Greatest Players to Have Never Played at the World Cup
The Top Ten
1 George Best (Northern Ireland)
George Best (22 May 1946 – 25 November 2005) was a Northern Irish professional footballer who played as a winger, spending most of his club career at Manchester United. A highly skillful dribbler, Best is regarded as one of the best players in the history of the sport. He was named European Footballer of the Year in 1968 and came sixth in the FIFA Player of the Century vote. Best received plaudits for his playing style, which combined pace, skill, balance, feints, two-footedness, goalscoring and the ability to get past defenders.
George Best (22 May 1946 – 25 November 2005) was a Northern Irish professional footballer who played as a winger, spending most of his club career at Manchester United. A highly skillful dribbler, Best is regarded as one of the best players in the history of the sport. He was named European Footballer of the Year in 1968 and came sixth in the FIFA Player of the Century vote. Best received plaudits for his playing style, which combined pace, skill, balance, feints, two-footedness, goalscoring and the ability to get past defenders. One if the greatest players to have ever lived glad to say I'm from the same country as him.
2 Ryan Giggs (Wales)
Ryan Joseph Giggs is a Welsh football coach and former player who is currently the assistant manager at Manchester United and co-owner of Salford City.
Ryan Joseph Giggs is a Welsh football coach and former player who is currently the assistant manager at Manchester United and co-owner of Salford City.
3 Alfredo Di Stefano (Argentina, Colombia, Spain)
4 Gareth Bale (Wales)
Gareth Frank Bale is a retired Welsh professional footballer who played as a winger for English club Tottenham Hotspur and the Wales national team.
Gareth Frank Bale is a retired Welsh professional footballer who played as a winger for English club Tottenham Hotspur and the Wales national team.
5 Eric Cantona (France)
6 Duncan Edwards (England)
7 Jari Litmanen (Finland)
8 Abedi Pele (Ghana)
9 Ian Rush (Wales)
10 José Manuel Moreno (Argentina)
The Contenders
11 George Weah (Liberia)
12 Arthur Friedenreich (Brazil)
The Brazilian legend was the first player that bagged more than 1,000 goals in his career and he lost the opportunity to take part in the first World Cup (1930) due to disconect of the Brazilian football authorities.
13 Valentino Mazzola (Italy)
The great Italian player of the 1940s was unlucky enough to play in any World Cup.
14 Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (Gabon)
15 László Kubala (Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Spain)
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