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Messi has been headlining since his return to international football after a three-month ban. He scored the lone goal in the Brazil - Argentina friendly and another goal and an assist in yesterday's friendly which ended in a 2-2 draw for Uruguay and Argentina. Today, being the 50th anniversary of Pele's 1,000th career goal, Pele dismissed the notion of there being any comparison between the Argentine and the Brazilian legend. Per  Marca , he said:  "Messi better than Pele? Pele is incomparable. "Anyone who wants to compare Pele with another athlete knows nothing. Messi is extraordinary, but within humans. Pele is outside humans, is outside normal parameters. "I do not say this because I am Brazilian, I say it because I saw that story, the magnitude of Pelé, his plays, the individual technique, the header, ambidextrous, his strength, his impulse. If you want to find a defect, you will not find it. " If somebody comes to me and starts to make compar...

Brazil manager Tite has qualified Messi's corruption claims as disrespectful and says Messi has to have more respect and accept defeat. Brazil beat Peru 3-1 on Sunday to lift the Copa America trophy for the first time since 2007. Tite shared his views on Messi after Brazil's victory. Despite dismissing Messi's corruption claims, he said he didn't think Messi deserved a red card vs Chile. As per ESPN, Tite said, "He has to have more respect and needs to accept when he loses. "We played clean against Argentina. Messi was unfairly sent off against Chile. It was a yellow card. But be careful." Dani Alves who won player of the tournament also disagreed with Messi's comments. "I do not agree with what [Messi] said. Here we have professional players who have worked a lot in this competition and who have fought for it. Deservedly [Brazil] eliminated [Argentina in the semifinal]. This is a very special achievement. We do not have to think about...