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100 Best Male Footballers in the World. The Guardian 100 Best Male Footballers in the World is a list of the greatest 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. It is decided by a panel of experts from several nations. [1][2]
The Best FIFA Men's Player is an association football award presented annually by the sport's governing body, FIFA, since 2016, to honour the player deemed to have performed the best over the previous calendar year. [1] The award was formerly known as the FIFA World Player of the Year, which was merged with France Football ' s Ballon d'Or in ...
The Best FIFA Men's Player. Eleven players were initially shortlisted on 22 November 2021. [1] The three finalists were revealed on 7 January 2022. [2] Robert Lewandowski won the award with 48 rank points, his second consecutive win. [3][4][5][6] The selection criteria for the men's players of the year was: respective achievements during the ...
With 672 goals for Barcelona, Lionel Messi has scored the most goals for one club. Pelé held the world record for around 50 years. Josef Bican is credited by FIFA with 805 goals. Luis Suárez, the most recent to score 500 goals. Alfredo Di Stéfano, the first South American to score 500 goals. Imre Schlosser, the first footballer to score 500 ...
The FIFA World Player of the Year was an association football award presented annually by the sport's governing body, FIFA, between 1991 and 2015 at the FIFA World Player Gala. Coaches and captains of international teams and media representatives selected the player they deem to have performed the best in the previous calendar year.
Players in bold are still active at international level. Players in italics also hold the record for most caps for their nation. Rank is a count of the 211 FIFA nations. Fourteen nations (Aruba, Azerbaijan, Brunei, Bulgaria, Canada, Denmark, Faroe Islands, Papua New Guinea, Romania, Scotland, South Sudan, Suriname, United States and U.S. Virgin Islands) have a pair of players tied for national l
Most recent. Erling Haaland. (1st award) Website. www.iffhs.com. The IFFHS World's Best Player is a football award given annually from 1988 to 1990, and since 2020, to the world's best player. The award is given by the International Federation of Football History & Statistics (IFFHS). Marco van Basten, first winner of the award in 1988.
FR Germany's Franz Beckenbauer is the second, winning as both captain (1974) and manager (1990). Didier Deschamps is the third: he led France to victory in 1998 as captain, and then in 2018 as manager. Germany's Miroslav Klose is the only player to have won four World Cup medals: 2002 (silver), 2006, 2010 (both bronze) and 2014 (gold).