List of Famous Footballers

Holger Stanislawski is a German football manager and former player.

Amir Dervišević is a Slovenian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Indian Super League club SC East Bengal.

Benedikt Höwedes is a German former professional footballer who played as a defender. He spent the majority of his playing career for Schalke 04, which he captained for six seasons, and represented the Germany national football team from 2011 to 2017. At international level, Höwedes won the World Cup with Germany in 2014, and was one of only three players to play every single minute of the tournament. Höwedes described himself as a 'multi-functional player' in the defence, who can play in the centre or as both a left or right-sided full back.

Edwin van der Sar OON is a Dutch football executive and former professional player who is currently the chief executive of AFC Ajax, with whom he began his senior playing career in the early 1990s; he is considered to be a member of the club's golden generation and was part of the Ajax team that won the UEFA Champions League in 1995. A goalkeeper, he left Ajax for Juventus in 1999, where he spent two years before moving to England, first to Fulham and then to Manchester United in 2005. There he won a second Champions League title in 2008, making him one of just eight players at the time to have won the competition with more than one club. He retired as a professional in 2011, but briefly came out of retirement in 2016 to play a match for Dutch amateur team VV Noordwijk, for whom he had previously played as a youth. He played 130 times for the Netherlands national team, and was the nation's most-capped player until 2017, when he was overtaken by Wesley Sneijder.

John James 'Jack' Ross is a Scottish professional football coach and former player, who is the head coach of Scottish Premiership club Hibernian. During his playing career, Ross played as a defender and midfielder. From 1992 to 1995 he played for youth sides at Dundee and Forfar Athletic, before dropping to the Scottish Junior leagues for first team action at Camelon Juniors. He then returned to the Scottish Football League in 1999 with Clyde, before a short stint in England with Hartlepool United in 2004. He returned to Scotland a year later and played for Falkirk, St Mirren, Hamilton Academical and Dunfermline Athletic until he retired in 2011 due to a knee injury. He also played once for a Scotland B team, in 2009.

Timothée Christian Kolodziejczak is a French professional footballer who plays for Saint-Étienne, as a defender. He can play as either a centre or left back.

Esteban Efraín Paredes Quintanilla is a Chilean footballer currently playing for Chilean club Colo-Colo as a forward.

Thiago Heleno Henrique Ferreira, known as Thiago Heleno, is a Brazilian footballer who plays for Athletico Paranaense as a central defender.

Joseph Peter Rodon is a Welsh professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for Premier League club Tottenham Hotspur and the Wales national team.

Xavier Quentin Shay Simons is a Dutch footballer who plays as a midfielder for French team Paris Saint-Germain U19.