who is the best football player ever?
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Name: \nGeorge Best\n\nNationality: \nBritish. Northern Ireland\n\nPlace and Date of Birth: \nEast Belfast. 22 May 1946\nFollowing a long illness related to his alcohol addiction, George Best died on 25 November 20.\n\nClubs: \n1963-1973: Manchester United\n446 League appearances. 178 goals.\nAfter leaving Manchester United on 01 January 1974, Best played for many clubs including:\nFulham (1976-1977)\nL.A. Aztecs (1976-1978)\nFort Lauderdale Strikers (1978-1979)\nSan Jose Earthquakes (1980-1981)\nHe also played for Stockport County (England), Hibernian (Scotland)and finally Bournemouth (England) in 1983.\n\n\nHonors With Manchester United: \n1965: English First Division Champion\n1967: English First Division Champion\n1968: European Cup Winner\n1968: English Footballer of The Year\n1968: European Footballer of The Year\n\nThis Is George Best: \nGeorge Best is a legend.\nOne of the world's most brilliant soccer players, his footballing talent was simply akin to genius.\nHis feints and dribbles, his ability to shoot with either foot, his speed and grace encapsuled every skill in soccer.\nIn the 1960's his goodlooks and lifestyle earned him the nickname of the 'fifth Beatle' and he became the first ever 'popstar' footballer - receiving up to 10,000 fan letters per week.\nBeing a Northern Ireland International his abilities were never displayed on the World Cup stage but he was lauded in Europe for his display in the 1968 European Cup when Manchester United defeated Benfica at Wembley to become the first English club to claim the european crown.\nBest score a superb goal that day - and being a raconteur of note - later claimed that after rounding the Benfica goalkeeper and seeing the empty net gaping, he decided to stop the ball on the goalline, lie down and head it into the goal. But then changed his mind when he realized that a trick like that would be just too outrageous.\n\nThe Darkness\nBest developed a dependance on alcohol and his health and footballing ability deteriorated.\nHe left Manchester United and becam a globe-trotting mercenary, but alcohol affected his personal relationships - and the media he had cultivated in the 'swinging sixties' luridly charted his every indiscretion.\nIn the 1990's he enjoyed a spell as a Televison pundit but despite many attempts to beat his addiction his craving for alcohol continued to triumph.\nBest had a liver transplant in 2002 and although warned that continuing to drink could kill him, he failed to give up alcohol. \nGeorge stumbled from one health or personal crisis to another - with each stagger splashed across the frontpages of the tabloid media.\nLike so many touched by genius, his world was in a far place.\nGeorge Best died on 25 November 2005.\nHe will be missed.
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hasselback, hands down. favre is a shell of the player he used to be. hasselback is one of the best 3 or 4 QBs in football. at this point in his career, favre isn't in the top 20
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Football's no contest, gotta go with Dan Marino.  You can also include Barry Sanders, Dan Fouts\n\nBasketball, there are a bunch:  Reggie Miller, Karl Malone, Charles Barkley, John Stockton and Karl Malone, Patrick Ewing\n\nBaseball:  Barry Bonds, Ted Williams\n\nHockey:  Dale Hunter and Mike Gartner
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Pele` without a doubt was THE BEST. Following hin very, very far one from Eusebio - George Best - Sivori: it only depends from personal opinion.
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I think the best player of all time is Ronaldinho. Why? because he is very very talented and he scores a lot of goals also he doesn't keep the ball with him too long he passes it in the perfect place and time. another thing is that he uses his talents when he plays not like the other players who do some techniques only in the practice time not in the real matches.
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No one...not one player can be compared to Ronaldinho.  He is the absolute best player in the world. If any club could select one player, it would be Ronaldinho.  His style is bar none, his skills are bar none, he raises his team to another level....whether it be Barcelona or Brasil.  Pele's status of all-time best player could have it's days numbered if Ronaldinho continues his ways.
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It depends what you mean by best footballer \n\nI would say Roy Keane as he is probably the most gifted player to be currently playing in the SFL - However players like Nakamura, Petrov, Buffel even Maloney & Riordan would command a higher transfer fee currently and probably possess more skill than Keane but Keane is by far a better all round player than all these.
