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The Guardian 100 Best Male Footballers in the World is a list of the current best male footballers published annually by the British newspaper The Guardian.From its inception to 2017, it was known as The Guardian 100 Best Footballers in the World.
The top twenty are most likely accurate as no players before the mid-1980s amassed more than twenty or thirty caps. For example, Boris Bandov, the player active before 1980 with the highest number of caps, played 33 times between 1976 and 1983, while Perry Van der Beck played 23 times between 1979 and 1985. With the typical low scores of the ...
The FIFA 100 is a list compiled by Brazilian professional footballer Pelé featuring his choices of the "greatest living footballers" at the time of its release. The list was unveiled on 4 March 2004 during a gala ceremony at the Natural History Museum in London, England, as part of the celebrations commemorating the 100th anniversary of the foundation of the Fédération Internationale de ...
Player 1 Pelé: 2 Diego Maradona: 3 Johan Cruyff: 4 Franz Beckenbauer: 5 Michel Platini: 6 Alfredo Di Stéfano: 7 Ferenc Puskás: 8 George Best: 9 Marco van Basten: 10 Eusébio: 11 Lev Yashin: 12 Bobby Charlton: 13 Ronaldo: 14 Bobby Moore: 15 Gerd Müller: 16 Roberto Baggio: 17 Stanley Matthews: 18 Zico: 19 Franco Baresi: 20 Garrincha: 21 Paolo ...
Appearances made in youth football are not deemed to be official. War-time results are also excluded if they were later regarded as unofficial by the relevant Football Association(s); if they were included, Billy Meredith would be the first ever player to have played in 1,000 official matches, [1] and Stanley Matthews would also make the list. [2]
Ray Clemence holds the record for the most clean sheets in football history with 537. Most clean sheets: 537 – Ray Clemence, 1965–1988 [102] Most clean sheets in international games: 102 – Iker Casillas, 2000–2016 [103] [104] Most clean sheets in international club competitions: 79 – Pepe Reina, 2000– [105]
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Ten of these players scored at least seven goals in a tournament, while Brazil's Jairzinho in 1970 and Argentina's Lionel Messi in 2022 were the only footballers to record at least seven goals but still not finish as the tournament's top scorer. These 31 top goalscorers played for 20 different nations, with the most (five) coming from Brazil.