This story’s a bit old, but considering we’re getting close to the Golden Ball award and the fact there’s a variety of similar rankings popping up every day (see the ‘Association of Football Statisticians’ Top 100 Ever Fooballers article), it’s worth the mention now.
One of UK’s top soccer magazines (our should I say, football magazines), the always popular FourFourTwo, has published last month its October 2007 issue which features a list of the Top 100 Football (Soccer) Players currently in activity. As all lists of this kind, it is highly subjective and it will probably be impossible to find a single person that agrees with it 100%, but it is nonetheless fun to comment on it.
The list uses last season’s performances as a yardstick for the top players in general, but as they say “form is temporary, while class is permanent” therefore players who may have flopped or underperformed in recent seasons are still included because of previous seasons.
Here is the full list, along with statistics by club, league, nation, and continent (thanks to supersewelly of the BigSoccer forums for that). The Serie A players are marked in bold. Also, for discussions and rants about the validity, accuracy, and Euro-bias of the list (as well as any missing players), you can refer to the BigSoccer forum thread.
As for myself, I will only say this: based on last season’s performance, I completely agree with the top 5 (with the exception of Ronaldinho, who didn’t have one of his best seasons IMHO), while the top 2 (Cristiano Ronaldo and Kaká) are without a doubt the prime candidates for the Golden Ball award this year. The order of the remaining 95 doesn’t really matter
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| 100. | Shunsuke Nakamura | (Celtic) |
| Alexandre Pato | (AC Milan) | |
| Maicon | (Inter Milan) | |
| Jamie Carragher | (Liverpool) | |
| Sergio Agüero | (Atletico Madrid) | |
| Nery Castillo | (Shakhtar Donetsk) | |
| Javier Mascherano | (Liverpool) | |
| Adrian Mutu | (Fiorentina) | |
| Kim Kallström | (Lyon) | |
| Filippo Inzaghi | (AC Milan) | |
| Javier Zanetti | (Inter Milan) | |
| Eduardo Da Silva | (Arsenal) | |
| Fabio Quagliarella | (Udinese) | |
| Diego Milito | (Real Zaragoza) | |
| Gabriel Milito | (Barcelona) | |
| Gary Neville | (Manchester United) | |
| Juninho Pernambucano | (Lyon) | |
| Rafael van der Vaart | (Hamburg) | |
| Robin Van Persie | (Arsenal) | |
| Samir Nasri | (Marseille) | |
| Ricardo Quaresma | (Porto) | |
| Carlos Puyol | (Barcelona) | |
| Nemanja Vidic | (Manchester United) | |
| Maxi Rodríguez | (Atletico Madrid) | |
| Philipp Lahm | (Bayern Munich) | |
| Gianluca Zambrotta | (Barcelona) | |
| Torsten Frings | (Werder Bremen) | |
| Pavel Nedved | (Juventus) | |
| Frédéric Kanouté | (Sevilla) | |
| Kolo Touré | (Arsenal) | |
| Vicente | (Valencia) | |
| Diego Forlán | (Atletico Madrid) | |
| Michael Owen | (Newcastle United) | |
| William Gallas | (Arsenal) | |
| Zé Roberto | (Bayern Munich) | |
| Frank Ribéry | (Bayern Munich) | |
| Andriy Shevchenko | (Chelsea) | |
| Patrick Vieira | (Inter Milan) | |
| Diego | (Werder Bremen) | |
| Simão Sabrosa | (Atletico Madrid) | |
| Arjen Robben | (Chelsea) | |
| Robinho | (Real Madrid) | |
| Joe Cole | (Chelsea) | |
| Miroslav Klose | (Bayern Munich) | |
| Sergio Ramos | (Real Madrid) | |
| Luca Toni | (Bayern Munich) | |
| Alex | (Chelsea) | |
| Hernán Crespo | (Inter Milan) | |
| Owen Hargreaves | (Manchester United) | |
| Wesley Sneijder | (Real Madrid) | |
| Ronaldo | (AC Milan) | |
| David Silva | (Valencia) | |
| Andrés Iniesta | (Barcelona) | |
| Dejan Stankovic | (Inter Milan) | |
| Clarence Seedorf | (AC Milan) | |
| Florent Malouda | (Chelsea) | |
| Carlos Tévez | (Manchester United) | |
| David Beckham | (Los Angeles Galaxy) | |
