Most Underrated Football (Soccer) Players of All Time

The Top Ten
1 Paul Scholes

Scholes is so good. People don't appreciate midfielders as much as strikers or wingers. That is why he is underrated. Heard many players say the best player they have played with/against is Paul scholes.

I'm a Chelsea fan but I have to say that I've never seen a player who can control the flow of the game from the middle of the park like he can. Red cards aside, he was, as Zidane said, "the complete midfielder".

Phenomenal player. He was the reason Manchester United were so good for so many years. He was the player that helped the bigger name players shine. I put Manchester Uniteds poor season down to the loss of this legend.

The original ginger wizard! Without a doubt one of the most talented passers of the ball in the history of the game, no wonder the likes of zidane and pele have such praise for him

2 Thomas Müller Thomas Müller is a German professional footballer who plays for Bayern Munich and the Germany national team.

People who run football clubs, they think in terms of buying players. Their goal shouldn't be to buy players, their goal should be to buy wins. And in order to buy wins, you need to buy a positive goal to defense ratio. Real Madrid and Portugal see Christiano Ronaldo and they see a star who's worth seventeen million dollars a year. When I see Christiano Ronaldo, what I see is... Is... An imperfect understanding of where wins come from. The guy's got a great shot. He's a decent passer. He can do tricks. But is he worth the seventeen million dollars a year that the Real Madrid are paying him? No. No. Football thinking is medieval. They are asking all the wrong questions. And if I say it to anybody, I'm-I'm ostracized. I'm-I'm-I'm a leper. So that's why I'm-I'm cagey about this with you. If you want full disclosure, I think it might be a good thing if teams got Messi's and Ronaldo's off their payroll. I think it would up all kinds of interesting possibilities.

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He is so underrated. He is one of the best soccer players in his club and national team. How many times have he lead his team to victory? A lot. He should not be even underrated. A lot of people like him.

He was the best player in WC 2014 and has been for years one of the best players in the world. Muller doesn't make a number of himself. Perhaps that's the reason for underrating.

He's won virtually everything there is for him to win, he's on pace to break the world cup scoring record. And not to forget, he's only 25

3 Claude Makélélé

Greatest holding midfielder of all-time. When Real sold him and Cambiasso they started losing, when Chelsea got him they started winning. He's without a doubt for me the most underrated player of all-time.

Makelele is a power horse who is a managers dream. For this he is completely underrated as he is a god for the managers

he is the battery of any team he plays with.

4 Miroslav Klose Miroslav Josef Klose is a German professional footballer who last played as a striker for Serie A club Lazio.

14 Goals in Three World Cups, amazing international scorer. Played amazingly for bremen, a little of a goal drought in bayern but it is much harder to score in the bundesliga than the la liga

Klose is one of the best German players ever. I just son;t know why people overlook him when he has so much applauds under his belt. He helped Germany tremendously in the 2010 World Cups and scored tons of goals! I heard that he is retiring after World Cup of 2014. Football will lose one of its unsung heroes

OH YEAH The Germans are coming and Miroslav Klose is an amazing finisher of the ball this doesn't mean I think he was the best player in the world but he was once and 14 FIFA World Cup goals

He will lead his team to the finals... then lose to the Nederlands!

5 Xabi Alonso Xabier "Xabi" Alonso Olano is a Spanish footballer who plays for German club Bayern Munich as a central midfielder.

Incredible career. Player of the year of Real Sociedad and Spain in 2003. Went to Liverpool, one of the Big Six in the world's best soccer league, when he was only 22. Won the Champions League in his first season. In the most epic final of soccer history. Scored the decisive equalizer. Won the UEFA Supercup. Won the FA Cup. Won the English Supercup. Won the English Supercup again. Won the European Championship with Spain. Went to Real Madrid, the best soccer club in the world. Won the World Cup with Spain. Won the Copa del Rey with Real. Won La Liga with Real. Won the European Championship again. Won the Spanish Supercup. Won the Champions League again. Won the UEFA Supercup again. Won the Copa del Rey again. Went to Bayern Munich, also one of the best clubs in the world. Won Bundesliga. Won Bundesliga again. Won DFB Pokal. Won the German Supercup. Won Bundesliga again.
That's... IMPRESSIVE!

