#	Athlete	Sport	Country	Career	GOAT Score
221	Alessandro Del Piero	Football	🇮🇹 Italy	1991–2014	84.5
223	Frank Lampard	Football	🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 United Kingdom	1995–2017	84.4
229	Katia Cilene	Football	🇧🇷 Brazil	1995–2012	84.4
238	Deco	Football	🇵🇹 Portugal	1997–2013	84.2
240	Shannon MacMillan	Football	🇺🇸 United States	1993–2005	84.2
245	Malin Andersson	Football	🇸🇪 Sweden	1990–2007	84.1
252	Rachel Yankey	Football	🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 England	1996–2016	84
254	Paul Scholes	Football	🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 United Kingdom	1993–2013	83.9
255	David Trezeguet	Football	🇫🇷 France	1993–2015	83.9
263	Sandrine Soubeyrand	Football	🇫🇷 France	1997–2016	83.8
277	Steven Gerrard	Football	🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 United Kingdom	1998–2016	83.4
278	Sonia Bompastor	Football	🇫🇷 France	1997–2013	83.4
290	Robert Pirès	Football	🇫🇷 France	1992–2015	83.2
293	Cheryl Salisbury	Football	🇦🇺 Australia	1994–2009	83.2
295	Júlio César	Football	🇧🇷 Brazil	1997–2018	83.1
298	Kim Källström	Football	🇸🇪 Sweden	1999–2018	83.1
301	Javier Zanetti	Football	🇦🇷 Argentina	1992–2014	83
302	Nia Künzer	Football	🇩🇪 Germany	1997–2008	83
305	Juan Román Riquelme	Football	🇦🇷 Argentina	1996–2014	82.9
318	Tisha Venturini	Football	🇺🇸 United States	1992–2000	82.4
322	Michael Owen	Football	🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 England	1996–2013	82.3
333	Rui Costa	Football	🇵🇹 Portugal	1990–2008	82.1
335	Fredrik Ljungberg	Football	🇸🇪 Sweden	1994–2012	82.1
337	Olof Mellberg	Football	🇸🇪 Sweden	1995–2013	82.1
338	Solveig Gulbrandsen	Football	🇳🇴 Norway	1998–2013	82.1
347	Casey Stoney	Football	🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 England	1997–2018	82
356	Pauleta	Football	🇵🇹 Portugal	1993–2008	81.7
357	Hernán Crespo	Football	🇦🇷 Argentina	1993–2012	81.7
364	Roy Keane	Football	🇮🇪 Ireland	1990–2006	81.3
365	Carles Puyol	Football	🇪🇸 Spain	1999–2014	81.3
368	Patrick Vieira	Football	🇫🇷 France	1994–2011	81.2
369	Ruud van Nistelrooy	Football	🇳🇱 Netherlands	1993–2012	81.2
370	Claude Makélélé	Football	🇫🇷 France	1991–2011	81.2
378	Edgar Davids	Football	🇳🇱 Netherlands	1991–2014	81
379	Nwankwo Kanu	Football	🇳🇬 Nigeria	1993–2012	80.9
384	Didier Drogba	Football	🇨🇮 Ivory Coast	1998–2018	80.8
392	Michael Ballack	Football	🇩🇪 Germany	1995–2012	80.5
394	Pamela Conti	Football	🇮🇹 Italy	1995–2013	80.5
396	David Beckham	Football	🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 England	1992–2013	80.2
398	Christian Vieri	Football	🇮🇹 Italy	1991–2009	80.2
402	John Terry	Football	🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 United Kingdom	1998–2018	79.9
406	Joaquín Sánchez	Football	🇪🇸 Spain	1999–2023	79.7
407	Rio Ferdinand	Football	🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 United Kingdom	1996–2015	79.6
414	Jay-Jay Okocha	Football	🇳🇬 Nigeria	1990–2008	79.3
419	Míchel Salgado	Football	🇪🇸 Spain	1994–2012	78.5
424	Nuno Gomes	Football	🇵🇹 Portugal	1994–2015	77.8
427	Juninho Pernambucano	Football	🇧🇷 Brazil	1993–2013	77.4
429	Hidetoshi Nakata	Football	🇯🇵 Japan	1995–2006	76.5
430	Tomáš Rosický	Football	🇨🇿 Czech Republic	1998–2017	76.4
442	Daniel Andersson	Football	🇸🇪 Sweden	1995–2011	29.8

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