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Messi ahead of Pele in the list of the best football players in history according to FourFourTwo magazine
Lionel Messi / Photo: © Juan Manuel Serrano Arce / Stringer / Getty Images Sport / Gettyimages.ru
The authoritative magazine FourFourTwo has compiled a list of the 100 best football players of all time, putting Paris Saint-Germain and Argentina forward Lionel Messi in first place.
Former Argentina striker Diego Maradona finished second, followed by Manchester United and Portugal striker Cristiano Ronaldo.
Three-time world champion in the Brazilian national team Pele took fourth place in this ranking. The fifth was the Frenchman Zinedine Zidane.
Former USSR national team players Lev Yashin and Oleg Blokhin took 31st and 52nd places respectively.
You can find the full list at link.
Source: Sportbox
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