Xabi alonso is one of those players who doesn't have flashy tricks or skills therefore his highlight reels on YouTube do not do justice to his ture talent
but it cannot be denied how great of a player like him is overlooked

Brilliant player, just never got to show it on the international level of course by being overshadowed by xavi, iniesta, fabregas etc

He knows what he's doing on the field. The real boss, but never appreciated

6 Ángel Di María

One of the most underrated player. His contribution in Madrid's 'La Decima' title was neglected. I'll never forget the last dribble on which Bale headed and gave the team a lead in so crunch a match.

What an amazing Dribbler he is.. ! He goes around Defenders like 'playing around the park'.. !

Should be at least top 3

Amazing curve shots

7 Ronaldo Ronaldo Luís Nazário de Lima, commonly known as Ronaldo, is a Brazilian business owner, president of La Liga club Real Valladolid, and a retired professional footballer who played as a striker. Popularly dubbed in Portuguese O Fenômeno ("The Phenomenon"), he is widely considered one of the greatest players of all time. As a multi-functional striker who brought a new dimension to the position, Ronaldo has been the influence for a generation of strikers that have followed. His individual accolades include being named FIFA World Player of the Year three times, and winning two Ballon d'Or awards.

WTH?
Ronaldo is one of the best player ever, aliongside Zidane, Ronaldinho, Pele, Maradona.
47 Goals in 49 Games during one season in Barcelona explains it.
Top scorer in the world cup and la liga serie a and so on. Best EVER!

His scoring record is unbelivable. 3 player of the years and the world cups top scorer in my opinion he is the best ever

Best ever in my opinion, imagine how much more he could have achieved if he didn't get injured!

Who the hell does not credit him. He gets a lot respect. He is not underrated. He has over 100,000,000 likes on fb. How is that underrated?

8 Park Ji-sung

This guy is a legend. I can't even begin to describe how good Park is. He's not as good as Müller or James Rodriguez, but he's great. Better than Isco. I just feel bad for him because people don't respect him enough.

Best all round team player. Works like hell. I don't like Manchester United but out of all the football players I would have this guy in my team.

Best Korean player of all time. Legend. You can actually compare him to extreme players such as Muller.

Fantastic reader of fast play and position,

9 Davor Šuker

Better than paul scholes

10 Andrea Pirlo

When anyone talks about mid-fielders they talk about Xavi, Iniesta, Lampard etc. but Pirlo is one of the most imaginative, opportunistic mid-fielder I've ever seen. His passing skills are brilliant

His vision to pick up a player through a long ball was incredible, his passing in the midfield was terrific but coming from the era of zidane, figo, xavi he remains one the most underrated midfeilder in the world.

This guy is just class... Pirlo's passing skills is unmatched

Amazing player

The Contenders
11 Matt Le Tissier

Only because he stayed at Southampton

Most underrated player of all time

He was one of the most influencial players of all time(I don't know how to spell influencial).

12 Sergio Busquets Sergio Busquets Burgos (born July 16, 1988) is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder for La Liga club Barcelona, where he is the club captain.

He doesn't score goals, he doesn't make headlines, but he is the most important player for Barcalona. Without him they wouldn't have a defensive player in the midfield. They wouldn't have someone to do the dirty work or just get the job done.

The guy is underrated even in the list of most underrated. That's how underrated he is. Probably the greatest deep lying playmaker in the game.

Hellish very very underrated player seen him in la liga a rock probably better than matic

A very underrated player at barcelona with xavi-iniesta-messi always getting all the credit

13 Ali Daei

The best Iranian player"no questions",and one of the few talent in Middle East has the chance to play in Europe.

The best player number 10 in the world

HE HAS KICKED 110 INTERNATIONAL GOALS!
He is the best!

116 National Goals! More than Ronaldo and Messi!

14 Andriy Shevchenko Andriy Mykolayovych Shevchenko is a Ukrainian retired footballer who played for Dynamo Kyiv, Milan, Chelsea, as well as the Ukrainian national team as a striker.

