Many consider the two stars Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo as the best players in football history and not just in the last decade, but a British newspaper has classified the two stars as the best in the last 25 years.

Aside from Lionel Messi, the first-placed Argentine, he and Ronaldo outperformed footballing legends in the history of the round witch.

And the British newspaper "Four to Four" considered that Messi "deserves to be crowned with this title because he has established a steady level of brilliance for a long time and this rarely happens in the game world."

The 25 players are:

25- Italian goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon

24- The Spanish Sergio Ramos

23- The Brazilian Romario

22- Englishman Paul Scholes

21- The Spanish Raul

20- The Spanish Sergio Busquets

19- Croatian Luka Modric

18- French Eric Cantona

17- Argentine Gabriel Batistuta

16 - Portuguese Luis Figo

15- Englishman Wayne Rooney

14 - Brazilian Kaka

13- The Welsh Ryan Giggs

12 - Italian Paulo Cannavaro

11- Brazilian Rivaldo

10- The Italian Roberto Baggio

9- The Italian Paolo Maldini

8- Spanish Andres Iniesta

7- The Spanish Spaniard

6- Frenchman Thierry Henry

5- Brazilian Ronaldinho

4- Brazilian Ronaldo

3- The French Zinedine Zidane

2- The Portuguese Ronaldo

1- Argentine Messi