Viral video: 40 Argentinians chose the three best Argentine footballers in history, with a controversial podium

¿Diego Maradona OR Lionel MessiWhat is Argentinians’ favorite? The glory at the 2022 World Cup in Qatar did not just bring the third star Argentina national team but he also elevated the 10 of Rosario to the status of genius, idol and legend to share the throne with the 10 of Fiorito. Preferences aside, who hunts these monsters?

A viral video appeared on Twitter shared by the English account “Football out of context” (with 4.2 million followers on that network) focuses on the opinion of 40 Argentines, collecting the opinions of men and women from different areas and parts of the country. And everyone was asked the same question: “Who are the three best Argentine footballers in history?”.

Everyone, or almost everyone, chose Diego and Lionel, but what struck the opinions was collecting the votes to find out who came in third place, a name which, due to its youth, until recently would not have even been included in the list. who compiled the 1000 best Argentines but they have a long way to go.

“Ask the people in Argentina to name the 3 best Argentine soccer players in history”, the viral video begins in English, very well edited, so much so that its duration does not reach four minutes. A boy with a Gimnasia shirt, a waiter, a driver who looks like a taxi driver, a worker from the Andean area and a university girl, among others, are some of the “votes” that nominate the players, almost all of whom have merit to appear in the ranking .

Angelo Di Maria, Alfredo Di Stefano, Mario Alberto Kempes, Gabriele Batistuta, Juan Roman Riquelme AND Emiliano “Drawing” Martinez, some of the phenomena that appear in the compulsa. But the blow came from whoever is behind Messi and Maradona.

“You’ll never believe who came third,” someone says in English, anticipating what’s to come. The fact is that the third for the preference of these fans is none other than Giuliano Alvarezthe 24-year-old from Cordoba from Calchín who emerged in River, already champion of the Copa Libertadores and the Champions League, the current and only king of the world both at national and club level, conquering the planet with the Argentine national team and Manchester City.

“Vox populi, vox dei”, says the Latin expression. Although we should put some asterisks on the video with the elections, especially in the part where a girl’s name is mentioned Mauro Icardiputting him at the level of Maradona and Messi.

The great absence of these elections is Daniele Passarellawho was captain of the team that won the 1978 World Cup and was part of the team that won at Mexico 1986, becoming the holder of two champion medals, an unprecedented privilege in these latitudes.

The final positions show that Messi added 37 votes, Maradona 34 and Julián reached 12. The rest, a little further: Di María, Dibu and Riquelme, 6; Di Stefano 5; Batistuta and Kempes, 3; Enrico Bocchini2; Juan Sebastian Verón, Mauro Icardi, Enzo Fernandez AND Carlos Tevez1.