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list of soccer (football) players
This is a list of soccer (football) players ordered alphabetically by country of origin or residence. (See also Major League Soccer and World Cup.)
American
Argentine
- Omar Sivori
Australian
Brazilian
- Didi
- Leônidas
- Mauro
- Sócrates
- Vavá
British
- Ivor John Allchurch
- Kenneth George Aston
- Alan James Ball
- Billy Bremner
- Brian Howard Clough
- Denis Charles Scott Compton
- Stanley Cullis
- Johnny Haynes
- Emlyn Walter Hughes
- Thomas Lawton
- Arthur Milton
- Peter Leslie Osgood
- Alfred Ernest Ramsey
- Bobby Robson
- George Hedley Swindin
- William Ambrose Wright
Bulgarian
Cameroonian
Dutch
Egyptian
French
German
- Fritz Walter
Ghanaian
Hungarian
Italian
Ivorian
Japanese
Liberian
Malian
Portuguese
Russian
Senegalese
Spanish
Ukrainian
- Valery Vasilevich Lobanovsky
Uruguayan
- Roque Gastón Máspoli
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