1. IFFHS’s World Best Goalkeeper
2. UEFA club goalkeeper of the year
3. Best Ranking of Goalkeeper in Ballon d’Or ( European Goalkeeper of The Year)
4. Yashin Awards ( The Best Goalkeeper Of FIFA World Cup Tournament )
5. The Best Goalkeeper in European Championship Tournament
50. Luciano Castellini
Date Of Birth : 12 December 1945
Nation : Italy
Height : 180 cm
Major Club : Torino, Napoli
Caps : 1 Games
World Cup Participation : 1974 (No Game)
Club Honours : 1 Time Italian Series A
1 Time Copa Italia
International Honours : None
Individual Achievement : None
“The Jaguar” Luciano Castellini is one of the best italian goalkeepers eve if consider only abilities, remembered for his impossible saves, jumping from a post to the other with impressive reaction, describes well his characteristic of a catlike-moving goalkeeper, reckless coming out the goal and darting between the posts. He wasn't a cold GK as Zoff, he was an emotive who "felt" the match, but could transform this emotional in concentration. Something can show his peculiarity. In the years at Napoli Castellini recorded the record for the team of 762 minutes without receiving goals (Zoff stopped at 657). At Napoli in 7 years he collected an average of 0.8 goals /match (second just behind Zoff, who did better 0,7). Since he arrived in Napoli he was reward each year as the best goalkeeper in Serie A from the sport journal Guerin Sportivo, and gained in 1980 the Guerin D'Oro as the best football player of the tournament.
49. Peter Cech
Date Of Birth : 1982
Height : 198 cm
Nation : Czech Replublic
Major Club : Chelsea
Caps : 67 Games
World Cup Participation: 2006 (3 Games)
Club Honours : 2 Times English Premier League
2 Times FA Cup
2 Time League Cup
2008 UEFA Champion League Runner-Up
International Honours : None
Individual Achievement : 2 Times European Goalkeeper of The Year (2005, 2007)
3 Times UEFA Club Goalkeeper of The Year (2005, 2007, 2008)
2004 French League Best Goalkeeper
3 Times Barclay Golden Gloves (2005, 2006, 2007(
2005 IFFHS World’s Best Goalkeeper of The Year
2005 PFA Team of The Year
2 Times Second Place IFFHS World’s Best Goalkeeper of The Year (2004, 2007)
2006 Third Place IFFHS World’Best Goalkeeper of The Year
3 Times Czech Player of The Year (2002, 2005, 2007)
Peter Cech is an active goalkeeper who is the best GK in the world in the middle of the 2000s. He currently holds one record: a Czech professional league record of not conceding a goal in 855 competitive minutes. He also has a club record at his former team Sparta Praha, having gone 928 minutes unbeaten in all competitions in 2001–2002. During the 2004–05 season of premier league, Čech held the record for the most clean sheets accomplished in a season with 25 matches and he went 1,025 minutes without conceding a goal - a former Premier League record until Edwin Van Der Sar broke it on 27 January 2009. His great performance partly helped Chelsea reached semi-final in UEFA Champion League 3 Times.
48. Lorenzo Buffon
Date Of Birth : 19 December 1929
Nation : Italy
Height : 181 cm
Major Club : AC Milan
Caps : 16 Games
World Cup Participation : 1962 (2 Games)
Club Honours : 5 Times Italian Series A
International Honours : None
Individual Achievement : None
Lorenzo Buffon is regarded by many Italian columnists as the greatest goalkeeper in history of AC Milan club. He is a cousin of Gigi Buffon’s grandfather and Gigi seems to succeed his talent. L. Buffon was one of the best goalkeeper in the World during the lately 1950s to the early 1960s that he was in his prime of the career although he was far away from his prime before. This effected him won a few caps, and not being remembered as the legends of Italy national team but it is opposite for the club level. He was one of the few Italian legends from the 1950s that he helped Milan a lot to lead them won many Italian league trophies. Regrettably, That Milan team was not their outstanding era enough and this might be a reason why he has been forgotten for many.
47. Claudio Taffarel
Date Of Birth : 8 May 1966
Height : 183 cm
Nation : Brazil
Major Club : Parma, Galatasalaay, Atletico Mineiro
International Caps. : 101
World Cup Participation: 1990, 1994, 1998 (18 Games)
Club Honours : 2 Times Turkish League
2 Times Copa Italia
1993 Cup Winners Cup
1997 COMEBOL Cup
2000 UEFA Cup Winners
International Honours : 1988 Olympic Games Silver Medal
1989 Copa America Winners
1994 FIFA World Cup Winners
1998 FIFA World Cup Runner-Up
Individual Achievement : 1988 Brazilian Footballer Of The Year
Brazilian Football Museum – Hall Of Fame
Claudio Taffarel was a reliable goalkeeper of The 1994 World Cup champion Brazil, is of German and Italian descent. He conceded only one goal in the first round and two in the knock-out phases (excluding two penalty kicks in the final). In addition to USA 1994, Taffarel helped lead Brazil to second place in the 1998 World Cup in France. In the semi-finals against Netherlands, he played a central role in the 4-2 penalty kick victory, saving the last two attempts. Also, He reached runner-up position in Copa America 1989 with brazil.He had a key role in Galatasaray's UEFA Cup triumph over Arsenal in 2000, and was named the man of the match in the final.
