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FIFA 100


The FIFA 100 is a list of the 125 greatest living footballers in 2004 created by Pelé for FIFA´s 100th anniversary. Pele had been asked to select 50 retired players and 50 active players to get a list of 100 players, which would refer to the FIFA´s 100th anniversary. However Pelé found it too difficult to select just 50 former footballers so the list would eventually get to 125 players from which 75 former players. The list contains 2 female players, both from the United States.




















The list
    Argentina flagArgentina
  • Gabriel Batistuta
  • Hernán Crespo
  • Alfredo di Stéfano
  • Mario Kempes
  • Diego Maradona
  • Daniel Passarella
  • Javier Saviola
  • Omar Sivor
  • Juan Sebastián Verón
  • Javier Zanetti

  • Belgium flagBelgium
  • Jan Ceulemans
  • Jean-Marie Pfaff
  • Franky van der Elst

  • Brazil flagBrazil
  • Carlos Alberto
  • Cafu
  • Falcăo
  • Júnior
  • Pelé
  • Rivaldo
  • Rivelino
  • Roberto Carlos
  • Romário
  • Ronaldinho
  • Ronaldo
  • Djalma Santos
  • Nílton Santos
  • Sócrates
  • Zico

  • Bulgaria flagBulgaria
  • Hristo Stoichkov

  • Cameroon flagCameroon
  • Roger Milla

  • Chile flagChile
  • Elías Figueroa
  • Iván Zamorano

  • Colombia flagColombia
  • Carlos Valderrama

  • Croatia flagCroatia
  • Davor Šuker

  • Czech Republic flagCzech Republic
  • Josef Masopust
  • Pavel Nedved

  • Denmark flagDenmark
  • Brian Laudrup
  • Michael Laudrup
  • Peter Schmeichel

  • England flagEngland
  • Gordon Banks
  • David Beckham
  • Bobby Charlton
  • Kevin Keegan
  • Gary Lineker
  • Michael Owen
  • Alan Shearer

  • France flagFrance
  • Eric Cantona
  • Marcel Desailly
  • Didier Deschamps
  • Just Fontaine
  • Thierry Henry
  • Raymond Kopa
  • Jean-Pierre Papin
  • Robert Pires
  • Michel Platini
  • Lilian Thuram
  • Marius Trésor
  • David Trézéguet
  • Patrick Vieira
  • Zinédine Zidane

  • Germany flagGermany
  • Michael Ballack
  • Franz Beckenbauer
  • Paul Breitner
  • Oliver Kahn
  • Jürgen Klinsmann
  • Sepp Maier
  • Lothar Matthäus
  • Gerd Müller
  • Karl-Heinz Rummenigge
  • Uwe Seeler

  • Ghana flagGhana
  • Abedi Pele

  • Hungary flagHungary
  • Ferenc Puskás

  • Republic of Ireland flagRepublic of Ireland
  • Roy Keane

  • Italy flagItaly
  • Roberto Baggio
  • Franco Baresi
  • Giuseppe Bergomi
  • Giampiero Boniperti
  • Gianluigi Buffon
  • Alessandro Del Piero
  • Giacinto Facchetti
  • Paolo Maldini
  • Alessandro Nesta
  • Gianni Rivera
  • Paolo Rossi
  • Francesco Totti
  • Christian Vieri
  • Dino Zoff

  • Japan flagJapan
  • Hidetoshi Nakata

  • South Korea flagSouth Korea
  • Hong Myung-Bo

  • Liberia flagLiberia
  • George Weah

  • Mexico flagMexico
  • Hugo Sánchez

  • Netherlands flagNetherlands
  • Marco van Basten
  • Dennis Bergkamp
  • Johan Cruijff
  • Edgar Davids
  • Ruud Gullit
  • René van de Kerkhof
  • Willy van de Kerkhof
  • Patrick Kluivert
  • Johan Neeskens
  • Ruud van Nistelrooy
  • Rob Rensenbrink
  • Frank Rijkaard
  • Clarence Seedorf

  • Nigeria flagNigeria
  • Jay-Jay Okocha

  • Northern Ireland flagNorthern Ireland
  • George Best

  • Paraguay flagParaguay
  • Romerito

  • Peru flagPeru
  • Teófilo Cubillas

  • Poland flagPoland
  • Zbigniew Boniek

  • Portugal flagPortugal
  • Eusébio
  • Luís Figo
  • Rui Costa

  • Romania flagRomania
  • Gheorghe Hagi

  • Russia flagRussia
  • Rinat Dasayev

  • Scotland flagScotland
  • Kenny Dalglish

  • Senegal flagSenegal
  • El Hadji Diouf

  • Spain flagSpain
  • Emilio Butragueńo
  • Luis Enrique
  • Raúl

  • Turkey flagTurkey
  • Rüstü Reçber
  • Emre Belözoglu

  • Ukraine flagUkraine
  • Andriy Shevchenko

  • United States flagUnited States
  • Michelle Akers
  • Mia Hamm

  • Uruguay flagUruguay
  • Enzo Francescoli
The countries

This is the list of countries in the FIFA 100 list. Brazil is on top of the list with 15 players, the five time winner of the World Cup is shortly followed by France and Italy with 14. The Netherlands also had some great players (13). Other countries with great players are Argentina(10), Germany(10) and England(7).

CountryNumber of FIFA 100 players
Brazil15
France14
Italy14
Netherlands13
Argentina10
Germany10
England7
Belgium3
Denmark3
Portugal3
Spain3
Chile2
Czech Republic2
Turkey2
United States2
Bulgaria1
Cameroon1
Colombia1
Croatia1
Ghana1
Hungary1
Japan1
Liberia1
Mexico1
Nigeria1
Northern Ireland1
Peru1
Poland1
Republic of Ireland1
Romania1
Russia1
Paraguay1
Scotland1
Senegal1
South Korea1
Ukraine1
Uruguay1