Posted April 9, 20187 yr With the World Cup drawing closer, it’s time to take a look at the people who defined the sport with our Ultimate Footballer contest. We’ll be seeing which footballers we think are the best, pitting the greats against each other to see who Buzzjack crowns as our Ultimate Footballer! It’s Semi-Final time now – we received 78 nominations in total, which have been randomly allocated into 3 groups of 26 (note ‘randomly’ – if all the best have been stuffed into the same semi it’s not my fault). Ten players from each group will advance through to the Final. It’s now time for you to vote – you can vote for up to 15 players, but you MUST vote for at least 5. Please make your order obvious (or at least obvious enough for us to know what you’re on about). Group 1 Tony Adams Michael Ballack Billy Bremner Gianluigi Buffon Eric Cantona Ashley Cole Johan Cruyff Eusebio Steven Gerrard Ryan Giggs Joe Gormley Emile Heskey Glenn Hoddle Ray Houghton Roy Keane Paolo Maldini Gerd Muller Pavel Nedved Manuel Neuer Michael Owen Pele Ronaldinho Paul Scholes Bastian Schweinsteiger Ian Wright Dino Zoff The deadline is 16th April 2018 23:59. Get voting!
April 11, 20187 yr Author +15 Pele +14 Ronaldinho +13 Eric Cantona +12 Eusebio +11 Johan Cruyff +10 Billy Bremner +9 Dino Zoff +8 Gerd Muller +7 Glenn Hoddle +6 Ian Wright +5 Gianluigi Buffon +4 Ryan Giggs +3 Paolo Maldini +2 Michael Ballack +1 Bastian Schweinsteiger
April 11, 20187 yr +15- Pele +14- Ronaldinho +13- Eusebio +12- Johan Cruyff +11- Eric Cantona +10- Gerd Muller +9- Paolo Maldini +8- Steven Gerrard +7- Glenn Hoddle +6- Michael Owen +5- Paul Scholes +4- Ian Wright +3- Roy Keane +2- Gianluigi Buffon +1- Ryan Giggs
April 12, 20187 yr My opinion based ranking (which is also influenced by media hype for players who I did not get to see in my lifetime): 1. Pele (best) 2. Johan Cruyff 3. Paolo Maldini 4. Ronaldinho 5. Ryan Giggs 6. Paul Scholes 7. Roy Keane 8. Steven Gerrard 9. Gianluigi Buffon 10. Eric Cantona 11. Michael Owen 12. Pavel Nedved 13. Eusebio 14. Manuel Neuer 15. Ashley Cole
April 14, 20187 yr +15: Pele +14: Ronaldinho +13: Gerd Muller +12: Paul Scholes +11: Ryan Giggs +10: Eusebio +09: Johan Cruyff +08: Paolo Maldini +07: Eric Cantona +06: Steven Gerrard +05: Roy Keane +04: Dino Zoff +03: Gianluigi Buffon +02: Ashley Cole +01: Michael Owen
April 14, 20187 yr 1. Tony Adams 2. Ian Wright 3. Pele 4. Johan Cruyff 5. Eusebio 6. Gerd Muller 7. Ronaldinho 8. Dino Zoff 9. Steven Gerrard 10. Ryan Giggs 11. Eric Cantona 12. Glenn Hoddle 13. Gianliugi Buffon 14. Michael Owen 15. Ashley Cole It could be argued that Tony Adams wasn't quite as good as Pele but it would be too predictable if we all put Pele in first place.
April 15, 20187 yr 1st Pele 2 Johan Cruyff 3 Eric Cantona 4 Gerd Muller 5 Glenn Hoddle 6 Paul Scholes 7 Ryan Giggs 8 Dino Zoff 9 Manuel Neuer 10 Gianluigi Buffon 11 Eusebio 12 Steven Gerrard 13 Michael Ballack 14 Billy Bremner 15 Paolo Maldini
April 15, 20187 yr Group 1 Tony Adams 12th Michael Ballack 13th Gianluigi Buffon 14th Ashley Cole 15th Johan Cruyff 2nd Steven Gerrard 4th Ryan Giggs 3rd Emile Heskey 11th Glenn Hoddle 10th Roy Keane 9th Manuel Neuer 5th Michael Owen 6th Pele 1st Paul Scholes 7th Ian Wright 8th
April 15, 20187 yr 1. Johan Cruijff 2. Glenn Hoddle 3. Paulo Maldini 4. Ronaldinho 5. Eric Cantona 6. Ryan Giggs 7. Pavel Nedved 8. Eusebio 9. Steven Gerrard 10. Manuel Neuer Edited April 15, 20187 yr by Sven10
April 15, 20187 yr Group 1 1=top 10=bottom 1) Pele 2) Tony Adams 3) Johan Cruyff 4)Steven Gerrard 5) Roy Keane 6) Manuel Neuer 7) Paul Scholes 8) Bastian Schwensteiger 9) Michael Ballack 10) Eric Cantona Edited April 15, 20187 yr by bigwiglaf
April 17, 20187 yr Author Results: 11 Paolo Maldini 47 pts 12 Roy Keane 35 pts 13 Michael Owen 34 pts 14 Tony Adams 33 pts 15 Ian Wright 32 pts 16 Dino Zoff 29 pts 17 Gianluigi Buffon 28 pts 18 Manuel Neuer 26 pts 19 Michael Ballack 15 pts 20 Pavel Nedved 13 pts 21 Billy Bremner 12 pts 22 Bastian Schweinsteiger 9 pts 23 Ashley Cole 5 pts 24 Emile Heskey 5 pts 25 Ray Houghton 0 pts 26 Joe Gormley 0 pts So we lose a few decent players in this first semi, but that's the nature of the competition. In fact, everyone from 12 downwards was out of the running anyway, the Top 10 being a close-run 11-horse race, with Maldini just being pushed out in the last vote, a mere 2 points behind 10th place. Following them is Irish-great-turned-commentator Roy Keane, followed by three English greats and two Italian goalkeepers, a German goalie just behind them in Neuer. More recent English players Cole and Heskey get 5 points apiece, and with Steve not here to vote two of his Irish choices receive nul points. Which brings us to our Top 10, in alphabetical order: Eric Cantona Johan Cruyff Eusebio Steven Gerrard Ryan Giggs Glenn Hoddle Gerd Muller Pele Ronaldinho Paul Scholes
April 17, 20187 yr Pretty good results there although Maldini should 100% be in ahead of Hoddle :lol: Gwon Emile!
April 17, 20187 yr Same here would swap Hoddle for Maldini there. Quite a surprise in Glenn Hoddle going through.
April 24, 20187 yr I'm gutted I forgot to vote but just seeing Joe Gormley in there makes me smile lol.
April 25, 20187 yr Author I'm gutted I forgot to vote but just seeing Joe Gormley in there makes me smile lol. You've still got time to vote in Semi 3! (which has quite a chunk of your nominations in)
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