Greatest European footballers In football history

💥Gheorghe Hagi'den Birbirinden Güzel 25 Gol 🤌 pic.twitter.com/NOsfkU58X5

— Hayro (@hayro9999) April 4, 2025

 

David Beckham vs inter Milan 1998/99

 

@Isaías Silva Serafim @SayWhatIWant @Wiliam Felipe Gracek

What’s the shortest unbroken chain you can create connecting a player active today to a player who was playing in the period before World War II?


Every link in the chain must be a direct connection meaning each player must have played with or against the next one in the sequence.

Every player must also be European

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Stanley Matthews made his professional debut in 1931


Stanley Matthews played with Wolfgang overath


https://www.fourfourtwo.com/feature...res-the-greatest-assembly-of-footballers-ever
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Wolfgang overath played against Dino Zoff
https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/spielbericht/index/spielbericht/1022286

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Dino Zoff played with/against Michel Platini


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Michel Platini played against Paolo Maldini


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Paolo Maldini played against Cristiano Ronaldo





Cristiano Ronaldo is currently active in 2025


Sir Stanley Matthews
Wolfgang Overath
Dino Zoff
Michel Platini
Paolo Maldini
Cristiano Ronaldo


6 players

can you do better?

Overath was 28 years younger than Stanley Matthews when they played together

The difference in age between Cristiano Ronaldo and Lamine Yamal is 22 years

 

That’s wicked @Isaías Silva Serafim

without goalkeepers now and only sticking to outfield players


So I can’t use Zoff and you can’t use shilton

 

Stanley Matthews played with Bobby Moore
Yashin, Puskas and Di Stefano: Stanley Matthews' testimonial line-up featured the greatest assembly of footballers ever | FourFourTwo



Bobby Moore played against Gaetano Scirea
When Pele and Bobby Moore took on the world's best – for Team America | NASL | The Guardian



Gaetano Scirea played against Paolo Maldini
Juventus FC - AC Milan, Apr 20, 1986 - Serie A - Match sheet | Transfermarkt


Paolo Maldini played against Cristiano Ronaldo



Stanley Matthews (made his debut in 1932)
Bobby Moore(made his debut in 1958)
Gaetano Scirea(made his debut in 1972)
Paolo Maldini(made his debut in 1985)
Cristiano Ronaldo (is currently active in 2025)

 

Highest peak by a British player between
2000-2025 IMO

 

United and Milan used to be serious man, look how many all timers were on the pitch😭pic.twitter.com/vxoQJycNvi

— AB⚕ (@AbsoluteBruno) June 14, 2025

And Ruud van Nistelrooy was a stone cold killer

 

“Wayne Rooney went with a granny & Ryan Giggs went with his Brothers wife”

Gazza is class😂😂😂 pic.twitter.com/sH1hpVKcH1

— The 44 ⚽️ (@The_Forty_Four) June 19, 2025

 

There isn’t a single expert or journalist worth his salt who would suggest that the level of Brazilian football is comparable to the European top leagues in 2025

Not one.


And yet Botafogo just beat PSG 1-0 in the club World Cup
Club World Cup: PSG stunned by Brazilian champions Botafogo - BBC Sport

PSG the same side that demolished Inter Milan 5-0 in the Champions League, the biggest margin of victory in a European Cup/Champions League final ever.



Don’t be surprised when some lunatic posts here in the year 2045 that Brazilian football was comparable to European football in the 2020s citing this exact result


Exactly how they did when Brazilian teams had some favourable results vs European teams in the intercontinental cup during the 1990s

This is how football myths are birthed
One off results are weaponized decades later to rewrite history.

if you look on ‘shitter’ it has already begun

BOTAFOGO STUN PSG 1-0

South American champs > European champs 😏 pic.twitter.com/SMrgcbToSq

— B/R Football (@brfootball) June 20, 2025

The absolute worst victory of all time (and in a cup of tertiary importance)



This tournament is a cash grab and completely rigged anyways
These facts should be blatantly obvious to anyone with a single functioning eye.

 

https://vocal.media/cleats/european-clubs-maintain-dominance-despite-south-american-s-growth

This record of 33 consecutive games completely embarrassing South American/Asian/Arabian clubs has now been broken but let’s not pretend as if it never happened


Chelsea is a paper tiger(champions of the UEFA conference league lol)
PSG had one of the most gruelling seasons ever winning a quadruple and playing in excess of 60 games

 

No it is not “shameful” it just matters a lot more to you than it does to any European club.


This is your badge of honour to parade
For European clubs it is a pre season friendly


Still your heavyweights will get smoked in the KO rounds just wait and see