Johan Cruyff

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Johan Cruyff

• Hedrick Johannes Cruijff (Johan Cruijff) often
  spelled Cruyff outside the Netherlands see born
  April 25, 1947 in Amsterdam) is a Dutch football
  manager/coach and former star player, regarded as
  one of the greats of the game. Named three times
  European Footballer of the Year (1971, 1973,
  1974) and European Player of the Century by the
  IFFHS in 1999, he was a silky exponent of the
  football philosophy known as Total Football,
  developed by his coach Rinus Michels.
• He has been named as one of the best football
  players of his generation, alongside Maradona,
  Garrincha, Pelé, and Franz Beckenbauer, although
  he did not win a cup or tournament with his
  national team.
• Cruijff was also highly successful as manager of
  Ajax and FC Barcelona he still remains as an
  influential advisor to Barça and Ajax. He was
  voted European player of the century by the IFFHS
  ahead of Franz Beckenbauer.
• Position midfielder

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Zinedine Zidane

• Zinedine Yazid Zidane (born 23 June 1972 in
  Marseille, France), popularly nicknamed Zizou, is
  a former French football player of Kabyle
  ethnicity, whose parents immigrated to France
  from Kabylie, Algeria. Zidane starred for both
  the French national team and four European club
  teams, concluding with Real Madrid, during an
  eighteen-year career in which he was listed as
  one of the greatest players in football history.
• Position Midfielder

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Lionel Andrés Messi

• Lionel Andrés Messi (born 24 June 1987 in
  Rosario, Argentina) is an Argentine-Spanish
  football player, who currently plays for FC
  Barcelona. He is often touted in the media as the
  new "Diego Maradona". Messi has been publicly
  named as "Maradona's successor" by Diego Maradona
  himself.

Position
Attacking Midfielder
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Gennaro ivan gattuso

• Gennaro "Rino" Ivan Gattuso (born January 9, 1978
  in Corigliano Calabro) is an Italian World Cup
  winning footballer. His position is a defensive
  midfielder. He currently plays for A.C. Milan,
  with whom he won the UEFA Champions League in the
  season 2002/2003 and in the 2003/04
• position defensive midfield

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Steven Gerrard

• Steven George Gerrard (born 30 May 1980,
  Whiston, Merseyside) is an English football
  player with Liverpool F.C. and the England
  national football team. Gerrard wears the number
  8 shirt for Liverpool and is currently the club
  captain, as well as the England vice captain
  where he usually wears the number 4 shirt. He is
  usually employed in a central midfield role,
• although he has often been deployed as a
  right-sided midfielder. He is often cited as the
  most influential midfielder in England, having
  won the PFA Young Player of the Year, PFA Player
  of the Year and UEFA Most Valuable Player,
  although he hasn't yet managed to win English
  Footballs biggest prize, the F.A Premier League.
• position attacking midfield

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Patrick Viera

• The Senegal-born Vieira began his playing career
  with AS Cannes in his adopted homeland in 1993
  and moved to AC Milan two years later. Vieira
  formed part of the Milan squad which won the
  Italian title in 1996, but only made only four
  appearances before joining Arsenal for 5.7m
  after new manager Arsène Wenger had stipulated in
  his contract talks that the club buy the
  midfielder. Vieira won league and cup doubles in
  1997/98 and 2001/02,
• He became captain in August 2002 and lifted the
  2003 FA Cup before guiding Arsenal to the 2004
  league title without defeat and scoring the
  decisive spot-kick in the 2005 FA Cup final. That
  was to be his Arsenal farewell as he returned to
  Italy in a 20m transfer to Juventus.
• position defensive midfield

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Pavel nedved

• Pavel Nedved (born August 30, 1972 in Cheb,
  Czech Republic, at that time Czechoslovakia) is a
  Czech professional football player. Nedved is a
  midfielder for Italian club Juventus and formerly
  for the Czech Republic national team. Before
  joining Juventus, Nedved played for Czech clubs
  Dukla Prague (1991-92), Sparta Prague (1992-96),
  and Lazio (1996-2001) in Italy. He has won one
  Italian scudetto championship with Lazio and four
  with Juventus (though two of these were later
  stripped from Juventus after the match-fixing
  scandal).
• Nedved is a dedicated, hard-working player. One
  of Nedved's main strengths is that he can play
  equally well with both feet. This is evident in
  his shooting capabilities from a distance, as he
  has unleashed shots of well over 25 meters with
  both feet.
• position wing midfield

