Leo Messi, named best 'playmaker' of the decade

Without place to doubts, Leo Messi​ has been the big dominador of the world-wide football during the last decade, even to finals of the previous. The International Federation of History and Statistical of Football (IFFHS) has published the ránking of the last ten years regarding constructors of offensive game and has determined to the captain of the FC Barcelona like the best 'playmaker' of the last 10 years.

The system employed by the IFFHS consists in the preparation of an annual classification to choose to the best canalizador of offensive game of the world-wide football. Leo Messi has been the victorious of a format that constitutes every year a Top 20 assigning a downward punctuation in which the winner carries 20 points, the second 19 and like this successively until the twentieth qualifier, that obtains one.

From the year 2011 until the 2020, Leo Messi has been the first qualifier of this ranking, although this last year was Kevin Of Bruyne, of the Manchester City, the one who carried the 20 points. The Argentinian star, by his part, won the annual prize in the years 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2019, in addition to having remained like second qualifier in 2011, 2014, 2018 and 2020.

Finally, Leo Messi has achieved to be the player that more points has obtained this last decade with a total of 174. The curious is that the second classified of this ranking also is a myth of the barcelonismo and is not another that Andrés Iniesta, that obtained a total of 127 points. The fact that both are in the podium shows that, in the general plane of the decade, the FC Barcelona has been the team with better consructores of offensive game.

Following in its footsteps Leo Messi and Andrés Iniesta remained the midfield player of the Real Madrid Luka Modric, third qualifier with 113 points, and the mediapunta of the Manchester City Kevin Of Bruyne, that remained chamber with 103. By behind these four footballers remained another player madridista, Toni Kroos, that completed the ranking of the five first qualifiers with 90 points. By his part, Cristiano Ronaldo is twelfth.

Leo Messi, with a list of winners envidiable

Along the last decade, the computed by the IFFHS to award the prize, Leo Messi no only has been the best 'playmaker', but his influence has carried him to be laureado so much individual as collectively. Between 2011 and 2020, the Argentinian has winning 4 Balloons of Gold, 6 titles of League, 5 Glasses of Rey, 4 Supercopas of Spain, 2 Leagues of Champions, 2 Supercopas of Europe and 2 World-wide of Clubs with the FC Barcelona.