Lionel Messi world’s 3rd most popular football player

Who is the world's most well known football player? The answer is not Lionel Messi. 

As per Brandtix, which surveys the greatest footballer marks yearly, Barcelona star Lionel Messi is not the world's most well known player. Actually, Messi has been surpassed by kindred colleague Neymar Jr and opponent Cristiano Ronaldo. 

The study, examining both on-and off-pitch exhibitions, additionally incorporated players' Facebook, Twitter and Instagram records to uncover the main 20 player brands over the field of football. 

In any case, the shocking results confounded everybody in the footballing scene as Argentine Lionel Messi, who as of late asserted his record fifth Ballon d'Or grant, neglected to beat the outlines. Not just was the 28-year-old beaten by Cristiano Ronaldo, which would have been reasonable given the long haul competition between the two, yet even Neymar Jr crushed the Argentine to guarantee the second spot. 

The rundown of main five players in Brandtix's study include:

1. Cristiano Ronaldo

The Real Madrid forward is the most prevalent player, and is trailed by 211.7 million fans crosswise over Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. 

That is a bigger number of supporters than his club.

2. Neymar Jr

Brazil's 2014 World Cup legend vanquished his Barcelona colleague, Messi, to accomplish the second spot after another phenomenal year with the club.

3. Lionel Messi

Regardless of winning his record fifth Ballon d'Or in January, the Argentine's image picture lingers marginally behind the main two

4. Zlatan Ibrahimovic

Maybe without a doubt how you esteem yourself matters more. For somebody as presumptuous as Ibra who said 'a World Cup without me is not worth viewing', the Swede is currently a Paris Saint-Germain legend with only four years at the club.

The Uruguayan striker, who is more scandalous than celebrated for his famous 'hand of demon' trap and gnawing of rivals, asserted number five spot on Brandtix's rundown of significant players after another effective year with Barcelona. Luis Suarez scored 53 objectives in 47 recreations for Barcelona this season, more than Lionel Messi or Neymar. The previous Liverpool man had a 20% knock in taking after on online networking in the last weeks of the season. 

Britain's Wayne Rooney scored the twelfth spot on the rundown while Spain's Gerard Pique was positioned in the fourteenth spot. 


Different players on the rundown all together of prominence incorporate Mesut Özil, James Rodríguez, Andrés Iniesta, Gareth Bale, Iker Casillas, David Luiz, Sergio Ramos, Gerard Piqué, Karim Benzema, Manuel Neuer, Sergio Agüero, Marcelo Vieira, David de Gea, and Cesc Fàbregas.