His international career was upright success but his club success is debatable because he spent most of his career playing for native Santos and a few years in American league which was and still not considered a very competitive league. Good guy. Thomas Swan (author) from New Zealand on October 26, 2014: Thanks for the heads up :) I have given them both honorable mentions at the end of the article. Major Achievements: 1961 Ballon d'Or, 1959/60 Capocannoniere, three Scudetti, two Coppa Italia titles. Happy Birthday II Divin Codino #RobertoBaggio pic.twitter.com/8ZMV3W1ZD8. Lothar Matthaus has the biggest ego on this list: that really is saying something. After having lost three consecutive finals with the national team, Messi even retired from the national team briefly, only to come back two months later to have one final crack at international glory. Van Der Sar played 820 times over a 21-year career that began in 1990 with Ajax. The first was a man who was not only a forward capable of scoring 28 goals in a single Serie A season (1957/58 season to be exact), but could also do a more than admirable job at centre-back when necessary. The 'two guard' for the great Netherlands, Ajax and Barcelona teams of the 1970s, Johan Neeskens may have always been in the shadow of Johan Cruyff, but his talent cannot be underestimated.

A complete player who could play in plenty of positions with equal ease, Di Stefano's impact on his team was perhaps best summed up by journalist Mike Langley: The 'Blonde Arrow' unfortunately never got a chance to play in the World Cup, and if he did, he might have been much higher on this list than just number 7. Zidane rose to fame with ability to control games in french football with Bordeaux where he spent 4 years before moving to Juventus in 1996 where his career really took off. You left out Hungarian goalie Grochis Gyula; by far one of the world’s best. Hands down to Gianluigi Buffon. He made every single one of his teammates' jobs the easiest in the world. In three consecutive seasons in his prime, Platini won the Golden Boot award in a league which boasted the best defenders of all time; scratch that, the best footballers of all time. Santos and Botafogo (the best Brazilian teams at the time) played 2 or 3 tournaments in Europe every year and routinely trashed the best European teams. They were right. Name something, and he could probably do it. Ok, so in most other 'Greatest Footballers of All Time' lists, Kaka probably wouldn't make the cut, because there was a period of time in which he was at Real Madrid and was, well, pretty terrible.

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