Soccer Stars

Learn about the lives and see images of the greatest Soccer athletes.

The images and biographies of twenty of the world’s greatest athletic stars are listed in this application.

In the United States, Canada, Australia, Ireland, Southern Africa, Japan, and half of the Philippines the game is called “Soccer”. Elsewhere on the planet it is referred to as “Football” or some variation of that word (i.e. “Futebol”, "Calcio" and "Nogomet").

It is played by 250 million players in over 200 countries, making it the world's most popular sport.

Virtually every country on Earth sponsors a soccer/football team and these individuals are the highest-ranking players from twenty different nations. All of them have achieved 55 International goals or more. The top contender, Ali Daei, has 109 to his record.