IFFHS - MEN COUNTRIES BEST PLAYERS AND GOALKEEPERS OF THE XXth CENTURY


Picture : Franz Beckenbauer was crowned as the Best German Player , the second Best in Europe and the third Best in the World of the XXth Century (1901-2000) ! He received also the Special IFFHS Award of the Universal Football Personality in 2007 for his successful career as Player, Coach and President !



IFFHS Men Best Players and Goalkeepers of the XXth Century (1901-2000) by COUNTRY


The list is based on the IFFHS Century Elections for each continent in the year 2000.

 

Country

Player of the Century

Keeper of the Century

Algeria

Lakhdar Belloumi

-

Argentina

Diego Armando Maradona

Amadeo Raúl Carrizo

Australia

Frank Farina

Mark Bosnich

Austria

Mathias Sindelar

Rudi Hiden

Bahrain

-

Hamoud Sultan

Belgium

Paul Van Himst

Jean-Marie Pfaff

Brazil

Edson Arantes do Nascimento "Pelé"

Gilmar dos Santos Neves

Bulgaria

Georgi Asparukhov

-

Cameroon

Roger Milla

Joseph-Antoine Bell

Canada

Bruce Wilson

James Kennaway

Chad

Japhet N´Doram

-

Chile

Elias Ricardo Figueroa

Sergio Livingstone

China

Zhi-Yi Fan

Hui-Kang Zhang

Colombia

Willington Ortiz

José René Higuita

Congo-Brazzaville

Paul Moukila

-

Congo-Kinshasa
(former Zaire)

Tshimemu Bwanga

Mwemba Kazadi

Costa Rica

Alejandro Morera

Luis Gabelo Conejo

Cuba

Mario López

-

Czechoslovakia

Josef Bican

Frantisek Planicka

Denmark

Michael Laudrup

Peter Schmeichel

East Germany

-

Jurgen Croy

Ecuador

Alberto Spencer

-

Egypt

Mahmoud El-Khatib

Ahmed Shoubeir

El Salvador

Jorge Alberto González

Manuel "Tamalón" Garay

England

Robert "Bobby" Charlton

Gordon Banks

France

Michel Platini

Bernard Lama

Germany

Franz Beckenbauer

Sepp Maier

Ghana

Abedi Ayew "Pelé"

-

Guatemala

Oscar "Conejo" Sánchez

-

Guinea

Petit Sorry

-

Haiti

-

Henri Francillon

Honduras

Gilberto Yearwood

-

Hungary

Ferenc Puskas

Gyula Grosics

India

Pardip Kumar Banderjee

Peter Thangaraj

Iran

Ali Daei

Naser Hejazi

Iraq

Ahmed Rahdi

-

Ireland

Liam Brady

-

Israel

Avi Cohen

-

Italy

Gianni Rivera

Dino Zoff

Ivory Coast

Laurent Pokou

Alain Gouaméné

Japan

Kazuyoshi Miura

-

Kuwait

Faisal Ali Ak-Dakil

Khaled Al-Fadhli

Liberia

George Weah

-

Malaysia

Moktar Dahari

Chow Chee Keong

Mali

Selif Keita

-

Mexico

Hugo Sánchez

Antonio Carbajal

Morocco

Ahmed Faras

Badou Zaki

Netherlands

Johan Cruyff

Hans van Breukelen

New Caledonia

Christian Karembeu

-

New Zealand

Wynton Rufer

Frank Van Hattum

Nigeria

Finidi George

Peter Rufai

North Korea

Doo-Ik Pak

-

Northern Ireland

George Best

Pat Jennings

Panama

Julio César Dely Valdez

-

Paraguay

Arsenio Pastor Erico

José Luis Félix Chilavert

Peru

Teófilo Cubillas

-

Poland

Zbigniew Boniek

Jan Tomaszewski

Portugal

Eusébio Ferreira da Silva

Alberto Costa Pereira

Qatar

-

Mohammed Wafah Saami

Romania

Gheorghe Hagi

-

Saudi Arabia

Abdullah Majed

Mohammed Al-Deayea

Scotland

Denis Law

Ronald Simpson

Singapore

Ahmad Fandhi

-

South Africa

Mark Fish

In-Young Choi

South Korea

Bum-Kun Cha

-

Soviet Union

Oleg Blokhin

Lev Yashin

Spain

Alfredo di Stéfano

Ricardo Zamora

Sweden

Gunnar Nordahl

Thomas Ravelli

Switzerland

Severino Minelli

-

Tahiti

Erroll Bennett

-

Thailand

Piyapong Pue-Oun

-

Trinidad-Tobago

Dwight Yorke

-

Tunisia

Tarek Dhiab

Sadok Attouga

UAE

Adnan Khamis Al-Taliyani

-

Uruguay

Juan Alberto Schiaffino

Ladislao Mazurkiewicz

USA

William Gonsalves

Kasey Keller

Wales

John Charles

Neville Southall

Yugoslavia

Dragan Dzajic

Vladimir Beara

Zambia

Kalusha Bwalya

-

Zimbabwe

-

Bruce Grobbelaar