Players

Learn about the legends

We've got the lowdown on all the legendary players of the last 100 years, to help you choose your perfect team of the century.

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Player Picture Player Name Player Controls Player Caps Player Position Player Era
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Alan Shearer

Player Biography: Alan Shearer, perhaps the greatest striker to have graced the Premier League, signed professional fo ...

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Andriy Shevchenko

Player Biography: Andriy Shevchenko was born on 29th September 1976, in Dvirkivschyna, Kiev, Ukraine and is one of th ...

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Andy Cole

Player Biography: Andrew Cole is one of the highest scoring players in the game's history. Currently ranked second in ...

More Details 417 Striker 97-07
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Benni McCarthy

Player Biography: Benni McCarthy was born on November 12th 1977 in Cape Town, South Africa. In 1997, after an impressi ...

More Details 36 Striker 97-07
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Craig Bellamy

Player Biography: Craig Bellamy was born on July 13th, 1979 in Canton, Cardiff and was a youth team player with Norwic ...

More Details 236 Striker 97-07
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Dennis Bergkamp

Player Biography: Dennis Bergkamp was a product of the famous Ajax youth system and scored a phenomenal 103 goals in 1 ...

More Details 253 Striker 97-07
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Didier Drogba

Player Biography: Didier Drogba, who was born in Abidjan, Ivory Coast on March 11th, 1978, started his career with Fre ...

More Details 70 Striker 97-07
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Dimitar Berbatov

Player Biography: Dimitar Berbatov was born in Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria on January 30th, 1981. Only 17, he joined the mos ...

More Details 30 Striker 97-07
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Dwight Yorke

Player Biography: Dwight Yorke was born in Canaan, Tobago on November 3, 1971, and was brought to England by Aston Vil ...

More Details 350 Striker 97-07
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Eidur Gudjohnsen

Player Biography: Eidur Gudjohnsen was born on September 15th, 1978 in Reykjavík, Iceland. By the age of 15 he was pla ...

More Details 174 Striker 97-07
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Gianfranco Zola

Player Biography: Gianfranco Zola was born on July 5, 1966 in Oliena, Sardinia, Gianfranco Zola is considered one of t ...

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Henrik Larsson

Player Biography: Henrick Larsson started his professional career playing for Högaborg at the age of 17. He subsequent ...

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Ian Wright

Player Biography: Ian Wright, MBE was born on 3rd November 1963 in Woolwich, London and signed for Crystal Palace in A ...

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Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink

Player Biography: Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink (born March 27, 1972 in Paramaribo, Surinam) began his footballing career in ...

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Jurgen Klinsmann

Player Biography: Jürgen Klinsmann (born July 30th , 1964 in Göppingen) played for several prominent clubs in Europe a ...

More Details 56 Striker 97-07
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Les Ferdinand

Player Biography: Les Ferdinand MBE was born on December 18th 1966 in Paddington, London. He is best known for his tim ...

More Details 356 Striker 97-07
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Mark Viduka

Player Biography: Mark Viduka was born on October 9th, 1975 in Melbourne, Australia. He started his career with Melbou ...

More Details 182 Striker 97-07
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Michael Owen

Player Biography: Michael Owen signed for Liverpool after he graduated from Lilleshall at 16, and he joined the club o ...

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Nicolas Anelka

Player Biography: Nicolas Anelka started out at Paris Saint-Germain as a youth player but in November 1996, at the age ...

More Details 185 Striker 97-07
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Ole Gunnar Solskjaer

Player Biography: Ole Gunnar Solskjær was born on February 26th 1973 in Kristiansund, Norway. He first played part-tim ...

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Paolo di Canio

Player Biography: Paolo Di Canio was born in Rome and signed for Lazio in 1985, later moving to Juventus in 1990. He s ...

More Details 176 Striker 97-07
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Robbie Fowler

Player Biography: Robbie Fowler was born on 9th April 1975 and made his debut in 1993 with Liverpool where his goal-sc ...

More Details 312 Striker 97-07
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Ruud Gullit

Player Biography: Ruud Gullit was born in Amsterdam and signed for Meerboys as a junior in 1970. In 1978, he signed pr ...

More Details 37 Striker 97-07
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Ruud Van Nistelrooy

Player Biography: Ruud van Nistelrooy was born on July 1st, 1976 in Oss, the Netherlands and started his professional ...

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Teddy Sheringham

Player Biography: Teddy Sheringham was born on April 2nd, 1966 in Highams Park, London. Teddy began his professional c ...

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Celebrating 100 years

The Professional Footballers' Association was formed in 1907 to be the voice of players in our beautiful game.

Today we work hard not only for footballers, but for the game in general. We look forward to contributing to another 100 years of fantastic football.