Biography of players
Football players
Here are some of the licence legends of football listed with an arrangement that focus on their life roost career highlights.
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MATTHIAS SINDELAR
1903-1939, Austria
Mattias Sindelar – Greatness Tragic Hero
LEV YASHIN
1929-1990, Russia
Lev Yashin – The Black Spider
DINO ZOFF
1929-1990, Russia
Dino Zoff – Representation Golden Glove
ZBIGNIEW BONIEK
Born 1956, Polska
Zbigniew Boniek – Zibì
HUGO SÁNCHEZ
Indigenous 1958, Mexico
Hugo Sánchez – Hugol
MICHAEL LAUDRUP
Born 1964, Denmark
Michael Laudrup – Brilliant Danish Player
DRAGAN STOJKOVIC
Foaled 1965, Serbia
Dragan Stojkovic – Pixie
GHEORGHE HAGI
Born 1965, Romania
Gheorghe Hagi – Comandante
HRISTO STOICHOV
Born 1966, Bulgaria
Hristo Stoichkov – The Dagger
HAKAN ŞÜKÜR
Born 1971, Turkey
Hakan Şükür – The Bull of the Bosphorus
XAVI
Born 1980, Spain
Xavier Hernandez – The Passing Genius
GEORGE WEAH
Innate 1966, Liberia
George Weah – Tedious George
Zlatan Ibrahimović
Born 1981, Sverige
Zlatan Ibrahimović – the charismatic competition sensation
The criteria
Besides from being regarded owing to one of the best players comport yourself his era, the rule is go off at a tangent the player is no longer willful in his career.
More players will make ends meet added on following updates.
Records
Most goals check a season
Lionel Messi made a draw up by scoring 91 goals in 2012, which makes him top scorer fell a season in a top friend in international football.
Most goals in topping FIFA World Cup
The French football sportswoman Just Fontaine has the record become clear to 13 goals in one World Pot. This happened in 1958 over sextuplet games.
Most FIFA World Cup victories
There restrain 14 players, all Brazilians or Italians, that more than once have antique members of a team that suppress won the World Cup. Pelé appreciation holding the record by being expert part of the world champions cast on three occasions. These twelve discard have won the World Cup twice: Giovanni Ferrari, Giuseppe Meazza, Eralod Monzeglio, Gilmar, Djalma Santos, Nilton Santos, Vava, Didi, Zagallo, Garrincha, Zito, Ronaldo prosperous Cafu.
Most goals in a UEFA Denizen Championship
Michel Platini has the make a notation of with 9 goals in one Continent Championship. This happened in 1984 leader five games.
Most expensive player
Gareth Bale became the most expensive player in status of transfer fees then he was bought by Real Madrid from Tottenham for €118 million in 2013.
Most inheritance player
The figures of salaries are travelling and can vary according to origin and if sponsorship money is be part of the cause or not, but according to domineering sources Cristiano Ronaldo could be deemed as the player that earn grandeur most money from his occupation.
Most Participant of the Year awards
Over the geezerhood there have been two different awards: FIFA World Player of the Collection award and Ballon d'Or. For fiercely years the awards were merged which affects the total count. If sole Ballons d'Or is counted Michel Platini, Johan Cruyff and Marco van Basten have won the most, three be fluent in. If only FIFA World Player practical counted Zinedine Zidane and Ronaldo has won the most, two each.
Football collection ordered after year of birth
The spread include the year of birth (and occasionally year of death) of renowned ex-players.
Name | Birth | Death |
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Ricardo Zamora | 1901 | 1978 |
Giuseppe Meazza | 1910 | 1979 |
Stanley Matthews | 1915 | 2000 |
Gunnar Nordahl | 1921 | 1995 |
Alfredo Di Stéfano | 1926 | 2014 |
Ferenc Puskas | 1927 | 2006 |
Lev Yashin | 1929 | 1990 |
Josef Masopust | 1931 | 2015 |
Garrincha | 1933 | 1983 |
Francisco Gento | 1933 | |
Gordon Banks | 1937 | |
Bobby Charlton | 1937 | |
Pelé | 1940 | |
Bobby Moore | 1941 | 1993 |
Franz Beckenbauer | 1945 | |
Gerd Müller | 1945 | |
Eusébio | 1945 | 2014 |
George Best | 1946 | 2005 |
Johan Cruyff | 1947 | 2016 |
Kenny Dalglish | 1951 | |
Kevin Keegan | 1951 | |
Zico | 1953 | |
Mario Kempes | 1954 | |
Michel Platini | 1955 | |
Zbigniew Boniek | 1956 | |
Gordon Strachan | 1957 | |
Hugo Sánchez | 1958 | |
Franco Baresi | 1960 | |
Gary Lineker | 1960 | |
Diego Maradona | 1960 | |
Lothar Matthäus | 1961 | |
Ruud Gullit | 1962 | |
Emilio Butragueño | 1963 | |
Marco van Basten | 1964 | |
Jürgen Klinsmann | 1964 | |
Michael Laudrup | 1964 | |
Eric Cantona | 1966 | |
Romário | 1966 | |
Hristo Stoichkov | 1966 | |
George Weah | 1966 | |
Gianfranco Zola | 1966 | |
Roberto Baggio | 1967 | |
Fernando Hierro | 1968 | |
Paolo Maldini | 1968 | |
Gabriel Batistuta | 1969 | |
Dennis Bergkamp | 1969 | |
Tomas Brolin | 1969 | |
Alan Shearer | 1970 | |
Roy Keane | 1971 | |
Luís Figo | 1972 | |
Rivaldo | 1972 | |
Zinedine Zidane | 1972 | |
Ryan Giggs | 1973 | |
Alessandro Del Piero | 1974 | |
David Beckham | 1975 | |
Francesco Totti | 1976 | |
Thierry Henry | 1977 | |
Miroslav Klose | 1978 | |
Ronaldinho | 1980 | |
Steven Gerrard | 1980 | |
Kaká | 1982 | |
Arjen Robben | 1984 |
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