Michel Platini was the greatest player in French football history for a very long time until Zinedine Zidane came on the ...

Sports Mole ranks the top 10 football players of all time - does Lionel Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo, Pele or Diego Maradona ... and the unknown of just how good he would have been without those ...

During that time, he was arguably the second-best player in the world behind Messi ... Cristiano Ronaldo lit up the global stage, another Ronaldo had already taken the soccer world by storm ...

Fabio Capello has named who he considers the three greatest players of all time, but snubbed Cristiano Ronaldo by claiming the former Real Madrid forward is ‘not at this level’. “Ronaldo Nazario is ...

Cristiano Ronaldo or Lionel Messi have reshaped modern soccer with breathtaking consistency, winning every conceivable title ...

Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo were nowhere close to being what Lamine Yamal is at 17. Hailed as a generational talent, ...

If Lewandowski played in a different generation to Messi and Ronaldo, he would be much more appreciated than he is. The Polish international is his country's most-capped player and top goalscorer ...

“They don’t play in the same position. You can compare Messi to Maradona, Abedi Pele, and those players, but not Cristiano Ronaldo. Messi is the gifted one; he can play for two months without ...

But the man himself once named an England forward as the man who 'taught us the way football should be played' in an ultimate ...

Brazilian football legend Pele poses after receiving a handmade replica of the FIFA World Cup trophy in the surroundings of the Maracana Stadium in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on July 12, 2014.

Lionel Messi ... Cup youth soccer tournament in Blaine. Merrick has a cherished photo of the two of them from the 1976 match. On it, Pele — who passed away in 2022 — wrote “good luck ...