![Pinterest](https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://uknews.evprotec.com/messis-worst-ever-team-mates-xi-including-wigan-and-sunderland-flops-and-ex-arsenal-ace-song-who-failed-at-barcelona/&media=https://uknews.evprotec.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/SPORT-PREVIEW-Lionel-Messis-Worst-Team-mates-XI.jpg&description=LIONEL MESSI is a record seven-time Ballon d'Or king, a four-time Champions League winner and is now hoping to fire Paris Saint-Germain to an elusive Champions League. The 35-year-old Argentine, who also secured his nation the Copa America last year, is quite rightly heralded by many as the greatest player of all time. Lionel Messi is now a seven-time Ballon d'Or winnerCredit: EPA Having graced Barcelona's Camp Nou for more than 15 years and now the Parc des Princes, many great players have purred over getting to take to the field alongside the icon. PSG strike partner and ex-Barca team-mate Neymar referred to it as playing with his 'idol', while Xavi gushed: "It is clear that Messi is on a level above all others. Those who do not see that are blind." But while those two were fantastic in their own right for Barcelona, not everybody that has had the pleasure of playing with Messi can say the same. Barca bosses even started to be criticised for 'wasting' some of Messi's peak with poor decision making. There are several who should count themselves lucky to have lined up alongside him. And here we take a look at possibly the worst XI of the bunch: Willy Caballero Messi played alongside the Southampton stopper at the 2018 World CupCredit: Reuters The shiny-headed Argentine is well-known to English football fans, having warmed benches at Southampton, Chelsea, and before that Manchester City since arriving on these shores in 2014. His performances in presumably the League Cup earned him a place in his national team's World Cup squad in 2018. Boss Jorge Sampaoli made the bold call to start him in the opening two group games in the absence of fellow Prem benchwarmer Sergio Romero. The decision backfired spectacularly against Croatia, however, when Caballero farcically scuffed a back pass straight to Ante Rebic, who thwacked it past him to set the would-be finalists on their way to a 3-0 win. Douglas Douglas was awful at right-back for BarcaCredit: AFP - Getty Douglas was on){kind=link}
LIONEL MESSI is a record seven-time Ballon d’Or king, a four-time Champions League winner and is now hoping to fire Paris Saint-Germain to an elusive Champions League.
The 35-year-old Argentine, who also secured his nation the Copa America last year, is quite rightly heralded by many as the greatest player of all time.
Having graced Barcelona’s Camp Nou for more than 15 years and now the Parc des Princes, many great players have purred over getting to take to the field alongside the icon.
PSG strike partner and ex-Barca team-mate Neymar referred to it as playing with his ‘idol’, while Xavi gushed: “It is clear that Messi is on a level above all others. Those who do not see that are blind.”
But while those two were fantastic in their own right for Barcelona, not everybody that has had the pleasure of playing with Messi can say the same.