'Messi should perform at World Cup, or else quit to play Golf'

Ricardo Caruso Lombardi, coach of Primera B side Tristán Suárez in Argentina, has once again blasted four-time World Player of Year winner Lionel Messi for his World Cup performances.

According to Spanish daily Marca, the controversial but straight-talking coach grumbled: . "(Messi) should have shown up in the (World Cup) final. It isn't Pékerman, Batista, Maradona or Sabella's fault. Messi should have made us world champions. If he doesn't feel like performing in a World Cup final, he should go and play golf instead," said Lombardi on AM 770.

"I'd tell him to actually run at players for the national side. He's not in Spain where he dribbles past everyone as if they were cones in training."

The coach is no stranger to controversy and did not mince his words when quizzed over Gerardo Martino's arrival as national team coach.

"Do you think Martino came in without Messi's approval? If he'd said no, Martino wouldn't be there. Messi determines so much".