Pelé´s list with the top 120 players in the world

[Striker]

Hey, here it is...

BRASIL
Carlos Alberto Torres
Cafu
Roberto Carlos
Djalma Santos
Falcão
Júnior
Pelé
Rivaldo
Romário
Ronaldinho
Ronaldo
Sócrates
Zico

ALEMANHA
Ballack
Beckenbauer
Breitner
Kahn
Klinsmann
Sepp Maier
Matthäus
Gerd Müller
Rummenigge

ARGENTINA
Batistuta
Crespo
Kempes
Maradona
Passarella
Saviola
Sivori
Verona
Zanetti
Di Stefano

BÉLGICA
Ceulemans
Pfaff
Van Der Elst

BULGÁRIA
Stoichkov

CAMARÕES
Milla

CHILE
Figueroa
Zamorano

COLÔMBIA
Valderrama

CORÉIA DO SUL
Hong

CROÁCIA
Suker

DINAMARCA
Brian Laudrup
Michael Laudrup
Schmeichel

ESCÓCIA
Dalglish

ESPANHA
Butragueño
Luis Enrique
Raúl

ESTADOS UNIDOS
Michelle Akers
Mia Hamm

FRANÇA
Cantona
Desailly
Deschamps
Fontaine
Henry
Kopa
Papin
Pires
Platini
Thuram
Tresor
Trezeguet
Vieira
Zidane

GANA
Abedi Pelé

HOLANDA
Bergkamp
Cruijff
Davids
Gullit
Kluivert
Neeskens
Rensenbrink
Rijkaard
Seedorf
René van der Kerkhof
Willy van der Kerkhof
Van Nistelrooy

HUNGRIA
Puskas

INGLATERRA
Banks
Beckham
Bobby Charlton
Keegan
Lineker
Owen
Shearer

IRLANDA
Keane

IRLANDA DO NORTE
George Best

ITÁLIA
Nesta
Rivera
Paolo Rossi
Totti
Vieri
Zoff
Roberto Baggio
Baresi
Bergomi
Boniperti
Buffon
Del Piero
Facchetti
Maldini

JAPÃO
Nakata

LIBÉRIA
Weah

MÉXICO
Hugo Sánchez

NIGÉRIA
Okocha

PARAGUAI
Romerito

PERU
Cubillas

POLÕNIA
Boniek

PORTUGAL
Eusebio
Figo
Rui Costa

ROMÊNIA
Hagi

REPÚBLICA TCHECA (ex-Tchecoslováquia)
Masopust
Nedved

RÚSSIA (ex-União Soviética)
Dassaev

SENEGAL
Diouf

UCRÂNIA
Shevchenko

URUGUAI
Francescoli

TURQUIA
Belozoglu
Recber

I have only one comment.. this list is all about politics and has nothing to do with football

Brazil with 5 World Cups should have at least 10 more players... Where is Garrincha, Tostao, Rivelino, Gerson, Didi, Vavá, Jairzinho, Bebeto, Careca??

Brazil has 12 players while France has 14. 8 are from the World Cup winning squad in 98. WOW.. this is so unfair.. winning a world cup promotes a whole squad to the "Great List" while the 1970 World Cup winning squad has only 1 player in the list.

You tell me that Colombia´s Valderrama or Turkey Belozoglu were better players than Garrincha??

In France team, besides Cantona, Platini, Zidane, Henry, Pires, Vieira and Just Fontaine, no one should be in the list

[Striker]

60 of this players are active and 60 are former players

[Brejrin]

yea and where is yorke
how you gonna play a black man

[Killah]

kluivert and van nistelrooy ahead of marco van basten, i think pele's losing it man, and of course he missed out Garrincha,Leonidas da Silva i'm sure there's plenty more :ph34r:

[Striker]

Yeah.. I had not noticed Van Basten absence... This is almost an insult

Pele is totally crazy.. he should have disappeared after the Tricampeonato in 1970 and then everyone would remember him as a hero and not the loser today that he is

[Danks]

I agree that Mia Hamm belongs on the list, but she is the ONLY woman that should be allowed.

Michelle Akers??? Please.

[JC_The_Atheist]

Pele has never known what he was talking about,he needs to stick to his erection problem commercials.

NO VAN BASTEN,i'm sending round Diego Armando 'greatest player of all time' Maradona to give the man a slap

[Striker]

Pele may be crazy, but he was better than Maradona my friend.. and he never used drugs.. while Maradona used during his Napoles glorious days..

[Fins Prompte]

unbelievable. respect for him as a player, but man, as a pundit, he sucks. he picked Columbia to win WC 94 and Nigeria in 98, now he forgets Marco???? How about both Maldinis??? Bobby Moore was a teammate of his in Victory, right????

