Eusébio da Silva Ferreira, better known simply as Eusébio, is widely considered one of the greatest footballers in history. If he is not on your top ten list then please take a look at the achievements of this Mozambique-born player and watch and admire his goal-scoring prowess in the videos included here.

Eusébio commenced his playing career in the youth set up at Maputo-based, Sporting Clube de Lourenço Marques and made a number of senior appearances for them before moving to Portugal and commencing a 14 year long career with Benfica. His career got off to a flying start, scoring a hat-trick in his first appearance. Eusébio’s greatness as a player at Benfica is equally measurable by his goal-scoring record and the medals and trophies won. He scored an amazing 462 goals in 437 games in league and cup competition between 1961 and 1975. Few footballers achieve a strike-rate of a goal every 2 games and yet Eusébio’s record translates as an astonishing 1.06 goals per game. Eusébio won a fantastic 11 league championship-winning medals in the Primeira Liga, five domestic cup winners medals in the Taça de Portugal and one European Cup winners medal.

Having played his final game for Benfica in 1975, the following 5 years saw him play in the North American Soccer League, playing for a number of clubs, a brief spell in Mexico and 2 seasons back in Portugal. He played his final club game in 1980 in the Major Indoor Soccer League for Buffalo Stallions.

At international level, Eusébio played in only one World Cup Finals tournament in England in 1966. He finished the tournament as the top goal scorer, scoring 9 goals, including 4 in the quarter-finals against North Korea. Eusébio helped Portugal to a third place finish in the tournament.

Eusébio’s personal achievements rank amongst the very best. He won the Ballon D’Or once in 1965, he was top scorer in the Portuguese League 6 times, European Golden Boot winner twice, and was named as Portugal’s best player for 50 years in 2003.

An appraisal of the qualities and characteristics of Eusébio as one of the greatest footballers and goal-scorers in the history of the game reveals that he used power, pace and an accurate right foot to score goals. He was very much an individual who would take personal responsibility for his team’s goalscoring. With Eusébio on the pitch, his teams didn’t need another striker.

With perhaps the greatest goal-scoring strike-rate in the history of the game, Eusébio is without a doubt one of the all time greats of the beautiful game.

Alfredo Di Stéfano would be many people’s choice as the best footballer of all time. If you’ve never watched him before then watch him now and admire the skills of this goal-scoring maestro.

Diego Armando Maradona- a prime candidate for the title of world’s best player if ever there was one. Here follows one of the greatest goals ever to be scored in the World Cup Finals.

Was it an own goal? Watch VERY closely. Let us know what you think.

The debate at the moment as to who is the greatest footballer of all time is very much a live issue. The performances of fellow Argentinian, Lionel Messi in recent times has provided a fresh stimulus for the argument. Messi’s skills were show-cased at Wembley in the European Champions League final against Manchester United last year and many now regard Barcelona as the greatest football club side of all time. It might be argued that Maradona isn’t even the best Argentinian footballer of all time!

A FIFA poll conducted on the internet concluded that Diego Armando Maradona most certainly was the best soccer player of all time. What do the facts show about this fine player and what drives the diverse range of opinions held about him?

After early spells at Argentinos Juniors and Boca Juniors, Maradona’s first European club was Barcelona where he won the Copa del Rey and Spanish Super Cup but it was his move to Italy that saw his career really hit the high notes.

Very few players can be credited with winning games single-handedly, let alone championships and tournaments. Yet Diego Maradona has been widely credited with single-handedly taking Napoli to two Italian Serie-A championships, winning the UEFA Cup and the Italian Cup. To put such achievements in context, Napoli had never won the league championship or any European honours prior to his arrival, and nor have they since his departure.

The accolades about Maradona do not stop there and many believe he won the World Cup for Argentina in 1986 all on his own. The 1986 World Cup tournament proved to be the greatest and most memorable of his career, scoring a spell-binding individual goal against England, and one with, shall we say, divine intervention? Yes, in the very same game he scored his infamous “hand of God” goal. Maradona was not only rewarded with a World Cup Winner’s medal but also the Golden Ball for being the best player of the tournament.

So what qualities and attributes made Maradona one of the world’s best footballers of all time?

His diminutive physique gave him a low center of gravity and he was always very difficult to knock off the ball. He was a fine reader of the game and could strategise moves and create goal scoring opportunities with excellently executed approach-play. His individual goal against England featured here shows how the ball appears almost glued to his feet and how he is able to keep possession by skipping over tackles.

In the coming weeks and months we will have the opportunity to watch a rich array of videos about the Argentinian and we will draw upon the opinions of fans and professionals alike.

Is Diego Armando Maradona the greatest footballer in history? The debate will continue to rage.

One cannot avoid considering Alfredo Di Stéfano as one of the very best footballers in history. Any examination of soccer history must look at the development of the game through its finest exponents. Very few players reach a goal ratio in their career of 1 goal every 2 games but we shall see how Di Stéfano averaged an incredible goal every 1.25 games. A very precise calculation makes it an average of a goal every 113 minutes of football played over a playing career spanning 21 years.

Born in Buenos Aires in 1926, Di Stéfano played the first 4 years of his professsional career at River Plate scoring an astonishing 79 goals in 95 games, winning the Primera Division title twice. A brief loan spell at Huracan brought 40 goals in 55 games and a 4 year spell at Millanarios in Colombia yielded a breathtaking 120 goals in 131 games and 3 Colombian championships and one Copa Colombia.

Such a fantastic goal scoring record brought Di Stéfano to the attentions of Barcelona but during a complex legal row, Real Madrid stepped in and Di Stéfano duly signed for Real Madrid in 1953. Forming part of a legendary Real Madrid line up including his strike partner Ferenc Puskás, Di Stéfano went on to score 307 goals in 396 games over an 11 years spell at the club. Incredibly he scored a record 49 goals in 58 games in the European Cup for Real Madrid; a record which stood for 45 years. His goal scoring prowess brought him 8 Spanish Championship medals and 5 European Cup winners medals (in 5 consecutive seasons) and on a personal level he was awarded 2 Ballon D’Ors. It is worth adding that in the 5 European Cup finals he scored a goal in each of the first 4 and a hat-trick in the 5th.

Di Stefano’s playing career ended at the ripe old footballing age of 40, for Espanyol, where he spent 2 years scoring 11 goals in 47 games. He is the 4th highest scoring player in Spanish top division history.

Di Stéfano’s international career was less illustrious but he holds the distinction of having played for 3 different nations, Argentina, Colombia and Spain, though he never got to compete in World Cup Finals for any.

So what attributes did Di Stéfano have to make him an all-time great in the history of football?

Di Stéfano was noted for his fitness- a much rarer quality in those days than now- which gave him a high level of stamina. Whilst best remembered as a goal-scoring centre-forward he was equally adept when called upon to play as a midfielder and defender.

His achievements and goals speak for themselves and without question he would feature in any list of the best football players in history. If he is a player that has fallen under your radar of the best footballers in the history of the game then stand up and take note now and watch a video here of Alfredo Di Stéfano, one of the best players in the history of the beautiful game.