Michael Essien

Serbian association football player | Damjan Dostanić

Ivorian association football player | Bamo Meïté

Mexican association football player | César Huerta

football player | Kai Klefisch

English association football player (born 1998) | Marcus Edwards

English footballer | Chloe Peplow

association football player | Georgi Tartov

association football player | Said Aliyev

Belgian association football player | Gaëtan Coucke

Argentine association football and futsal player | Lorena Benítez

Slovenian association football player | David Brekalo

Ghanaian association football player | Yaw Annor

Polish association football player | Ewa Pajor

association football player (born 1996) | Christian Scales

German footballer | Timon Wellenreuther

Nigerian association football player | Samuel Adegbenro

Welsh association football player | Tom Lockyer

Belgian association football player | David Iboma

Czech association football player | Antonín Barák

Argentinian association football player | Héctor Fértoli

Israeli footballer | Eli Dasa

Japanese footballer | Takashi Odawara

Albanian footballer | Armando Vajushi

Chilean footballer | Felipe Gallegos

Norwegian association football player | Torgeir Børven

English footballer | Tom Pett

South Africa footballer | Lebogang Ramalepe

Japanese association football player | Takuji Yonemoto

Guinean association football player (1990-) | Idrissa Sylla

Bulgarian footballer | Momchil Tsvetanov

Italian footballer | Fausto Rossi

association football player (born 1990) | David McDaid

Turkish female footballer | Sevinç Çorlu

English footballer (born 1990) | Kerys Harrop

Christian Benteke Liolo is a Belgian professional footballer who plays as a striker for Major League Soccer club D.C. United. | Christian Benteke, Belgian footballer

Alex Simon McCarthy is an English professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Premier League club Southampton. | Alex McCarthy, English footballer

Kyrgyzstani footballer | Azamat Baymatov

Footballer (born 1989) | Cameron MacDonald

Croatian footballer | Nikola Tkalčić

Bangladeshi footballer | Nasir Chowdhury

Brazilian association football player | Keirrison

Dutch footballer | Michiel Kramer

Dutch footballer | Christiaan Cicek

Danish footballer | Christian Mouritsen

Italian association football player | Valeria Pirone

association football player | Carlos Henao

Nigerien footballer | Boubacar Talatou

Norwegian footballer | Mats Solheim

Japanese association football player | Akio Yoshida

Chinese footballer | Zhao Xuri

Andorran footballer | Josep Gómes

Avraam Papadopoulos is a Greek former professional footballer who played as a centre-back. He was born in Melbourne, Australia, to Greek parents. | Avraam Papadopoulos, Greek footballer

Romanian association football player | Cosmin Moți

Argentine footballer | Ramón Ignacio Fernández

Ecuadorian footballer | Marco Mosquera

Bosnian footballer | Muamer Salibašić

David Villa Sánchez is a Spanish former professional footballer who played as a striker. Regarded as one of the best strikers of his generation, Villa is the all-time top goalscorer of the Spain national team. He is currently the vice-president of Spanish Tercera Federación club CF Benidorm. | David Villa, Spanish footballer

Ioannis Amanatidis is a Greek football manager and former player. As a player, Amanatidis played as a striker and winger, and was active professionally in Germany. He also represented Greece at senior international level. | Ioannis Amanatidis, Greek footballer

French association football player and handball player | Geoffroy Krantz

Austrian association football player | Gerald Krajic

footballer (born 1981) | Martin Canning

Lithuanian footballer | Mindaugas Grigalevičius

Norwegian association football player | Marius Solberg

Swiss footballer | Fabio Coltorti

Ghanaian footballer (born 1980) | William Kwabena Tiero

Croatian footballer | Andre Mijatović

German footballer | Stephan Sieger

Polish footballer | Marcin Kaczmarek

Daniel Alexandersson is a Swedish former professional footballer who played as a midfielder or forward. He is the younger brother of Niclas Alexandersson. | Daniel Alexandersson, Swedish footballer

Ghanaian footballer | Emanuel Bentil

football referee | Tsvetan Krastev

Slovak football player | Ľubomír Reiter

Spanish association football player | Jon Solaun Akarregi

German association football player | Harald Gfreiter

Heiko Herrlich is a German football manager and former player who played as a striker. | Heiko Herrlich, German footballer and manager

