Former Ghana international, Mohammed Polo, has stated that he was a better player than Barcelona attacker, Lionel Messi.

Polo stressed that his exploits was better than Lionel Messi and also believes he was a far better player during his playing days.

Lionel Messi may be widely acknowledged as the world’s best player at the moment, but Ghana legend Mohammed ‘Polo’ Ahmed believes that during his playing days he was far better than the Argentina international forward.

“I was such a good player on the ball [better] than even Lionel Messi,. “I could do many things with the ball that he cannot do now. Nobody should compare Messi to me at all,’’ Mohammed Polo told Gideon Okyere Anim(Gatusso) on All Sports on Accra-based Kingdom FM107.7

“We tend to hype footballers too much nowadays and I can tell you if we had got this kind of hype during our time then Messi would have been nowhere near me.”

Polo was also a former member of the senior national team the Black Stars that won the 1978 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) hosted by Ghana.