Former Bafana Bafana player Mark Fish on Monday hailed Argentinean legend Diego Maradona as the greatest football player of all time.

The two met during Maradona’s inspection tour of the High Performance Centre in Pretoria on Monday.

The venue will be his team’s base during the 2010 FIFA World Cup which starts in June and its management is spending around R2m to upgrade all facilities including security for the team.

Fish said he was extremely excited to meet his soccer hero.