Welcome to OneFootball’s definitive rating of the 25 best gamers of the final 25 years.
Over the course of 25 days, we will likely be counting down our prime 25 males’s footballers of the twenty first century thus far, earlier than revealing the winner on 1st January 2025.
At present, our countdown continues with…
fifteenth: Gianluigi Buffon (296 factors)
Nationality: Italian (176 caps)
Essential golf equipment: Parma, Juventus, PSG
Main trophies received: Serie A (x10), Ligue 1 (x1), UEFA Cup (x1), World Cup (x1)
Main particular person awards: UEFA Membership Footballer of the Yr (x1), Serie A Goalkeeper of the Yr (x13), World Cup All Star (x1)
Highest rating amongst voters: 4th (two voters)
Gianluigi Buffon stays an idol to at the present time to anybody who had aspirations of being a goalkeeper, with the Italian the most effective ever to grace the gloves.
He outlined an period, popularising the place and altering the view of goalkeepers perpetually, going from energy to energy after his then world file switch from Parma to Juventus.
At his peak, he had no equal and got here second within the 2006 Ballon d’Or voting, solely dropping out to worldwide and membership colleague Fabio Cannavaro.
Enjoyable truth
📸 Michael Regan – 2015 Getty Photographs
In March 2016 throughout a derby in opposition to Torino, Buffon set an unbelievable file by going 973 consecutive minutes with out conceding a aim, eclipsing the mark of 929 which had beforehand been held by Sebastiano Rossi.
Watch him in actionHow we voted
Thirty-eight members of OneFootball’s international editorial group ranked their prime 25 gamers of the twenty first century thus far. Gamers ranked at #1 earned 25 factors, second place earned 24 factors, and so forth. Within the occasion of a tie, the participant with the very best particular person rating was positioned greater on the checklist.
📸 GIUSEPPE CACACE – AFP