Thanks for thinking of the US with the chicas... how about give us one male player. just one, ernie stewart, Brad Friedel, somebody man... Cannigia missed out over Saviola????

[Striker]

Saviola entered because 60 of these players must be active.. so Saviola is a better player than Caniggia today.....

Even Ghana has a player.. Abedi Pelé... while Sweden, with 2 World Cup semi finals under their belt, have none..

[Celticrugby]

Good to see Suker there, but as a Celtic fan....I have to say where's Larsson? I'm surprised he hasn't made the list.

Nice to see Mia Hamm as well, she's done a lot for soccer here, and is really talented.

[ruud best]

After the famous footage of them swapping shirts you'd think he'd pick Bobby Moore,it was meant to show how much they respected each other and i would've thought Jimmy Greaves would be there instead of Lineker and Owen.

BTW i hate the little cheating cokehead but Maradona was better than Pele.

[JC_The_Atheist]

BTW i hate the little cheating cokehead but Maradona was better than Pele.

Maradona always was and still is a prick but he's the greatest player ever to grace a football pitch

[Omani Devil]

I can't believe Giggs is not on that list but Diouf is.

Something wrong there.

@l

[blakdogg]

Originally Posted by Brazilian Striker

Saviola entered because 60 of these players must be active.. so Saviola is a better player than Caniggia today.....

Even Ghana has a player.. Abedi Pelé... while Sweden, with 2 World Cup semi finals under their belt, have none..

I think the list is unfinished, or wrong.

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/sport/...ticles/9478507

Saviola did not make that list, nor did Adebi Pele.

[Stevedox]

Why 120? Why not 100?

Stupid old fuker.

[mtfc]

cant believe stanley matthews was includedbut for once i agree with jc on pele on judging players abilitys he doesnt know what he is talking about

[Foley87]

hes losing it

hes losing everything nowadays even his erection

[mood]

Looks like Pele forgot a few players and wrote that list v. quickly. No one would miss out Marco van Basten ..come on?? He's better than Kluivert and Ruud who are on the list. Pele said the reason he didn't put too many brazillians because there are not too many Brazillian 'stars'. What the hell does that mean? To be honest, Pele JUST knows how to play.. he doesn't know **** about anything else. I've seen his interviews and the way he commented on a few players.. he doesn't know what he's saying. And El Hadji Diouf is CRAP, he was only a world cup 2002 wonder.. there are better senegalese players.



CURRENT PLAYERS ON LIST:

Arsenal: 1. Henry, 2. Pires, 3. Vieira, 4. Bergkamp

Man Utd: 1. Ruud Van Nistelrooy, 2. Roy Keane

Real Madrid: 1. Raul, 2. Roberto Carlos, 3. Ronaldo, 4. Zidane, 5. Figo, 6. Beckham

Bayern Munich: 1. Ballack, 2. Kahn

Juventus: 1. Trezeguet, 2. Thuram, 3. Del Piero, 4. Buffon, 5. Nedved

AC Milan: 1. Maldini, 2. Cafu, 3. Nesta, 4. Shevchenko, 5. Seedorf, 6. Rui Costa

Inter: 1. J.Zanetti, 2. Vieri, 3. Emre

Chelsea: 1. Veron, 2. Crespo, 3. Desailly

Barcelona: 1. Kluivert, 2. Davids, 3. Ronaldinho, 4. Saviola, 5. Luis Enrique, 6. Rustu

Liverpool: 1. Owen, 2. Diouf



And.. what a stupid selfish bastard? he puts himself on the list ? hahaha. it's his list.

[Painless_Cry]

not aimar there??

[Ceres]

DINAMARCA
Brian Laudrup
Michael Laudrup
Schmeichel


This list is a joke !!... eg. why choose Brian Laudrup and not the 2nd best Danish player ever, Allan Simonsen ??... or perhaps even Morten Olsen or Preben Elkjaer ??... I would surely pick them both over Brian Laudrup !!...
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And where is the best English player Sir Bobby Moore ?? the legend who was named Footballer of the Year in 1964 and captained England to World Cup glory in 1966 ??....

[Van Der Vaart 23]

No Marco van Basten..

no reason to take this one seriously then..

[Killah]

I've seen another version of the list that had Marco van Basten :S

also it's supposed to be living players which may explain why SBM and Garrincha aren't in it

[Mark]

Originally Posted by Van Der Vaart 23

No Marco van Basten..

no reason to take this one seriously then..

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/mai...2Fsfnpel05.xml

Only seven players will not be pictured. Dutch striker Marco van Basten and former Germany international Uwe Seeler both refused to take part, while five could not be contacted: Diego Maradona, Daniel Passarella, Gerd Muller, Ferenc Puskas and Rivelino.

[The_Big_Easy]

SENEGAL
Diouf