| Daniele De Rossi | (AS Roma) | |
| Michael Ballack | (Chelsea) | |
| Lucio | (Bayern Munich) | |
| David Suazo | (Inter Milan) | |
| Dimitar Berbatov | (Tottenham Hotspur) | |
| David Albelda | (Valencia) | |
| Alessandro Nesta | (AC Milan) | |
| Ricardo Carvalho | (Chelsea) | |
| Fernando Torres | (Liverpool) | |
| Cesc Fàbregas | (Arsenal) | |
| Xavi | (Barcelona) | |
| Juan Román Riquelme | (Villareal) | |
| Iker Casillas | (Real Madrid) | |
| Ryan Giggs | (Manchester United) | |
| Paolo Maldini | (AC Milan) | |
| Ashley Cole | (Chelsea) | |
| Gennaro Gattuso | (AC Milan) | |
| Frank Lampard | (Chelsea) | |
| Rio Ferdinand | (Manchester United) | |
| Deco | (Barcelona) | |
| John Terry | (Chelsea) | |
| Zlatan Ibrahimović | (Inter Milan) | |
| Michael Essien | (Chelsea) | |
| David Villa | (David Villa) | |
| Francesco Totti | (Roma) | |
| Paul Scholes | (Manchester United) | |
| Roberto Ayala | (Real Zaragoza) | |
| Ruud van Nistelrooy | (Real | |
| Andrea Pirlo | (AC Milan) | |
| Didier Drogba | (Chelsea) | |
| Daniel Alves | (Sevilla) | |
| Petr Cech | (Chelsea) | |
| Fabio Cannavaro | (Real Madrid) | |
| Gianluigi Buffon | (Juventus) | |
| Wayne Rooney | (Manchester United) | |
| Samuel Eto’o | (Barcelona) | |
| Steven Gerrard | (Liverpool) | |
| Lionel Messi | (Barcelona) | |
| Thierry Henry | (Barcelona) | |
| Ronaldinho | (Barcelona) | |
| Cristiano Ronaldo | (Manchester United) | |
| Kaká | (AC Milan) |
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| Clubs | Nations | |
| Chelsea – 13 | England - 13 | |
| Barcelona – 10 | Brazil - 12 | |
| Manchester United – 9 | Italy - 12 | |
| AC Milan – 9 | Spain - 11 | |
| Inter Milan – 7 | Argentina - 11 | |
| Real Madrid – 6 | France - 6 | |
| Bayern Munich – 5 | Holland - 6 | |
| Arsenal – 5 | Portugal - 5 | |
| Liverpool – 4 | Germany - 4 | |
| Atletico Madrid – 4 | Serbia - 2 | |
| Valencia – 4 | Czech Republic - 2 | |
| Juventus – 3 | Sweden - 2 | |
| Lyon – 2 | Ivory Coast - 2 | |
| Roma – 2 | Mexico - 1 | |
| Real Zaragoza – 2 | Japan - 1 | |
| Werder Bremen – 2 | Romania - 1 | |
| Sevilla – 2 | Croatia - 1 | |
| Fiorentina – 1 | Mali - 1 | |
| Celtic – 1 | Uruguay - 1 | |
| Newcastle United – 1 | Ukraine - 1 | |
| Shaktar Donetzk – 1 | Honduras - 1 | |
| Udinese – 1 | Bulgaria - 1 | |
| Hamburg – 1 | Wales - 1 | |
| Villareal – 1 | Ghana - 1 | |
| Spurs – 1 | Cameroon - 1 | |
| Marseille – 1 | ||
| Porto – 1 | Continents | |
| L.A. Galaxy – 1 | Europe - 68 | |
| South America - 24 | ||
| Leagues | Africa - 5 | |
| EPL – 33 | North America - 2 | |
| La Liga – 29 | Asia - 1 | |
| Serie A – 23 | ||
| Bundesliga – 8 | ||
| Ligue 1 – 3 | ||
| Superliga – 1 | ||
| UKP – 1 | ||
| MLS – 1 | ||
| SPL – 1 |
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This is the right top 10
01. Daivd Beckham
02. Cristiano Ronaldo
03. Sergio Ramos
04. Petr Cech
05. Lionel Messi
06. Roberto Carlos
07. Joe Cole
08. Frank Lampard
09. Wayne Rooney
10. Steven Gerrard
Laith you dumb twat
david beckham for sure is not number 1.
john terry needs to be up there.
and kaka.
and cesc fabregas
and peter cech might be the worst goalie i have ever seen.
and what about ronaldinio you shmuck
The top players are: C. Ronaldo, Kaka, Ronaldihno, Rooney, Henry, Drogba, Pele, Figo, Zidane, Maradona, R. Carlos, Baggio, H. Larrson, Micheal Ballack, Shevchenko, and Drogba.
Go FC Barcelona and Chelsea!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
These are basically the players that have scored goals or fan favourites.
You need to look at the players that do the little things that open up the whole game like:
Ibrahim Afellay,
Andrey Arshavin,
Anatoliy Tymoschuk,
Marek Hamsik or
Sebastian Larsson.
All the players the original list are good but do the same thing all the time.
