Definitely not the first to play with a loaded team but we are talking about him and maradona not him and other players. He didn't create the goal in that match against Belgium. Di Maria was passing the ball on the right wing and it deflected and went to Higuain. Argentina got lucky on that one.
Stats in football can be misleading. You can't just look at it and try to compare players. Christiano club stat trumps Pele, is he a better player than Pele?
Maradona is not even the leading goal scorer for Argentina.
Messi have major problems in this WC dealing with double-marking something Maradona perfected.
I think argentineans just want to replace maradona because of his tainted legacy (drugs, ped, handball).
Actually Maradona cemented his legacy against Germany, let's see if messi can do the same.
Just to be clear. Maybe I didn't make this clear in the previous replies. I'm talking about what Argentina is going to do.. they're ready to pass it to Messi man.
Like you said, they played different positions, on wildly different club teams and Maradona had to do more with less but the Argentines are going to give it to him. I'm just talking about specifically the argument within Argentina..