TOP WORLD'S MOST LEGENDARY FOOTBALL PLAYERS IN HISTORY
Football is considered a great sport that gives fans unforgettable emotions. In addition to the beautiful plays, football always produces legendary players that are followed and admired by thousands of fans worldwide.
It is believed that one of the reasons why this sport is so admired can be thanks to the dedication of players and their achievement in bringing the best. Professional football players are supposed to be trained in a very heavy schedule to be able to perform target techniques including the beauty and effectiveness of the shoots with intent to fascinate the followers by their ball control techniques as well as their incredible ability to create an unbelievable shot.
To be more specific, below are the top 11 suggested excellent football player in history:
1. "Soccer king" Pele
Pele (2014)
a. Background
Pele at his youth.
"Soccer King" is the top football player that football enthusiasts often mention when talking about football legend Pele (October 23, 1940, Brazil). As a player from one of the world's most prestigious football countries - Brazil, Pele started playing football at the age of 15 and at the age of 17, he participated in Brazil football club to nourish the dream of touching the World Cup trophy.
a. Career
During his career path as a professional player, Pele has achieved three World Cup titles and was the top scorer in Brazil's history. According to IFFHS (International Federation of Football History & Statistics)- an organization that is responsible for chronicling the history and records of association football, in 1999, he was voted the “Best Player” of the 20th Century. In the same year, he was also entitled “the Athlete of the Century” by the IOC (International Olympic Committee) and was honored to be in TIME's list of the 100 most influential people in the world. In 2013, continuing his glorious success, he was awarded “the FIFA Golden Ball of Honor award”.
Pele is also outstanding for scoring the most goals in the history of world football with 650 goals in 694 league matches and 1281 goals out of 1363 matches he played.
In 2010, he was appointed Honorary Chairman of New York Cosmos- an American professional soccer club based in Uniondale, New York that plays in the National Independent Soccer Association (NISA).
2. “ The Alien” Ronaldo
a. Background
Ronaldo Luis Nazário de Lima (born September 18, 1976, in Brazil) is a former Brazilian national player. Ronaldo won two Golden Balls in 1997 and in 2002. He is considered one of the best footballers in the history of world football.
b. Achievements:
Ronaldo has twice won the Ballon d`Or title and is the youngest player in history to receive the "European Golden Ball" title when he was only 21 years old. By 17 years old, Ronaldo was recognized as the youngest member of the Brazilian squad that won the 1994 FIFA World Cup. He deserves to be one of the best world football legends of all time, few players in the future can catch up with him. In 98 matches that Ronaldo played for Brazil, with 62 goals, he is the second-highest goalscorer for his national team, trailing only Pelé.
Ronaldo is on the list of 125 best living FIFA players of all time. In 1999, World Soccer magazine ranked him 9th in the list of "100 best players of the 20th century". In 2007 France Football magazine voted him to be among the 11 best players of all time. He was also rated by Castrol Football, the website that ranks the highest footballers in the 11 best players of the World Cup.
In 2010 and 2011, Goal.com named him a "player of the decade". Ronaldo is also the only player to win every trophy in the World Cup: World Cup winner, World Cup Golden Ball, World Cup Golden Shoe.
The post-retirement period has witnessed Ronaldo in the role of “United Nations Development Programme Goodwill Ambassador”, a position to which he was appointed in 2000. In 2014 FIFA World Cup saw him serving as an ambassador. Ronaldo became one of the shareholders of La Liga club Real Valladolid in September 2018 with 51% of the club's shares.
Ronaldo in World Cup FIFA 2002
Ronaldo at the present.
3. Ferenc Puskas
a. Background
Ferenc Puskás Biró (April 2, 1927 - November 17, 2006), real name is Puskás Ferenc or Purczeld Ferenc, he is also nicknamed "Major Super Speed"- top football player. Once dubbed the "small cannon," the Hungarian football genius was once considered one of the greatest geniuses in the history of world football and ranked 7th on World Soccer's list of the 100 excellent football players of the 20th century.
b. Achievements:
At the club level, he has won La Liga's "Top Scorer" 4 times, scoring 4 goals in 2 C1 cup finals and 3 times winning the Champions League with Real Madrid. He has scored 84 goals in 85 international matches for the Hungarian national football team along with 4 matches under the Spanish national football team (without goals) and 511 goals in 533 matches. play in the Hungarian and Spanish championships.
In 1952, he became an Olympic champion and led his nation to the final of the 1954 World Cup where he was named the tournament's best player. He has lifted 3 European Cups (1959, 1960, 1966), 10 national championships (5 Hungarian and 5 Spanish Primera División) and 8 top individual scoring honors.
He has scored a total of 83 goals in 84 appearances for the Hungarian national team. That record was kept by Puskas throughout the last century and was only broken by Iranian striker Ali Daei in 2003 (the player scored 109 goals for the national team, but the former Bayern Munich player took 149)
At his youth
Puskas as a coach
4. Cristiano Ronaldo
In contemporary football, Ronaldo is undoubtedly the most excellent football player and a top football player. He is an almighty player from leading ball ability, speed up to hit the goal and is a world football legend worth to follow.
At the age of 34, when a lot of players choose to stop playing football, Ronaldo is still playing with a brilliant performance at both club and national level.
a. Background:
Cristiano Ronaldo dos Santos Aveiro ( born February 5, 1985), nicknamed "CR7", is a Portuguese footballer currently playing in the Italian championship for the Juventus club as a winger or striker and captain of the Portuguese football team. He owned 5 Golden Balls in 2008, 2013, 2014, 2016, 2017, the most for a European player and also owns many other noble titles. He is considered one of the best players of all time, and one of the best in the world today.
b. Achievements:
Significant achievements of Ronaldo such as 4 Ballon d’Or, 22 big and small titles, countless individual and collective records and he still has no signs of stopping.
