João Palhinha

Romanian footballer | Atanas Trică

Conor Bradley is a Northern Irish professional footballer who plays as a right-back for Premier League club Liverpool and captains the Northern Ireland national team. | Conor Bradley, Northern Irish footballer

Belgian association football player | Hugo Siquet

Equatorial Guinean association football player | Luis Miguel Nlavo

South Korean footballer (2001-) | Goh Young-jun

association football player | Vahan Bichakhchyan

association football player | Andreas Rossak

association football player | Lee Ji-sol

Bosnian-Swedish association football player | Dennis Hadzikadunic

Lithuanian association football player | Edgaras Dubickas

Venezuelan association football player | Sergio Córdova

Spanish association football player, UFC | Christian Rivera Hernández

German association football player | Phillip Tietz

association football player | Manuel Maranda

Spanish association football player | Iván Villar

German association football player | Leon Bätge

Italian footballer | Luca Clemenza

Austrian association football player | Kubilay Yilmaz

association football player | Kwame Quee

german-Ghanaian footballer | Sirlord Conteh

ecuadorian footballer | Mathéus Alvarez

Argentinian association football player | José Devecchi

Montenegrin footballer | Marko Janković

association football player | Wong Chun Hin

Uruguayan association football player | Carolina Birizamberri

Spanish association football player | Iraia Iparragirre

Northern Irish association football player (born 1995) | Aaron McEneff

Spanish association football player | Sandro Ramírez

Montenegrin association football player | Luka Đorđević

Algerian footballer | Adel Habib Beldi

Congolese and French footballer | Jonathan Bijimine

Russian association football player | Anatoli Katrich

Austrian association football player | Daniel Bachmann

Costa Rican footballer | Ronald Matarrita

association football player | Moumi Ngamaleu

Trinidadian association football player | Alvin Jones

English footballer | Felicity Gibbons

Brazilian footballer | Hugo Sanches

Italian association football player | Valentina Casaroli

Bulgarian footballer | Asen Georgiev

Italian footballer | Manuel Marras

Kazakh association football player | Temirlan Yerlanov

Nigerian footballer | Christian Madu

Russian footballer | Tatyana Morina

Tuvuluan footballer | Togavai Stanley

Costa Rican association football player | Juan Bustos Golobio

Footballer (born 1992) | Connor Essam

Spanish footballer | Luis Alberto Díez Ocerín

Pakistani footballer | Muhammad Adil

German association football player | Jil Strüngmann

Virgil van Dijk is a Dutch professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for and captains both Premier League club Liverpool and the Netherlands national team. Widely regarded as one of the best defenders of all time, he is known for his strength, leadership, speed and aerial ability. | Virgil van Dijk, Dutch footballer

Cameroonian association football player | Banana Yaya

South Korean association football player | Lee Ki-je

Danish footballer | Bashkim Kadrii

Danish footballer | Rasmus Thelander

football player | Ukrit Wongmeema

Spanish footballer | Jonathan Rodríguez Menéndez

Rafael Pereira da Silva, commonly known as Rafael or Rafael da Silva, is a Brazilian former professional footballer who last played for Campeonato Brasileiro Série A club Botafogo. He normally played as a right-back, but he has also been deployed as a midfielder. He and his twin brother, Fabio, began their careers with Fluminense before joining Manchester United in January 2008. After seven years in England that included three Premier League titles, Rafael joined Lyon in August 2015 for a fee of up to £2.5 million. | Rafael, Brazilian footballer

Qatari association football player | Boualem Khoukhi

Fabio Pereira da Silva, known as Fabio, is a Brazilian former professional footballer who last played as a full-back for Brazilian club Grêmio. | Fábio, Brazilian footballer

Irish association football player | Enda Stevens

American footballer | Joe Corona

Portuguese footballer | André Sousa

Brazilian footballer (born 1990) | Lucas Lima

association football player | Bander Al-Ahbabi

German footballer | Dani Schahin

German footballer Kurdish Origin | Deniz Naki

Russian footballer | Nail Camalief

Democratic Republic of the Congo footballer | Ridge Munsy

Brazilian footballer | Ronaldo Luiz Alves

Azerbaijani association football player | Rüstəm Lətif oğlu Novruzov

Israeli footballer | Gal Harel

Raul Andrei Rusescu is a former Romanian professional footballer who played as a forward. | Raul Rusescu, Romanian footballer

English footballer (born 1988) | Danny Green

South Korean footballer | Kim Ju-young

Polish association football player | Jakub Wójcicki

Serbian association football player | Bratislav Punoševac

Austrian footballer | Butrint Vishaj

Italian footballer | Matteo Rubin

French association football player | Ludovic Grondin

Irish association football player | Jonny Hayes

English association football player | Luke Joyce

Mexican footballer | Severo Meza

Sébastien Aymar Bassong Nguena is a former professional footballer who played as a defender. Born in France, he opted to play for the Cameroon national team. | Sébastien Bassong, Cameroonian footballer

