The Best Footballers

Zvonimir Boban (born October 8, 1968) is a Croatian former football midfielder who played most of his professional career for Serie A club AC Milan and was a member of the Croatia national team, which he captained to third place at the 1998 FIFA World Cup.

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Popularity: 2% [?]

Rui Manuel César Costa, OIH, usually referred to simply as Rui Costa (born March 29, 1972 in Lisbon), is a Portuguese football player. He is an attacking midfielder for Portuguese club SL Benfica and is also capable of playing as a deep-seated defensive midfielder.

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Popularity: 3% [?]

Marcel Desailly (born September 7, 1968 in Accra, Ghana as Odenke Abbey) is a former French football player and a former star of the French national football team, with whom he won the 1998 FIFA World Cup and Euro 2000. He also enjoyed a distinguished career at club level with several European clubs.

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Popularity: 14% [?]

Marc Overmars (born March 29, 1973 in Emst) is a former Dutch football player. He was best known as a right-footed left-winger, although he had that rare ability to be able to use both his feet with equal precision and power. Known for his great speed and blitzes into enemy territory, Overmars’ nicknames included “the Roadrunner” or simply “meep-meep.”

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Popularity: 18% [?]

Hristo Stoichkov alternatively spelt Stoitchkov (born February 8, 1966, in Plovdiv, Bulgaria) is a football manager and former striker who was a member of the Bulgaria national team that finished fourth at the 1994 FIFA World Cup. Apart from his footballing talent, he was notable for his on-pitch temper. He was honoured as European Footballer of the Year in 1994. He was named by Pelé as one of the 125 Greatest Living Footballers at a FIFA Awards Ceremony in 2004.

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Popularity: 2% [?]

Marcel (”Marco”) van Basten (October 31, 1964 in Oog in Al, Utrecht) is a Dutch football manager, currently in charge of the Dutch national team. Previously, he was a football player who played for Ajax Amsterdam and A.C. Milan in the 1980s and early 1990s.

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Popularity: 19% [?]

Diego Armando Maradona (born October 30, 1960) is an Argentine former footballer. He played in four World Cups and received a FIFA award: FIFA Player of the Century, after being voted, in 2000 in an international internet fan poll organized by FIFA, the best football player of all time.

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Popularity: 8% [?]

Edson Arantes do Nascimento, KBE (born October 23, 1940 in Três Corações, Brazil), best known by his nickname Pelé, is a former Brazilian football player.

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Popularity: 8% [?]

Davor Šuker (born January 1, 1968) is a former Croatian footballer who is widely regarded as one of the greatest strikers in the 1990s.

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Popularity: 3% [?]

Luís Filipe Madeira Caeiro Figo, born November 4, 1972 in Lisbon, Portugal) is a professional Portuguese football player. In his homeland Figo is considered by some second only to Eusebio as Portugal’s greatest player. He plays as a midfielder and winger, currently for Inter Milan.

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Popularity: 5% [?]