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The Best Players Who Never Won the Ballon d’Or

The Ballon d’Or is awarded to the best footballer in the world each year—but some of the greatest ever have missed out.

Sports Illustrated

The Best No. 10s in Soccer History—Past and Present

The No. 10 role has always been, and still is, football’s creative heartbeat.

Sports Illustrated

Best Brazilian Soccer Players of All Time: Ranking the Top 10

Discover the 10 best Brazilian soccer players of all time, from Pelé to Ronaldinho, as we rank the legends who shaped the beautiful game.

Sports Illustrated

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Players who scored four or more goals in a match

Hat-tricks are fairly common in football. Scoring four or more in a match, less so. Here, a look at some players who managed it...

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Ranked! The 10 best Brazilian players ever

Our countdown of the best Brazilian players of all time is a who's who of the beautiful game

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Ranked! The top 18 footballers who became politicians

Some may be desperate to keep politics out of football, but the two disciplines have always mixed...

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From Messi’s triumph to Federer’s retirement: 2022’s top sport stories

From the moment Lionel Messi lifted the World Cup – the one major prize he had lacked – to the moment Roger Federer hung up his tennis racket, 2022 was a remarkable year in sport. FRANCE 24 looks back at all the highlights of the past 12 months.

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Top clips: Memories of Pele and fashion’s Vivienne Westwood

This week, we pay tribute to two icons - Brazilian football great Pele and fashion pioneer Vivienne Westwood.

The New Daily

When King Pele enjoyed the 'beautiful game' with school children in Delhi

NEW DELHI: "It's an honour for me to celebrate the world's greatest sport with the children of India," these words from Pele seven years ago will ring forever in the ears of football fans in Delhi.

The Times of India

Football legend Pele dies aged 82 after World Cup hero's cancer battle

Pele - who is considered to be football's first global superstar - had been treated for colon cancer, following surgery to remove a tumour in September 2021, and had required regular medical treatment.

Nottingham Post

Pelé obituary: The king of football who came to define Brazil

Brazilians revered Pelé, the greatest football player of his generation, as O Rei, the king, and no one man came to define a country as much as he did during his lifetime of footballing brilliance.

ABC News

Zinedine Zidane: Cristiano Ronaldo and David Beckham in agreement over Real Madrid icon

ZINEDINE ZIDANE AT 50: The Ballon d'Or winner is widely regarded as one of the greatest players of all time and is the only manager to win three consecutive European Cups

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