Pelé *Best Dribbling Skills, Passing & Goals* Part 2

The World Cup's top 100 footballers: by nationality, goals scored and votes
Pelé has taken the top spot in the Guardian's 2014 list of the top 100 all-time World Cup footballers. See the full list and how it breaks down by nationality, decade and goals

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Guardian Top 100 World Cup players
RankNameCountryWorld CupsApp.Goals
1
Pelé
Brazil
1958, 1962, 1966, 1970
1414
1212
2
Diego Maradona
Argentina
1982, 1986, 1990, 1994
2121
88
3
Franz Beckenbauer
West Germany
1966, 1970, 1974
1818
55
4
Ronaldo
Brazil
1994, 1998, 2002, 2006
1919
1515
5
Zinedine Zidane
France
1998, 2002, 2006
1212
55
6
Johan Cruyff
Holland
1974
77
33
7
Lothar Matthäus
West Germany/Germany
1982, 1986, 1990, 1994, 1998
2525
66
8
Gerd Müller
West Germany
1970, 1974
1313
1414
9
Garrincha
Brazil
1958, 1962, 1966
1212
55
10
Michel Platini
France
1978, 1982, 1986
1414
55


Judging panel and categories
• We recruited 40 judges in total and split them into three categories: World Cup legends, Guardian journalists and international experts.
• Each category of judge accounts for a third of the overall score.
• Our aim was to achieve a spread of age, nationality, experience and area of specialism.
• The judges below are listed in alphabetical order.
World Cup legends
• John Barnes, England winger who scored against Brazil at Maracanã in 1984
• Itu Khune, South Africa goalkeeper at 2010 World Cup
• Lothar Matthäus, Germany's winning captain in 1990 who appeared in five World Cups
• Sunday Oliseh, Nigeria midfielder at the 1994 and 1998 World Cups
• Kelly Smith, England women's striker, played at 2007 and 2011 World Cups
• Zico, renowned midfielder who played in three World Cups for Brazil
Guardian journalists
• Paolo Bandini, Italian football correspondent
• Simon Burnton, football writer
• Marcus Christenson, football editor
• James Dart, sports editor, theguardian.com
• Fernando Duarte, Brazilian football correspondent
• Dominic Fifield, football writer
• Owen Gibson, chief sports correspondent
• Barry Glendenning, deputy sports editor, theguardian.com
• Matthew Hancock, Observer sports editor
• Raphael Honigstein, German football correspondent
• Andy Hunter, football writer
• David Hytner, football writer
• Stuart James, football writer
• Amy Lawrence, football writer
• Sid Lowe, Spanish football correspondent
• Ian Prior, GNM head of sport
• Barney Ronay, senior sports writer
• Martin Rose, Guardian sports editor
• Daniel Taylor, chief football writer
• Aaron Timms, Australian football correspondent
• Jonathan Wilson, columnist and international expert
• Paul Wilson, Observer football correspondent
International experts
• Gary Al-Smith, African football expert
• Vitor Hugo Alvarenga, football writer, Maisfutebol, Portugal
• Philippe Auclair, senior writer, France Football
• Martin Charquero, football journalist, Uruguay
• Stavros Drakoularakos, sports writer at Sport24.gr, Greece
• John Duerden, Asian football expert
• Thore Haugstad, editor, official Fifa 2014 World Cup magazine
• Aleksandar Holiga, football writer, Croatia
• Carlo Laudisa, senior writer, La Gazzetta dello Sport, Italy
• Ben Mabley, football writer, Japan
• Artur Petrosyan, editor in chief, Sport-Express, Russia
• Carl Worswick, football writer, Colombia
How our judges made their choices
• To begin with, Guardian staff compiled a longlist of more than 150 players who have left a mark on the World Cup finals to help our judges make their selection.
• The longlist was compiled using various sources and historical documents to achieve a spread of eras, positions and nationalities.
• Judges were asked one simple question: "who have been the greatest players in the history of the World Cup?"
• Each judge was left to define greatness on their own terms.
• They were also free to choose players not on our original longlist if they wished.
• We asked our judges to choose 40 names each, and rank their selection in order from 1-40, No1 being their choice of the greatest player ever at the World Cup.
How the voting worked
• The No1 choice of each judge was awarded 40pts, No2 given 39pts, down to 1pt for their No40 choice.
• All the votes were added together to give a final raw score for each category of judges.
• The raw scores from each category were then weighted so that they accounted for a third of the overall score.
• With 22 Guardian judges, 12 international experts and six World Cup legends, this meant the experts' score was multiplied by 1.833 and the legends' score by 3.667 to achieve parity with the Guardian journalists' score.