MEJORES JUGADORES DEL SIGLO XX PARA IFFHS

IFFHS' Century Elections

 MEJORES JUGADORES DEL SIGLO PARA IFFHS

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The IFFHS (International Federation of Football History and Statistics)

has been organizing elections for the "Football Player of the Century" for

various countries and continents, and separate elections for the "Goal

'Keeper of the Century".  Apparently elections were based on polls of

journalists and former players, but no specific details are known.

Players above the dotted lines in the continental elections were eligible 

for the worldwide elections.

Players whose country is given in italics were (implicitly) chosen

as the best of their country.

World - Player of the Century

DI STEFANO, PELÉ, CRUYFF, BECKENBAUER, MARADONA

 1."Pelé"                 (Brazil)        1705  (Edson Arantes do Nascimento)

 2.Johan Cruijff          (Netherlands)   1303

 3.Franz Beckenbauer      (Germany)       1228

 4.Alfredo di Stéfano     (Argentina)     1215

 5.Diego Armando Maradona (Argentina)     1214

 6.Ferenc Puskás          (Hungary)        810

 7.Michel Platini         (France)         722

 8.Garrincha              (Brazil)         624  (Manoel dos Santos Garrincha)

 9.Eusébio                (Portugal)       544  (Eusébio Ferreira da Silva)

10.Robert Charlton        (England)        508

11.Stanley Matthews       (England)        368

12.Marco van Basten       (Netherlands)    315

13.Gerd Müller            (Germany)        265

14.Zico                   (Brazil)         207

15.Lothar Matthäus        (Germany)        202

16.George Best            (N. Ireland)     187

17.Juan Alberto Schiaffino(Uruguay)        158

18.Ruud Gullit            (Netherlands)    119

19.Valdir Pereira Didi    (Brazil)         116

   Gianni Rivera          (Italy)          116

21.Giuseppe Meazza        (Italy)          108

22.Matthias Sindelar      (Austria)        106

23 Fritz Walter           (Germany)        103

24.Robert Moore           (England)         98

25.José Manuel Moreno     (Argentina)       96

26.Hugo Sánchez           (Mexico)          85

27.George Weah            (Liberia)         79

28.Roger Milla            (Cameroon)        78

29.José Leonardo Andrade  (Uruguay)         74

30.Just Fontaine          (France)          73

   Francisco Gento        (Spain)           73

32.Ladislao Kubala        (Spain)           71

33.Franco Baresi          (Italy)           70

34.Josef Bican            (Czechoslovakia)  63

35.Karl-Heinz Rummenigge  (Germany)         59

36.Omar Sivori            (Argentina)       56

37.Elias Figueroa         (Chile)           55

38.Kevin Keegan           (England)         53

39.Sándor Kocsis          (Hungary)         52

40.Héctor Scarone         (Uruguay)         51

41.Josef Masopust         (Czechoslovakia)  46

42.Giacchinto Facchetti   (Italy)           44

43.Raymond Kopa           (France)          41

   Alessandro Mazzola     (Italy)           41

45.Uwe Seeler             (Germany)         40

46.Gunnar Nordahl         (Sweden)          36

47.Zizinho                (Brazil)          35

48.Teófilo Cubillas       (Peru)            34

49.Arsenio Erico          (Paraguay)        30

50.Denis Law              (Scotland)        29

YASHIN

World - Keeper of the Century

 1.Lev Yashin             (Soviet Union)  1002

 2.Gordon Banks           (England)        717

 3.Dino Zoff              (Italy)          661

 4.Sepp Maier             (Germany)        456

 5.Ricardo Zamora         (Spain)          443

 6.José Luis Félix Chilavert(Paraguay)     373

 7.Peter Schmeichel       (Denmark)        291

 8.Peter Shilton          (England)        196

 9.František Plánicka     (Czechoslovakia) 194

10.Amadeo Raúl Carrizo    (Argentina)      192

11.Gilmar dos Santos Neves(Brazil)         160

12.Ladislao Mazurkiewicz  (Uruguay)        144

13.Patrick Jennings       (N. Ireland)     132

14.Ubaldo Matildo Fillol  (Argentina)      121

15.Antonio Carbajal       (Mexico)         105

16.Jean-Marie Pfaff       (Belgium)         95

17.Rinat Dasaev           (Soviet Union)    89

18.Gyula Grosics          (Hungary)         87

19.Thomas Ravelli         (Sweden)          66

20.Walter Zenga           (Italy)           62