Top 10 Players Ever...Your vote!

[Ruben Sosa]

Does Maradona!?

I believe he plays Showbol on occasions...

Here is a little help for you guys on making some choices, I plan to do this for every decade from 1930's on to 1990's early 00's....based on

Contribution to the success of their nation;
Contribution to the success of their clubs;
If a forward player, the quantity and quality of their goal tallies for club and country;
If a midfield player, the command with which they controlled matches, along with their goal tallies;
If a defender, the ability to foil high-quality attacks and take charge of their half of the field;
If a goaltender, the impact of keeping their team in contention during big matches;
He might be currently playing or retired;
He might have gone on to successfully coach a club or a country;
And most importantly, the type of legacy the player left in the wake of his career.

Here are my top players from the 1930's with a little note on them:


Jose Andrade - Uruguay (First Black player to play in European clubs. First great defender)

Silvio Piola - Italy (Pioneer at the winger position. Inventor of the Bicycle kick)

Giuseppe Meazza - Italy (Considered the greatest Inter Player of all time)

Jose Nazzasi - Uruguay ( Some Uruguayans call him their greatest ever. Captained the Olympic gold and world Cup teams of the 20's and 30's)

Guillermo Stabile - Argentina (First great scoring hero of South America)

Stanley Matthews - England (The European Pele, longest serving player ever. 33 years!)

Cliff Bastin - England (Prolific striker. He was Arsenal's top scorer until 1997 when Ian Wright beat his mark)

Leonidas - Brazil (A pioneer of fast dribbling and the bicycle kick also known as the Black Diamond. Top Scorer of 1938 WC)

Geovanni Ferrari - Italy (Only player to have won 8 Serie A titles, led Italy to 1934 World Cup)

Georgy Sarosi - Hungary (First great Hungarian player. Led Hungary to 1938 WC Final)

Since you've already mentioned The Black Wonder and The Marshal, you should also add Héctor Scarone, The Magician, another pillar of the uruguayan NT of the time. He retired from the NT after the 1930 World Cup because he felt he was getting too old (he was 32), though he played at club level until 1939. He was a fast ambidextrous Inside forward with a precise and powerful shot and header despite being fairly short. He played most of his career at Nacional, with brief spells at Barcelona in 1926, and Inter and Palermo after the 1930 World Cup. He scored 301 goals for Nacional in 369 games, and 31 in 51 caps for the National Team (though there's also a 42 goals in 70 caps count that apparently includes some unofficially games, but I don't know which. Either way, he's the top goalscorer for Uruguay's National Team).

Had you started in the 20's, another player worth mentioning would have been Arthur Friedenreich of Brazil, he scored, supposedly, over 1200 goals and was one of the first black players of the country. Supposedly, he "painted" himself with rice powder to be able to play for the national team, from which blacks were banned.

 

[Deni_Rossonero]

You guys took my post really seriously,did you not notice Ozzy on fifth place, also the band Deep Purple on eleventh, and yes Kanoute on 12th was really a joke, and it was funny, because it was a joke, you know like something that's not really like that but then you say it is and we laugh!
Also you didn't recognize the force, but i'll leave this one for you to salvage!
Yes we are a funny little man!

 

[Jaboldinho]

You guys took my post really seriously,did you not notice Ozzy on fifth place, also the band Deep Purple on eleventh, and yes Kanoute on 12th was really a joke, and it was funny, because it was a joke, you know like something that's not really like that but then you say it is and we laugh!
Also you didn't recognize the force, but i'll leave this one for you to salvage!
Yes we are a funny little man!

Scitsophrenic, eh???

 

[Back Door Skip]

Schizophrenic?

 

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Schizophrenic?

schizophrenia |ˌskitsəˈfrēnēə; -ˈfrenēə|
noun
a long-term mental disorder of a type involving a breakdown in the relation between thought, emotion, and behavior, leading to faulty perception, inappropriate actions and feelings, withdrawal from reality and personal relationships into fantasy and delusion, and a sense of mental fragmentation.
• (in general use) a mentality or approach characterized by inconsistent or contradictory elements.
DERIVATIVES
schizophrenic |-ˈfrenik| adjective & noun
ORIGIN early 20th cent.: modern Latin, from Greek skhizein ‘to split’ + phrēn ‘mind.’

 

[yoyo913]

in order of what I have seen

1. Maradona
2. Recoba
3. Hagi
4. Ronaldo
5. Ronaldinho
6. Materazzi
7. Mutu
8. Chivu
9. Ibrahimovic
10. Riquelme

 

[Deni_Rossonero]

Yes i am a schizo, i am fancy, i was the best and now i'm even better! Jesus!
We was something like who? wtf? and then i came and saved us!

Seriously, do you really judge people that easily, and i know people have different sense of humor but still they have one, i am joking man.
Did something start flashing in your head? No, it's ok.

Well my real top 10 would be

1. Ronaldinho
2. Maradona
3. Pele
4. Crujiff
5. Zidane
6. Van Basten
7. Cantona
8. Kaka'
9. Ronaldo
10. Shevchenko (For the way he played his first few seasons in MILAN)