In 1994, Ronaldo started playing football at Andorinha, two years later he moved to Nacional, one of the two big Madeira island clubs. The success of this team helped him catch the eye of scouts of Portuguese football giants Sporting Lisbon in 1997. Ronaldo's early talent showed him attention to the Manchester coach. United - Sir Alex Ferguson - he signed him for £ 12.24 million in 2003. By the following season, Ronaldo won the championship trophy at his first club level, the FA Cup, and reached the final of the 2004 European Football Championship with Portugal, in which he scored his first national team goal.
In 2008, Ronaldo won the first UEFA Champions League title and was voted Best Player of the Final. He was also voted FIFPro Player of the Year and FIFA Player of the Year, along with becoming Manchester United's fourth player to win the European Golden Ball. On July 1, 2009, he became the most expensive player in the history of world football when he transferred from Manchester United to his new club Real Madrid for £ 80 million.
Playing in the Real shirt, Ronaldo has won 15 titles, including two La Liga titles, two Spanish King's Cups, four UEFA Champions League trophies, two UEFA Super Cups and three trophies. FIFA Club World Cup badge. The most prolific goalscorer in Real Madrid's history, Ronaldo holds the record 34 times for a hat-trick in La Liga, including a ́8 hat-trick record for the 2014-15 season and is single-player scoring 30 or more goals in six consecutive La Liga seasons. Having won the UEFA Champions League for the third time in a row with Real in 2018, he has gone down in history when he became the first player to win ̀5 times as champion in this tournament. Ronaldo is also the player scoring the most goals in the history of the UEFA Champions League with 126 goals.
In July 2018, Ronaldo left Real to join the Juventus club in Serie A for a € 100 million contract. This is the record transfer rate of an Italian club and also the highest price ever paid for a player over 30 years old. In his first season playing for Juventus, Ronaldo won the Serie A and Italian Super Cup titles.
In the battlefield
Ronaldo at Dubai Soccer Award
5. Lionel Messi
Along with Ronaldo, Messi is the dominant player in contemporary football. Referring to Messi, fans often call him with the nickname "Football genius - King of contemporary football - Who breaks the limits"
Messi is currently the only player in history to win the Ballon d’Or 5 times, including 4 consecutive times from 2009 to 2012. In 2019, he is aiming for the 6th time to win the golden ball in his career.
a. Background:
Lionel Andrés "Leo" Messi Cuccittini (born June 24, 1987), commonly known as Lionel Messi) is an excellent football player that currently plays as a striker for Barcelona club and Argentina national football team.
b. Achievements:
He is one of the best players of all time and the best player in the world at the moment. He is also the owner of 6 Golden Balls in 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2015, 2019. FIFA Player of the Year 6, the first player to win the European Golden Shoe 6 times and countless other awards and records. His style of play was compared to that of Diego Maradona, who considered Messi his "heir".
Messi started playing football from an early age and his talent was discovered by the Barcelona club. Having made his debut in the 2004-2005 season, he broke La Liga's youngest player record and became the youngest player to score in the league at that time. The titles that came to Barca in Messi's first season were the La Liga championship, and they won the double when they won both La Liga and the Champions League in 2006.
2006-07 was the breakthrough season of him:
+ became a key player in the first team,
+scored a hat-trick in the El Clásico game and finished the season with 14 goals in 26 matches.
The 2008-09 season was Messi's most successful season when he scored 38 goals and became a key factor in the Catalan club's sixth strike. This record was later broken in the 2009–10 season, when Messi scored 47 goals in all competitions, equaling Ronaldo's record in Barcelona. He went on to overcome this feat again in the 2010–11 season with 53 goals in all competitions.
In the 2011-12 season, he set the record for becoming the player to score the most goals in a La Liga season with 50 goals, while also setting the record for the player with the most goals in a given season. every arena, with 73 goals.
Along with Barcelona, Messi has won various titles, including
+10 La Liga championships,
+ 4 Champions League titles,
+ 6 Spanish King's Cup championships.
He scored 2 goals in 2 finals in 2009 and the final in 2011 against Manchester United. He currently holds the record for the most goals scored in a season for Barcelona with 73 goals.
He was also the first person to win the UEFA Champions League Top Scorer Award three times in a row since the tournament was renamed. Messi is the first player in football history to receive the Golden Ball 5 times (both before and after merging the FIFA World Player of the Year award and the European Golden Ball award into FIFA Golden Ball) in 2011), ranked above the legends such as Johan Cruyff, Michel Platini and Marco van Basten who are all three times receiving the Golden Ball and the second player to receive the Golden Ball three times in a row, after Michel Platini.
In 2012, Messi became the first player to score 5 goals in a UEFA Champions League match, in a 7–1 victory over Bayer Leverkusen.
Messi currently holds the record for the most goalscorers and assists in La Liga and is also Top scorers in Barcelona club history. Messi also became the second player after Xavi, to make 700 appearances in Barcelona's shirt. Messi has scored 614 goals for his Barcelona club, only need to score 30 more to break Pelé's record, the player who has scored the most goals for a club (643 goals).
After announcing his retirement from the national team in 2016, he withdrew his decision and brought Argentina to the 2018 World Cup qualifiers. With 70 goals for the national football team. Argentina, Messi is the second South American player after Pelé to score the most goals for South America (77 goals). On July 31, Messi set a record of becoming the Best FIFA Men's Player award (6 times).
On December 2, 2019, at the 64th Golden Ball Awards ceremony in Paris, France. Messi won the 6th Ballon d'Or Golden Ball, becoming the first player to win 6 Golden Balls, 5 times more than rival Cristiano Ronaldo (5 times).
In the battlefield
Messi at The Golden Boot Award
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