Wednesday 18 January 2012

1991 World Soccer Top 100

Following on from some of the lists of the world's top players that abounded around Christmas I thought it would be interesting to have a look at a similar list from 20 years ago. This was done in alphabetical order and shows a clear effort to create some diversity of the nations covered, but was interesting nonetheless.
Sergei Aleinikov (USSR)
John Aldridge (Ireland)
Manuel Amoros (France)
Roberto Baggio (Italy)
Franco Baresi (Italy)
John Barnes (England)
Bebeto (Brazil)
Miodrag Belodidici (Romania)
Francois Omam Biyik (Cameroon)
Kingsley Black (Northern Ireland)
Basile Boli (France)
Branco (Brazil)
Andreas Brehme (Germany)
Pat Bonner (Ireland)
Tomas Brolin (Sweden)
Emilio Butragueno (Spain)
Claudio Caniggia (Argentina)
Careca (Brazil)
Jan Ceulemans (Belgium)
Stephane Chapuisat (Switzerland)
Colin Clarke (Northern Ireland)
Lajos Detari (Hungary)
Enzo Francescoli (Uruguay)
Jan Furtok (Poland)
Paulo Futre (Portugal)
Paul Gascoigne (England)
Eric Gerets (Belgium)
Giuseppe Giannini (Italy)
Sergio Goycochea (Argentina)
Ruud Gullit (Holland)
Gheorghe Hagi (Romania)
John Harkes (USA)
Hossam Hassan (Egypt)
Thomas Hassler (Germany)
Heinz Hermann (Switzerland)
Rene Higuita (Colombia)
Mark Hughes (Wales)
Bodo Ilgner (Germany)
Mo Johnston (Scotland)
Jozsef Kiprich (Hungary)
Jurgen Klinsmann (Germany)
Ronald Koeman (Holland)
Oleg Kuznetsov (USSR)
Marius Lacatus (Romania)
Peter Larsson (Sweden)
Brian Laudrup (Denmark)
Michael Laudrup (Denmark)
Anders Limpar (Sweden)
Gary Lineker (England)
Cyrille Makanaky (Cameroon)
Paolo Maldini (Italy)
Roberto Mancini (Italy)
Diego Maradona (Argentina)
Lothar Matthaus (Germany
Ally McCoist (Scotland)
Paul McGrath (Ireland)
Paul McStay (Scotland)
Michel (Spain)
Alexei Mikhailichenko (USSR)
David O’Leary (Ireland)
Darko Pancev (Yugoslavia)
Jean-Pierre Papin (France)
David Platt (England)
Toni Polster (Austria)
Gica Popescu (Romania)
Michel Preudhomme (Belgium)
Robert Prosinecki (Yugoslavia)
Oleg Protasov (USSR)
Tab Ramos (USA)
Frank Rijkaard (Holland)
Bryan Robson (England)
Romario (Brazil)
Oscar Ruggeri (Argentina)
Rui Barros (Portugal)
Ian Rush (Wales)
Hugo Sanchez (Mexico)
Dean Saunders (Wales)
Dejan Savicevic (Yugoslavia)
Peter Schmeichel (Denmark)
Enzo Scifo (Belgium)
Ruben Sosa (Uruguay)
Neville Southall (Wales)
Hristo Stoichkov (Bulgaria)
Dragan Stoijkovic (Yugoslavia)
Taffarel (Brazil)
Tanju Colak (Turkey)
Jonas Thern (Sweden)
Kubilay Turkilmaz (Turkey)
Carlos Valderrama (Colombia)
Marco Van Basten (Holland)
Hans Van Breukelen (Holland)
Gianluca Vialli (Italy)
Rudi Voller (Germany)
Chris Waddle (England)
Des Walker (England)
George Weah (Liberia)
Walter Zenga (Italy)
Andoni Zubizarreta (Spain)

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