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FIFA Men's World Cup Winners Ranked From Worst To Best
You know when you’re a young child growing up and your teachers at school or church tell you everyone was created equally and should be respected as such? Well that’s BS when it comes to World Cup winners.
FIFA has put on 21 World Cups dating back to 1930. In them we’ve had deserving World Cup winners like Brazil in 1970 and Spain in 2010 and some underdog World Cup winners like Uruguay in 1950 or West Germany in 1954.
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Mbappe Congratulated By Pele After Becoming Second Teenager To Score In A World Cup Final
19-year-old France forward Kylian Mbappe put the finishing touches on a blistering World Cup campaign Sunday after scoring his fourth goal of the tournament — the PSG phenom entered the competition with just four international goals to his name.
With his strike long-range strike against Croatia in the 65th minute, Mbappe joined Pele as the only teenager to have scored in a World Cup final. Pele, at the age of 17, scored a brace as Brazil defeated Sweden 5-2 in the final of the 1958 World Cup.
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Why Do Brazil Soccer Players Go By One Name?
Brazilian soccer players have often gone by one name for more than a century. In the 2018 World Cup, 15 of Brazil's 23 players typically are referred to by a single name. For most players, it means simply going by their first name, like Neymar, or a derivative of their first name, like Marquinhos (Marcos). The practice makes Brazil stand out from most national teams, and there are a few explanations for why Brazil soccer players have just one name.
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Where Does Neymar Rank Among Brazilian Greats?
Brazil's five World Cup titles are most all time, and it's no coincidence that it has produced some of the best soccer players to ever play 'jogo bonito,' the beautiful game. Pele is a consensus No. 1 on the list of the greatest Brazlian players, but where do Ronaldinho, Ronaldo and 26-year-old Neymar rank?
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Pelé Shows The World It Is Never Too Late To Find True Love
Soccer legend Pelé is widely regarded as the greatest professional footballer who has ever played. With 767 goals from 831 matches, Pelé is the only player in history to have won three World Cups. He has shown the world that anything is possible, which includes finding true love at the age of 75 with Pelé's wife, Marcia Cibele Aoki.
The Best World Cup Players Of All Time
Here are the top 18 World Cup players of all time.
#18. Gianluigi Buffon
Though Italy’s performances in the last 2 World Cups have been sub-par, Gianluigi Buffon’s overall performances in the 4 World Cups (he’s been in 5) have been nothing short of brilliant especially when he stood on his head in 2006. He holds the record for the least amount of goals conceded in a World Cup (2 in 7 matches) and he came up with save after save en route to the Azzurri’s World Cup title. If it wasn’t for his brilliant reaction save against Zidane, France would have another World Cup title.
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Famous World Cup Footballers And Where They Are Now
Who is the greatest soccer player of all time? A question as difficult to answer as who is the greatest president, scientist, inventor, composer, actor, writer, poet, painter, musician or comedian, a near impossibility to narrow it down to just one human being amongst that elite few that we recognize as not just “great,” but “the greatest.”