full list:
1 Pele (Brazil),
2 Ronaldo (Brazil),
3 Romario (Brazil),
4 Luis Figo (Portugal),
5 Zinedine Zidane (France),
6 Diego Maradona (Argentina),
7 Lothar Matthaus (Germany),
8 Gerd Muller (Germany),
9 Franz Beckenbauer (Germany),
10 Cafu (Brazil),
11 Roberto Carlos (Brazil),
12 Marco van Basten (Holland),
13 Michel Platini (France),
14 Rivaldo (Brazil),
15 Paolo Maldini (Italy),
16 Zico (Brazil),
17 Raul (Spain),
18 Ruud Gullit (Holland),
19 Eusebio (Portugal),
20 Ferenc Puskas (Hungary),
21 Johan Cruyff (Holland),
22 Alfredo di Stefano (Argentina),
23 Bobby Charlton (England),
24 Jurgen Klinsmann (Germany),
25 Kenny Dalglish (Scotland). 26 Ali Daai (Iran)
27 Karl-Heinz Rummenigge (Germany)
28 Gabriel Batistuta (Argentina)
29 Michael Laudrup (Denmark)
30 Hristo Stoichkov (Bulgaria)
31 Dennis Bergkamp (Holland)
32 Frank Rijkaard (Holland)
33 Thierry Henry (France)
34 Pavel Nedved (Czech Republic)
35 Gheorghe Hagi (Romania)
36 Peter Schmeichel (Denmark)
37 Andrei Shevchenko (Ukraine)
38 Sepp Maier (Germany)
39 Didier Deschamps (France)
40 Lillian Thuram (France)
41 Enzo Francescoli (Uraguay)
42 Hakan Sukur (Turkey)
43 Paolo Rossi (Italy)
44 David Beckham (England)
45 Jean-Pierre Papin (France)
46 Kevin Keegan (England)
47 Marcel Desailly (France)
48 Oliver Kahn (Germany)
49 Alessandro Costacurta (Italy)
50 Clarence Seedorf (Holland)
51 Dino Zoff (Italy)
52 Patrick Kluivert (Holland)
53 Jari Litmanen (Liverpool)
54 Daniel Passarella (Argentina)
55 Bixente Lizarazu (France)
56 Gary Lineker (England)
57 Ronaldinho (Brazil)
58 Sylvain Wiltord (France)
59 Bebeto (Brazil)
60 Alessandro Del Pierro (Italy)
61 Davor Suker (Croatia)
62 Ryan Giggs (Wales)
63 David Trezeguet (France)
64 Demetrio Albertini (Italy)
65 Patrick Vieira (Italy)
66 Jurgen Kohler (Germany)
67 Laurent Blanc (France)
68 Michael Owen (England)
69 Youri Djorkaeff (France)
70 Frank de Boer (Holland)
71 Emilio Butragueno (Spain)
72 Hugo Sanchez (Maxico)
73 Rudi Voller (Germany)
74 Djalma Santos (Brazil)
75 Giacinto Facchetti (Italy)
76 Kanu (Nigeria)
77 Franco Baresi (Italy)
78 Gianni Rivera (Italy)
79 Roberto Baggio (Italy)
80 Oscar Ruggeri (Argentina)
81 Gheorghe Popescu (Romania)
82 Jon Dahl Tomasson (Denmark)
83 Raymond Kopa (France)
84 Carlos Valderrama (Colombia)
85 Rui Costa (Portugal)
86 Gary Neville (England)
87 Edgar Davids (Holland)
88 Claudio Taffarel (Brazil)
89 Paul Scholes (England)
90 Diego Simeone (Argentina)
91 Bryan Robson (England)
92 Roy Keane (Ireland)
93 Brian Laudrup (Denmark)
94 Henrik Larsson (Sweden)
95 Fabien Barthez (France)
96 Michael Ballack (Germany)
97 Jan Koller (Czech Republic)
98 Edwin ven der Sar (Holland)
99 Robert Pires (France)
100 Johan Neeskens (Holland)
this is from the book,
the greatest ever footballers
it was apparently calculated by analysing every single football fact over the last century.
full article - Daily Mail
full article - the telegraph
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i dont know what to say about that to be honest, some really good decisions there but i have no ideas why:
1- it doesnt have george best, not that he needs mentioning to be considered as one of the finest players of all time
2- it has the likes of rui costa and michael owen, good players, but not exactly amongst the greatest of all time.