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American football: Manfred Burgsmüller [1] 52 years, 182 days 2002 Association football: Ezzeldin Bahader (one-off) [2] 74 years, 348 days 2020 Kazuyoshi Miura (continuous) 57 years, 308 days Active Australian rules football: Sampson Hosking : 48 years, 159 days (interchange only) 1936 Wally Watts : 44 years, 49 days 1916 Auto racing (Rallying)
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 ...
George Best (22 May 1946 – 25 November 2005) was a Northern Irish professional footballer who played as a winger, spending most of his club career at Manchester United.A skillful dribbler, he is considered one of the greatest players of all time, [2] along with being considered one of the most talented to play.
Most goals scored in a football season: 97 – Ernst Wilimowski, 1940–41 [11] Most club goals scored in a football season: 96 [note 10] – Fred Roberts, 1930–31 [12] [13] [note 11] [note 12] Most domestic league goals scored in a football season: 67 [note 13] Jaap Bulder, 1919–20 Netherlands Football League Championship for Be Quick
Kazuyoshi "Kazu" Miura (三浦 知良, Miura Kazuyoshi, born 26 February 1967), nicknamed King Kazu, [2] is a Japanese professional footballer who plays as a forward for Japan Football League club Atletico Suzuka, on loan from J2 League club Yokohama FC.
Pelé in 1962, by then rated the best player in the world [21] In 1956, de Brito took Pelé to Santos, an industrial and port city located near São Paulo, to try out for professional club Santos FC, telling the club's directors that the 15-year-old would be "the greatest football player in the world". [22]
From its inception to 2017, it was known as The Guardian 100 Best Footballers in the World. It is decided by a panel of experts from several nations. [1] [2] Argentine player Lionel Messi is the record winner of the award with 6 wins.
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 ...