#	Athlete	Sport	Country	Career	GOAT Score
449	Cafu	Football	🇧🇷 Brazil	1989–2008	85.7
450	Miroslav Klose	Football	🇩🇪 Germany	1999–2016	84.6
451	Sandro Mazzola	Football	🇮🇹 Italy	1960–1977	84.9
452	Younis Khan	Cricket	🇵🇰 Pakistan	2000–2017	88.1
459	Alessandro Del Piero	Football	🇮🇹 Italy	1991–2014	85.6
460	Björn Borg	Tennis	🇸🇪 Sweden	1972–1983	86.4
461	Nikola Jokić	Basketball	🇷🇸 Serbia	2015–—	83.0
462	Daley Thompson	Athletics	🇬🇧 United Kingdom	1976–1992	85.3
463	Carlos Monzón	Boxing	🇦🇷 Argentina	1963–1977	85.2
464	Vladimir Salnikov	Swimming	🇷🇺 Russia	1976–1988	84.5
465	Dan Issel	Basketball	🇺🇸 United States	1970–1985	86.2
467	Andreas Thorkildsen	Athletics	🇳🇴 Norway	2001–2016	85.3
468	Alastair Cook	Cricket	🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 England	2006–2018	87.7
469	Don Budge	Tennis	🇺🇸 United States	1932–1954	85.5
470	Saïd Aouita	Athletics	🇲🇦 Morocco	1983–1993	85.2
471	Young Corbett III	Boxing	🇺🇸 United States	1919–1940	86.8
473	Frank Lampard	Football	🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 United Kingdom	1995–2017	85.2
474	Neymar Jr	Football	🇧🇷 Brazil	2009–—	83.5
475	Philipp Lahm	Football	🇩🇪 Germany	2002–2017	84.7
479	Waqar Younis	Cricket	🇵🇰 Pakistan	1989–2003	86.2
480	Fernando Torres	Football	🇪🇸 Spain	2001–2019	83.1
482	Alonzo Mourning	Basketball	🇺🇸 United States	1992–2008	83.8
484	James J. Jeffries	Boxing	🇺🇸 United States	1896–1910	83.6
485	Jimmy Barry	Boxing	🇺🇸 United States	1891–1899	84.0
489	Kylian Mbappé	Football	🇫🇷 France	2015–—	81.5
491	Uwe Seeler	Football	🇩🇪 Germany	1953–1972	84.9
494	James Toney	Boxing	🇺🇸 United States	1988–2017	86.9
495	Joe Lapchick	Basketball	🇺🇸 United States	1919–1965	86.5
496	Carlos Tévez	Football	🇦🇷 Argentina	2001–2022	84.2
497	George Best	Football	🇬🇧 Northern Ireland	1963–1984	81.7
498	Joe Brown	Boxing	🇺🇸 United States	1943–1970	86.9
499	Gabriel Elorde	Boxing	🇵🇭 Philippines	1951–1971	86.2
500	Miguel Cotto	Boxing	🇵🇷 Puerto Rico	2001–2017	85.1
501	Humberto González	Boxing	🇲🇽 Mexico	1984–1995	84.4
502	Chang Jung-koo	Boxing	🇰🇷 South Korea	1980–1991	84.4
504	Ruud Gullit	Football	🇳🇱 Netherlands	1979–1998	83.7
505	Giannis Antetokounmpo	Basketball	🇬🇷 Greece	2013–—	83.1
506	Jacques Kallis	Cricket	🇿🇦 South Africa	1995–2014	88.1
512	Chris Gayle	Cricket	🇯🇲 Jamaica	1998–2021	87.3
515	Jim Laker	Cricket	🇬🇧 United Kingdom	1946–1965	85.6
516	Hubie Brown	Basketball	🇺🇸 United States	1968–2005	86.4
517	Deco	Football	🇵🇹 Portugal	1997–2013	83.2
518	Duke Kahanamoku	Swimming	🇺🇸 United States	1911–1932	85.3
519	Willie Banks	Athletics	🇺🇸 United States	1978–1996	85.6
520	Georges Carpentier	Boxing	🇫🇷 France	1908–1926	85.8
521	Baby Arizmendi	Boxing	🇲🇽 Mexico	1927–1942	85.5
527	Evander Holyfield	Boxing	🇺🇸 United States	1984–2011	86.1
528	Oleksandr Usyk	Boxing	🇺🇦 Ukraine	2013–—	84.6
529	Malcolm Marshall	Cricket	🇧🇧 Barbados	1977–1996	85.6
530	Thiago Silva	Football	🇧🇷 Brazil	2004–—	84.7

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