José Leonardo Ribeiro da Silva

English association football player | Lenna Gunning-Williams

Russian association football player | Magomedemin Rabadanov

German association football player | Tim Lemperle

Nigerian footballer | Charles Atshimene

Kosovan association football player (born 2000) | Vesel Demaku

Costa Rican footballer | Walter Cortés

Czech footballer | Tomáš Ostrák

South Korean association football player, born 1999 | Cho Young-wook

Austrian association football player (1999-) | David Bumberger

English association football player (born 1999) | Ash Kigbu

French association football player | Kelyan Guessoum

Ethiopian footballer | Amanuel Gebremichael

Slovenian association football player | Jaka Bijol

DR Congolese and French footballer | Loïc Badiashile

Turkish and French association football player | Özer Özdemir

English association football player | Ben Sheaf

British association football player (born 1998) | Elliot Simmons

French association football player | Delphine Cascarino

Patrick John Joseph Roberts is an English professional footballer who plays as a winger for EFL Championship club Sunderland. | Patrick Roberts, English footballer

Belgian and Congolese association football player | Senna Miangué

French footballer | Estelle Cascarino

Emma Stina Blackstenius is a Swedish professional footballer who plays as a forward for Arsenal in the English Women's Super League and the Sweden national team. | Stina Blackstenius, Swedish footballer

Ecuadorian association football player | Christian Alemán

English association football player (born 1996) | Rory Watson

Greek footballer | Giorgos Kyriakopoulos

Spanish association football player | Jon Toral

Adnan Januzaj is a Belgian professional footballer who plays as a winger for La Liga club Las Palmas, on loan from Sevilla. | Adnan Januzaj, Belgian-Albanian footballer

French association football player | Dimitri Cavaré

Spanish footballer | Nano Mesa

association football player | Erick Castillo

Danish association football player | Jens Martin Gammelby

Brazilian association football player | Bruno Viana

German footballer | Lena Petermann

Mexican association football player | Antonio Briseño

footballer | Ihsan Haddad

German association football player | Daniel Wein

Russian association football player | Aleksandr Seraskhov

Russian football player | Yuri Bavin

Swiss association football player | Silvano Schäppi

association football player | Taufaiva Ionatana

footballer (born 1993) | Aleksandr Ilyin

Kenyan footballer | Clifton Miheso

Norwegian association football player | Erlend Robertsen

Neymar da Silva Santos Júnior, also known as Neymar Júnior or simply Neymar, is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays as a left winger, attacking midfielder or forward for Campeonato Brasileiro Série A club Santos, which he captains, and the Brazil national team. Widely regarded as one of the best players of his generation and often praised as one of the most talented players ever, he is known for his flair, dribbling, playmaking, and finishing. He is Brazil's all-time top goalscorer. | Neymar, Brazilian footballer

Stefan de Vrij is a Dutch professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for Serie A club Inter Milan and the Netherlands national team. | Stefan de Vrij, Dutch footballer

Austrian footballer | Robert Žulj

Turkish footballer | Caner Cavlan

Irish footballer | Jordan Keegan

Nepalese footballer (born 1993) | Sujal Shrestha

footballer | Dardan Mustafa

Swedish association football player | Lisa Moazzeni

French footballer | Loris Néry

Nabil Bahoui is a Swedish professional footballer who plays as a forward for Allsvenskan club IF Brommapojkarna. | Nabil Bahoui, Swedish footballer

Association footballer | Philipp Huspek

Gerald Tusha is an Albanian professional footballer who plays as a left midfielder for KF Vora. | Gerald Tusha, Albanian footballer

French association football player | Mounir Bouziane

Jordan Luke Rhodes is a professional footballer who plays as a striker. He will become a free agent when his contract with Blackpool expires on 30 June 2025. Born in England, he represented the Scotland national team. | Jordan Rhodes, Scottish footballer

