Messi Shunned as Barcelona All-Time Greatest Player as Fans Name Club's Top 30 Best Stars

Lionel Messi has been ranked as the second-best Barcelona player in a poll conducted by the supporters of the club.

In a ballot from fan poll site Ranker, no fewer than 30 players were shortlisted for the contention of the Catalans greatest player of all-time and the six-time Ballon d'Or is not the preferred one.

Instead, the fans chose to vote for legendary Diego Maradona who spent just two seasons at the Nou Camp.

The late 60-year-old edged his compatriot when supporters were asked to rank the LaLiga giants' best and brightest. .

Even Johan Cryuff, the Dutchman who revolutionalised the club's style of football had to come on in the fourth position while Brazilian icon Ronaldinho was voted third behind Messi according to the top 20 stars by SunSport.

Fans' all-time top 20 Barcelona stars as listed by SunSport:

Diego Maradona Lionel Messi Ronaldinho Johan Cryuff Andres Iniesta Xavi Hernandes Carles Puyol Ronaldo Da Lima Gerard Pique Luis Suarez Neymar Dani Alves Sergio Busquets Samuel Eto'o Rivaldo David Villa Ronald Koeman Romario Hristo Stoichkov Victor Valdes.

Meanwhile, players like Eto'o, Rivaldo, Romario and some other legendary names came outside of the top 10 on the list.

Former goalkeeper Victor Valdes was voted 20th while the club's current manager Koeman, in spite of his performances during his playing time was considered the 17th best player.

Messi recently became Barca's player's with the most appearances after beating Xavi's previously held record. He has been the club's all-time top goals scorer for some time now and has equally broken a number of other records. Names like Pep Guardiola, Luis Enrique, Rafael Marquez, and a few others were missing from the list of best Barca stars.

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