Football

Messi names the greatest athlete in history

Inter Miami and Argentina national team forward Lionel Messi said he considers six-time National Basketball Association (NBA) champion Michael Jordan to be the greatest athlete in history.

«If we take sports, then Michael Jordan is the greatest. I watched the series The Last Dance, got into his story and learned more about who he was», — SPORF quotes Messi as saying.

During his professional career, Michael Jordan played for the Chicago Bulls and Washington Wizards.

In 2009, the American was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame.

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