Serbian football player | Željko Brkić

German footballer | Dennis Grote

Icelandic footballer | Kjartan Finnbogason

Russian professional footballer | Aleksei Aravin

footballer | Olga Petrova

Bosnian footballer | Boris Gujić

Uruguayan association football player | Alejandro Rodríguez

Venezuelan footballer | Alejandro Guerra

British footballer, born July 1985 | Ben Watson

Argentine footballer | Pablo Vitti

Spanish association football player | Irantzu Castrillo

Ashley Simon Young is an English professional footballer who plays as a winger, midfielder, or full-back for Premier League club Everton. | Ashley Young, English footballer

English footballer and manager (born 1984) | Liam Rosenior

Trinidad and Tobago footballer | Julius James

German footballer | Lukas Kruse

Finnish footballer | Miia Niemi

Spanish footballer | Carmelo González

Japanese association football player | Kozue Ando

Slovenian footballer | Boštjan Cesar

footballer | Grégory Poirier

Lee Chun-soo is a South Korean retired football player. He played as a forward for the South Korea national team at the 2002 and 2006 editions of the FIFA World Cup. Early in his career he was regarded as one of the most talented forwards to have emerged from South Korea. | Lee Chun-soo, South Korean footballer

Serbian footballer | Željko Ljubenović

German footballer | Marco Stark

Brazilian association football player | Dado Cavalcanti

association football player | Michael Ingham

Spanish footballer | Rubén López García-Madrid

French footballer | Olivier Blondel

Brazilian footballer | Fernando Prass

Austrian association football player (1977-) | René Mitteregger

Japanese association football player | Jo Kanazawa

Spanish footballer and manager | Francisco Noguerol

Bulgarian footballer | Ivaylo Petev

Bulgarian footballer | Miroslav Kosev

English footballer (born 1973) | Jimmy Walker

association football player | Mladen Lambulić

Ukrainian footballer | Serhiy Konyushenko

Italian footballer | Giorgio Venturin

Paolo Di Canio is an Italian former professional footballer and manager. During his playing career he made over 500 league appearances and scored over one hundred goals as a forward. He primarily played as a deep-lying forward, but he could also play as an attacking midfielder, or as a winger. Di Canio was regarded as a technically skilled but temperamental player. | Paolo Di Canio, Italian footballer and manager

Yordan Letchkov Yankov is a Bulgarian former professional footballer. He is generally regarded as one of the best players to come out of Bulgaria and was a key member of the squad which reached the semi-finals of the 1994 FIFA World Cup. Known to many as "The Magician",Letchkov was a gifted player who could play as a central midfielder or on the left side of midfield, and he was easily recognizable for his baldness. He was best known for his dribbling ability. However, his career was often adversely affected by his moody nature and the numerous arguments and fallings-out he had with fellow players and managers. He was the mayor of his home town for eight years, but was removed from duty due to corruption. | Yordan Letchkov, Bulgarian footballer

German footballer | Heiko März

Gianluca Vialli was an Italian football player and manager who played as a striker. Vialli started his club career at his hometown club Cremonese in 1980, where he made 105 league appearances and scored 23 goals. His performances impressed Sampdoria, who signed him in 1984 and with whom he scored 85 league goals, won three Italian cups, Serie A and the European Cup Winners Cup. | Gianluca Vialli, Italian footballer and coach (died 2023)

Klaus Theiss is a German former professional footballer. He made a total of 146 appearances in the Bundesliga and 94 in the 2. Bundesliga during his playing career. | Klaus Theiss, German footballer

Uruguayan footballer | Jorge Seré

French association football player | Philip Peignois

Brazilian association football player | Édson Ataliba Cândido

Stephen James Coppell is an English professional football manager and former player. | Steve Coppell, English footballer and manager

Swedish footballer and manager | Torbjörn Nilsson

Argentinian association football player | Oscar Craiyacich

Bulgarian footballer | Andrey Zhelyazkov

Orenthal James Simpson, also known by his nickname "the Juice",was an American professional football player, actor, and media personality who played in the National Football League (NFL) for 11 seasons, primarily with the Buffalo Bills. Simpson is regarded as one of the greatest running backs of all time, but his success was overshadowed by his criminal trial and controversial acquittal for the murders of his former wife Nicole Brown and her friend Ron Goldman in 1994. | O. J. Simpson, American football player, actor, and broadcaster (born 1947)

Moroccan footballer | Mohammed El Filali

Belgian footballer | Jan Verheyen

Dutch association football player | Ruud Suurendonk

Brazilian footballer (1940–2025) | Jair da Costa

Swiss footballer (1938-1985) | Philippe Pottier

English footballer and manager (1934-1998) | Graham Shaw

Argentine football player and manager (1929–1989) | Héctor Antonio

Chilean association football player | Raúl Coloma

Pedro Rodolfo Dellacha was an Argentine football player and coach. A defender, he was the captain of the Argentina national team that won the 1957 Copa América and earned the nickname "Don Pedro del Area". As a manager, he won the Copa Libertadores twice and league championships in four countries. | Pedro Dellacha, Argentine football defender and coach (died 2010)

Romanian association football player (1924-2006) | Zoltan Farmati

Argentine footballer (1916-1990) | José Salomón

Swedish footballer and manager (1909-1984) | Sven Jonasson

Argentine footballer (1909-2002) | Juan Yustrich

Argentinian association football player (1902-1975) | Pablo Bartolucci

Scottish footballer (1888-1972) | James Bowie

Dutch footballer (1885-1939) | Caius Welcker

President of the Football Association (1835-1886) | Arthur Pember