List of Famous Footballers

Igli Tare is an Albanian retired footballer who played as a striker. He is currently the sporting director at Serie A club Lazio.

Alexander Esswein is a German professional footballer who plays as a midfielder or forward for SV Sandhausen.

Ubaldo Matildo Fillol, nicknamed el Pato, is an Argentine football coach and former goalkeeper. He took part in the 1974, 1978 and 1982 World Cups representing the Argentine national team. He also played in the South American qualifiers for the 1986 World Cup, but he was finally not chosen for the final team that played in Mexico. He is usually considered to be one of the greatest goalkeepers and usually regarded as the best Argentine goalkeeper ever.

Ruslan Agabekovich Agalarov professional football manager and a former midfielder. Born in the USSR, he represented the Uzbekistan national team.

Andrés Sebastián Soria Quintana commonly known as Sebastián Soria, is a Uruguayan-born, naturalized Qatari professional footballer who plays as a striker for Al-Arabi and the Qatar national team. He was shortlisted for the Asian Footballer of the Year award in 2008. He currently holds the record for the fastest goal scored in AFC Champions League history at 9 seconds – a record which was set in 2013 when he was playing for Lekhwiya.

Francisco das Chagas Soares dos Santos, known as Soares or Tiquinho, is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays as a forward for Botafogo.

Brian Avelino Lozano Aparicio is a Uruguayan professional footballer who plays as a winger for Liga MX club Santos Laguna and the Uruguay national team.

Yuriy Mykolayovych Kalitvintsev is a former footballer, Ukraine international who after retiring works as a coach in Ukraine and the Russian Federation. He last worked as the manager of the Russian Premier League team FC Dynamo Moscow. Master of Sports, International Class (1988).

Romain Alessandrini is a French footballer who currently plays as a winger for Chinese Super League club Qingdao Huanghai.

Paulo Henrique Sampaio Filho, commonly known as Paulinho, is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays as a forward for Bundesliga club Bayer Leverkusen and the Brazil national under-23 team.