Which is better? An “exciting” announcement from Van Basten about Messi and Ronaldo
Dutch football legend Marco van Basten is shocked by football, who think that Cristiano Ronaldo is
better than Lionel Messi, as he sees things to the contrary.
“Cristiano is a great player, but those who say he is better than Messi do not know anything about football,
or say it with bad faith,” the widely spread Spanish newspaper, “Marca”, quoted Van Basten as saying.
Van Basten, one of the most prominent stars of the golden generation that led the Netherlands to the European
Cup title in 1988, believes that “Messi is unique. It is impossible to imitate and impossible to repeat. A player
like him appears every 50 or 100 years. When he was a child he fell into the bowl of football genius.”
But on the other hand, the former Dutch striker, AC Milan and Ajax Amsterdam, who won 3 golden balls,
who was forced to retire early, believes that Messi, who won 7 golden balls, is not among the top 3 players in history.
In his ranking of the best footballers of all time, Van Basten said: “There is Pele, Diego Maradona and
Johan Cruyff. These three are the greatest footballers of all time.”
He continued, “I aspired to be like Cruyff in my youth, and he was my friend and I miss him a lot.
Pele and Maradona are the most impressive. Messi is also a great star, but Maradona’s personality in
the team leaves a greater impact. Messi is not one of the players who put themselves at the forefront of
the army before the battle. Messi is fourth in The ranking is followed by giants such as the Brazilian Ronaldo,
the French Michel Platini and Zinedine Zidane.
An “exciting” announcement from Van Basten about Messi and Ronaldo
