Best player ever in the history of many countries

Holland: Willy van der Kuylen
France: Platini
England: Bobby Charlton
Spain: Xavi

France: Platini.
Ghana: AbedI Pelé.
Mali: Salif Keita
Belgium: Enzo Scifo.
Algeria: Madjer or Dahleb (I'm cheating).

Norway: Ole?

Liberia - George Weah
Northern Ireland - George Best
Trinidad and Tobago - Dwight Yorke

Bulgaria - Stoichkov
Romania - Hagi
Finland - Litmanen

Denmark - Peter Schmeichel
Canada - Atiba Hutchinson
Mexico - Rafa Marquez
US - Clint Dempsey

matbezlima said:

Who is the best player ever in the history of the countries below in your opinion?

- Brazil: Pelé.
- Argentina: Messi.
- Holland: Cruyff.
- France: Zidane.
- Spain: Iniesta.
- Germany: Beckenbauer.
- Italy: Paolo Maldini.
- Belgium: De Bruyne.
- England: Stanley Matthews.
- Uruguay: Luís Suárez.
- Croatia: Modrić.
- Colombia: Valderrama.
- Portugal: Cristiano Ronaldo.

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Really?
I'd have Prosinecki, Boban and Suker at the same level as him.

Rish Sawhney said:

Norway: Ole?

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He'd do well to even make the starting XI.

Cameroon - Samuel Eto'o
Zimbabwe - Bruce Grobelaar
Saudi Arabia - Sami Al Jaber
Togo - Emmanuel Adebayor
Egypt - Mo Salah
Gabon - Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang
Algeria - Riyad Mahrez

Scotland: Denis Law
Republic of Ireland: Roy Keane (although going purely by displays for the national side, McGrath edges it)

harms said:

Argentina: Diego Maradona (the competition is just ridiculous)
Brazil: Pelé
Chile: Elias Figueroa
Colombia: Valderrama
Uruguay: Enzo Francescoli (maybe Schiaffino, but there's no footage)
Peru: Hector Chumpitaz
Pagaruay: Arsenio Erico
Ecuador: Alberto Spencer

Spain: Xavi
Italy: Franco Baresi (probably Meazza, but there's so little footage)
France: Michel Platini
England: Sir Bobby Charlton
Portugal: Cristiano Ronaldo
Ukraine: Oleg Blokhin (Sheva runs him close)
Germany: Franz Beckenbauer
Denmark: Michael Laudrup
Sweden: Zlatan Ibrahimovic (debatable)
Russia: Lev Yashin
Hungary: Ferenc Puskas
Netherlands: Johan Cruyff
Czech Republic: Pavel Nedved
Serbia: Dragan Dzajic
Ireland: Roy Keane
Northern Ireland: George Best
Scotland: Denis Law
Wales: Ryan Giggs (slight United bias)
Bulgaria: Hristo Stoichkov
Finland: Jari Litmanen
Belgium: Kevin de Bruyne
Austria: Matthias Sindelar
Croatia: Luka Modric
Montenegro: Dejan Savicevic
Romania: Gheorghe Hagi
Poland: Zbigniew Boniek (although Lewa would probably take his place)
Bosnia & Herzegovina: Stefan Susic

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Surely it's supposed to be Safet Susic?

Bermuda: the GOAT obviously

South America
Brazil: Pele
Argentina: Messi
Columbia: Valderrama
Uruguay: Suárez
Paraguay: Chilavert
Chile: Salas

Europe
Germany: Beckenbauer
Netherland: Cruyff
England: Charlton
Spain: Di Stefano (he plays more games for Spain than Argentina)
Italy: Maldini
France: Platini
Portugal: Ronaldo
Belgium: De Bruyne
Denmark: Schmeichel
Sweden: Ibrahimovic
Romaria: Hagi
Finland: Litmanen
Norway: Ole
Ireland: Keane
N.Ireland: Best
Scotland: Law
Wales: Giggs
Russia(USSR): Yashin
Bulgaria: Stoichkov
Ukrainrian: Shevchenko
Croatia: Modric
Hungary: Puskas
Austria/Czech: Bisan

North America
Mexico: Sanchez
USA: Donovan

Africa
Liberia: George Weah
Ghana: Pele
Ivory Coast: Yaya Toure
Cameron: Eto'o
Egypt: Salah
Senegal: Mane
Nigeria: Okocha

Asia
Japan: Nakata
S.Korea: Son Heyng-min
Iran: Ali Daei
Australia: Harry Kewell

Israel - Yossi Benayoun
Belarus - Aliaksandr Hleb
Benin - Stephane Sessegnon (probably)
Bermuda - Shaun Goater
Gibraltar - Danny Higginbotham

France : Platini
Wales : Rush

Rish Sawhney said:

Norway: Ole?

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Samid said:

He'd do well to even make the starting XI.

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Invictus said:

Probably Rune Bratseth?

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Erik ”Myggen” Mykland. Easily.

Nigeria: Kanu

So tough to split between him and Okocha, but for me, while Okocha was one of the most gifted of his generation, he was a million miles away from ever being amongst the ‘best’, and when it was all said and done - had a fairly average career all things considered.

Georgia - Kakha Kaladze
New Zealand - Ryan Nelsen
Montserrat - Ruel Fox

Edit: Forgot about Wynton Rufer for NZ. Nelsen was close with Winston Reid anyway for me but Rufer beats both.