Hendrik "Henk"Timmer is a Dutch former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper. | Henk Timmer, Dutch footballer and manager

Frank Mohammed Sinclair is a former professional football player and manager who is a coach. | Frank Sinclair, English-Jamaican footballer and manager

French footballer and coach | Fabrice Grange

Christian Lali Kake Karembeu is a French former professional footballer who played as a defensive midfielder. He is currently the sporting director for Olympiacos. | Christian Karembeu, French footballer

German footballer | Dirk Heinen

French association football player | Sylvio Joseph

Flemming Søgaard Povlsen is a Danish football pundit and former professional footballer who played as a striker. Born in Aarhus and a youth product of Viby IF, Povlsen also played in The Netherlands, Spain and Germany, until a knee injury forced him to retire, at only 28 years of age. Before the injury, Povlsen rose to prominence at FC Cologne, before settling at Borussia Dortmund, with whom he won the 1995 Bundesliga and played the final half of his career. At an international level, he was among the profiles on the Denmark squad that won the 1992 UEFA European Football Championship. | Flemming Povlsen, Danish footballer and manager

Hungarian association football player | István Kozma

Ukrainian association footballer | Volodymyr Shekhovtsov

football player | Sándor Holdampf

association football player | Bodo Gladrow

Argentine footballer | Alberto Tarantini

Greek footballer (1952-2010) | Christos Hatziskoulidis

French footballer (1952-2008) | Hervé Gorce

Italian footballer | Giorgio Bittolo

Uruguayan footballer (1945-2017) | Luis Garisto

Croatian footballer (born 1943) | Zdenko Kobeščak

Pedro Virgilio Rocha Franchetti was a Uruguayan footballer who played 52 games for the Uruguay national team between 1961 and 1974. Nicknamed "el Verdugo",he was a highly skillful midfielder and a prolific goalscorer, regarded by Pelé as "one of the 5 best players in the world". He was listed by the IFFHS as the 37th greatest South American player of the XXth century. | Pedro Rocha, Uruguayan footballer and manager (died 2013)

Japanese association football player and manager | Saburo Kawabuchi

football player (1934-2009) | Henk Koning

Italian association football player (1929-2014) | Corrado Viciani

Swedish footballer (1928-2004) | Ingemar Haraldsson

Peruvian footballer (1926-2020) | Walter Ormeño

Wiel Coerver was a Dutch football manager and the developer of the "Coerver Method",a football coaching technique. | Wiel Coerver, Dutch footballer and manager (died 2011)

Stjepan Bobek was a Yugoslav and Croatian professional football striker and later football manager. | Stjepan Bobek, Croatian footballer and manager (born 1923)

French association football player (1921-2018) | Paul Sinibaldi

Brazilian footballer (1921-1979) | Tesourinha

Argentinian association football player | José García Pérez

Brazilian footballer and manager (1920-1996) | Danilo Alvim

Şeref Görkey was a Turkish footballer and manager who mainly served Turkish side Beşiktaş throughout his career. Nicknamed Voleci Şeref, literally meaning "Şeref the Volley Scorer",due to his tally of scoring 99 goals of volley shots during his career, Görkey wore number 10 shirt whilst his entire spell at Beşiktaş. He was also part of Turkey's squad at the 1936 Summer Olympics, but he did not play in any matches. | Şeref Görkey, Turkish footballer and manager (born 1913)

Hakkı Yeten was a Turkish football player and president of the Istanbul-based football club Beşiktaş J.K., which he also coached. He is one of the most important names in Beşiktaş history. | Hakkı Yeten, Turkish footballer, manager and president (born 1910)

Italian footballer (1909-1971) | Giovanni Moretti

Italian footballer (1909–1988) | Pietro Arcari

Italian footballer (1906-1978) | Aldo Borsani

Footballer (1904-1982) | Jimmy Walton

Norwegian footballer (1898-1955) | Asbjørn Halvorsen

French association football player (1896-1998) | Roger Ébrard

Dutch association football player (1895-1978) | George Beijers

association footballer (1890-1969) | Béla Kiss

English footballer (1890-1916) | Donald Simpson Bell

Footballer (1887-1952) | Charlie Lemons