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Luis Figo

• Luis Filipe Madeira Caeiro Figo, (born November
  4, 1972 in Lisbon, Portugal) is a Portuguese
  international footballer, who plays as a
  midfielder and winger, currently for Inter Milan.
  He is widely considered one of Portugal's
  greatest players. Figo was known as the original
  Golden Boy (a name which now belongs to his
  friend Cristiano Ronaldo, a team-mates of Figo's
  from the Portugal national football team and
  played alongside him as a winger during the 2006
  FIFA World Cup).
• He was also known as the main footballer behind
  Portugal's prominent Golden Generation that
  consisted of fellow legends like Rui Costa, and
  was the reason why the term came into use.
• position wing midfield

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Rui Costa

• Rui Manuel César Costa usually referred to
  simply as Rui Costa (born March 29, 1972 in
  Lisbon), is a Portuguese football player. He is
  an attacking midfielder for Portuguese club SL
  Benfica and is also capable of playing as a
  deep-seated defensive midfielder. Alongside
  fellow legend Luis Figo, he is considered to be
  one of the two best Portuguese playmakers of all
  time, and is known as the maestro. His pin-point
  passes, extraordinary vision on the pitch and
  ferocious right-footed kick made him famous all
  around Europe. In 2004, he was named by Pelé to
  the FIFA 100, a list of the 125 greatest living
  football players.
• position attacking midfield

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Frank Rijkaard

• Rijkaard was just 17, He made an immediate
  impact, scoring for his team in the 4-2 victory
  over Go Ahead Eagles. He would play another 23
  games for Ajax in his first season, netting a
  total of 4 goals. In 1982 he won his first Dutch
  Eredivisie championship with Ajax, and went on to
  successfully defend that title a year later. In
  1987, what would have been Rijkaard's fourth year
  under Dutch football legend Johan Cruijff as head
  coach, Rijkaard stormed off the training field
  and vowed never to play under him again. He was
  signed by Portuguese club Sporting Lisbon, but
  too late to be eligible to play in any
  competition. He was immediately loaned out to
  Spanish team Real Zaragoza, but upon completing
  his first season at Zaragoza, was signed by
  Italian side AC Milan.
• position midfield

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Francesc fabregas

• Francesc "Cesc" Fàbregas Soler (born May 4, 1987
  in Arenys de Mar, Catalonia, Spain) is a Catalan
  Spanish footballer who currently plays as a
  central midfielder for Arsenal in the English
  Premier League and for the Spanish national team.
  Fàbregas started his career at FC Barcelona B but
  was signed by Arsenal in mid-2003 before he could
  sign a professional contract with FC Barcelona.
• Fàbregas is one of the best of Spain's next
  generation of footballers. He is able to play as
  an attack-minded midfielder, with the ability to
  play eye-of-the-needle passes. Additionally, at
  Arsenal he has occasionally been used
  out-of-position as a right-side midfielder.
• position midfield

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Clarence seedorf

• Clarence Seedorf (born April 1, 1976 in
  Paramaribo, Suriname) is a Dutch-Surinamese
  football midfielder, who currently plays for AC
  Milan in Serie A.
• Seedorf is the first, and to date, the only
  person to have won the UEFA Champions League with
  three different teams Ajax (1995), Real Madrid
  (1998) and AC Milan (2003). He also played for
  Sampdoria and Internazionale.
• Seedorf was named by Pelé as one of the top 125
  greatest living footballers in March 2004.
• position defensive midfield

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Ze Roberto

• Ze Roberto, real name José Roberto da Silva
  Junior, (born July 6, 1974 in Ipiranga) is a
  Brazilian footballer who plays as a midfielder.
• He was under contract to Bayern Munich until June
  30, 2006. He has stated that he will not re-sign
  with Bayern at the end of the World Cup. He was
  part of the Brazil squad at the 1998 FIFA World
  Cup and 2006 FIFA World Cup. He is a versatile,
  left-footed winger who is a deft dribbler and
  crosses the ball well. Ze Roberto sometimes
  struggled to win a starting spot at Bayern
  Munich. However, he has earned a starting spot in
  the Seleção where he plays through the centre.
  Following the announcement that he would not
  return to Bayern Munich, he publicly criticized
  the club's style of play and predicted struggles
  if changes were not made.
• position attacking winger

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Kaka

• Ricardo Izecson dos Santos Leite (born April 22,
  1982 in Brasília), better known as Kaka, is a
  Brazilian footballer who plays as a midfielder
  for Brazil and the Serie A club A.C. Milan.
• position attacking midfield

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Liam Brady

• Liam Brady (born February 13, 1956 in Dublin) is
  a former Irish footballer, who is now a coach and
  television pundit. He was renowned as a
  midfielder with elegant technical skills, most
  notably his left foot, his high-quality passing
  and close control. He found success both with
  Arsenal (one FA Cup title) and Juventus (two
  Serie A titles), and won 72 caps for the Republic
  of Ireland. He is currently Arsenal's Head of
  Youth Development.
• position attacking midfield