Wales: John Charles

Brazil: Ronaldinho
Argentina: Messi
Holland: Cruyff
France: Platini
Spain: Iniesta
Germany: Beckenbauer
Italy: Baresi
Belgium: Hazard
England: Rooney
Uruguay: Suarez
Croatia: Modric
Colombia: Falcao
Portugal: Ronaldo
Scotland: Dalglish
Ireland: Roy Keane
Sweden: Ibrahimovic
Denmark: Michael Laudrup

Zambia = Godfrey Chitalu
Zimbabwe = Bruce Grobbelaar
Morocco - Larbi Benbarek
South Africa = Lucas Radebe
DR Congo = Pierre Ndaye Mulamba
Tunisia = Tarak Dhiab

The Cat said:

Wales: John Charles

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Never seen Charles play but it's hard for me to imagine Wales have produced a better player than Bale.

Samid said:

He'd do well to even make the starting XI.

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I know it's incredibly early but the way things are going you reckon Odegaard will be it eventually barring injuries? Also do Norwegians rate Ajer?

Algeria: Rabah Madjer
Argentina: Diego Maradona
Armenia: Nikita Simonyan
Australia: Harry Kewell
Austria: Matthias Sindelar
Belgium: Paul Van Himst
Bulgaria: Hristo Stoichkov
Bosnia & Herzegovina: Safet Sušić
Cameroon: Samuel Eto'o
Chile: Elías Figueroa
Columbia: Carlos Valderrama
Costa Rica: Alejandro Morera
Croatia: Luka Modrić
Czech: Josef Masopust
Denmark: Michael Laudrup
Ecuador: Alberto Spencer
Egypt: Mohamed Salah
England: Bobby Charlton
Finland: Jari Litmanen
France: Michel Platini
Gabon: Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang
Georgia: Murtaz Khurtsilava
Germany: Franz Beckenbauer
Ghana: Abédi Pelé
Greece: Vasilis Hatzipanagis
Holland: Johan Cruyff
Hungary: Ferenc Puskás
Iceland: Ásgeir Sigurvinsson
Ireland: Roy Keane
Italy: Giuseppe Meazza
Ivory Coast: Didier Drogba
Japan: Hidetoshi Nakata
Liberia: George Weah
Macedonia: Darko Pančev
Mexico: Hugo Sánchez
Montenegro: Dejan Savićević
Morocco: Abderrahmane Mahjoub
Nigeria: Jay-Jay Okocha
N. Ireland: George Best
Norway: Tom Lund
Paraguay: Arsenio Erico
Peru: Teófilo Cubillas
Poland: Kazimierz Deyna
Portugal: Cristiano Ronaldo
Romania: Gheorghe Hagi
Russia: Lev Yashin
Scotland: Denis Law
Serbia: Dragan Dzajić
Senegal: Sadio Mané
Slovakia: Ján Popluhár
Slovenia: Branko Oblak
S. Korea: Cha Bum-Kun
Spain: Xavi Hernández
Sweden: Gunnar Nordahl
Switzerland: Stéphane Chapuisat
Trinidad & Tobago: Dwight Yorke
Turkey: Hakan Sükür
Ukraine: Oleg Blokhin
Uruguay: Enzo Francescoli
USA: Landon Donovan
Wales: John Charles
Zimbabwe: Bruce Grobbelaar

Pink Moon said:

Never seen Charles play but it's hard for me to imagine Wales have produced a better player than Bale.

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I've only seen footage but have read a lot about him he is still worshipped in Italy.

harms said:

South Korea: Park Ji Sung (Son would probably overtake him in a few years)

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Cha boom was the greatest Korean footballer imo. He and Okudera basically opened the door for Asian players in Europe.
If Son wins a major title or two, he can overtake Cha as the greatest Korean footballer.

Pakistan: Mohammad Essa

Pink Moon said:

I know it's incredibly early but the way things are going you reckon Odegaard will be it eventually barring injuries? Also do Norwegians rate Ajer?

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It's going to be tight between Ødegaard and Haaland. History seems to favour goal scorers so I'm going to say Haaland will have the bigger impact (assuming both live up to their potential).

Ajer was captaining his elite division team when he was 16 and he's been highly rated ever since. Media have been overhyping him a fair bit though saying he could go down the VVD route etc.

- Brazil: Pelé.
- Argentina: Messi.
- Holland: Cruyff.
- France: Platini.
- Spain: Xavi.
- Germany: Beckenbauer.
- Italy: Baresi.
- Belgium: De Bruyne.
- England: Charlton.
- Uruguay: Suárez.
- Croatia: Modrić.
- Portugal: Ronaldo.

Invictus said:

The likes of Messi and Giggs are interesting because neither would have a genuine claim at the #1 spot if there's a heavy emphasis on national team performance in the Best player ever in the history of many countries classification. Maradona is the clear-cut best player for Argentina ahead of Messi and Di Stéfano (Barcelona/Madrid legends first and foremost and would probably trail even Passarella for the Albiceleste), and Bale/Charles are greater legends of the Welsh national team as Giggs reportedly prioritized United over Wales and had an icy relationship with some within the national setup. Charles was obviously magnificent and very well regarded — took Wales to the 1958 World Cup quarter-finals, won the British International Championship and was nominated their Player of the Century, but Bale has a robust resumé too:

• Top scorer, ahead of Rush.
• Played a big role in Wales' first major international tournament foray since the aforementioned World Cup, and ended up as the top scorer for the semi-finalists...



• Has again played an instrumental role in guiding Wales to the European Championship via Group E qualifiers.

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That's a fair assessment can't argue with it.

George Best beats all those mentioned.

France: zidane. Platini . Henry

Is there a country that can beat this 3?

Argentina: Maradona and Messi. Yes.
Augero?