THE BEST ENGLISH FOOTBALL PLAYERS EVER

Although there are so many lists as people doing them, we want to show you some of the best football players England has produced in history. Let´s see the six players we have chosen. Have you got any other suggestion?



BOBBY MOORE

The captain of the England team that won the 1966 FIFA World Cup, he was cited by Pelé as the greatest defender that he had ever played against, and he is considered to be one of the best defenders of all time, if not the best

He captained West Ham United for more than ten years and won a total of 108 caps for the English National Team at a time where national teams didn´t play as usually as they do nowadays.

SIR "BOBBY" CHARLTON

This miedfielder who played all his football career for Manchester United is widely regarded as one of the greatest miedfielders of all time and an essential member of the England team that won the World Cup in 1966, year in which he also won the European Footballer of the Year Award.

Bobby Charlton and Bobby Moore celebrating the 1966 World Cup

One of the survivors of the Munich air disaster of 1958, he has scored both for Manchester United and for England more goals than any other player. He was outstanding for his attacking instincts and passing abilities, his pace and his extraordinari long-range shot.

GORDON BANKS

Considered to be the second best goalkeeper of the 20th century after Russian Lev Yashin, he played his team football mainly for Leicester City between 1959 and 1967. He moved to Stoke City where he would play for a further four years.

Gordon Banks, the best English goalkeeper ever

He established himself as England´s number one goalkeeper and played every game of the nation´s 1966 World Cup victory. He was specially renowned by the great save he made to prevent a Pelé goal in the 1979 World Cup.

GARY LINEKER

He is regarded as one of the all-time best English strikers and was top scorer in the 1986 World Cup. He remains England´s top scorer in World Cup finals with ten goals, for a total 48 goals in all international matches he played.

Gary Lineker scored goals galore wherever he played

Having started his professional career with Leicester City, he then played for Everton. F.C. Barcelona signed him in 1986 where he didn´t disappoint, winning one Spanish Cup and one European Cup Winners´Cup in the three seasons he played for the Spanish team. He returned to England to play for Tottenham Hotspur, where he kept on scoring lots of goals.

PAUL GASCOIGNE

Despite his troubled personal life, Paul Gascoigne was quite simply the most skilful player to wear an English shirt in the modern era. At his peak nobody could come close to "Gazza" as he bossed the midfield for both club (Newcastle United, Tottenham Hotspur or Lazio in Italy) and country, dribbling players with ease and scoring goals from almost any position.

Paul Gascoigne, a football genius

The iconic image of Gascoigne crying during England´s Italy´90 semi-final against Germany after a yellow card which ruled him out of the final will be remembered by English fans for years to come.

DAVID BECKHAM

Even though many of you may think that he doesn´t deserve to be in this list, we consider him to be the most important English player in the last twenty years. Surely he is the most popular worldwide, although this popularity can owe to reasons that have nothing to do with football.

David Beckham has played more international
 matches than any other outfield player.

Nevertheless, we cannot forget that he has played for the English National Team 115 times and that he has played for some of the best teams in the world, mainly Manchester United (6 Premier Leagues and one Champions League), Real Madrid (1 Liga), or Milan AC. He will always be remembered by his almost perfect curling free-kicks, his pin-point passes and his tireless effort.

Well, this is our list. We are certain we have forgotten important names such as Matthews or Finney before the sixties, K. Keegan in the seventies, Shearer, Robson, Shilton or J. Barnes in the eighties, M. Owen or P. Scholes in the nineties or finally W. Rooney or S. Gerrard in the first decade of the twenty-first century.

You can have your own list. Give us the names you think we should have never left out!