List of Famous Footballers

Jaime Iván Kaviedes Llorenty is an Ecuadorian footballer who plays as a forward.

Leandro Daniel Somoza is an Argentine former professional footballer.

Jorge Hernán Bermúdez Morales is a retired Colombian football defender. He played 56 times for the Colombia national team between 1995 and 2001.

Nobuhiro Takeda is a former Japanese football player. He played for Japan national team. He was a forward and known as an opportunistic goal-scorer, making most of his quick thinking and canny positioning. He currently works at Nippon Television and belongs to an entertainment agency Horipro as a sportscaster.

Werner Gregoritsch is an Austrian football manager and former player. He manages the Austria U21 national team and has previously managed Kapfenberger SV, SV Mattersburg and Grazer AK.

Thiago Carleto Alves, known as Thiago Carleto or simply Carleto, is a Brazilian footballer who plays as a left back for Vila Nova.

Ulises Hernán de la Cruz Bernardo is a retired Ecuadorian footballer, who since 2013 has been a member of his country's National Assembly for the governing PAIS Alliance.

Fandi bin Ahmad, is a Singaporean former footballer who is currently the head coach of Singapore Premier League club Young Lions. He mainly played as a striker, but also played as a midfielder. He played for Malaysia Cup state sides Singapore FA, Kuala Lumpur FA and Pahang FA, and won titles with all three, including two Doubles in 1992 and 1994, and the Golden Boot in 1988. Fandi also played for Niac Mitra (Indonesia), Groningen (Netherlands), Geylang United (Singapore) and SAFFC (Singapore). With the Singapore national team, Fandi won 101 caps, scored 55 goals, won three Southeast Asian Games silver medals and was captain from 1993 to 1997. He managed SAFFC, Pelita Raya (Indonesia) and Johor Darul Takzim (Malaysia), served as assistant national coach and runs the Fandi Ahmad Academy. As a 1994 winner of the Pingat Bakti Masyarakat, the first Singaporean footballer to play in Europe, the first Singaporean millionaire sportsperson and first Singaporean sportsperson to have a published biography, Fandi has been called a national legend. He has five children with his wife, South African model Wendy Jacobs, and his father is Ahmad Wartam, a former national goalkeeper. Fandi was ranked sixth in a list of Singapore's 50 Greatest Athletes of the Century by The Straits Times in 1999.

Shinsuke Sakimoto is a former Japanese football player.

Sejad Salihović is a Bosnian professional footballer who plays for TSG 1899 Hoffenheim II. He spent most of his career playing for 1899 Hoffenheim in the German Bundesliga. He also played for Hertha BSC, Beijing Renhe, St. Gallen and Hamburger SV.