Italian footballer | Giulio Donati

Luxembourgish professional footballer | Lars Krogh Gerson

German association football player | Ina Mester

Ecuadorian association football player | Víctor Valle

Argentinian association football player | Cristián Barinaga

Rwandan footballer | Haruna Niyonzima

Turkish association football player | Cem Ekinci

American association football player | Lydia Hastings

Croatian footballer, goalkeeper | Zvonimir Mikulić

DR Congolese and French footballer | Distel Zola

Turkish footballer | Burak Çalık

footballer | Dmytro Khovbosha

Iranian footballer | Iman Mousavi

Bruneian footballer | Muhammad Maududi Hilmi Kasmi

German footballer | Robin Himmelmann

association football player | José Sardón

Argentine footballer | Sebastián Sciorilli

Romanian footballer | Eric Bicfalvi

Dutch association football manager | Renée Slegers

Mexican footballer | Óscar Ricardo Rojas

Russian footballer | Yevgeni Konstantinovich Frolov

Spanish footballer | Jaime Astrain

Bruneian footballer | Mohd Najib Tarif

Welsh footballer (born 1988) | Loren Dykes

Brazilian footballer | Tiago Oliveira de Souzaoo

French association football player | Yann Kerboriou

Bosnian footballer | Gordan Bunoza

German association football player | Chinedu Ede

football player | Réka Jakab

footballer | Giovanni Aparecido Adriano dos Santos

Saudi footballer (1987–2022) | Khaled Al-Zylaeei

English association football player (born 1987) | Calum Woods

Vedran Ćorluka is a Croatian football coach and former player who played as a centre-back or right-back. He is an assistant to Zlatko Dalić in the Croatia national team. | Vedran Ćorluka, Croatian footballer

Portuguese footballer | Manuel Fernandes

Italian footballer | Andrea Masiello

Carlos Andrés Villanueva Rolland is a Chilean former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. | Carlos Villanueva, Chilean footballer

Billy Louis Sharp is an English professional footballer who plays as a striker for EFL League Two club Doncaster Rovers. | Billy Sharp, English footballer

Chilean footballer | Sebastián Pinto

Japanese association football player | Takayuki Seto

Brazilian footballer | Márcio Azevedo

Thai footballer | Sumanya Purisai

Chinese footballer from Nanjing | Li Jian

Cristiano Ronaldo dos Santos Aveiro is a Portuguese professional footballer who plays as a forward for and captains both Saudi Pro League club Al-Nassr and the Portugal national team. Nicknamed CR7, he is widely regarded as one of the greatest players of all time, and has won numerous individual accolades throughout his professional footballing career, including five Ballon d'Or awards, a record three UEFA Men's Player of the Year Awards, four European Golden Shoes, and was named five times the world's best player by FIFA. He has won 33 trophies in his career, including seven league titles, five UEFA Champions Leagues and the UEFA European Championship. Ronaldo holds the records for most goals (140) and assists (42) in the Champions League, goals (14) and assists (8) in the European Championship, and most international appearances (219) and international goals (136). He is one of the few players to have made over 1,200 professional career appearances, the most by an outfield player, and has scored over 900 official senior career goals for club and country, making him the top goalscorer of all time. | Cristiano Ronaldo, Portuguese footballer

French-Israelian footballer | Rudy Haddad

Beninese and French footballer | Fabien Farnolle

Dutch footballer | Thijs Hendriks

Lithuanian footballer | Edgaras Česnauskis

Carlos Alberto Tevez is an Argentine professional football manager and former player. A dynamic forward in his prime, Tevez was capable of playing as a striker, as a winger, as a supporting forward, or as an attacking midfielder. He was most recently the head coach of Primera División club Independiente. | Carlos Tevez, Argentinian footballer

French footballer (born 1984) | Ludovic Sylvestre

footballer | Petter Vaagan Moen

Norwegian footballer | Trond Olsen

Serbian footballer | Saša Savić

German footballer | Andreas Schäfer

Bahrani football player | Sayed Mohamed Adnan

Turkish footballer | Mehmet Çoğum

Syrian footballer | Mohamed Al Zeno

English footballer (born 1983) | Alan Connell

Rodrigo Sebastián Palacio Alcalde is an Argentine professional basketball player and former footballer who played as a second striker. He is the son of José Ramón Palacio, a historic player of Club Olimpo during the 1980s. Palacio holds a Spanish passport, allowing him to be counted as an EU player. | Rodrigo Palacio, Argentinian footballer

Laura del Río García is a Spanish football manager and former player who played as a forward. She last managed men's club Flat Earth FC. | Laura del Río, Spanish footballer

Austrian association football player | Michael Horvath

Iranian footballer | Mohammad Reza Khorsandnia

Israeli association football player | Anat Maimoni

Qatari footballer | Wesam Rizik

Loukas Vyntra is a Greek former professional footballer. Mainly a central defender, he could also play as a right back, left back, or a defensive midfielder. | Loukas Vyntra, Czech-Greek footballer

