Football is the most popular worldwide sport. It has a great set of audience cheering for each and every player on the ground. This football sport is generally conducted between two teams with each team having 11 players in it among which one is a goalkeeper who protects the ball from entering the net kicked by other team members.
This game generally happens as the team players kick and pass the ball to other players and finally kick into the other team’s net and that makes a goal. Football sport is generally played on a rectangular shaped field with goalnets at two longer ends.
These are a few world’s greatest football players-
1. Lionel Messi
He is an Argentina football player. He is known for his ball-passing and goal-scoring skills. He won many audience hearts by breaking many records and gaining many titles with Barcelona and Argentina.
With his outstanding skill, he earned recognition as one of the most greatest and iconic players in football history.
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2. Cristiano Ronaldo
He is a Portuguese professional football player. He is a terrific goal-scorer with incredible athleticism and strong work ethic. He has won numerous awards in his career and was also known as World’s best player many times by FIFA. Ronaldo holds a record for most appearances, goals, and assists in the Champions League. He was always known as the top goal-scorer and top scorer of all time in the Champions League.
3. Edson Arantes do Nascimento
He is mostly known by his nickname Pele and is a Brazillian football player. He is considered as one of the greatest players in Football. His amazing speed and goal-scoring abilities helped Brazil win three World Cups.
He made a Guinness world record with his number of goals and was one of the two joint winners of the FIFA Player of the Century.
4. Deigo Maradona
He was an Argentina football player and one of winners of the FIFA Player of the Century. His leadership skills have a great impact on his team’s performance.
He is known as an advanced playmaker who is positioned on number10. He won many caps in matches.
5. Hendrik Johannes Cruyff
He is popularly known as Johan Cruyff and was a Dutch professional football player.
He was known as one the most greatest players specially as a dutch player. He is widely regarded as the most influential figure in modern football and the greatest manager of all time.
He won a Intercontinental Cup and many european matches. He scored more than 200 goals in football.
6. Franz Beckenbauer
He was a professional football player from germany. He is one of the few players to win both the FIFA World Cup and European Champions Cup. He is one of few men to win the World Cup as a player and as a manager and won the World Cup trophy as a captain. He was the first captain to win both the World Cup at International level and European Championship at the international level and also won few European cups while leading the team.
7. Zinedine Zidane
He had a nickname Zizou and he is a French football manager. When he was a player he played as a midfielder. He is known as one of the best football coaches in the world. He won the title of FIFA Player of the Year few times.
He won the cap more than 100 times and also won the FIFA World Cup and was a part of the All-Star team. He also received the Golden Ball as the player of the tournament at the 2006 World Cup. He is one of the most cap awarded player in French history.
8. Ronaldo Nazario
He is a former football player from Brazil who played as a striker. He won the title of FIFA Player of the Year few times. Ronaldo played for Brazil in many matches and scored many goals and is the one of the highest goal scorer in his national team. At the age of 17, he was one of the youngest players of the Brazil team that won the FIFA World Cup. At age of 23 Ronaldo had scored over 200 goals
but after a series of knee injuries he was inactive for almost three years.
9. Alfredo Di Stefano
He was a professional footballer and a coach. During his football journey as a player he played as a forward. He was one of the only three players take a part in all European Cup victories. He played for Spain ,Argentina and Colombia.
He won six series titles in early years of his career in Argentina and Colombia. He won msny league goals , striking a successful partnership with his team members, and was always known for his achievements. His made some all-time highest goals in the European Cup.
10. Manuel Francisco dos Santos
He is mostly known as Garrincha and was a Brazilian football player who played as a right winger. He was captain of the team when Brazil won the worldcup and shocked everyone with his performance throughout the tournament. He was alsoa part of the World Cup all-starter team twice. He became one of the FIFA Player of the Century grand jury vote. He is the first player to win the Golden Ball. He also won the World Cup in the same tournament that he won a golden ball and was always recognized as the greatest player of all time.
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Conclusion
These are the 10 greatest football players of all time and there are many more such greatest players in the history of football sport who are loved by their fans and won numerous amount of medals, titles, and many more by making their fans cheer for them whichever team they play. As football is a sport which started in the 19th Century many players left a mark in the history of football.
