Peter Schmeichel,
He is truly one of the best keepers the world has ever seen. He won the treble with United and in ’92 he became european champion with Denmark, which is not an easy accomplishment when you come from a small football nation like Denmark.

Pelé, because when he played, show for all the people the real spirit to play football, to make a entire nation crying (brazil, world cup 1970) with this talent and hability to make beautiful goals. Never occur a time with Pele was a violent player, stupid, bad or make some kind of violence to other players. For all those things i have sure Pele is the most player of the time and it´s my favorite player.

Sorry my poor english, greetings from Brazil

Morgangc

Favourite player of all time is so hard to nail down, but my earliest footballing memories all concern one man. Kevin Pressman wasn’t an international superstar, in a career spanning three decades he never won anything, he never got further than a short UEFA Cup campaign and 3 games at England “B” level (a travesty, by the way), but he was a legend at one the country’s biggest clubs for nearly twenty years and spent much of that time as the club’s undisputed number one. He was a character, as most Goalkeepers are, and truly loyal to his club, from the heights of making over 200 starts in the Premier League and starring in a team that made five Wembley appearences in three years to the heartbreak of relegation to England’s third tier, Pressman stayed with Sheffield Wednesday, despite being regarded as one of the best goalkeepers in the Premier League. Indeed, when forced out of Wednesday by Chris Turner, the man whose challenge for the number one slot he had seen off some years earlier, Pressman did jump back up a division, playing with Leicester, Coventry and Leeds in the Championship, before going to Northern Ireland and helping Portadown to UEFA Cup qualification, picking up the fans’ player of the season award along the way. Even at the age of 41, the evergreen Pressman was considered a viable option as Scunthorpe’s back-up keeper in one of their recent Championship adventures.
A true legend in the blue half of Sheffield, and still a name that sends a shiver down the spine of those in the red half, Pressman’s displays in Steel City Derbies are the stuff of legend and his 19 years at Sheffield Wednesday took in some of the best and worst times that one of England’s most famous clubs has ever seen and his claim to the number one shirt was unsuccesfully challenged by some of the best keepers around, the likes of Chris Woods and Pavel Srnicek came and went but Pressman remained a constant.
An asset in the goal and from the penalty spot, Pressman scored in two shoot-outs in his Wednesday career, against Wolves and Watford.
Even towards the end of his career, the big keeper was a showman, once, and memorably, nutmegging Newcastle’s Keiron Dyer on the edge of the Wednesday box before dribbling past a couple more bamboozled Magpies’ players to half-way line and unleashing a drive at opposite number Steve Harper’s goal.
But none of that is why Pressy is my favourite player of all time. The quality, the loyalty, the occasional comedy mean nothing next to the fact that this is the man who inspired me to play football, the man who I reminisce about whenever I don my gloves and the man who, despite his advancing years, I would still welcome back into Wednesday’s first team without a second thought.
The fact is, as the Kop’s chant used to go, you’ll never beat Kev Pressman.

Johan Cruyff, or Cruijff as the name is actualy spelt, was the star of the exciting 1974 Dutch “Total Football” World Cup team and the Ajax Amsterdam team that won a hat-trick of European Cups in the early Seventies. Three times European footballer of the year, Cruyff was the most gifted European player of his generation, and probably of all time.
His supreme technical skills, speed and acceleration, and his tactical insights made Cruyff virtually impossible to defend against. Wearing his trademark Nr.14 jersey, he usually played the centre forward position, but would often drop deep or move to the wing to confuse and draw out his markers. The tremendous tactical insight he had displayed as a player, enabled Cruyff to go on to become a world class coach after hanging up his boots in 1984.
Building on the legacy of his mentor Rinus Michels, Cruyff proved himself the most unrelenting apostle of attacking football in the history of the game. Possession of the ball played a crucial part in his football philosophy. Cruyff abhorred the overly physical game that was dominant in the 1980′s. He instructed his players not to go running mindlessly up and down the pitch, but to concentrate on combination play and let the ball do the work instead.
He began his coaching career at Ajax, but it was at Barcelona that his revolutionary vision of a free flowing attacking style of football came to real fruition when he assembled a team that included Michael Laudrup, Hristo Stoichkov, Ronald Koeman and Josep Guardiola. Fondly remembered by Catalonians as the ‘Dream Team’, they succeeded in winning a host of domestic trophies as well as the 1992 European Cup.

Ronaldinho. At his peak, every defender in Europe would have been scared to face him. I remember watching him destroy Real Madrid at the Bernabeu, and receive a standing ovation, which hadn’t been done since Maradona. As well as possessing incredible dribbling, shooting and ball skills, Ronaldinho always played his football with a smile.

My favorite Football player of all time is Thierry Henry. I personally feel this is true due to not only what he accomplished but what he meant to his team. He took a great team in Arsenal and helped create the invincible, and a team that together was closer than any in history. I feel when a team can go undefeated they are truly as close as can be to continue to work towards going undefeated. He scored 226 goals, and so many are some of the best of all time. He worked hard every day to get better, and never talked himself up over his teammates. He was a team player through and through and its something some players have lost in todays game. He is about winning with his team, working his hardest. If his team lost, he took the blame. He never said he played so good and everyone around him sucked. That is something we need more in todays game. He is a true ambassador to sportsmanship in football.

My favourite player of all time is Mane Garrincha he was a right winger and striker who helped Brazil win the world cup in 58 and 62. He is regarded as one of the best dribblers of all time. one month before the 58 world cup started Garrincha scored one of his most famous goals in Italy against Fiorentina when he beat 4 defenders and the goalkeeper and then waited for another defender to get back and dribbled past him to score. Despite being born with defects his spine was deformed, his right leg bent inwards, his left leg was 6 inch’s shorter than his right and it curved outwards none of which stopped his ability to play football at top level a true inspiration.

My favourite player?? Has to be Rogerio Ceni.. A prolific goalscoring keeper!! He saves penalties… scores penalties, saves free kicks, scores free kicks… what more would a manager want!!?!