The Best Footballers

Gianfranco Zola OBE (born July 5, 1966 in Oliena, Sardinia) is a retired Italian footballer. He spent the first decade of his career in Italy, most notably with Napoli and Parma, before moving to English side Chelsea, where he was voted Football Writers’ Player of the Year in 1997. He was also capped for Italy and is currently joint coach of the Italian under-21s.

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Popularity: 53% [?]

Fabien Alain Barthez (born 28 June 1971 in Lavelanet) is a French football player who played the position of goalkeeper. One of the best and most successful goalkeepers to play the sport he played with the French national team, he won the 1998 FIFA World Cup and Euro 2000 and reached the final of the 2006 World Cup. He shares the record for most World Cup final clean sheets with Peter Shilton, with 10. Professionally, he has kept goal for his clubs to a Champions League title and several Ligue 1 and Premier League championships.

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Popularity: 26% [?]

Oleh Volodymyrovych Blokhin (born November 5, 1952 in Kiev, Soviet Union, now Ukraine), is a Ukrainian football(soccer) coach of mixed Ukrainian (by mother) and Russian (by father) ethnicity who was formerly a striker for the USSR national football team. He was named European Footballer of the Year in 1975.

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Popularity: 14% [?]

Laurent Blanc (born November 19, 1965 in Alès) is a retired French football defender, who scored the first golden goal in World Cup history. Blanc is considered to be one of the great centre-halves of the 90s.

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Popularity: 26% [?]

Paul John Gascoigne (born 27 May 1967 in Gateshead, England), often referred to as Gazza, is a retired English football player who is widely regarded as one of the most gifted footballers of his generation. He has also had spells as a manager and coach, most recently at Kettering Town in 2005. Playing in the position of midfield, his career included spells at Newcastle United, Tottenham Hotspur, Lazio and Rangers; and he was also capped 57 times for England.

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Popularity: 17% [?]

Sir Robert William Robson CBE (born 18 February 1933, in Sacriston, County Durham, England), commonly known as Bobby Robson, is an English football manager and former international football player. As an inside-forward, his professional playing career spanned nearly 20 years during which he played for just three clubs, Fulham, West Bromwich Albion and Vancouver Royals. He also made 20 appearances for England, scoring four goals. He is currently a mentor to the manager of the Irish national football team.

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Popularity: 26% [?]

Gianluca Pagliuca (born December 18, 1966 in Bologna) is an Italian football goalkeeper. He is rated along with Dino Zoff, Walter Zenga, Angelo Peruzzi, Gianluigi Buffon and Francesco Toldo as one of the greatest Italian keepers of the past 30 years.

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Popularity: 15% [?]

Jari Olavi Litmanen (born February 20, 1971 in Lahti) is a Finnish footballer, widely considered the country’s greatest ever. He was chosen as the best Finnish player of the last 50 years by the Football Association of Finland in the UEFA Jubilee Awards in November 2003 . Litmanen also finished 42nd in the 100 Greatest Finns voting in 2004. In Finland he is called “Litti”, or sometimes even as “The King”.

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Popularity: 14% [?]

Christian “Bobo” Vieri (born July 12, 1973 in Bologna, Italy) is an Italian football striker who plays for ACF Fiorentina.

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Popularity: 4% [?]

Marcos Evangelista de Moraes (born June 7, 1970 in São Paulo), better known as Cafu, is a two-time FIFA World Cup winning Brazilian footballer, was named by Pelé as one of the top 125 greatest living footballers in March 2004. He is currently a defender for Italian Serie A club A.C. Milan.

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Popularity: 9% [?]