Who is the World's best footballer ever?

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Best footballer ever? 

THE BEST FOOTBALLER IN THE WORLD EVER, IS...

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Pele

Brazil5 points

Franz Beckenbaeur

Germany2 points

Zico

Brazil2 points

George Best

England2 points

Stan Bowles

England and QPR2 points

Bobby Moore

England1 point

Zinedine Zidane

France1 point

Paul Gascoigne

England1 point

Ronaldo

Brasil1 point

Bobby Charlton

England1 point

Stanley Matthews

England1 point

Ryan Giggs

England and Manchester United1 point

Diego Maradona

Argentina0 points

Johann Cruyff

Holland0 points

Roberto Baggio

Italy0 points

Michel Platini

France0 points

Gerd Muller

Germany0 points

Marco van Basten

Holland0 points

Eusebio da Silva Ferreira

Portugal0 points

Ferenc Puskas

Hungary0 points

Alfredo di Stefano

Argentina0 points

Paolo Maldini

Italy0 points

Paolo Rossi

Italy0 points

Francesco Totti

Italy0 points

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Worst Disciplinary Record

No doubt about it, this record goes to Ricky Goddard of North Warnborough. By 1992, he had been suspended for five out of his nine years as a footballer. On one occasion, he was banned for six months when he sneaked into the ref's changing-room at half time and urinated over all his clothes.

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Longest throw-in

48.17 metres (158 ft 0.4 in) - Michael Lochner at Bexley High School, Ohio (USA) in June 1998.

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Hungriest footballer

This record goes to Fernando d'Ercoli playing for Pianta against Arpax in Italy 1989. When he was given the red card by the referee, he got so mad that he snatched the red card from his hand and ate it all! Another display of temper came from Mike Bagley of Bristol in 1984. When the referee booked him for swearing, he took the ref's notebook, ripped out the page with his name on, and ate that!

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    prakash Jul 23, 2011 @ 3:27 pm | delete
    where are maradona and messi.who blind vote/rate this?
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    wmzubair Dec 9, 2010 @ 11:07 pm | delete
    Good list... Looking at the list I still had to vote Pele up because there has been nothing like him on the field and he was from a time before I was born! It was from his and Brazil's flair that we have the football geniuses of today think out of the box when it comes to the art of controlling the ball. In short...Pele is the best that ever was.
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    TEL CURRIE Oct 24, 2009 @ 4:27 pm | delete
    You CAN"T have Stan Bowles above Rodney Marsh!!
    Rodney was our greatest ever player and most famous. He took a 3rd division side to division 1, and beat a top first division side on the way and won the League Cup at Wembley, QPR's only trophy ever beating 5 players! he didn't have great players in the team to help him.. he was a one man team!
    After a bad first season, he became a Man City Legend as well, playing like a Brazilian. He matched George Best trick for trick at Fulham (Nobody had done that ever! they got bored with the opposition and tackled each other!- check Fulham v Hereford) and was a God at Tampa Bay Rowdies in Florida where they often beat the Cosmos that included Pele and Beckenbaeur, Carlos Alberto and many more. He was an entertainer, performer, magician and GENIUS!! his skill was supernatural (Check Qpr v Birmingham on utube, it was called 'The Impossible Hat-Trick'
    Stan Bowles joined a team already full of great players inc the England Captain. MARSH WAS A GENIUS
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    dpoet19 Jun 27, 2009 @ 5:11 pm | delete
    Roger Milla
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    sg1981 Apr 21, 2009 @ 8:07 am | delete
    Diego Maradona is the best there ever was
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