50 men's football figures

Not a best-of list, just 50 significant players, managers and others from the game's past and present. Mostly from the television age.

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Brazilian dribbler of the 1950s	Garrincha
Stunning volley that won Euro 88	Marco Van Basten
AC Milan great who became president of his country	George Weah
Coach who invented Total Football	Rinus Michels
French midfield artist who corruptly ran UEFA	Michel Platini
Brazil's 'White Pele' of the 1970s and 80s	Zico
Portugal's great striker of the 1960s	Eusebio
Generational Man Utd talent destroyed by booze	George Best
He bent it for a film title	David Beckham
Took a small English team to two European cups	Brian Clough
Career ended with a headbutt on the world's greatest stage	Zinedine Zidane
Der Kaiser	Franz Beckenbauer
Mightiest of the Magyars	Ferenc Puskas
The man who invented the World Cup	Jules Rimet
Juventus hardman of the 1970s	Claudio Gentile
Toothy Brazilian imprisoned for using a fake passport	Ronaldinho
Chelsea's Ivorian great	Didier Drogba
East Asia's greatest ever player	Son Heung-Min
He managed teams to win English, Spanish and Italian leagues	Jose Mourinho
World Cup golden boot winner turned TV presenter	Gary Lineker
Legal ruling in his favour changed football finances forever	Jean-Marc Bosman
Led Real Madrid to five early European Cup wins	Afredo di Stefano
Hirsute Brazilian great who gave up football to become a doctor	Socrates
Kung Fu badboy	Eric Cantona
The only man to win three World Cups	Pele
His team of 'babes' were lost in a Munich air disaster	Matt Busby
Italian striker who seized glory in 1982	Paolo Rossi
Soviet keeper nicknamed 'the black spider'	Lev Yashin
Ponytail and penalty miss defined 1994 World Cup	Roberto Baggio
Scored more goals in one World Cup than anybody else	Just Fontaine
Decked in an Arab robe for his crowning achievement	Lionel Messi
Ultimate football bureaucrat brought down by corruption	Sepp Blatter
Germany's egomaniac late 80s star	Lothar Matthaus
English talent who cried after a 1990 yellow card	Paul Gascoigne
Early English manager who pioneered use of money to win titles	Herbert Chapman
Hand of God	Diego Maradona
Orchestrated the great AC Milan team of the late 1980s	Arrigo Sacchi
Won the ticker tape World Cup	Mario Kempes
Mad-eyed bald referee	Pierluigi Collina
Assaulted with a pig's head	Luis Figo
Accused of shoplifting in Colombia	Bobby Moore
Corner flag dance to announce Africa's arrival in world football	Roger Milla
Egomaniacal Swede	Zlatan Ibrahimovic
Der Bomber	Gerd Muller
The greatest manager of the current age	Pep Guardiola
Wizard of the dribble	Stanley Matthews
Chain smoking exemplar of total football	Johan Cruyff
The greatest Arab player	Mohammed Salah
'Siuuuu'	Cristiano Ronaldo
America's greatest - if fictional - football export	Ted Lasso

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