Lionel backs maradona

Lionel Messi said on Thursday he did not want to see Argentina's head coach, Diego Maradona, get sacked but also said it was just part of the game.

"Of course, I didn't want to see him to go. I believed he would stay. But that is just soccer," the Argentine superstar said during a news conference at the Shunjing Spa Hotel.

The striker also refused to predict the chances of Argentina winning the 2014 World Cup in Brazil.