Research company OnePoll, has compiled a list of the greatest footballers of all time.
The list puts Pele on top as the greatest footballer of all time ahead of Lionel Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo and Argentina legend, Diego Armando Maradona.
‘World Pele’, as we call him in Ghana, scored 727 goals during his glittering 21 year career, including 77 for Brazil in 92 appearances.
Widely regarded as football’s first superstar, he is still the youngest player ever to appear in a World Cup final featuring in the culmination of the 1958 tournament aged just 17.
He made his domestic debut at 16 years old for Santos FC and remained there until 1975, when he moved to New York Cosmos amid much fanfare for the final two years of his career.
Top 40 greatest footballers of all time:
1. Pelé
2. Lionel Messi
3. Cristiano Ronaldo
4. George Best
5. Diego Maradona
6. Bobby Moore OBE
7. Johan Cruyff
8. Sir Bobby Charlton CBE
9. David Beckham OBE
10. Zinedine Zidane
11. Thierry Henry
12. Franz Beckenbauer
13. Eusébio
14. Kenny Dalglish MBE
15. Ronaldinho
16. Ryan Giggs OBE
17. Gary Lineker OBE
18. Paul Gascoigne
19. Ronaldo
20. Steven Gerrard MBE
21. Denis Law CBE
22. Dennis Bergkamp
23. Alfredo Di Stéfano
24. Ferenc Puskás
25. Wayne Rooney
26. Sir Tom Finney CBE
27. Michael Owen
28. Michel Platini
29. Jürgen Klinsmann
30. Lothar Matthäus
31. Marco van Basten
32. Mohamed Salah
33. Bryan Robson OBE
34. Lev Yashin
35. Gareth Bale
36. Zlatan Ibrahimović
37. Franco Baresi
38. Xavi
39. Kevin De Bruyne
40. Gianluigi Buffon
Source: www.Ghgossip.com
