\u2019s better than Messi?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- google_ad_section_end --><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<!-- \n\n<div><\/div>\n\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\n<div><\/div>\n\n --><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/97230f82Polo.jpg-150x150.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>View article:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/ghanasoccernet.com\/2011\/04\/i-was-better-than-messi-ghana-legend-polo\/\" title=\"\u201di Was Better Than Messi\u201d- Ghana Legend Polo\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u201di Was Better Than Messi\u201d- Ghana Legend Polo<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Welcome to Ghanasoccernet.com, Ghana&#8217;s most authoritative football news website. Mohammed Polo claims he was better than football supernova Lionel Messi By Saddick Adams Ex-Ghana star Mohammed Ahmed \u2018Polo\u2019 claims he was far better than Lionel Messi during his playing days for club and country. Messi, who has won the Fifa World Best Player several times, is touted by as the greatest footballer ever because of his silky skills for Barcelona and Argentina<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-366740","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-business"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>\u201di Was Better Than Messi\u201d- Ghana Legend Polo - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/04\/04\/i-was-better-than-messi-ghana-legend-polo\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"\u201di Was Better Than Messi\u201d- Ghana Legend Polo - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Welcome to Ghanasoccernet.com, Ghana&#039;s most authoritative football news website. 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