

The top 100 footballers in history according to statistics
By: Bob | November 6th, 2007
Everyone has an opinion about who is the best soccer player in the world today. Everyone also has an opinion on about the top players who ever played the game. Opinions are easy to come by, but sometimes you just need the cold, hard facts. The Association of Football Statisticians, presumably a collection of smart people who have come up with yet another way to get paid to study the sport, have compiled a list of the top 100 players in history based on fantasy football-like statistics.
Players are given points for goals scored, clean sheets for defenders and keepers, cups won, being captain and the level in which they played.
The result is, how does one put it nicely, absolute rubbish. Sure, they might be correct to have Pele at the top of the list, but my next door neighbor’s dog could have come up with that. But to put together a list of best players that doesn’t include George Best but does include Jan Koller, well that is just funny.
Here’s the top 25. I think we could all sit down over a few beers and come up with a better list.
1 Pele (Brazil)
2 Ronaldo (Brazil)
3 Romario (Brazil)
4 Luis Figo (Portugal)
5 Zinedine Zidane (France)
6 Diego Maradona (Argentina)
7 Lothar Matthaus (Germany)
8 Gerd Muller (Germany)
9 Franz Beckenbauer (Germany)
10Cafu (Brazil)
11Roberto Carlos (Brazil)
12Marco van Basten (Holland)
13Michel Platini (France)
14Rivaldo (Brazil)
15Paolo Maldini (Italy)
16Zico (Brazil)
17Raul (Spain)
18Ruud Gullit (Holland)
19Eusebio (Portugal)
20Ferenc Puskas (Hungary)
21Johan Cruyff (Holland)
22Alfredo di Stefano (Argentina)
23Bobby Charlton (England)
24Jurgen Klinsmann (Germany)
25Kenny Dalglish (Scotland)
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