The Top 50 Footballers In the World

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Some of them are still playing, others have retired. Still, they remain the best players of the past times. Find out who they are and how to pronounce their names.

1 - Lionel Andrés Messi	26 - Willian Borges da Silva
2 - Cristiano Ronaldo	27 - Marco Reus
3 - Xavi	28 - Franck Ribéry
4 - Andrés Iniesta	29 - Manuel Neuer
5 - Zlatan Ibrahimović	30 - Ashley Cole
6 - Radamel Falcao	31 - Wayne Rooney
7 - Robin van Persie	32 - Juan Manuel Mata García
8 - Andrea Pirlo	33 - Thomas Müller
9 - Yaya Touré	34 - Mario Götze
10 - Edinson Roberto Cavani Gómez	35 - Karim Benzema
11 - Sergio Agüero	36 - Cesc Fàbregas
12 - Iker Casillas Fernández	37 - Oscar dos Santos Emboaba Júnior
13 - Neymar	38 - Fernandinho
14 - Sergio Busquets	39 - Javier Mascherano
15 - Xabi Alonso	40 - Gareth Bale
16 - Thiago Emiliano da Silva de Souza	41 - Javier Zanetti
17 - Mesut Özil	42 - Daniele De Rossi
18 - David Josué Jiménez Silva	43 - Daniel Alves
19 - Bastian Schweinsteiger	44 - Petr Čech
20 - Luis Suárez	45 - Mats Hummels
21 - Sergio Ramos García	46 - Carles Puyol
22 - Vincent Kompany	47 - Ángel Di María
23 - Gerard Piqué i Bernabeu	48 - Carlos Tévez
24 - Philipp Lahm	49 - Didier Drogba
25 - Toni Kroos	50 - Giorgio Chiellini