Scottish footballer (born 1981) | Steven Craig

Association footballer | Kai Schoppitsch

Bosnian association football player | Mirko Hrgović

Hong Kong footballer | Lee Sze Ming

Hungarian footballer | Illés Zsolt Sitku

Ecuadorian footballer | Jairon Zamora

Croatian footballer | Robert Lisjak

Bulgarian footballer | Elin Topuzakov

Latvian footballer (1977–2025) | Andrejs Prohorenkovs

Ukrainian association football player | Sergiy Shchaslivyi

John Aloisi is an Australian former soccer player and current head coach of A-League club Western United. In a professional career that spanned 20 seasons, with league totals of 459 games and 127 goals, he was the first Australian ever to play and score in La Liga, the Premier League and Serie A. | John Aloisi, Australian footballer and manager

English footballer and coach (born 1976) | Simon Bassey

Giovanni Christiaan van Bronckhorst is a Dutch football manager and former player who last managed the Süper Lig club Beşiktaş. Formerly a midfielder, he moved to left-back later in his career. | Giovanni van Bronckhorst, Dutch footballer and manager

Swedish association football player | Jesper Blomqvist

Spanish football player/manager | Joan Francesc Ferrer Sicilia

Scottish footballer (born 1969) | Billy Dodds

English association football player, born in February 1968 | Lee Martin

German association football player | Uwe Woyde

Gheorghe Hagi is a Romanian professional football manager and former player, who is currently the owner and manager of Liga I club Farul Constanța. Deployed as an attacking midfielder, Hagi was considered one of the best players in the world during the 1980s and '90s, and is regarded by many as the greatest Romanian footballer of all time. Fans of Turkish club Galatasaray, with whom Hagi ended his career, called him Comandante, while he was known as Regele to Romanian supporters. Nicknamed "The Maradona of the Carpathians",he was a creative advanced playmaker renowned for his dribbling, technique, vision, passing and shooting. | Gheorghe Hagi, Romanian footballer and manager

Enrique "Quique"Sánchez Flores is a Spanish football manager and former player who played as a right-back. | Quique Sánchez Flores, Spanish footballer and manager

Italian footballer | Carolina Morace

Czechoslovak footballer | Petr Kostelník

Bulgarian footballer | Emil Velev

German association football player and manager | Frank Pagelsdorf

Egyptian footballer | Ossama Khalil

Dutch footballer | Peter Arntz

Gustavo Benítez is a retired Paraguayan football defender and coach. | Gustavo Benítez, Paraguayan footballer and manager

Scottish international football full-back (born 1952) | Alex Forsyth

Sven-Göran Eriksson was a Swedish football player and manager. | Sven-Göran Eriksson, Swedish footballer and manager (born 1948)

Brazilian association football player and manager | Edu Coimbra

Italian association football player | Fausto Daolio

Italian footballer (1945-) | Fernando Benatti

Dutch football player | Wim Kras

Soviet association football player (1944-2018) | Gennadiy Shilin

Spanish footballer | Manuel Bueno Cabral

French professional football defender | Roland Mitoraj

Austrian footballer (1934-2020) | Ignaz Puschnik

Serbian footballer (1933–2003) | Miloš Milutinović

Cesare Maldini was an Italian professional football manager and player who played as a defender. | Cesare Maldini, Italian footballer and manager (born 1932)

Argentine footballer (1928-2008) | Raúl Conti

association football player | Miguel Ángel Converti

Swedish footballer and manager (1927-1992) | Nils-Åke Sandell

Swedish footballer (1927–1975) | Dan Ekner

Italian footballer (1916-1993) | Ugo Locatelli

footballer (1916-1984) | Harry Medhurst

Francisco Antonio "Pancho"Varallo was an Argentine football forward. He played for the Argentina national team from 1930 to 1937, also representing the country at the inaugural FIFA World Cup in 1930. | Francisco Varallo, Argentine footballer (born 1910)

Austrian footballer (1907-1957) | Walter Nausch

Swedish footballer (1906-1985) | Victor Carlund

French association football player (1905-1961) | Robert Dauphin

association football player | Henryk Herbstreit

Dutch football player and military officer (1902-1980) | Fred van der Poel

Argentine footballer (1900-1970) | Ludovico Bidoglio

French association football player | Antoine Parachini

Hungarian association football player (1894-1973) | József Bánás

Danish association football player (1892-1958) | Bernhard Vilhelm Andersen