In 1997, the Italian magazine Venerd� (which is distributed within the La Reppublica newspaper) published the result of an election for the best 100 players of all-time. The elected ones are listed below. BRAZIL 1 - ADEMIR Marques de Menezes 2 - AMARILDO Tavares Santana 3 - CARLOS ALBERTO TORRES 4 - DIDI (Valdir Pereira) 5 - DJALMA SANTOS 6 - DUNGA (Carlos Caetano Bledorn Verri) 7 - Paulo Roberto FALC�O 8 - Arthur FRIEDENREICH 9 - GARRINCHA (Manoel Francisco dos Santos) 10 - JAIRZINHO (Jair Ventura Filho) 11 - JULINHO (Julio Botelho) 12 - MAZOLA (Jos� Jo�o ALTAFINI) 13 - N�LTON SANTOS 14 - PEL� (�dson Arantes do Nascimento) 15 - Roberto RIVELLINO 16 - ROM�RIO de Souza Farias 17 - RONALDO Naz�rio de Lima 18 - S�CRATES B.S.S. Vieira de Oliveira 19 - M�rio Jorge Lobo ZAGALLO 20 - ZICO (Arthur Antunes Coimbra) 21 - ZITO (Jos� Ely de Miranda) ITALY 22 - Franco BARESI 23 - Giampiero BONIPERTI 24 - Gianpiero COMBI 25 - Giacinto FACCHETTI 26 - Giuseppe MEAZZA 27 - Eraldo MONZEGLIO 28 - PAOLO MALDINI 29 - PAOLO ROSSI 30 - Luigi RIVA 31 - Gianni RIVERA 32 - ROBERTO BAGGIO 33 - SANDRO MAZZOLA 34 - Angelo SCHIAVIO 35 - Gaetano SCIREA 36 - VALENTINO MAZZOLA 37 - Dino ZOFF ARGENTINA 38 - Osvaldo ARDILES 39 - Alfredo DI STEFANO 40 - Ubaldo Matildo FILLOL 41 - Mario KEMPES 42 - Diego Armando MARADONA 43 - Raimundo ORSI 44 - Daniel PASSARELLA 45 - Omar Enrique SIVORI ENGLAND 46 - Gordon BANKS 47 - BILLY WRIGHT 48 - BOBBY CHARLTON 49 - BOBBY MOORE 50 - Paul GASCOIGNE 51 - Jimmy GREAVES 52 - Gary LINEKER 53 - Stanley MORTENSEN 54 - STANLEY MATTHEWS URUGUAY 55 - Enzo FRANCESCOLI 56 - Alcides GHIGGIA 57 - LEANDRO ANDRADE 58 - Juan SCHIAFFINO GERMANY 59 - Franz BECKENBAUER 60 - Andreas BREHME 61 - FRITZ WALTER 62 - GERD M�LLER 63 - Helmut HALLER 64 - Lothar MATTH�EUS 65 - Wolfgang OVERATH 66 - Karl-Heinz RUMMENIGGE 67 - Mathias SAMMER 68 - Uwe SEELER 69 - Berti VOGTS NETHERLANDS 70 - Johann CRUYFF 71 - Ruud GULLIT 72 - Ruud KROL 73 - Johan NEESKENS 74 - Marco VAN BASTEN SWEDEN 75 - Gunnar GREN 76 - Kurt HAMRIN 77 - Niels LIEDHOLM 78 - Gunnar NORDAHL FRANCE 79 - Just FONTAINE 80 - Raymond KOPA 81 - Michel PLATINI SPAIN 82 - Emilio BUTRAGUE�O 83 - Francisco GENTO 84 - Lu�s SU�REZ 85 - Ricardo ZAMORA HUNGARY 86 - Florian ALBERT 87 - Ferenc PUSKAS SCOTLAND 88 - Kenny DALGLISH 89 - DENNIS LAW PORTUGAL 90 - EUS�BIO Ferreira da Silva POLAND 91 - Grzegorz LATO SOVIET UNION 92 - Lev YASHIN CZECHOSLOVAKIA 93 - Josef MASOPUST BULGARIA 94 - Hristo STOICHKOV CAMEROON 95 - Roger MILLA MEXICO 96 - HUGO S�NCHEZ This list was divulged in Brazil by the newspaper "O Estado de S�o Paulo". The last four names were either forgotten or lost by the newspaper.
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