Date Of Birth : 5 August 1948
Height : 183 cm
Nation : England
Major Club : Liverpool, Tottenham
Caps. : 61 Games
World Cup Participation: 1982 (No Game)
Club Honours : 5 Times English Top Division
2 Times FA Cup
1 Time League Cup
3 Times European Cup Winners (1977, 1978, 1981)
3 Times UEFA Cup Winners (1973, 1976, 1983)
International Honours : None
Individual Achievement : None
Ray Clemence is the legendary footballer who is one of the most decorated goalkeepers in history of English football. He is still held in very high regard by the Anfield faithful and was voted in at No.11 on the Official Liverpool Football Club web site He was also chosen as goalkeeper in the BBC's Merseyside team of the 20th century. Unfortunately for Clemence the presence of another great goalkeeper Peter Shilton who is top world legendary goalkeeper of all-time. Accordingly, He only played in two big international tournaments were EURO 1980 and World Cup 1982. Clemence totally played 995 games during his professional career in club level.
38. Gianluca Pagliuca
Date Of Birth : 18 December 1966
Height : 190 cm
Nation : Italy
Major Club : Sampdoria, Bologna, Inter Milan
Caps. : 39 Games
World Cup Participation : 1990, 1994, 1998 (10 Games)
Club Honours : 1 Time Italian Series A
3 Times Copa Italia
1990 UEFA Cup Winners’ Cup
1992 European Cup Runner-Up
1998 UEFA Cup
International Honours : 1994 FIFA World Cup Runner-Up
Individual Achievement : 2 Times Guerin Italian Series A Footballer of The Year (1997, 2005)
Gianluca Pagluica was the most outstanding goalkeeper of Italy during the 90’s. He was starter in two world cup 1994 and 1998. Especially, He returned to have impressive performance after showing mistakes in world cup1994 first round in Match against Ireland and also being sent-off in match against Norway, finally helped Italy reaching final round. However, His appearances for Italy was not consistency due to the very high competitive between the world-class Italian goalkeepers during his era. He holds the record 2nd all-time most appearances in Italian Series A with 592 only to Paulo Maldini. Additionally, Pagluica was voted 4th all-time greatest goalkeeper in Italian Series A even above the great goalkeeper like Walter Zenga.
37. Thomas Ravelli
Date Of Birth : 13 August 1959
Height : 188 cm
Nation : Sweden
Major Club : Oster, IFK Göteborg
International Caps. : 143
World Cup Participation: 1990, 1994 (10 Games)
Club Honours : 9 Times Swedish League
1 Time Swedish Cup
International Honours : 1994 FIFA World Cup Third Place
Individual Achievement : 1981 Swedish Footballer Of The Year
1994 Second Place IFFHS World’s Best Goalkeeper of The Year
1995 Third Place IFFHS World’s Best Goalkeeper of The year
1999 IFFHS Sweden Goalkeeper of The Century
Thomas Ravelli has done his world wide famous in the World Cup 1994. He is especially well known for saving two goals during the penalty shootout that ended the quarterfinal match between Sweden and Romania in the 1994 World Cup. He is the all-time appearance leader for the Swedish national team. Due to playing in Sweden trough his career, Ravelli’s highlight for World-Class performance was only in national level and this is the most important factor leading him not be regarded so high as his abilities. But still, He was regarded as the third best goalkeeper in history of Scandinavian football.
36. Andoni Zubizarreta
Date Of Birth : 23 October 1961
Height : 193 cm
Nation : Spain
Major Club : Athletic Bilbao, Barcelona
Caps. : 126 Games
World Cup Participation: 1986, 1990, 1994, 1998 (16 Games)
Club Honours : 6 Times Spanish La Liga
3 Times Copa Del Rey
1989 European Cup Winners Cup
1992 European Cup Winners
1994 European Cup Runner-Up
1998 UEFA Intertoto Cup
International Honours : None
Individual Achievement : 1987 Zamora Trophy
1987 Spanish Footballer of The Year
1992 Second Place IFFHS World’s Best Goalkeeper of The year
“Zubi” Andoni Zubizarreta was an important goalkeeper of Spain national team for more than a decade. He was not superb wonderful saver but very consistency in the long period time through his career. Zubizarreta played around 800 matches during his professional career for 17 seasons. In league competition, He conceded goal in average one goal a game. He signed to play for Valencia in his late career. Aside from World Cup, He played in Euro 88 and 96 but Spain was disappointed in every big tournament he played. He totally kept 53 clean sheets for his international appearances. Zubi is the all-time most capped player for Spain and becoming one of the greatest goalkeepers to ever play for Barcelona.
