A significant phone call between two football legends: Miroslav Klose congratulated Lionel Messi on his new record as the World Cup’s all-time top scorer. Messi, who now has 20 goals, surpassing Klose’s previous mark of 16, set the record during the current World Cup.
Klose, who became world champion in 2014 and previously held the record with 16 goals, spoke about the conversation with Messi at an event for 1. FC Nürnberg. “Messi is a brutal phenomenon,” Klose said according to a club statement, emphasizing that the phone call was very moving. It was arranged by Lionel Scaloni, the coach of the Argentine national team, who had played alongside Klose during his time at Lazio Rome.
During the conversation, Messi said he would send Klose a signed jersey. Klose, who called Messi the best footballer of all time, had already congratulated him in the “Süddeutsche Zeitung” after Messi’s 17th World Cup goal, saying: “That’s perfectly fine, the record was going to be broken at some point anyway, and then it might as well be Messi.”
How fascinating the Argentine is becomes especially clear in his path to the goal record, which was long unforeseeable.
Klose himself emphasizes that Messi is a “genius.”
Source: www.spiegel.de
