Xavi Hernandez, the midfield maestro

Del Piero, a creative genius

Ronaldinho - the ever-smiling Brazilian genius

Cannavaro - tough wall to breach at backline

Oliver Kahn, Germany's safe hands

Portugal's best skipper - Luis Figo

Lilian Thuram - France's towering right-back

Rivaldo, Brazil's yet another football genius

Paolo Maldini, a defender par excellence

Cafu - Brazil's untiring and reliable right-back

In Ronaldo, Brazil had a complete striker

Zidane, a genius who once headbutted

Klinsmann - intuitive striker & German legend

Fontaine, the man who pumped 13 goals in single World Cup

Tomas Brolin: Sweden’s best at the World Cups

Hagi, the Maradona of the Carpathians

The temperamental genius named Stoichkov

Romario - majestic star of Brazilian football

‘The angels sing in Baggio's legs’

Paul Gascoigne, gifted but enigmatic

Lothar Matthaus - immovable and tenacious

Maradona, streetwise genius and footballing god

Paolo Rossi, the battle-hardened WC hero

Dino Zoff - proving the age theory wrong

Cometh the hour, cometh Mario Kempes

Breitner - breathing fire on forwards

Gerd Muller - 'bomber' of Germany

Neeskens - a name for neat skills

In football, Beckenbauer was the perfect 'libero'

Johan Cruyff, the 'Pythagoras in boots'

Gordon Banks - England's safest hands

Uwe Seeler - Germany's footballing pride

Geoff Hurst, only footballer to score a treble in World Cup final

Will of the pint-sized Nobby Stiles

Jairzinho - Brazil's 'Mr. Football'

Eusebio - Bomber from nowhere

Josef Masopust - The master dribbler and leader par excellence

Giuseppe Meazza - Italy's best all-round footballer

Bobby Moore - English football's 'golden' defender

Versatile Bobby Charlton of England's 'Wingless Wonders'

Garrincha - arguably the greatest winger of all time

Pelé - Brazil's scoring genius and giant of the game

Ferenc Puskás - Hungary's biggest star

Two World Cup finals, two countries - One Luis Monti

The man who scored the first goal ever in the world championship