The “World Football Gala ” ,organized by IFFHS in January 4th 2000 in Rotenburg an der Fulda (Germany), was a great moment in the Football History with the nominations of THE WORLD’S BEST PLAYER and GOALKEEPER OF THE CENTURY (1900-1999). Journalists and former players of all continents in the World voted the Best Man and Woman Player of the Century. Pelé won the ranking of THE WORLD’S BEST PLAYER OF THE CENTURY with a confortable advance before the two european stars Johan Cruijff and Franz Beckenbauer.
Mia Hamm before Michelle Akers : the American girls were voted as n° 1 and 2 of the ranking THE WORLD’S BEST WOMAN PLAYER OF THE CENTURY and Russian Goalkeeper Lev Yashin won with a great advance the ranking of THE WORLD’S BEST GOALKEEPER OF THE CENTURY.
Here the different rankings :
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World – Player of the Century
1."Pelé" (Brazil) 1705 (Edson Arantes do Nascimento) 2.Johan Cruijff (Netherlands) 1303 3.Franz Beckenbauer (Germany) 1228 4.Alfredo di Stéfano (Argentina) 1215 5.Diego Armando Maradona (Argentina) 1214 6.Ferenc Puskás (Hungary) 810 7.Michel Platini (France) 722 8.Garrincha (Brazil) 624 (Manoel dos Santos Garrincha) 9.Eusébio (Portugal) 544 (Eusébio Ferreira da Silva)10.Robert Charlton (England) 50811.Stanley Matthews (England) 36812.Marco van Basten (Netherlands) 31513.Gerd Müller (Germany) 26514.Zico (Brazil) 20715.Lothar Matthäus (Germany) 20216.George Best (N. Ireland) 18717.Juan Alberto Schiaffino(Uruguay) 15818.Ruud Gullit (Netherlands) 11919.Valdir Pereira Didi (Brazil) 116 Gianni Rivera (Italy) 11621.Giuseppe Meazza (Italy) 10822.Matthias Sindelar (Austria) 10623 Fritz Walter (Germany) 10324.Robert Moore (England) 9825.José Manuel Moreno (Argentina) 9626.Hugo Sánchez (Mexico) 8527.George Weah (Liberia) 7928.Roger Milla (Cameroon) 7829.José Leonardo Andrade (Uruguay) 7430.Just Fontaine (France) 73 Francisco Gento (Spain) 7332.Ladislao Kubala (Spain) 7133.Franco Baresi (Italy) 7034.Josef Bican (Czechoslovakia) 6335.Karl-Heinz Rummenigge (Germany) 5936.Omar Sivori (Argentina) 5637.Elias Figueroa (Chile) 5538.Kevin Keegan (England) 5339.Sándor Kocsis (Hungary) 5240.Héctor Scarone (Uruguay) 5141.Josef Masopust (Czechoslovakia) 4642.Giacchinto Facchetti (Italy) 4443.Raymond Kopa (France) 41 Alessandro Mazzola (Italy) 4145.Uwe Seeler (Germany) 4046.Gunnar Nordahl (Sweden) 3647.Zizinho (Brazil) 3548.Teófilo Cubillas (Peru) 3449.Arsenio Erico (Paraguay) 3050.Denis Law (Scotland) 29
World – Female Player of the Century
1.Mia Hamm (USA) 443 2.Michelle Akers (USA) 411 3.Heidi Mohr (Germany) 250 4.Carolina Morace (Italy) 230 5.Sissi (Brazil) 212 6.Linda Medalen (Norway) 181 7.Liu Ailing (China) 165 8.Kristine Lilly (USA) 160 9.Heidi Støre (Norway) 14110.Pia Sundhage (Sweden) 12911.Joulie Foudy (USA) 11712.Gao Hong (China) 10013.Silvia Neid (Germany) 8314.Joy Fawcett (USA) 8215.Elisabetta Vignotto (Italy) 7716.Helge Riise (Norway) 7617.Bettina Wiegmann (Germany) 7318.Sun Qing-Mei (China) 6319.Pretinha (Brazil) 4620.Martina Voss (Germany) 3921.Gro Espeseth (Norway) 32 Lena Videkull (Sweden) 3223.Ann Kristin Aarønes (Norway) 2924.Charmaine Hooper (Canada) 27 Gunn Nyborg (Norway) 2726.Carin Gabarra-Jennings (USA) 25 Fan Yunjie (China) 2528.Anette Börjesson (Sweden) 2429.Doris Fitschen (Germany) 2330.Alicia Vargas (Mexico) 2231.Roseli (Brazil) 2132.Elisabeth Leidinge (Sweden) 20 33.Birthe Hegstadt (Norway) 18
World – Keeper of the Century
1.Lev Yashin (Soviet Union) 1002 2.Gordon Banks (England) 717 3.Dino Zoff (Italy) 661 4.Sepp Maier (Germany) 456 5.Ricardo Zamora (Spain) 443 6.José Luis Félix Chilavert(Paraguay) 373 7.Peter Schmeichel (Denmark) 291 8.Peter Shilton (England) 196 9.František Plánicka (Czechoslovakia) 19410.Amadeo Raúl Carrizo (Argentina) 19211.Gilmar dos Santos Neves(Brazil) 16012.Ladislao Mazurkiewicz (Uruguay) 14413.Patrick Jennings (N. Ireland) 13214.Ubaldo Matildo Fillol (Argentina) 12115.Antonio Carbajal (Mexico) 10516.Jean-Marie Pfaff (Belgium) 9517.Rinat Dasaev (Soviet Union) 8918.Gyula Grosics (Hungary) 8719.Thomas Ravelli (Sweden) 6620.Walter Zenga (Italy) 62
