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These Football Times is currently having a feature where they're listing the 50 best players from 50 different nations. To be quite honest, it's not their best stuff but if you have some time to kill, check it out.

Now, without cheating by going on the site, can you guys guess who most of the players are from the drawings?

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I've read a few but I won't list the guys I had no idea who they were. Starting form the top left:

1. Ali Daei
2. Ahmed Radhi
3.Benedict MaCarthy
4. Davor Suker
5. Angelos Charisteas
6. Zbigniew Boniek
7. Carlos Valderrama
8. Didier Drogba
9. CR7
10. Enzo Francescoli
11. Gordon Banks
12. Baresi
13. George Best
14. Erwin Sanchez
15. Beckenbauer
16. Ferenc Puskas
17. Hakan Sukur
18. Gareth Bale
19. Hidetoshi Nakata
20. Gheorghe Hagi
21. Hans Krankl
22. Hristo Stoichov
23. Hugo Sanchez

Here is where the big number 50 messes things up so I can hardly see the faces.
24. Jan Ceulemans
25. Jose Luis Chilavert
26. Kenny Dalglish
27. Johan Cruyff
28. Lev Yashin
29. Park Ji-sung
30. Marcelo Salas
31. El Diego
32. Juan Arango
33. Essien
34. Mark Viduka
35. Michael Laudrup
36. Nwanko Kanu
37. Macca? This has thrown me off a bit, in what farking metric is Macca the greatest England has ever produced?
38. Mohamed Aboutrika
39. Ole Gunnar Solskjer
40. Oleg Blokhin
41. Robbie Keane
42. Pele
43. Pavel Nedved
44. Safet Susic
45. Stepahne Chapuisat
46. Xavi
47. Cubillas
48. Zizou
49. Eto
50. Zlatan

Edited to add: After publishing, I realized I didn't have anyone for Italy, looking at the pics, I figure #12 is Baresi so added him to the list.

Edited #2: Added the ones identified by Incubation #5, 6, 11, ,17, 19 and 29 and #2 and 10 from Luiginho

Edited #3: Added #26 to the list from Ceremony

Edited #4: Added #16 and 24 from Incubation

Edited #5: Added #2,3 14, 38 and 45 from Luiginho

Edited #6: Added #21 and 40 from gary69

Edited #7: Added #32 from Incubation

Edited #8: Corrected #44 to Safet Susic from Evilo. Removed #29 since Ahn is not the answer.

Edited #9: Park Ji-sung added to the list at #29 by Ivan13
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1. No
2. No
3. No
4. No
5. Charisteas
6. No
7. Valderamma
8. Drogba
9. Cristiano
10. No
11. Yashin
12. No
13. Best
14. No
15. Beckenbauer
16. No
17. No
18. Bales
19. Nakata
20. No
21. No
22. No
23. Rafa Marquez
24. Torres
25. No
26. Dalglish
27. Cruyff
28. Yashin
29. No
30. No
31. Maradona
32. No
33. No
34. No
35. Laudrup
36. No
37. No
38. Martin Keown
39. No
40. No
41. Robbie Keane
42. Pele
43. Nedved
44. No
45. No
46. Xavi
47. No
48. Zidane
49. Eto'o
50. Ibrahimovic

I think I'd be ale to name even less of the countries pictured tbh
 
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Ceremony said:
1. No
2. No
3. No
4. No
5. Charisteas
6. No
7. Valderamma
8. Drogba
9. Cristiano
10. No
11. Yashin
12. No
13. Best
14. No
15. Beckenbauer
16. No
17. No
18. Bales
19. Nakata
20. No
21. No
22. No
23. Rafa Marquez
24. Torres
25. No
26. Dalglish
27. Cruyff
28. Yashin
29. No
30. No
31. Maradona
32. No
33. No
34. No
35. Laudrup
36. No
37. No
38. Martin Keown
39. No
40. No
41. Robbie Keane
42. Pele
43. Nedved
44. No
45. No
46. Xavi
47. No
48. Zidane
49. Eto'o
50. Ibrahimovic

I think I'd be ale to name even less of the countries pictured tbh
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23 is Hugo Sanchez I think.

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24 is probably not Torres since 46 is Xavi for sure.

Added Dalglish to the list.
 
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14 Erwin Sánchez from Bolivia
45 Stephane Chapuisat

#2 is in fact Ahmed Radhi from Iraq. The eagle on the jersey got me confused.
The egyptian guy is #38 Mohamed Aboutrika

If #3 is South Africa then I think it's Benni McCarthy
 
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Maradona, didn't even see that one. 2 weeks and a whopping 15 goal season (his personnal best in Europe) are apparently better than Messi's career?

WOW. :facepalm:
 
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Evilo said:
Platini was more efficient than Zidane.
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The article really emphasized Zizou's ability to come up big in big games. Meh, it could have been worst, they could have put Cantona in there for all we know.

So 4 names missing, time to think outside the box and think about countries that are not on the list so far. The biggest one I can think of is Bosnia.

Biggest names to come out of Bosnia? Dejan Savicevic, Pedrag Mijatovic, Sinisa Mihajlovic and judging by what I'm seeing at #44, I would guess that Dragan Stojkovic is the one we're seeing here? If you zoom in on the pic, the right badge on the jersey says Laguna Porec, which is in Croatia. I'm really grasping at straws here.
 
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#44 looks like Yugoslavia. Not sure though. If that's the case I would go with Stojkovic but I need someone to corroborate.
 
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Well, I dated a woman who lived in Argentina for a bunch of years and from what she told me, opinions on Messi in Argentina are quite divided. For many of them, he's a European who saves his best for Barca and barely shows up when it's time to suit for the national team. They call him heart of paper or heartless, I forgot, I dumped that chick years ago.

And they still love Diego like crazy, regardless of the drugs, the embarrassment he brought upon the country as a player and a coach, he can do no wrong over there, they still worship him like crazy.
 
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