10 Best Football Players of All Time 2024 :
The prestigious publication ‘Four Four Two’ has drawn up a list of the best footballers in history. Leo Messi leads the ranking, with Diego Armando Maradona and Cristiano Ronaldo on the podium.
Talking about the best players throughout history always sparks debate. It is a ranking that is as subjective as it is, at the same time, transcendental to put each footballer on a level.
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The different eras, the trophies won both individually and collectively or simply the level of the rivals mark the careers of all of them. ‘Four Four Two’ wanted to compile a ranking of the best football players over the years.
10. Ronaldo Nazário
Cruzeiro, PSV, Barcelona, Inter, Real Madrid, Milan and Corinthians, in addition to being a legend with the Brazilian National Team, put Ronaldo Nazário in last place on this list. Among his achievements, 1 World Cup, 2 Ballon d’Or and 2nd all-time top scorer in World Cups.
9. Ferenc Puskás
Budapest and Real Madrid, in addition to being an institution with Hungary, and playing with Spain. The award for best goal of the season is named after him. He won 6 leagues, 3 Champions Leagues, was the top scorer in the national competition 7 times and runner-up in the world in 1954.
8. Franz Beckenbauer
The ‘Kaiser’ of German and European football, the man who led Germany to win a European Championship and a World Cup in 1972 and 1974, and the man on whom the great Bayern champion of Europe in the 70s was founded. He was also , twice Ballon d’Or.
7. George Best
The best English player of all time and one of the great footballers in the history of Manchester United. A Red Devil youth player, he marked an era at Old Trafford, where he has a statue with Denis Law and Bobby Charlton. He led United to win the 1968 European Cup.
6. Johan Cruyff
The man who changed the history of Ajax first, and of Barcelona on the pitch and on the benches, later. Cruyff only needed to lead the ‘Clockwork Orange’ to a title, with runner-up in the 1974 World Cup and 3rd place in the 1976 Euro.
5. Zinedine Zidane
Legend of Real Madrid, he arrived from Juventus, where he won the Ballon d’Or, as the interior and star playmaker in the ‘Zidanes y Pavones’. He led France to win the 1998 World Cup and the 2000 Euro Cup, but there will always be his retirement with Materazzi’s header. As for clubs, his goal helped Real Madrid win the Champions League in Glasgow.
4. Pele
The great Brazilian star, the one who for many years has flirted with the first position fighting with Diego Armando Maradona. He played his entire career in Santos, except for his last years in the New York Cosmos. In Brazil, he put in and put in without being satiated to the point of exhaustion. With the ‘Canarinha’ he managed to win 3 World Cups.
3. Cristiano Ronaldo
Top scorer in the history of the Champions League, top scorer of all time, also at national team level. 5-time winner of the Ballon d’Or, four-time Golden Boot, a career at the highest level that places him in third position on the podium.
2. Diego Armando Maradona
The ‘Pelusa’, the great devotion of Argentine football, the God in the country that has venerated him in life and now venerates him in death. His achievements go beyond numbers, statistics. He led the ‘Albiceleste’ to win the 1986 World Cup, with the best individual performance in an event of that caliber. A player made of a different material.
1. Leo Messi
The eternal debate of football, of Argentina, of sport. Leo Messi was crowned the best footballer of all time. A man who has taken Barcelona to the best level in its history, who managed to win the Fifa World Cup in Qatar , the Copa América with Argentina. A footballer who has changed the history of sport.