BUENOS AIRES, Argentina AP — Argentina marked the one-year anniversary of the death of soccer legend Diego Maradona on Thursday with ceremonies, tributes, graffiti murals and emotional messages on social media. For the first time since the 1978 World Cup, Argentina is without Diego Maradona on football’s biggest stage. The team could use him more than ever as the South American team is off to a rocky start at the tournament. Not only are Messi and Maradona similar in their size and technical ability, but also in the way that they carried the hopes of a nation. Many fee that both are on the same level, and that a World Cup win for Messi would take him above Maradona, which is some feat given what the diminutive Maradona achieved in the 1980s for club and country. For Lionel Messi, stepping up to the precedent set by Argentine icon Diego Maradona proved to be one match that he's still aiming to win.