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50 Greatest Footballers to have ever existed

Alex Ford by Alex Ford
January 18, 2021
in British
Arrivederci: Exports to Serie A in the 1980s and 1990s

Picking the best footballers to have ever played the game and ranking them in order of a list is a pretty unenvious task that many certainly would not fancy doing.

Of course, the list will be littered with a plethora of names spawning a number of decades; essentially making it incredibly difficult to pick just who might go into the list and where they deserve to be.

Naturally, modern footballers such as Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo would have to be considered in the list of the greatest footballers ever, whilst other names that many might see when looking for the livescore could well appear on the list as well.

Furthermore, there have a been a number of players to have left impressions on many with their skills on the pitch and with a ball, such as the likes of Diego Maradona, Pele, Ferenc Puskas, Franz Beckenbauer and Alfredo Di Stefano to name just a few.

However, FourFourTwo have decided to do all the hard work and provide everyone with their definitive list of the 50 best footballers of all time, which has included some controversial talking points.

For instance, the number one player they chose to sit at the top of the list was Diego Maradona. Of course, the recently deceased legend was one of the greatest to ever play the game, but with this list being so subjective, many are going to argue that there were players greater than him.

However, the creators argue their point well, by highlighting his performances in the 1986 FIFA World Cup as he helped Argentina to win the tournament.

They wrote: “In retrospect and in truth, most of his [Argentina] teammates were merely adequate.

“Never again has one man dragged a team to such an important triumph through individual brilliance — and it may never happen again.”

Check out the list below of their top 50 players of all time. In our view, it is certainly worth taking a few hours/days/weeks to watch all the incredible things these men managed to achieve as a footballer.

50. Xavi

49. Nilton Santos

48. Michael Laudrup

47. Rivellino

46. Juan Alberto Schiaffino

45. Oleg Blokhin

44. Didi

43. Fritz Walter

42. Matthias Sindelar

41. Gianluigi Buffon

40. Kenny Dalglish

39. Nandor Hidegkuti

38. Gianni Rivera

37. Ruud Gullit

36. Paco Gento

35. Luis Suarez (born 1935)

34. Stanley Matthews

33. Gunter Netzer

32. Paolo Rossi

31. Juan Manuel Moreno

30. Lothar Matthaus

29. Raymond Kopa

28. Socrates

27. Bobby Moore

26. Valentino Mazzola

25. Carlos Alberto Torres

24. Ronaldinho

23. Eusebio

22. Lev Yashin

21. Romario

20. Paolo Maldini

19. Sir Bobby Charlton

18. Giuseppe Meazza

17. Gerd Muller

16. Zico

15. Franco Baresi

14. George Best

13. Marco van Basten

12. Michel Platini

11. Garrincha

10. Ronaldo

9. Ferenc Puskas

8. Zinedine Zidane

7. Franz Beckenbauer

6. Alfredo Di Stefano

5. Cristiano Ronaldo

4. Johan Cruyff

3. Pele

2. Lionel Messi

1. Diego Maradona

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