Pele lists his 120 best football players still alive

[On The Edge of Insanity]

From Soccernet.com

Pele 'greatest-ever' list shocks Brazil
 
 
Brazil legend Pele has upset his fellow countrymen with his choice of the 120 best living players in the world for FIFA.

Only 12 Brazilians are on the list and the surprise omissions have infuriated the country's media.

'According to Pele, Italy and France have more stars than Brazil,' said the Folha do Sao Paulo newspaper.

'In the list of the best 120 living players made by FIFA and Pele, the five-time World champions have only 12 names.'

'Pele's list forgets Brazilian stars,' exclaimed sports newspaper Lance!. 'It surprises us that names like Rivelino, Gerson or Tostao are out of it, while Senegal's Diouf is there together with Korea's Hong and Ghana's Abedi Pele.'

The newspaper is also furious that many names from the glorious Brazil World Cup-winning team of 1970 are not included, while eight members of the France team which won the 1998 World Cup are in.

Among the Brazilians on the list are 2002 World Cup-winners Cafu, Roberto Carlos and Ronaldo, who had an argument with Pele after the tournament.

The players were upset with Pele's criticism during the tournament and accused him of being opportunistic

FULL LIST OF PLAYERS

ARGENTINA Alfredo Di Stefano, Daniel Passarella, Diego Maradona, Gabriel Batistuta, Hernan Crespo, Javier Saviola, Javier Zanetti, Juan Sebastian Veron, Mario Kempes, Omar Sivori

BELGIUM Franky van der Elst, Jean-Marie Pfaff, Jan Cuelemens

BRAZIL Cafu, Carlos Alberto, Djalma Santos, Falcao, Milton Santos, Junior, Pele, Rivaldo, Rivelino, Roberto Carlos, Romario, Ronaldinho, Ronaldo, Socrates, Zico

BULGARIA Hristo Stoichkov

CAMEROON Roger Milla

CHILE Pablo Figueroa, Ivan Zamorano

COLOMBIA Carlos Valderrama

CROATIA Davor Suker

CZECH REPUBLIC Josef Masopust, Pavel Nedved

DENMARK Brian Laudrup, Michael Laudrup, Peter Schmeichel

ENGLAND Alan Shearer, Bobby Charlton, David Beckham, Gary Lineker, Gordon Banks, Kevin Keegan, Michael Owen

FRANCE David Trezeguet, Didier Deschamps, Eric Cantona, Jean-Pierre Papin, Just Fontaine, Lilian Thuram, Marcel Desailly, Marius Tresor, Michel Platini, Patrick Vieira, Raymond Kopa, Robert Pires, Thierry Henry, Zinedine Zidane

GERMANY Franz Beckenbauer, Gerd Mueller, Jurgen Klinsmann, Karl-Heinz Rummenigge, Lothar Matthaus, Michael Ballack, Oliver Kahn, Paul Breitner, Sepp Maier, Uwe Seeler

GHANA Abedi Pele

HUNGARY Ferenc Puskas

IRELAND Roy Keane

ITALY Alessandro Del Piero, Alessandro Nesta, Christian Vieri, Dino Zoff, Francesco Totti, Franco Baresi, Giampiero Boniperti, Giacinto Fachetti, Gianluca Buffon, Gianni Rivera, Giuseppe Bergomi, Paolo Rossi, Paolo Maldini, Roberto Baggio

JAPAN Hidetoshi Nakata

LIBERIA George Weah

MEXICO Hugo Sanchez

NETHERLANDS Clarence Seedorf, Dennis Bergkamp, Edgar Davids, Frank Rijkaard, Johan Neeskens, Johan Cruyff, Marco Van Basten, Patrick Kluivert, Rene van de Kerkhof, Rob Rensenbrink, Ruud Gullit, Ruud van Nistelrooy, Willie van de Kerkhof

NIGERIA Jay-Jay Okocha

NORTHERN IRELAND George Best

PARAGUAY Romerito

PERU Teofilo Cubillas

POLAND Zbigniew Boniek

PORTUGAL Eusebio, Luis Figo, Rui Costa

ROMANIA Gheorghe Hagi

RUSSIA Rinat Disayev

SCOTLAND Kenny Dalglish

SENEGAL El Hadji Diouf

SOUTH KOREA Hong Myung-Bo

SPAIN Emilio Butragueno, Luis Enrique, Raul

TURKEY Emre Belozoglu, Rustu Recber

UKRAINE Andriy Shevchenko

URUGUAY Enzo Francescoli

UNITED STATES (women) Michelle Akers, Mia Hamm

[bez]

ROOOOONEY

[7even]

the list is complete bullshit, he just wanted to have some diversity.
over half of the players listed by far dont belong in the top 1000.

[On The Edge of Insanity]

Yeah some of it was pretty much bullshit. El Hadji Diouf for example, definitely not one of the best 120 players ever. Maybe we should do a list, couldn't be much worse than this one.

[On The Edge of Insanity]

Ok, I'm bored waiting for shit to finish downloading so I'm gonna list some players that Pele overlooked which I feel should be included:

Belgium - Enzo Scifo

Brazil - Tostao, Bebeto, Dunga

England - Hoddle, Greaves, Robson, Gascoigne, Stanley Matthews

France - Tigana, Lizarazu

Italy - Costacurta, Paliguca

Northern Ireland - Pat Jennings

Spain - Guardiola