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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.
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.
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)
Don Balón Award for Best LaLiga Foreign Player: 1977, 1978 [251] North American Soccer League MVP: 1979; FIFA World Cup All-Time Team: 1994 [252] FIFA World Cup Dream Team: 2002 [253] World Team of the 20th Century [252] FIFA 100: 2004 [254] AFS Top-100 Players of All-Time: #21 (2007) [255] World Soccer's Greatest XI of All Time: 2013 [256]
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James Brown (December 31, 1908 – November 9, 1994) was a Scottish American soccer player who played for the United States men's national soccer team at the 1930 FIFA World Cup, scoring the only goal of the American team in their 6–1 semi-final loss to Argentina.
Greatest football player to have ever played the game, by Golden Foot: 2012 [340] FIFA Ballon d'Or Prix d'Honneur: 2013 [341] World Soccer Greatest XI of All Time: 2013 [342] Legends of Football Award: 2013 [343] [344] South America's Best Player in History, by L'Équipe: 2015 [345] Inspiration Award, by GQ: 2017 [346]
Diego Armando Maradona Franco (Spanish: [ˈdjeɣo maɾaˈðona]; 30 October 1960 – 25 November 2020) was an Argentine professional football player and manager. Widely regarded as one of the greatest players in the history of the sport, he was one of the two joint winners of the FIFA Player of the 20th Century award, alongside Pelé.