Lionel Messi insists most important manager in career was neither Pep Guardiola nor Luis Enrique

"The truth is that all the coaches I had since I arrived in the Primera Division taught me something," Messi told MBC. "But I think the most important in my career was [Frank] Rikjaard. If he hadn't trusted in me and not decided to put me in the first team first to train and then play my first match, maybe I wouldn't have made it to the first team. "I always said that he was for me a very important person, because he trusted in me, put me in at the right time, picked me to play for the first team and that was very important for me." Hard to argue with that.