IFFHS will honor the phase one of the football legend players
IFFHS will honor the phase one of the football legend players
The International Federation of Football History and Statistics announced the phase 1 of football legend players throughout the history of the football world wide whom will be honored with special trophies, cash prizes and honorable prizes. This event will be held in one of the best global GALA (carnival), which will be announced very soon. For the first time these legends will be honored with unique rewards to keep them in mind forever. Meanwhile, the IFFHS will participate with these legend players in developing the sports culturally, educationally and socially.
The President of the International Federation of Football History and Statistics H.E. Sheikh Saleh Bahwini has confirmed that the GALA, which soon will be announced including the 48 football legend players as phase 1 and the IFFHS awards winners of 2014/2015.
He pointed out that the GALA will include many surprises which will be a unique of its kind for the football legend players and to the football world wide. He declare that some of the football legend players who passed away will be honored by their heritage.
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