IFFHS announces the Phase One of football legend players

48 Football Legend Players, Phase One:

(Playing Position / Name / Country)

• Forward / Edson Arantes Do Nascimento (PELE) / Brazil 
• Midfielder / Arthur Antunes Coimbra (Zico) / Brazil 
• Midfielder / Manuel Francisco dos Santos (Garrincha) LATE / Brazil 
• Forward / Ronaldo Luís Nazário De Lima (Ronaldo) / Brazil 
• Defender, Sweeper / Franz Anton Beckenbauer (Beckenbauer) / Germany 
• Forward / GERD MÜLLER (Gerd) / Germany 
• Defender, Midfielder / Lothar Matthäus / Germany 
• Forward, Midfielder / Hendrik Johannes Cruijff (Johan Cruyff) / Netherlands 
• Forward / Marco Van Basten (Marco) / Netherlands 
• Forward, Midfielder / Ruud Gullit OON / Netherlands 
• Forward, Midfielder / Bobby Charlton (Bobby) / United Kingdom 
• Midfielder / David Robert Joseph Beckham (David Beckham) / United Kingdom 
• Forward / STANLEY MATTHEWS LATE / United Kingdom 
• Midfielder / Diego Armando Maradona Franco (Maradona) / Argentina 
• Forward / Alfredo Stéfano Di Stéfano Laulhé LATE / Argentina 
• Forward / HAO HAIDONG / China 
• Defender / Sun Jihai / China 
• Forward / Mahmoud El-Khatib (Bibo) / Egypt 
• Midfielder / Mohamed Aboutrika / Egypt 
• Midfielder / Michel Platini / France 
• Midfielder / Zinedine Yazid Zidane (Zizou) / France 
• Goalkeeper / Antonio Carbajal (Tota) / Mexico 
• Forward / Hugo Sánchez Márquez (Sánchez) / Mexico 
• Forward / Eusébio da Silva Ferreira (Eusébio) / Portugal 
• Midfielder / Luís Filipe Madeira Caeiro Figo (Luis Figo) / Portugal 
• Goalkeeper / Dino Zoff / Italy 
• Forward, Midfielder / Roberto Baggio / Italy 
• Striker / Mustapha Rabah Madjer (Rabah Madjer) / Algeria 
• Forward / Albert Roger Mooh Miller (Roger Milla) / Cameroon 
• Forward / Ferenc Puskás LATE / Hungary 
• Forward / Baichung Bhutia (Bhutia) / India 
• Forward / Ali Daei / Iran 
• Midfielder / Hidetoshi Nakata / Japan 
• Striker / Cha Bum-kun (Tscha Bum) / South Korea 
• Striker / Jasem Yaqoub Sultan Al-Besara / Kuwait 
• Forward / George Tawlon Manneh Oppong Ousman Weah (George Weah) / Liberia 
• Forward / Wynton Alan Whai Rufer / New Zealand 
• Forward / Nwankwo Kanu / Nigeria 
• Goalkeeper /José Luis Félix Chilavert González (José Luis Chilavert) / Paraguay 
• Goalkeeper / Lev Ivanovich Yashin (Lev Yashin) LATE / Russia 
• Forward / Majed Ahmed Abdullah Al-Mohammed (Majed Abdullah) / Saudi Arabia 
• Forward / Francisco Gento Lopez (Paco) / Spain 
• Striker / Tanju Çolak / Turkey 
• Forward / Oleh Volodymyrovych Blokhin / Ukraine 
• Inside forward / Juan Alberto Schiaffino Villano (Pepe) LATE / Uruguay 
• Forward, Midfielder / Landon Timothy Donovan / USA 
• Defender / Lucas Valeriu Ntuba Radebe (Lucas Radebe) / South Africa 
• Midfielder / Ryan Joseph Giggs (Ryan Giggs) / Wales 

REF : Link to the 48 Football Legend Players