If you've ever wondered who the best football players of all time are, you're in the right place.

TV em Foco prepared a list of the 10 best players in history, justifying the placement of each player.

In other words, football players were evaluated according to the most important criteria in the world of football.

So come and check out our ranking and if you also consider these players in our order.

To define which player is better than the other, several criteria need to be used, and as football is not an exact science, results vary.

Firstly, how to analyze a striker and a goalkeeper if the two perform completely different functions?

Our criteria used will be the impact of that athlete on their position and the contributions of that player to their team or country.

Many opinions may end up differing, and generating a lot of controversy, TV em Foco aims to analyze objective criteria such as titles, goals and the importance of the player to the world of football.

In other words, this is the TV ranking in focus, based on official information from the players.

So let's start.

Then check out our ranking of the 10 best football players of all time.

There is no other way to start this list if not with the king of football, the player who made everyone love this sport.

Honestly, Pelé shouldn't be on this list, the player is a level above, other players shouldn't be compared to Pelé.

The player has scored 1281 goals in his career, however, only 846 are counted as “official”, since at the time the star played there was no central body supervising football.

Furthermore, Pelé is the only player to win the World Cup an incredible three times, without taking into account the importance that this player had in popularizing the sport.

These are just some of the reasons why the king of football takes first place in our ranking.

Messi is the best football player of recent times, he is a seven-time winner of the FIFA best player in the world award.

Furthermore, the player bravely led his team to win the 2022 World Cup, and put an end to Maradona's shadow in his career.

Messi was always behind his countryman for not having won the most important title in football, but now, his shelf is complete

Maradona is one of the best football players, without a doubt, and the 1986 World Cup, which the player won practically alone, is his greatest achievement.

At a time when scorers were merciless, Diego Maradona destroyed the opponent's defense without any fear, a maestro of wonderful moves.

He does not occupy the position ahead of Messi due to the rapid loss of performance due to his involvement with drugs.

If he had had a more lasting peak, who knows, he could have placed himself alongside Pelé.

This position in the ranking is highly contested, but as World Cup champion and four times best player in the world, the Frenchman came in fourth place.

The player was a midfield organizer, even though he didn't score many goals, his ability to orchestrate the game impressed everyone.

Zidane controlled the midfield in an extraordinary way, organizing his team and providing several assists.

His first and only World Cup win was in 1988, where he scored two headed goals.

The Portuguese will also have his place on our list, Cristiano Ronaldo has already won the best player in the world award five times, always in a dispute with Messi.

His only career breakthrough being winning the World Cup, the player never managed to lead his team to win that title.

But due to the player's efficiency in attack, he scored around 821 goals, being the player who came closest to King Pelé in this criterion.

This player was a brilliant athlete, considered ahead of his time, he actively participated in one of the first strategies that explored different areas of the field, offside lines and other tactics in modern football.

In addition to being a spectacular player, he also used all his genius as a coach, leading the Barcelona team to win their first Champions League.

However, he never managed to win a World Cup, the closest he came was in a semi in 1974.

One of the first defensive football players to become a reference in the world of football.

He reinvented the way of playing football in the defensive zone of the field, he carried the ball and helped the team create the play from the defensive field.

He won the 1974 World Cup and lifted the trophy as captain.

Pelé has three World Cups, but without Garrincha, he might only have one. Garrincha is the winner of two World Cups.

The “joy of the people”, as he was known, described a little of the player, he was the author of wonderful dribbles that he applied over his opponents.

Many talk about Pelé and forget that Garrincha was one of the best of his time, in the 1962 World Cup, when the king was injured, Mané Garrincha was the main player of the Brazilian team.

Considered as Real Madrid's best player, Dí Stefano dominated football in the 1950s in Spain.

The player has a total of 307 goals in just 396 games, and scored in 5 Champions League finals.

The player became famous for his beautiful goals, so much so that the award for the most beautiful goal of the year is named Puskas in honor of him.

Puskas was one of the best players of his time, the player was deadly in attack, he had a total of 512 goals in 528 matches.

However, they failed to win the World Cup, they reached the very final in 1954, but they lost to Germany, but at least the player won the award for best player in that competition.

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