Like Cruyff in his time, Messi is the best in history, check out who said this!!

Barcelona's former club chief says the 28-year-old deserves his Goal 50 trophy and claims the four-time Ballon d'Or winner can now be considered the game's greatest-ever player
 Former Barcelona president Joan Laporta believes Lionel Messi is the best player in history and says the Argentine is a worthy winner of The Goal 50.

Messi topped the annual list of the 50 finest footballers in a calendar year for a record fourth time after leading Barca to the treble in 2014-15 and Laporta says the Blaugrana star can be considered the greatest - just like his idol Johan Cruyff back in the 1970s.


"For me, with respect to all of the great players in history, Messi is the best of them all," Laporta told Goal in an exclusive interview.




"You really have to put things in their context and their historic moment. For me, my idol was always Johan Cruyff. For me he has always been the greatest, not just as a player but also as a person.

"He has been a point of reference for me. It was his era, his moment - and he was the best in the world. For me, the best in history.