In october/2005, the Brazilian magazine Placar published the list of the best 100 players of all World Cups. The choosed ones are listed below, classified from the best to the last.
1 - PELÉ (Brazil) 2 - GARRINCHA (Brazil) 3 - Diego MARADONA (Argentina) 4 - Franz BECKENBAUER (Germany) 5 - RONALDO (Brazil) 6 - Johan CRUYFF (Netherlands) 7 - Ferenc PUSKAS (Hungary) 8 - ROMÁRIO (Brazil) 9 - Zinedine ZIDANE (France) 10 - EUSÉBIO (Portugal) 11 - Lothat MATTHÄUS (Germany) 12 - DIDI (Brazil) 13 - NÍLTON SANTOS (Brazil) 14 - Gordon BANKS (Endland) 15 - GÉRSON (Brazil) 16 - JAIRZINHO (Brazil) 17 - Just FONTAINE (France) 18 - OBDULIO VARELA (Uruguay) 19 - Michel PLATINI (France) 20 - Roberto RIVELLINO (Brazil) 21 - FRITZ WALTER (Germany) 22 - Daniel PASSARELLA (Argentina) 23 - Lev YASHIN (USSR) 24 - ROBERTO BAGGIO (Italy) 25 - Mário KEMPES (Argentina) 26 - PAOLO ROSSI (Italy) 27 - LEANDRO ANDRADE (Uruguay) 28 - GERD MÜLLER (Germany) 29 - RIVALDO (Brazil) 30 - Josef "Sepp" MAIER (Germany) 31 - Giuseppe MEAZZA (Italy) 32 - Hristo STOITCHKOV (Bulgaria) 33 - Robert "BOBBY" CHARLTON (England) 34 - Paul BREITNER (Germany) 35 - Franco BARESI (Italy) 36 - Karl-Heinz RUMMENIGGE (Germany) 37 - ZICO (Brazil) 38 - Lilian THURAM (France) 39 - Josef MASOPUST (Czechoslovakia) 40 - Dino ZOFF (Italy) 41 - Paulo FALCÃO (Brazil) 42 - Robert RENSENBRINK (Netherlands) 43 - Carlos GAMARRA (Paraguay) 44 - Guillermo STÁBILE (Argentina) 45 - Claudio CANIGGIA (Argentina) 46 - Gheorghe HAGI (Romania) 47 - TOSTÃO (Brazil) 48 - CAFU (Brazil) 49 - Ubaldo FILLOL (Argentina) 50 - MICHAEL LAUDRUP (Denmark) 51 - Gary LINEKER (England) 52 - Zbigniew BONIEK (Poland) 53 - JÚNIOR (Brazil) 54 - Sandor KOCSIS (Hungary) 55 - Jean TIGANA (France) 56 - Cláudio TAFFAREL (Brazil) 57 - Johan NEESKENS (Netherlands) 58 - BEBETO (Brazil) 59 - Uwe SEELER (Germany) 60 - Silvio PIOLA (Italy) 61 - LEÔNIDAS DA SILVA (Brazil) 62 - Grzegorz LATO (Poland) 63 - CARECA (Brazil) 64 - Robert "BOBBY" MOORE (England) 65 - Mário ZAGALLO (Brazil) 66 - DJALMA SANTOS (Brazil) 67 - PAOLO MALDINI (Italy) 68 - Raymond KOPA (France) 69 - Jürgen KLINSMANN (Germany) 70 - VAVÁ (Brazil) 71 - Teófilo CUBILLAS (Peru) 72 - CARLOS ALBERTO TORRES (Brazil) 73 - Roger MILLA (Cameroon) 74 - Salvatore "Totó" SCHILACCHI (Italy) 75 - Davor SUKER (Croatia) 76 - Elías FIGUEROA (Chile) 77 - Osvaldo ARDILES (Argentina) 78 - Marius TRESOR (France) 79 - RONALDINHO GAÚCHO (Brazil) 80 - DOMINGOS DA GUIA (Brazil) 81 - Juan SCHIAFFINO (Uruguay) 82 - Oliver KAHN (Germany) 83 - ZIZINHO (Brazil) 84 - DUNGA (Brazil) 85 - Paul GASCOIGNE (England) 86 - DIRCEU (Brazil) 87 - Luigi RIVA (Italy) 88 - Dennis BERGKAMP (Netherlands) 89 - ROBERTO CARLOS (Brazil) 90 - Oleg BLOKHIN (USSR) 91 - TONINHO CEREZZO (Brazil) 92 - Gaetano SCIREA (Italy) 93 - Nandor HIDEGKUTI (Hungary) 94 - Michael OWEN (England) 95 - ADEMIR MENEZES (Brazil) 96 - Mathias SINDELAR (Austria) 97 - SÓCRATES (Brazil) 98 - Rudi KROL (Netherlands) 99 - Andreas BREHME (Germany) 100 - Jorge VALDANO (Argentina)
Prepared and maintained by Marcelo Leme de Arruda for the Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation
Author: Marcelo Leme de Arruda
(mlarruda@terra.com.br)
Last updated: 21 Dec 2005
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