Top 10 Best Soccer Players of All Time

Football has been blessed with a lot of phenomenal talent that would be difficult to determine the 10 greatest players of all time.

The following article will attempt to summarize some of the best soccer players in history, though perhaps not all agree with this list.

1. Pele (1956-1977)

Pele has a full name Edson Arantes do Nascimento. Proved his greatness by winning the World Cup with Brazil in 1958, 1962 and 1970.

Pele is widely regarded as the greatest football players of all time.

Pele won multiple titles along with Santos, a Brazilian famous club where he underwent career in his best years, before joining the New York Cosmos for a short time.

Pele scored 760 times and the official is a great striker with the ability of good teamwork.

2. Lionel Messi

There is no denying that the title Pele as the greatest soccer player had a serious threat from Argentine Lionel Messi.

Messi surpassed Pele chance if it remains unparalleled till the end of his career. Messi joined Barcelona when he was 13 years old and has scored on his debut at the age of 17 years.

Messi managed to break Gerd Muller's record of most goals in a calendar year by collecting 91 goals in 2012.

3. Maradona (1976-1997)

Diego Armando Maradona is one of the largest ever dribbler.

Gol 'Hand of God "when Argentina against England in the 1986 World Cup still remembered today.

Maradona is also known to be able to dribble past a couple of defenders and then scored.

Maradona does not always obey the rules, and admits that his expulsion from the 1994 World Cup after testing positive for ephedrine is one of the saddest memories.

But the role Maradona captained Argentina eventually won the 1986 World Cup and helped Napoli reached heyday between 1987 and 1990 remains memorable.

4. Johan Cruyff (1964-1984)

Cruyff triumphed with Ajax and Barcelona in the range of 1960 to 1970 and is regarded as the best European player of all time.

His name is synonymous with the "Total Football" made by Rinus Michels, a strategy that allows the position players who could be exchanged.

Cruyff effective in a variety of positions to become all-round player.

Never won three Ballon D'Ors (European Footballer), Cruyff also won eight titles with the Dutch and the three European club trophies with Ajax.

5. Franz Beckenbauer (1964-1984)

Nicknamed Der Kaiser (The Emperor), Beckenbauer helped revolutionize the style of play Germany in the early 1970s.

Beckenbauer moved from previous roles in midfield sweeper who orchestrated the attacks from behind to join in the effort of attack.

Such a force then became the standard format German teams in the future.

Beckenbauer enjoyed his best years with Bayern Munich, where he won five Bundesliga titles and three European Cups.

6. Michel Platini (1973-1987)

Platini became a star when she joined Nancy, St-Etienne and Juventus.

Together with France, Platini won the European Cup in 1984, and with Juventus into European club champions next year.

7. Alfredo Di Stefano (1943-1966)

Achievement Di Stefano scored in five European Cup finals in a row would be unrivaled.

Born in Argentina of Italian immigrants, but playing for three different teams, Di Stefano underwent a cosmopolitan career at the time.

Di Stefano became a vital component of the dominance of Real Madrid in the 1950s.

8. Ferenc Puskás (1944-1966)

One of the best strikers ever, Puskas averaged almost always scored in the game of international and club level.

He was a major player Hungarian team that debuted in the 1950s and was nicknamed Mighty Magyars.

Puskas was the top scorer with Real Madrid four times and scored seven goals in two European Cup finals.

He also won five league titles with Budapest Honved before moving to Real Madrid in 1958 and won five titles.

9. Eusébio (1958-1978)

The player nicknamed "The Black Panther" is considered the greatest soccer player ever possessed Portugal.

Scorer of nine goals in World Cup finals in 1966, Eusébio known to have speed and agility.

Eusébio has played with several teams, but live the best years with Benfica, where he averaged more than one goal in any game.

10. George Best (1963-1984)

Like Maradona, Best was also a problem with addiction. Alcoholism became the cause of his death in 2005.

On the field, he had a lethal combination of speed, skill, and finishing is a mainstay when defending Manchester United.