35. Jose Luis Chilavert
Date Of Birth : 27 July 1965
Nation : Paraguay
Height : 189 cm
Major Club : Velez Sarsfield
Caps : 74 Games
World Cup Participation : 1998, 2002 (7 Games)
Club Honours : 3 Times Argentina Champion
1 Time Uruguay Champion
1 Time Paraguay Champion
1 Time Copa De France
1994 Copa Libertadores Cup
1994 Intercontinental Cup
International Honours : None
Individual Achievement : 6 Times South American Goalkeeper Of The Year
3 Times IFFHS World Best Goalkeeper (1995, 1997, 1998)
2 Times Third Place IFFHS World’s Best Goalkeeper of The Year
1996 Argentina League Player Of The Year
1996 South American Footballer Of The Year
2 Times Bronze Ball South American Footballer of The Year (1997, 1998)
Jose Luis Chilavert is well-known as the best goalkeeper-scorer in history of the game because of his free-kick specialist and often took penalties and this became his pioneer. He totally scored 62 goals in his club professional career and 8 goals for Paraguay national team. Not only excellent as scorer, But also brilliant in keeping skills. He made his important role for Paraguay especially helping them qualified to second round of both 1998 and 2002 world cup. Chilavert is the only goalkeeper to win South American footballer of the year awards. All in all, He was rated by many sources among the best GK ever just because of his goalscorer but he could be appeared in just top 30 in this all-time ranking which consider only his keeping skills. Chilavert kept 30 clean sheets in international appearances
34. Jose Angel Iribar
Date Of Birth : 1 March 1943
Height : 181 cm
Nation : Spain
Major Club : Athletic Bilbao
Caps. : 49 Games
World Cup Participation: 1966 (3 Games)
Club Honours : 2 Times Copa Del Rey
International Honours : 1964 European Championship Winners
Individual Achievement : 1 Time Zamora Trophy (1970)
1964 European Championship Team of The Tournament
Jose Angel Iribar is regarded as one of the finest Spanish goalkeepers of all-time. He still has the record for keeping a clean sheet at ten successive home games, or 1,018 minutes, during the 1970-71 season. He never won La Liga trophy with his club but the closest was the runner-up in the 1969 -1970 season, was also in team reached the UEFA Cup final in 1977. He made a record 466 appearances in La Liga. He was an outstanding keeper to help Spain won EURO 64. On 5 December 1975, before a game against Real Sociedad, Iribar and the captain of Real Sociedad, Ignacio Kortabarria, carried out the Ikurriña, the Basque flag and placed it ceremonially on the centre-circle. This was the first public display of the flag since the death of Franco. He subsequently became involved in Basque local politics and was a founding member of the independentist coalition Herri Batasuna.
33. Ivo Viktor
Date Of Birth : 1942
Height : Unknown
Nation : Czechoslovakia
Major Club : Dukla Prague
International Caps. : 63 Games
World Cup Participation: 1970 (2 Games)
Club Honours : 7 Times Czechoslovakia League
4 Times Czechslovakian Cup
International Honours : 1976 European Championship Winners
Individual Achievement : 5 Times Czechoslovakia Footballer Of The Year
2 Times European Goalkeeper Of The Year (1969,1976)
1976 European Championship Team of The Tournament
1976 Bronze Ball European Footballer of The Year
Ivo Viktor is the great Czechoslovakian goalkeeper who was the brightest star to lead team surprisingly won Germany in European championship final round. Especially, His only saving from Uli Hoeness’s shooting in penalty shootout led team to win that victory match.
