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Messi is 30 years old he was born June 24 1987.

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Pele is the greatest soccer player in the world.

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Soccer is a world's most famous and One of Most Paying sport and the soccer players are also world famous. Their fan following is huge and with that they have great fame attached with them. This sport has seen some greatest players who dominated the sport during their Careers, and definitely there are top 10 list of greatest soccer players of all time who are just the best. lets have a look at Top 10 Soccer Players of All Time and see who is the who is the best soccer player in the world.

Top 10 Greatest Soccer Players of All Time

Next on Greatest Soccer Players, Pele is a retired Brazilian football player. He was born on 21 October in the year 1940. Many football critics, experts and former players regard him as the best soccer players of all time. During his time, he was the athlete who was paid best in the world. Pele was voted World Player of the Century by the International Federation of Football History & Statistics. so he has deserved 2nd place in our list of Top 10 Greatest Soccer Players of All Time.

#2. Lionel Messi

Next on Greatest Soccer Players, The first in the list is Lionel Messi who is a Argentine footballer born on 24 June 1987. He plays for La Liga club FC Barcelona as a forward, Argentina national team. He is the captain of the national football team of Argentine. most of the commentators, players and soccer guru considers him as best striker in history of the game.

Messi is the only player to top-scorer in four consecutive Champions League campaigns.

Messi is the first football player in history to win Five FIFA/Ballons d'Or, four of them he won consecutively.

Youngest Player to Score 200 La Liga goals, and all time goal scorer in the competition. and most consecutive goals in La Liga.

all time goals scorer for Barcelona, in all official club competitions.

Currently the 2nd Highest Paid Soccer Player in the World.

he is only 30 years old, but he has achieved what others can just think about. keeping in mind his career records, nobody can doubt that he is the finest soccer player of all time.

#3. Diego Maradona

Next on Greatest Soccer Players, Diego Maradona is a manager for Argentine football as well a coach and a former player. He is the only who have set the transfer fees record twice. Meradona has played and outshined in many tournaments during his lifetime. He was born on 30 October in the year 1960. his infamous "hand of god" goal was one of the biggest sports scandal in history. he was jointly FIFA Player of the 20th Century with Pele. one of the all time best footballer deserve a top place in the list, so he has.

#4. Zinedine Zidane

Next on Greatest Soccer Players, one of the greatest muslim athlete: Born on 23 June 1972, Zinedine Zidane is a legendary retired footballer who used to play as a midfielder for the France team. He was crowned as the finest European footballer of all times as well. he is the winner of FIFA World Player of the Year three times. also won the Ballons d'Or once. no hesitation whatsoever to include this super-star into Best Soccer Players list. his head-butt to Italy's Marco Materazzi in Worldcup 2006 considered to be one of most spacial/remembered moment in football history. Zidane was the Best Soccer Player when he was active in football arena.

#5. Cristiano Ronaldo

Next on Greatest Soccer Players, Cristiano Ronaldo is a forward player for Spanish La Liga Club Real Madrid. he is also captain of the national team of Portuguese. He was born on 5 February on 1985. He was the most expensive football player in the year 2009 when he moved from Manchester united to Real Madrid. in 2013 Gareth Bale breaks the record, when he transfer to Real Madrid in €100. for sure he is one of the best footballer of all time. at the moment he is ranked as 5th in All Time Best Soccer Players List, i am sure he will be among top 3 of Best Soccer Players at the end of his career.

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#6. Johan Cruyff

one of all time greatest footballer John Cruyff: The outspoken Dutchman excelled for Ajax and Barcelona in the 1960s and 1970s and is considered by many experts to be Europe's best player of all time. He was also named in the FIFA 100 list of the world's greatest living players by Pelé in 2004. He was included on the World Team of the 20th Century in 1998, and the FIFA World Cup Dream Team in 2002.

His name was synonymous with Rinus Michels' "Total Football" movement where by players interchanged the positions. Cruyff was equally effective in both wide and central positions, and was famous for his ability to turn players. Winner of three Ballon D'Ors (European Player of the Year awards), Cruyff won 8 Dutch titles and also three European Cups with Ajax. Cruyff also made a controversial move to bitter rivals Feyenoord. Sadly never fell agonizingly short of winning the World Cup.

#7. Alfredo Di Stéfano

One of best soccer player in the world: Born in Argentina to Italian immigrants, but playing internationally for three different teams, Di Stéfano's achievement of scoring in 5 consecutive European Cup finals is unlikely to ever be matched. Di Stéfano's career was nothing if not cosmopolitan. A player with exceptional fitness levels, the Saeta rubia (blond arrow) was instrumental in Real Madrid's dominance in the 1950s, although the history books could defiantly tell a very different story if he had joined the Barcelona instead of the Merengues in 1943.

#8. Franz Beckenbauer

One of Best Soccer Players ever Produced in Germany: He was born on 11 september 1945, is a coach for the Germany team and also the manager and the former player. He is regarded as the best German football player of all times. He was a versatile player with the best soccer skills. he was selected the European Footballer of the Year twice in his career.

#9. Gerd Müller

one of most famous footballer Gerd Müller is the 11th on the list of Highest International Goal scorers of All Time despite playing lesser matches than others on the list. He was nicknamed Bomber der Nation due to his amazing scoring abilities. Müller was named European Footballer of the Year in 1970. He received the Golden Boot scoring 10 goals at the 1970 FIFA World Cup for West Germany. He also held the all-time highest goal-scoring record in the World Cup with 14 goals until it was broken by Ronaldo [Brazil] at 2006 World Cup. Müller was ranked 9th in the European player of the Century by the IFFHS in 1999 and voted thirteenth in the World Player of the Century by IFFHS in the same year. He was also inducted in the FIFA 100 list of the world's greatest living players by Pelé in 2004. Gerd Müller is at 9th position in best soccer players in the world List.