I don't state that Andriy is unbeatable player but he is very underrated. I like his style of play. He could be a very big football player. I think.
Truly underrated and overlooked

Very underrated. He get bad luck at chelsea, the way chelsea play not suitable for him and people think he not a good player.

Second striker in Milan for all history, best ukranian striker 45 goals in 100 games

Shevchenko was a brilliant striker and his 127 goals for Milan proves it!

15 Javier Hernández Javier Hernández Balcázar is a Mexican professional footballer who plays as a forward for German club Bayer Leverkusen and the Mexico national team.

Just look at his goal/minute ratio in England, Spain and Germany, and look at his price compared to other forwards who aren't remotely close. It baffles the mind- and the 'all he contributes is goals' thing is bunk. His pass rate is above 80%.

He doesn't get played enough. He's fantastic on the ball, he's so quick, and he's always in the right place at the right time. It's just unbelievable how some people think he's bad.

Great poacher. Scored two from outside the box in first game at Real Madrid. As a 82' sub

The whole Mexican National Soccer team is underrated.

16 Francesco Totti Francesco Totti is a former Italian professional footballer who plays for Serie A club Roma and Italian national team.

EASILY the most underrated player in football history!
he can do "EVERYTHING" you want, he can score goals and make assists!
Greatest passing.. Greatest vision.. and he has one of the most powerful shots ever!

the most complete Italian player I've ever seen.

He's the best passer of his time, only one who can have perfect accuracy with back heels no matter the situation. He was my first "Soccer GOD"

Greatest passing vision I have ever seen!

Could score goals and create them for others...unreal!

Pinpoint shooting and passing it doesn't get better than his

17 Dennis Bergkamp Dennis Nicolaas Maria Bergkamp is a Dutch former professional footballer, who is the assistant manager to Frank de Boer at Ajax.

One of the all time greatest, but his name never appears high on a ranking.

Very underrated player

One of the best

18 Lukas Podolski

At his best he is lethal in front of goal, powerful shot, a great presence and consistent performance for his country, makes football look like a game rather than a war.

Unbelievable fast, great at 1-touch passing and has a powerful shot, podolski is one of the most feared strikers in the gamee. Can almost shoot from anywhere

Have you idiots seen him playy! He's truly the best German soccer player and maybe the best in Europe

He actually is quite good even though people don't think so

19 Thierry Henry Thierry Daniel Henry is a French professional football coach and former player. He is the second assistant coach of the Belgium national team.

Sure he is very old now... But he is world class and is so composed yet brave, strong and intelligent on and off of the ball.

Greatest striker to ever play in the english premier league

20 Robert Prosinečki

Lewandoski doesn't even have Torrey when it comes to scoring, he just shoots and sometimes doesn't even curve but goes in a straight line right in.
He in my opinion, will dominate the field when Robben and Ribery retire from the field, plus he is on the best team in Germany and one of the worlds best teams.

21 Farhad Majidi Farhad Majidi is a retired Iranian professional footballer who mostly played as an attacking midfielder. He was also a member of Iran national football team. In 2010, he was nominated for the Asian Footballer of the Year award which finished second in voting.

The farhad majidi is a better than all over player on the world

The best player in Asia and the most popular in the world! In 2010

He is best football player in Iran

King farhad real no.7

22 Michael Laudrup

Amazing playmaker, he combined excelent passing with great dribling skills, he was the "assister" of the Barcelona "Dream Team" in the 90s, with him in the field even a drunken and high Ballotelli could score.

By far the most underrated player from Europe, along with Roberto Baggio, and one of the best passer ever.

23 Henrik Larsson

Amazing player won Barcelona the champs league against arsenal and thiery henry said he didn't see ronaldinhio messi eto, o xavi he saw larsson he was the best player in that team

His stats say it all 53 goals in one season scored for Sweden man utd barca and celtic truly magical

One of the best,underrated because he played so long in Scotland,fergie tried to sign him for years and turned the champions league final for barca.

By far the greatest striker to ever play in the SPL. 174 goals in 221 games for Celtic, LEGEND!

24 Gheorghe Hagi
25 Gaetano Scirea
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