The 100 best footballers of all-time have been ranked by FourFourTwo with Cristiano Ronaldo missing out on Top 3.
No African player is included in the ranking despite the great names the continent has known.
George Weah who is till date the only to have won the Ballon d’or in 1995 is not even listed by the British media.
Other African greats the likes of Samuel Eto’o and Didier Drogba missed out as well.
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The 100 best footballers of all-time
- Diego Armando Maradona
- Lionel Messi
- Pelé
- Johan Cruyff
- Cristiano Ronaldo
- Alfredo Di Stefano
- Franz Beckenbauer
- Zinedine Zidane
- Ferenc Puskas
- Ronaldo Nazario
- Garrincha
- Michel Platini
- Marco van Basten
- George Best
- Franco Baresi
- Zico
- Gerd Muller
- Giuseppe Meazza
- Bobby Charlton
- Paolo Maldini
- Romario
- Lev Yashin
- Eusebio
- Ronaldinho
- Carlos Alberto
- Valentino Mazzola
- Bobby Moore
- Socrates
- Raymond Kopa
- Lothar Matthaus
- José Manuel Moreno
- Paolo Rossi
- Gunter Netzer
- Stanley Matthews
- Luis Suárez
- Paco Gento
- Ruud Gullit
- Gianni Rivera
- Nandor Hidegkuti
- Kenny Dalglish
- Gianluigi Buffon
- Matthias Sindelar
- Fritz Walter
- Didí
- Oleg Blokhin
- Juan Alberto Schiaffino
- Roberto Rivellino
- Michael Laudrup
- Nilton Santos
- Xavi Hernández
- Jairzinho
- Roberto Baggio
- Gaetano Scirea
- Gunnar Nordahl
- Dino Zoff
- Daniel Passarella
- Karl-Heinz Rummenigge
- Adolfo Pedernera
- Andrés Iniesta
- Kevin Keegan
- Peter Schmeichel
- Dixie Dean
- Gordon Banks
- Johan Neeskens
- Jimmy Johnstone
- Teófilo Cubillas
- Florian Albert
- Samdro Mazzola
- Dennis Bergkamp
- Paul Breitner
- John Charles
- José Andrade
- Omar Sivori
- Josef Masopust
- Cafú
- Denis Law
- Frank Rijkaard
- Just Fontaine
- Gigi Riva
- Thierry Henry
- Dragan Dzajic
- Hugo Sánchez
- Ryan Giggs
- Giacinto Facchetti
- Uwe Seeler
- Gabriel Batistuta
- Javier Zanetti
- Allan Simonsen
- Hristo Stoichkov
- Roberto Carlos
- Sepp Maier
- Sandor Kocsis
- Philipp Lahm
- Zlatan Ibrahimovic
- Djalma Santos
- Obdulio Varela
- Neymar
- Mario Kempes
- Mario Coluna
- Gheorghe Hagi