With two free-kicks in the same game against Espanyol on Saturday, Lionel Messi has proven himself the game's most lethal set-piece specialist - and it's all thanks to some advice from Diego Maradona ...

Stefano Tacconi at the Mural dedicated to Maradona in the Spanish Quarters. Accompanied by his wife Laura, his son Andrea, ...

The 27-year-old put Inter into the lead in the big Scudetto clash at the Stadio Diego Maradona with an insane curling free kick that was whipped around the wall and curved into the top corner.

His experience has served him well." It was, in fact, none other than Diego Maradona who took Messi's free-kick abilities to the next level. In February 2009, in Marseille's Stade Velodrome ...

(Photo by Francesco Pecoraro/Getty Images) However, it was also the first left-footed free kick scored in this stadium since it was renamed after Napoli legend Diego Armando Maradona, perhaps the ...