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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Most club goals scored in a football season: 96 [note 12] – Fred Roberts, 1930–31 [29] [30] [note 13] Most domestic league goals scored in a football season: 67 [note 14] Jaap Bulder, 1919–20; Archie Stark, 1924–25; Most international club goals scored in a football season: 19 [34] Trésor Mputu, 2007 [note 15] Rico, 2008
This is a list of players who have appeared in 400 or more games in Major League Soccer, the top flight men's soccer league of the United States and Canada, dating back to its inaugural season in 1996. This list does not include appearances in the MLS Cup playoffs.
Franz Beckenbauer, elected Best European Player for the 1956–1990 period. On 24 April 1990, before the 1990 FIFA World Cup, IFFHS gave out an award for the best European player taking into consideration players who were voted in the shortlist of the France Football's Ballon d'Or from 1956 until 1989. [40]
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]
FIFA Player of the Century was a one-off award created by FIFA to decide the greatest football player of the 20th century, announced at the annual FIFA World gala, held in Rome on 11 December 2000. [1] Diego Maradona and Pelé were joint winners of the award. [2] [3]