Peter Crouch: I will be able to tell my grandkids that I shared a pitch with Messi Barcelona High praise for Argentine

Lionel Messi has fans from all across the globe.

One of them is former Liverpool, Tottenham Hotspur and England striker Peter Crouch, who believes the Barcelona captain is the best player of all time.

"There will come a point when I am able to tell my grandchildren that I shared a pitch with Messi," Crouch told The Daily Mail.

"It might only amount to two minutes - 60 seconds, home and away, in a Champions League last-16 tie in 2007 - but it is in the record books.

"I will tell them repeatedly because he is the greatest footballer of all time.

"You try to think of new ways to talk about what he does and the best I can come up with is that he is a living monument; a footballer whom everyone should try to go to see at least once in their lives."