"In 2018, Cathal Kelly of "The Globe and Mail" described Baggio playing in the 1994 World Cup as "the best player in the world" at the time, while "The Guardian" described him as "The definitive player of the decade," also adding that "the 1990s belonged to Il Divin Codino," and labelled him as "probably the finest player in the world between 1992 and 1995."