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since the prem began i have to say man utd 1996-2002 are the best team and for me altho i lov cantona roy keane is the best player. other players i have admired are shearer viera fowler (before he lost the plot) and zola the player of the moment tho has to be henry tho i think he's hit a lean spell.\n\npast would still be man utd 1996-2002 players theres so many i couldn't choose pele maradona cruyff charlton beckenbaur the list goes on.
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J Montana was the best\n\nLawrence Taylor second\n\nDan Marino&#92;\n\n\nbest of the best
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Whns did the new era began? Right now, Ronaldino is the best player. Probably the best player of the past 15 years... Maradona´s prime came to an end in 1990. Messi is regarded, as many pthers, as the next big one... but Ronaldino is the best there is now!
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There have been so many great players in the history of football, and everyone will have a different criteria in their determination of what makes a player ‘iconic’, but there are a few names who I think must surely be in the hat…\n\nAside from Pele and Maradona, who are penned in already, I’d say the most obvious would be the great George Best, who sadly passed away last year.\nPele himself once described Best as ‘the greatest footballer in the world’, and for pure, unadulterated talent he’s certainly up there with finest proponents of the game. He had a unique genius that made him one of the most exciting players of his, or any other generation, as well as one of the first ‘celebrity’ footballers. The cheeky character so evident in his football was mirrored in his personality and the young Best was a star on and off the pitch, but he also had a self-destructive streak that controlled much of his life.\n\nAfter Best, I’d have to consider a good few others:\n\nPuskas – The Hungarian that showed England that rest of the world were actually quite good at football. Fearsomely powerful and one of the finest international goal scorers of all time.\n\nGordon Banks – Seemingly super-human English goalkeeper that made that unbelievable stop from Pele’s close range header in ’70. To my mind the best keeper ever, and in that sense a football icon.\n\nJohan Cruyff – The original Dutch master, he invented half the skills you see today off the top of his head. Wickedly creative, strong and skilful, Cruyff brought something new to the game and was at the heart of one of the most gifted World Cup sides ever.\n\nZidane – In my opinion the greatest player in modern football. Powerful and skilful with ridiculous vision, Zidane is a French playmaker that creates and scores goals that no one else can even imagine, let alone actually realise.\n\nPhew! And I haven’t even mentioned Van Basten, Eusebio, Ronaldo, Henry, Muller, Beckenbauer, Platini, Charlton, Garrincha, Zoff, Di Stefano, Maldini etc, etc…
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He is the best of the current players. For mine, Pele is probably the best ever. Pele is often considered the complete midfield and attacking player, he was completely two-footed, a clinical finisher, exceptionally skilled at dribbling and passing, and a remarkably good tackler for a forward. He was famed for his speed and kicking strength and scored 1,281 goals over the course of his career. Along with Maradona, he was FIFA player of the century but Pele was the better sportsman for mine.
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Peyton will be known as one of the best, there are a lot of shoes to fill there and he has not been to nor won the Superbowl yet.  The only 2 really great QB's to not win one are Marino and Kelly.  The best ever?  He has to look up to Bradshaw, Montana, Aikman and Elway  before anyone can claim that for Peyton.  Maybe he will, we will have to see.  Joe Montana was the best QB ever, cool under pressure and very few mistakes and a whole bunch ' o Super Bowl rings.\n\nL.T. by far is the best running back the Chargers have ever had.  But, he too, has a long way to go to stand up to Payton, Brown, Sanders and Thurman.  Walter Payton was the best running back ever.  He NEVER had a really good offensive line and he held the rushing record for a long time before Emmit passed it.  Emmit had a VERY good offensive line for several years, He is good but not as good as a Payton or Barry Sanders.
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Ronaldinho is the best player in the world.\nKhalid Jamlus is s@*k...
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Gotta be Ocho Cinco he is the greatest reciever of all time besides Jerry Rice
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Ronaldinho is the best player in the world at the moment. He is an incredibly gifted and skillful player. The greatest of all time is Pele.
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of all time:\n                            Peter Schmeical\n Poalo Maldini      Jaap Stam         Pallister   Dennis irwin\n\n Beckham          Ronaldinho       Maradona      jomo Sono\n                             Kaka\n                            Cantona\n\nsubs:   \nPele\nMario Kempes\nPuskas