Being important in the club is nice, but being important in the national team is also much better. Indeed, being successful and above all winning important titles for your country certainly makes the great players a legend. For this Thursday’s AfricaSports Rankings section, we will rank the best players in the history of the national team.
In this ranking, the spotlight is the players who scored the World Cup, the largest competition of countries in the world. Pelé, the only footballer in history to have won 3 World Cups, is the undisputed leader of this ranking. Diego Maradona follows him, amazing in his victory in 82 and also in 86, when his country lost in the final. Ronaldo, 2 times winner, is 3rd.
Cristiano Ronaldo, winner of Euro 2016 and top scorer in history in the selection, is 4th, ahead of Zinedine Zidane, winner of the World Cup and even double in the final during the 98 edition. Lionel Messi, top scorer in the history of Argentina and I South American players, also winner of the Copa America in 2021, is 6 years old. Samuel Eto’o follows him, he who has won 2 African Cups as well as a gold medal at OJ. Garrincha and Guiseppe Meazza, two-time World Cup winners, are 8th and 9th, while Ferenc Puskas, scoring 84 goals in 85 games with Hungary, winner of the 52 Olympics and finalist of the 54 World Cup, closes the classification.
10 Ferenc Puska
9 Guiseppe Meazza
8 Garrincha
7 Samuel Eto’o (Cameroon)
6 Lionel Messi (Argentine)
5 Zinedine Zidane
4 Cristiano Ronaldo (Portugal)
3 Ronaldo Nazario (Brazil)
2 Diego Maradona (Argentine)
1 Pelé (Brazil)
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