Who played better Messi or Zidane?

Answer 1

Messi is still playing. He is one of the best current players. Zidane is simply a Legend: one of the greatest players of all time; the founder of modern football. He makes the difficult look easy, the impossible effortless. He was consistently the best player on the planet for a decade. Emphasis on "was" - he has retired. Let's see how Messi does in the future. He is not currently the one-man team Zidane was but that is possibly because the game is changing.