Pele, Di Stefano, Moore and Cruyff: Biographical Sketches

The idea to determine the best players and draw up all sorts of symbolic teams is not Nova. This is loved to engage in all corners of the world on the occasion of various anniversaries and at the end of large football tournaments. The most large-scale this process has been in the last years of the last century: on the eve of the 1998 World Cup in France, hundreds of football browsers from all over the planet took part in the organized FIFA, a grand survey, designed to determine the composition of the symbolic team, which would be the high title The World of XX Century title . This is whom 130 European journalists included in the Symbolic team of the Old World: Lev Yashin (USSR) - Franz Beckenbauer (Germany), Bobby Moore (England), Paolo Maldini and Franco Bareni (Italy) - Johan Kruiiff (Holland), Michel Platini (France) And Bobby Charlton (England) - Eidsebio (Portugal), Ferenz Pushkash (Hungary) and Marco Van Basten (Holland) The Publishing House Eksmo, in turn, opens a new large-scale project, which was called Club 100 of the best players of the world. In order to make a choice as widely and objective, it was decided to create a representative editorial council, which included authoritative foreign journalists, who regularly taking our biographical essays together with the authors participation in all sorts of surveys and voting. This is Brian Greenville, Cyrus Raddja, Paddy Agnus, Graham Turner, Pierre Cavra. Massimo Frank, Karl-Heinz Hymann, Head-famous observers from England, Ireland, Spain, France, Italy, Germany and Croatia, regularly speaking in such authoritative publications as Warld Socker, Gardian, Time. Don Ballon, West France, France Football, Tutosport, Kickker, and many others. Entered the editorial advice of our publishing house and domestic specialists: Valentin Bubukin, Yuri Gavrilov, Valentin Ivanov, Anatoly Isaev, Vladimir Kesarev, Vyacheslav Koloskov, Evgeny Lovchev, Vladimir Maslachenko, Valery Maslov, Victor Papaev, Victor Monday, Yuri Sevidov, Nikita Simonyan, Victor Tikhonov and Victor Tsarev