Quotes from Mario Kempes

I don't score many with my head but, as it happened, that's how I netted my first-ever World Cup goal.

I am lucky because I can feel at home anywhere, I don't get homesick.

It's impossible to replace him. You will not find another Messi, but you can train a team without having the best in the world.

Clearly finals are one-off games and they always depend on starting well in order to impose yourself on the game.

For any tournament to succeed, you need the big guns to fire.

I love travelling and if my wife and my daughter are with me - I am happy.

I am just one of many who have played their part in Argentina's football history.

Missing the 1978 World Cup made Maradona an even better player, as he showed on the following year at the Youth World Cup, and he never looked back.

Maradona doesn't play soccer anymore, he coaches it. He needs to remember that.

Now winning is more important and it trumps the way you achieve it. Unfortunately for soccer, the style doesn't matter so much.

Argentina is a powerhouse in soccer.

Dybala only lacks the belief that he is a great footballer. After his great experience at Palermo he had a great start with Juve and he did beautiful things.

Messi is Messi and Messi is Barcelona.

If you ask me who I would have liked to play with, I would say that with Messi.

Messi is a human being and we have to respect him.

Suarez and Neymar play the way they play because of him. They are great players but they are made greater by Messi.

You cannot give the ball to Messi all the time.

What's the problem that people have here in Spain with Maradona and Messi? They spend the whole day comparing them.

English football is a lot different to Spanish football but Soldado is an international for Spain, he is a player who has become accustomed to playing against great teams - and he has always scored goals.

I will tell you another thing, we Argentines criticise Messi because we are specialists in criticising what is ours.

What Guardiola has done as coach of Barcelona is really spectacular.

It's not easy to carry forward the national team because you have a whole country behind you. But I would be willing to take charge of the Argentina national team.

Every time the national team took to the field, we had the confetti shower and the ticker-tape thing.

I think players of the national team are not entitled to make an opinion about who is making the team and who is not. At least in my days it was like that.