There have been many great football players, but have you ever stopped to imagine the 10 best?

To help you with this, Minuto Vip created a ranking with the 10 biggest names in the history of this sport.

Come check out who they are and why the player occupies such a position in our ranking.

We are used to today's players, take the opportunity to get to know some legends of this sport who were very important but who you may not even know.

Firstly, to analyze the players, we will establish criteria, however, as football does not have many objective criteria, many opinions may end up differing.

Minuto Vip will not only take into account individual criteria, such as number of goals, among others, but we will also take into account the importance of the player for football and for the teams that the athlete defended.

Since there is no way to compare a striker and a goalkeeper based on individual criteria, as each one performs a totally different function.

Now that you understand how players will be evaluated, let's start our ranking.

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

First place is one of the undisputed positions in the Minuto Vip ranking, Pelé was the greatest football player of all time, and it will be very difficult for anyone to change that.

In addition to the fact that Pelé is the only player in the entire history of football to win the World Cup three times, Pelé is the greatest goalscorer of all time.

With a total of 1281 goals in his career, the king reached the highest level in world football, a player ahead of his time.

Pelé created dribbles and plays that are still used today, and everything you do in football today, Pelé has already done, showing a vision of modern football long before the theory was created.

Lionel Messi has been at the top of world football for a long time, and this is also one of the main reasons for his position.

Messi, today, is the player with the highest number of individual best in the world awards won, he has won seven times, and will probably compete for the eighth.

Furthermore, this football genius achieved the only feat that was missing in his career, he won the World Cup title in an impressive way, taking the Argentina team to the top of the world, just like a conductor leads an orchestra.

Third place is already a much more debatable position, however, Maradona took our third place.

The feat that led the player to this position was his performance when playing for the Argentina national team in the 1986 World Cup, where he won the cup dubbed the one-man world cup.

At this time, the defenders defended their area with great violence, but Maradona didn't care, and faced the most ruthless defenders with courage and great skill.

Zidane was one of the geniuses of modern football, his greatest achievements being four FIFA Ballon d'Ors and a World Cup.

In the World Cup final, he scored two headed goals, which was one of his greatest performances.

The player only has 156 goals in his career, but his strong point was not the goals, but rather his ability to influence the game with possession and his passes.

Cristiano Ronaldo is also in our ranking and occupies fifth place, this player deserves to be recognized.

The player competed on the world football stage with Messi during the last decade and managed to win 5 FIFA Ballon d'Ors.

Furthermore, he is the player who came closest to Pelé's record, having scored 826 goals in his career.

Beckenbauer revolutionized the way a defender should play, becoming the goal of defensive players at the time.

In addition to being an excellent defender, he was one of the first players to demonstrate the importance of building plays from the back.

He managed to win the 1974 World Cup and lift the cup as captain, which was the biggest title of his career.

Cruyff was another player who played more football with his head than with his feet, innovating world football as a player and as a coach.

The athlete also presented football concepts that were ahead of his time, and made great contributions to the basic foundations of modern football.

He participated in one of the first tactical schemes by exploiting offside lines and marking zones.

Many talk about Pelé, but without Garrincha, perhaps the king of football would not have had three World Cups.

Garrincha was one of the great players of his time, and was the protagonist of the 1962 World Cup, in which Pelé was injured.

The player took on all the responsibility when the team's biggest star was not present, and he got the job done.

The player had great speed and incredible dribbling, he won the World Cup twice.

Dí Stefano is one of Real Madrid's idols, and was one of Spain's most important players in the 1950s.

The player had the incredible record of 307 goals scored in just 396 games, he also has the mark of being the only player to score in five Champions League finals.

Another football phenomenon, Ferenc Puskas was known for his goals scored by creating beautiful plays

FIFA even has an award honoring the player, every year, the most beautiful goal is awarded with the Puskas trophy for most beautiful goal

He reached the impressive mark of 512 goals in just 528, the only flaw in his career is not having won a World Cup.

However, the way he led Hungary to the 1954 World Cup final has to be considered a great achievement.

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