C. Ronaldo, Messi, Ronaldiho, cool player
BesT plaYerS
Top
ten
best player
1.Cristano Ronaldo 2. messi 3.RonaldiHO 4. KaKa 5.F.Tores
Ronaldiho,Cristano Ronaldo,
BeST PLAYERS
top 10 best plAYers
1.ronaldiho
2.C.Ronaldo
3.Messi
1.Ronaldo,Ronaldiho,Kaka,Torres, :
BeSt players.
why is torres not list here
why is Gigs not list here
KAKA is the 2 greates soccer players but rooney has to be 1
neville is not better then nery castillo
Shurly Messi is number 1
A.Pato has to be ranked
Ronalahdo
C.Ronaldo
F.Torres
M.Ballak
F.Lampard
W.Rooney
KaKa
and S.Gerrard
1 messi 2 c.ronaldo 3. mario gomez
No way Laith
1. W.Rooney
2. C. Ronaldo
3. Ronaldinho
4. D. Drogba
5. L. Messi
6. Kaka
7. Xavi
8. Maicon
9. S. Eto’o
10. Z. Ibrahomvic
Ronaldinho is nowhere near the top 10 anymore, he’d be lucky to make it inside the top 100 at this point in his career!!!
My Top Ten:
1)Messi
2)Ronlado
3)Torres
4)Rooney
5)Kaka
6)Robinho
7)Fabragas (Very Under Rated)
8)Gerrard
9)Silva
10)Tevez
top 10 players are:-
1:ronaldinho
2:ronaldo
3:rooney
4:messi
5:torres
6:berbatov
7:fabregas
8:tevez
9:xavi
10:robin van persie
1.Messi
2.Ronaldo
3.Torres
4.Forlan
5.Tevez
6.Robben
7.Ronaldiho
8.Sneidjder
9.Ribery
10.Kaka
1. W.Rooney
2. C. Ronaldo
3. D. Drogba
4. Ronaldinho
5. Kaka
6. Messi
7. Fabragas
8. Henry
9. Cech
10. berbatov
Um, where’s Arshavin?? and Cesc Fabregas is way better! And Robben and van Persie should be way up there.
This is what it should be:
1)James Constable (Oxford United)
2)David Villa (Barcelona)
3)Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid)
4)Bastian Schweinsteiger (Bayern Munich)
5)Per Mertesacker (Werder Bremen)
6)Lionel Messi (Barcelona)
7)Karim Benzema (Real Madrid)
8)Eduardo Da Silva (Shakhtar Donetsk)
9)Diego Maradona (Free Agent)
10)Phillip Lahm (Bayern Munich)
1.Lionel Messi
2.Kaka
3.Robin Van Persie
4.Andrey Arshavin
5.Cesc Fabregas
6.Gigi Buffon
7.Arjen Robben
8.Wesley Sniejder
9.John Terry
10.Cristiano Ronaldo
The best coach in the worldis Diego Maradona
1-Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid)
2-Mesut Ozil (Real Madrid)
3-Angel Di Maria (Real Madrid)
4-Ronaldinho (AC Milan)
5-Alexander Pato (AC Milan)
6-Dani Alves (FC Barcelona)
7-Pepeto (Free Agent)
8-Rooney (Manchester United)
9-Arjen Robben (FC Bayern Muenchen)
10-Lionnel Messi (FC Barcelona)
and the world’s best coach is Jose Mourinho- Los Merengues-Los Blancos- Real Madrid’s coach
Lionel Messi is my #1, by far. behind are fabregas, torres, silva and pretty much the whole barcelona team.
did anyone else notice that they put david villa as david villa’s club?
All of u guys have got ur NUMBER 1′s wrong. Who can 4get O FENOMENO??
The Real Number 1: RONALDO LUIS NAZARIO DE LIMA!!
UP URS CR7!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
10)Van Persie
9)Robben
8)Fabregas
7)Aguero
6)Rooney
5)Ronaldinho
4)Kaka
3)Gerrard
2)C.Ronaldo
1)Herny
I would put messi in the list in 5th or 4th position but truth is that i dont really like him
pele was a good soccer player a long time ago…
Thats right nehemiah but C.ronaldo is the best and ronaldiho and pele and messi and other players
wesley snijder is better than 51 these standings are really messed up and messi is the best player in the world
l.messi
c.ronaldo
r.kaka
a.pato
robinho
ronaldinho
nilmar
julioceaser
1.Messi
2.Cristiano Ronaldo
3.Iniesta
4.Rooney
5.Gerrard
6.Roul
7.Kaka
8.Henry
9.Ibrahimovici
10.Fernando Torres
1. Xavi
2. Inesta
3. Maicon
4. Kaka
5. C. Ronaldo
6. Messi
7. Toress
8. Essien
9. Snaidjer
10. Forlan
Why paulino alcantara not on the list? 357 games 357 goals..
1. Lionel Messi (Barcalona)
2. Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid)
3. Iker Casillas (Real Madrid)
4. Samuel Eto’o (Anzhi)
5. Wayne Rooney (Manchester Utd)
6. Gareth Bale (Tottenham Hotspur)
7. Mirov Klose (Bayern Muchen)
8. Sergio Agero (Manchester City)
9. David Beckham (LA Galaxy)
10. Kaka Real Madrid)
Ronaldo is the best ever
1.Ronaldo
2.Messi
3.David villa
4.Drogba
5.Toress
6.Instia
7.Xavi
8.Zlatan
9.Robihio
10.David sillva
Ronaldo me is the best go real madrid
Messi should be out of this list
He dont deserve to be in this list…
and KAKA is just king of the soccer world……
Where is adel taraabt…