"In 2017, Antonio Martelli of "La Presse" described Baggio as "one of the greatst Italian players of all time maybe the best of the last thirty years," and as "an "authentic champion who could have been even greater without a series of extremely severe knee injuries that undermined his career since its dawning," a view shared by Raffaele Di Fusco, who said "who knows what he could have become without all of those injuries," and also Renzo Ulivieri, who stated