Leo Messi, Argentine star of FC Barcelona, has been considered the best footballer in history, according to a classification made by the prestigious Dutch football magazine 'Voetbal International'. Leo Messi, the captain of the Argentine team, surpasses in this classification Diego Armando Maradona and Johan Cruyff.
The oldest football magazine still in circulation in the Netherlands, highlighted Leo Messi, who has not yet won a World Cup, for having won 30 titles with FC Barcelona and for the numerous individual awards he has obtained with 29 years of age . Cristiano Ronaldo, the star of Real Madrid, his great rival today, does not appear even in the Top 5.
Diego Armando Maradona, who appears second, is praised in the publication mainly for his World title with Argentina in Mexico 1986, while the Dutchman, Johan Cruyff, one of the maximum figures Orange Mechanic Holland, occupies the third position and is highlighted as the benchmark of that team that revolutionized football in the 1974 World Cup, where he reached the final.