#1 Lionel Messi - Argentina
Lionel Messi (born 24 June 1987) is an Argentine football player. He plays for Barcelona and the Argentina national team as a forward or winger. Lionel Andrés "Leo" Messi was born 24 June 1987.He is one of the best football players of his generation. Many people say that he is the world's best player. Messi received several Ballon d'Or and FIFA World Player of the Year by the age of 22. His playing style and ability are similar to Diego Maradona.
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#2 Cristiano Ronaldo - Portugal
#3 Neymar Jr. - Brazil
Neymar da Silva Santos Júnior was born in 1992, in Brazil. Neymar is a Brazilian footballer who plays as striker. His current team is the FC Barcelona, of the Spanish Championship.
After Neymar's performances for Brazil's U-17 team at the 2009 U-17 World Cup, on July 26 2010, Neymar was selected in the squad for the Brazil team. |
#4 Andres Iniesta - Spain
Andrés Iniesta Luján, born 11 May 1984, is a Spanish professional footballer who plays for FC Barcelona in La Liga and the Spain national team, as a central midfielder.
Iniesta came through La Masia, the Barcelona youth academy, after an early emigration from his birthplace, and impressed from an early age. He made his first-team debut in 2002, aged 18. He began playing regularly during the 2004–05 season and has remained in the side ever since. He was an integral part of the Barcelona side in 2009, the only time a club has achieved six titles in one season. |
#5 Clint Dempsey - USA
#6 Wayne Rooney - England
Wayne Mark Rooney ,born 24 October 1985, is an English footballer who plays as a forward for Manchester United and the England national team.
Aged nine, Rooney joined the youth team of Everton, for whom he made his professional debut in 2002 at the age of 16. He spent two seasons at the Merseyside club, before moving to Manchester United for £25.6 million in the 2004 summer transfer window. The same year, Rooney acquired the nickname "Wazza". Since then, with Rooney in the team, United have won the Premier League five times, the UEFA Champions League once, the FIFA Club World Cup once and the League Cup twice. In September 2013, Rooney scored his 200th goal for United. He is currently on 216 goals, making him the club's third-highest goalscorer of all time. |
#7 Arjen Robben - The Netherlands
Arjen Robben, born at home 23 January 1984, is a Dutch footballer who plays for the German Bundesliga club Bayern Munich and the Netherlands national team. Robben has appeared at the 2004, 2008 and 2012 UEFA European Championships, and the 2006, 2010 and 2014 FIFA World Cups. Though often classified as a forward, he usually plays behind the forwards as a winger. Robben is known for his dribbling skills, speed, crossing ability and his accurate left foot long-range shots from the right wing.
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#8 Mario Balotelli - Italy
Mario Barwuah Balotelli, born Mario Barwuah; 12 August 1990, is an Italian professional footballer who plays as a striker for Serie A club A.C. Milan and the Italian national team. He started his professional football career at Lumezzane and played for the first team twice before having an unsuccessful trial at FC Barcelona, and subsequently joining Inter Milan in 2007. Inter manager Roberto Mancini brought Balotelli into the first team, but when Mancini left, Balotelli's disciplinary record fell away. He had a strained relationship with new manager José Mourinho and was suspended from Inter's first team in January 2009 after a number of disciplinary problems.
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#9 Mesut Ozil - Germany
Mesut Özil , born 15 October 1988, is a German footballer who plays for Premier League club Arsenal and the German national team. Özil has been a youth national team member since 2006, and a member of the German national team since 2009. He gained international attention during the 2010 FIFA World Cup and was nominated for the Golden Ball Award, which is awarded to the tournament's best player. Özil started his senior career at hometown club Schalke in the Bundesliga in 2006, transferred to Werder Bremen in 2008 and transferred to Real Madrid in August 2010 following his breakout performance at the FIFA World Cup with Germany. On transfer deadline day of summer 2013, he moved to Arsenal for a club-record fee of £42.5 million. The transfer makes him the most expensive German football player of all time
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#10 Luis Suarez - Uruguay
Luis Alberto Suárez Díaz ,born 24 January 1987, is a Uruguayan footballer who plays as a forward for Premier League club Liverpool and the Uruguayan national team.
In 2006, Suárez moved to the Netherlands to play for Groningen in the Eredivisie. Suárez transferred to Ajax in 2007. In 2008–09 he was named Ajax Player of the Year. The following year, he was made the club captain, became the league's top scorer with 35 goals in 33 games, and was named Dutch Footballer of the Year. He scored 49 goals in all competitions and Ajax won the KNVB Cup. In the 2010–11 season, he scored his one hundredth Ajax goal, joining a group of players including Johan Cruyff, Marco van Basten and Dennis Bergkamp in doing so. In January 2011, Suárez transferred to Liverpool for €26.5 million (£22.8 million). During his partial season at Liverpool, Suárez helped the club move from twelfth in the league in mid-January to finish sixth at the end of the season. In February 2012, Suárez won his first trophy with Liverpool, as they won the Football League Cup. On 22 March 2014, he scored his sixth Premier League hat-trick for the club, making him the most frequent scorer of hat-tricks in Premier League history. On 27 April 2014 he won the PFA Players' Player of the Year award, becoming the first non-European to win the award. Suárez also won the FWA Footballer of the Year, and was named in the 2013-14 PFA Team of the Year. As the Premier League's top scorer with 31 goals he won the Premier League Golden Boot, and shared the European Golden Shoe with Cristiano Ronaldo. |