#	Athlete	Sport	Country	Career	GOAT Score
313	David Trezeguet	Football	🇫🇷 France	1993–2015	83.9
314	Matthias Sammer	Football	🇩🇪 Germany	1985–1998	83.9
315	Gary Lineker	Football	🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 England	1978–1994	83.9
316	Careca	Football	🇧🇷 Brazil	1978–1997	83.9
317	Eric Abidal	Football	🇫🇷 France	2001–2015	83.9
318	Edinson Cavani	Football	🇺🇾 Uruguay	2006–—	83.8
319	Berti Vogts	Football	🇩🇪 Germany	1965–1979	83.8
320	Zvonimir Boban	Football	🇭🇷 Croatia	1985–2002	83.8
321	Diego Simeone	Football	🇦🇷 Argentina	1987–2006	83.8
323	Didier Deschamps	Football	🇫🇷 France	1986–2001	83.8
328	Antonio Rüdiger	Football	🇩🇪 Germany	2012–—	83.7
329	Franck Ribéry	Football	🇫🇷 France	2000–2022	83.6
330	Omar Sívori	Football	🇦🇷 Argentina	1954–1969	83.6
334	Andoni Zubizarreta	Football	🇪🇸 Spain	1979–1997	83.6
335	David Andrew Seaman	Football	🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 England	1983–2004	83.6
336	Marc-André ter Stegen	Football	🇩🇪 Germany	2011–—	83.6
337	Oliver Kahn	Football	🇩🇪 Germany	1987–2008	83.5
339	Claudio Marchisio	Football	🇮🇹 Italy	2006–2019	83.5
340	Lucas Hernández	Football	🇫🇷 France	2014–—	83.5
341	Kalidou Koulibaly	Football	🇸🇳 Senegal	2010–—	83.5
342	Steven Gerrard	Football	🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 United Kingdom	1998–2016	83.4
346	Dwight Yorke	Football	🇹🇹 Trinidad and Tobago	1990–2009	83.4
347	Jude Bellingham	Football	🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 England	2019–—	83.4
349	Raí	Football	🇧🇷 Brazil	1984–2000	83.3
350	Bernardo Silva	Football	🇵🇹 Portugal	2013–—	83.3
352	Flórián Albert	Football	🇭🇺 Hungary	1958–1974	83.3
353	Allan Simonsen	Football	🇩🇰 Denmark	1970–1989	83.3
354	Emil Forsberg	Football	🇸🇪 Sweden	2010–—	83.3
355	Ralf Edström	Football	🇸🇪 Sweden	1970–1983	83.3
357	Javier Mascherano	Football	🇦🇷 Argentina	2003–2020	83.3
358	Robert Pirès	Football	🇫🇷 France	1992–2015	83.2
359	Arturo Vidal	Football	🇨🇱 Chile	2006–—	83.2
360	Just Fontaine	Football	🇫🇷 France	1953–1962	83.2
363	Júlio César	Football	🇧🇷 Brazil	1997–2018	83.1
364	Gianfranco Zola	Football	🇮🇹 Italy	1984–2005	83.1
365	Salvatore Schillaci	Football	🇮🇹 Italy	1982–1999	83.1
366	Kim Källström	Football	🇸🇪 Sweden	1999–2018	83.1
369	Emiliano Martínez	Football	🇦🇷 Argentina	2012–—	83.1
370	Julio Salinas	Football	🇪🇸 Spain	1982–2000	83.1
371	Álex Aguinaga	Football	🇪🇨 Ecuador	1984–2005	83.1
372	Javier Zanetti	Football	🇦🇷 Argentina	1992–2014	83
374	Giovanni van Bronckhorst	Football	🇳🇱 Netherlands	1994–2010	83
375	Karl-Heinz Rummenigge	Football	🇩🇪 Germany	1974–1989	82.9
376	László Kubala	Football	🇭🇺 Hungary	1946–1967	82.9
377	Juan Román Riquelme	Football	🇦🇷 Argentina	1996–2014	82.9
381	Predrag Mijatović	Football	🇲🇪 Montenegro	1987–2004	82.8
383	Diego da Silva Costa	Football	🇪🇸 Spain	2007–2024	82.8
385	Yuri Zhirkov	Football	🇷🇺 Russia	2001–2022	82.7
387	Ricardo Carvalho	Football	🇵🇹 Portugal	2000–2017	82.6
388	Emmanuel Petit	Football	🇫🇷 France	1988–2004	82.6

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