His leadership was credited with helping Uruguay to come from behind to beat Brazil. All through football’s history, there are names to be remembered as the bests. Titles & Achievements: Ballon d'Or winner in 1998, three times FIFA World Player of the Year, 2002 UEFA Club Footballer of the Year, UEFA Champions League Best Player of the Past 20 Years, 2000/01 Serie A Footballer of the Year, 2006 FIFA World Cup Golden Ball, the only player to be named “Player of the Year” in three of the top five leagues, 1998 FIFA World Cup, 2000 UEFA European Championships, 1999 World Soccer's Selection of the 100 Greatest Footballers of the 20th century, Ballon d'Or Silver award in 2000, UEFA European Championship Player of the Tournament in 2000, and many many more awards. He was a member of the 1974 World Cup team in West Germany. Titles & Achievements: 2-times Ballon d'Or winner in 1972 & 1976 , FIFA World Cup All-Time Team, 1966 FIFA World Cup Best Young Player Award, four-time German Footballer of the Year, FIFA World Cup winner in 1974, 1972 UEFA European Championships, three European Cups, four Bundesliga titles, four DFB-Pokals, UEFA Cup Winners' Cup in 1966–67, one Intercontinental Cup. Victor Andrade is Jose Leandro Andrade's nephew. He was best remembered for his career with To mention a memorable moment of his professional career and toe poke style, we can talk about his opening goal in a hat-trick for Barcelona against Real Madrid in 1994 saw him drag the ball around the defender without it leaving his foot before finishing with a toe-poke into the corner of the net. They wouldn't register another World Cup qualifying win until the 1994 series when they defeated Ecuador. Few players in the game have his capability at holding up the ball as a target-man striker, and he has proved himself well suited to Premier League football. Some Argentinians will tell you Diego Maradona, the inspiration behind their country’s 1986 World Cup win, was the greatest ever. -- to be Uruguay's greatest players during the 1930's. He has made himself a global brand through aggressive self-publicity, but at his best, he has been a spectacular striker and prolific to watch, and one who became better after his 30s began. He also won the World Cup in 1930. From being named best young player at the 2002 World Cup to 2010, when he scored the late goal against Algeria that guided the United States men's national team to the knockout round of the 2010 tournament, Landon Donovan was the star for his nation. Marek Hamsik has become a Neapolitan hero, captaining a club precious to the heart of that Italian city. In Japan, where he later took up coaching, Stojkovic is considered perhaps the best imported soccer player of all. Clubs: Bayern Munich, New York Cosmos, Hamburg. Powerful and adept at the art of being a modern striker, he was a leading light in the wave of African talent that became prominent in European football in the 1990s. He had 12 caps with Uruguay and another 5 for Italy between 1957 and 1959. Born: Nov. 4, 1948, in Lulabourg, Belgian Congo, Died: Jan. 26, 2019, in Johannesburg, South Africa, Clubs: Renaissance de Kasai, AS Bantous, AS Vita Club. Sindelar died young under mysterious circumstances in 1939. He is also the all-time leading goalscorer for Brazil with 77 goals in 92 games, while in total he has scored 1281 goals in 1363 games. Titles & Achievements: 2 times Ballon d'Or winner, three times FIFA World Player of the Year, 1998 FIFA World Cup Golden Ball, 2002 FIFA World Cup Golden Shoe, 1994 & 2002 FIFA World Cup, 1996/97 European Golden Shoe, two times Copa America winner, two-time Pichichi winner, 1998 Serie A Footballer of the Year, two La Liga titles, one Copa del Rey, one KNVB Cup, one UEFA Cup, one Intercontinental Cup, Serie A Footballer of the Year in 1998, UEFA Club Footballer of the Year in 1997/98 & many more. At the international level, he had 112 caps, leading Uruguay to the 2011 Copa America title as well the semi-final of the 2010 World Cup Finals. A player to be known for his technical ability, speed, acceleration, dribbling, and vision, possessing an awareness of his teammates' positions as an attack unfolded and later a coach to be famous for "Total Football".