One of All Time Best Footballer from Portugal: He was born on 25 January in the year 1942 and is a retired Portuguese football forward player. He is also considered as the best football players of all times. he has scored 53 goals in UEFA club competitions, which is the 9th most goals in these competitions. also the 8th highest goal scorer in UEFA champions league history. so he is well deserved to be in the list of best soccer players of all time.
Honorable Mentions:
Ferenc Puskas, Garrincha, Lothar Matthäus, Michel Platini, Ronaldo, Ronaldinho.

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Greatest Soccer Players in the World | Best Soccer Players of all time [Updated in Oct 2017]

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Soccer is a world's most famous and One of Most Paying sport and the soccer players are also world famous. Their fan following is huge and with that they have great fame attached with them.

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Ebeneezer Cobb Morley was the first guy that invented soccer. he was born in 1831 and he died in 1924.

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Lucien Laurent was the first guy to score in the world cup history.

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As part of our build-up to the 2014 edition, this feature is the first of our FIFA World Cup History series which will chart the most special moments from previous tournaments.
Ronaldo, Zinedine Zidane, Andres Iniesta, Fabio Grosso, Pele, Maradona and even Papa Bouba Diop - we all know them for scoring the first or last goal of a FIFA World Cup. But there's one man whose goal kicked off all the frenzy and has somehow managed to fly under the football buff's radar for 84 years.

Lucien Laurent, who had travelled to the World Cup in 1934 on a boat for two weeks along with opponents Belgium and Romania, had no idea what he'd started when he struck a 19th minute first-time shot into the net against Mexico after right winger Ernest Liberati had pulled it back from the goal-line following centre-back Chantrel's long ball.

That was on 13 July, 1930 and since then, the World Cup has gone from a fledgling 13-team tournament to a 32-team extravaganza viewed by millions around the world and generating billions in revenue for FIFA.

"Of course, back then I couldn't have imagined the significance the goal would have. We didn't even know the World Cup would last. I remember when I got home, there was just a tiny mention in one of the papers. Soccer was in its infancy," Laurent reminisced in an interview.

Laurent had been allowed to play for his country, but a footballer's life was far from what it is today: "We went to Uruguay by ship. It took us two weeks and we had a training session on deck every morning, then ran on the spot in the afternoon," Laurent said. Like many others, he was given leave by his company Peugeot - but it was unpaid. Even the French Football Federation paid only minimal expenses to the team.

France was knocked out of the tournament in bizarre circumstances after Argentina were leading Brazil 1-0 and the referee blew for full time six minutes from time. The players came back to play the remaining time but Brazil's concentration was lost by then and France needed them to get a result.

Laurent could not play in the final game of the French campaign after getting injured against Argentina. However, he would witness his nation lift the trophy. The journeyman striker - who played for clubs like CAP, Club Francais, Mulhouse, Sochaux Rennes and Strasbourg was present when France thrashed Brazil to lift the cup in 1998.

Laurent had spent three years as a prisoner of war when he was taken captive in Saxony by the Germans (they also stole his 1930 WC jersey) - but maintained his health by keeping in touch with the beautiful game till the age of 86 - playing a weekly pickup game in his hometown.

"All my memories were there, well established in a corner of my old head. No one can steal those from me," he said after the 1998 World Cup final.

From scoring the World Cup's first goal to surviving as a prisoner of war and becoming the only surviving member of the 1930 French team to see France win the 1998 World Cup on home soil - Laurent truly lived the game.
Lucien Laurent passed away on 22 April, 2005 at the age of 97. He made 10 appearances for France, scoring twice. World Cup 1930
Hosts: Uruguay
Champions: Uruguay (4-2 vs Argentina in final)
Top scorer: Guillermo Stábile (eight goals)
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Updated Date: Jun 09, 2014 14:38 PM

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World Cup History: The forgotten man who scored the first goal - Firstpost

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Lucien Laurent, who had travelled to the World Cup in 1934 on a boat for two weeks along with opponents Belgium and Romania, had no idea what he'd started when he struck a 19th minute first-time shot into the net.

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A knuckle ball is when the ball doesn't spin and when the ball moves different directions.

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"Bend it like Beckham" has given way to "knuckle it like Ronaldo" in European football. During free kicks, players like Real Madrid's Cristiano Ronaldo and Tottenham's Gareth Bale put little or no spin on the ball, which tends to give it the unpredictable movement of a knuckleball in baseball. Bale recently explained his technique:

So where does the 'knuckling' effect come in?

Well, as we've said, if the ball is struck without spin, it is more susceptible to movement as it flies through the air.

If there are imperfections on the ball, such as specks of mud or grass, then random movement is more likely. Bale would be well served to rub the ball around in the grass as he places it.

Even the seams of the ball's panels can generate a degree of unpredictable movement.

Bale is not the first exponent of 'knuckleball' in the game, of course. Ronaldo has a subtle variation that has wowed fans the world over, while the former Lyon player Juninho Pernambucano did much to perfect the style in the noughties.

YouTube is crap for finding good soccer highlights in HD (FIFA, the European leagues, and their broadcast partners are fanatic about yanking footage) so there's not a great view of Bale's technique, but you can kind of see it in this video of his two goals against Lyon earlier this year. The knuckler is also in evidence in this Ronaldo compilation, particularly with goals #7 and #3. Especially #7...Ronaldo hits it right at the keeper, who looks completely baffled by the speed and movement of the ball.

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"Bend it like Beckham" has given way to "knuckle it like Ronaldo" in European football. During free kicks, players like Real Madrid's Cristiano Ronaldo and Tottenham's Gareth Bale put little or no spin on the ball, which tends to give it the unpredictable movement of a knuckleball in baseball.