During his career, He start playing in Brno for two seasons before settle down with Dukla Prague where was the first-rate team in his country at that time for 13 seasons. Because of his outstanding performance, He won many player of the year in the league although he was a goalkeeper. He kept 28 clean sheets for his nation. Regardless of Lev Yashin, Viktor is the only one from Eastern Europe could be voted in top three European footballer of the year.
32. Hans Tilkowski
Date Of Birth : 12 July 1935
Nation : West Germany
Height : Unknown
Major Club : Westfalia Herne, Borussia Dortmund
Caps : 39 Games
World Cup Participation : 1962, 1966 (6 Games)
Club Honours : 1 Time German Cup
1 Time European Cup Winners Cup
International Honours : 2008 European Championship Winners
Individual Achievement : 1965 German Footballer Of The Year
Hans Tilkowski, One of the best goalkeepers in the world during the middle of1960s, is reputably known for his conceding winning goal to England in world cup final round 1966 which the ball was still not across a line. The goalkeeper started his career with VfL Husen 19 and SuS Kaiserau. Then he left for Westfalia Herne. His next team was Borussia Dortmund. From 1963 to 1967 he played 81 times in the German Bundesliga for Dortmund . Tilkowski is the fourth best goalkeeper in history of German league since 1955 according to Kicker ranking which put him in 3.5 world-class seasons and 7.5 seasons of international-class.
31. Iker Casillas
Date Of Birth : 20 May 1981
Nation : Spain
Height : 182 cm
Major Club : Real Madrid
Caps : 99 Games (The newest updated in November 2009)
World Cup Participation : 2002, 2006 (8 Games)
Club Honours : 4 Times Spanish La Liga
2 Times UEFA Champion League (2000, 2002)
2002 Intercontinental Cup
International Honours : 2008 European Championship Winners
Individual Achievement : 2000 Bravo Award
2008 Zamora Trophy
2009 La Liga Best Goalkeeper
2008 European Championship Best Goalkeeper
3 Times UEFA Team Of The Year (2007, 2008, 2009)
2008 UEFA Club Goalkeeper Of The Year
2008 European Goalkeeper Of The Year
2 Times IFFHS World’s Best Goalkeeper of The Year (2008, 2009)
2 Times Second Place IFFHS World’s Best Goalkeeper of The Year (2002, 2003)
2007 Third Place IFFHS World’s Best Goalkeeper of The Year
Iker Casillas, The greatest goalkeeper at the present, just reach his prime in 2008 which he won almost every big individual honours, is being kept an eye for his performance in the rest of his career whether he could be one of the best goalkeepers of all-time. He is being in his prime for Real Madrid “The Galacticos Version III” with many world-class superstars and Spain national team which is currently one of the best team in the world. Accordingly, There are still many honours waiting for him. Casillas has already kept 56 clean sheets for Spain and this is the best record for his nation. He was voted as fourth place in European footballer of the year in 2008 and regarded as Real Madrid’s greatest goalkeeper of the century.
30. Andreas Kopke
Date Of Birth : 12 March 1962
Nation : Germany
Height : 182 cm
Major Club : Nuremberg
Caps : 59 Games
World Cup Participation : 1990, 1994, 1998 (5 Games)
Club Honours : None
International Honours : 1996 European Championship Winners
Individual Achievement : 1993 German Footballer Of The Year
1996 European Championship Goalkeeper Of Tournament
1996 UEFA Club Goalkeeper Of The Year
1996 European Goalkeeper Of The Year
1996 IFFHS World Best Goalkeeper Of The Year
Andreas Kopke is the greatest goalkeeper of the world in 1996 which he won almost every big individual awards from his superlative performance in EURO 96. Kopke mostly stayed for Nuremberg during his career although he should play for the bigger club. He was rated by kicker magazine in 3 world-class seasons and 8 International-class seasons which is the fifth best rating for goalkeeper since 1955 to present. He was one of goalkeepers more like to box the ball than keep it to assure it would not be spilled to give opportunity to opponents. Kopke kept 28 clean sheets for Germany national team. He was overshadowed by Bodo Illgner in world cup 1990 -1994 despite he was rated as the better keeper in Bundesliga game.
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