46. Antonio Ramallets
Date Of Birth : 4 June 1924
Height : 182 cm
Nation : Spain
Major Club : Barcelona
International Caps. : 35 Games
World Cup Participation: 1950 (4 Games)
Club Honoures : 6 Times Spanish La Liga
4 Times Copa Del Rey
2 Times Inter Cities Fair Cup
International Honours : 1950 FIFA World Cup Third Place
Individual Achievement : 6 Times Zamora Trophies (1952,1956,1957,1959,1960)
Antonio Ramallets is a famous legendary goalkeeper of Barcelona and Spain national team during the 1950s. He was an important player to lead Spain won fourth place in World Cup 1950. During the tournament, He earned the nickname “The Cat of Maracana”. He played along with players like Suarez, Czibor and Kocsis. That team is regarded as one of the best Barcelona teams in their history. During his playing career with the club he made 538 appearances, including 288 in La Liga. He also played 7 games for Catalan XI. Ramallets holds the all-time record most winners in Zamora Trophies with 6.
45. Roque Maspoli
Date Of Birth : 12 October 1917
Height : 189 cm
Nation : Uruguay
Major Club : Penarol
Caps. : 44 Games
World Cup Participation : 1950, 1954 (8 Games)
International Honours : 1950 FIFA World Cup Champions
Club Honours : 6 Times Uruguay Champions
Individual Achievement : 1950 FIFA World Cup Best Goalkeeper
Roque Maspoli is known as the greatest Latin American goalkeeper between the late 40’s to the early 50’s. He did his outstanding performance in World Cup 1950 which Uruguay won the champion. In the final match of the 1950 World Cup, known as the "Maracanazo" due to Uruguay's surprising win at the Maracanã stadium in Rio de Janeiro, in front of near 200,000 Brazilian fans, Máspoli allowed one goal as the visitors beat favorites Brazil 2-1. Rqoue Maspoli was voted 6th south America’s best goalkeeper of the century and all-time second best goalkeeper of Uruguay national team.
44. Luis Arconada
Date Of Birth : 26 June 1954
Nation : Spain
Height : 179 cm
Major Club : Real Sociedad
Caps : 68 Games
World Cup Participation : 1978, 1982 (5 Games)
Club Honours : 2 Times Spanish La Liga
1 Time Spanish Cup
International Honours : 1984 European Championship Runner-Up
Individual Achievement : 3 Times Zamora Trophy
"The Octopus" Luis Arconada is one of the top goalkeepers in the World during the early 1980s. His best Achievement at international level is 1984 European Championship. Unfortunately, he is also remembered for a spectacular error in the final of the Euro 84 against France that led Spain finally lost. But still, He was among top legendary goalkeeper of Spain. He had captained the national side on many occasions. Arconada was seriously injured in the league's opener, which caused him to miss the remainder of the campaign and the 1986 FIFA World Cup. He still returned strong for three more seasons, helping Real Sociedad to two consecutive Copa del Rey finals before retiring at 35, with a total of 414 appearances for the club (551 overall); after that, he remained apart from the football world.
43. Hans Van Breukelen
Date Of Birth : 1956
Height : 193 cm
Nation : Netherlands
Major Club : PSV Eindhoven
Caps. : 73 Games
World Cup Participation: 1990 (4 Games)
International Honours :
Club Honours : 6 Times Dutch Champions
3 Times Dutch Cup
1988 European Cup
International Honours : 1988 European Championship Winners
Individual Achievement : 4 Times Dutch Goalkeeper Of The Year
1988 European Championship Team of The Tournament
1988 Second Place IFFHS World’s Best Goalkeeper of The Year
1992 Third Place IFFHS World’s Best Goalkeeper of The Year
1999 IFFHS Netherlands Goalkeeper of The Century
Hans Van Breukelen is one of the greatest goalkeepers Holland has ever had, making his debut against Germany in 1980. Two years later, he was bought by English team Nottingham Forest as a replacement for Peter Shilton. Keeping a clean sheet in his debut, things went well for van Breukelen, until he sustained an injury which sidelined him for almost four months. Having recovered from the injury towards the end of March 1983, he once again played regularly and helped Forest to an unbeaten spell of nine league matches, securing a place in the UEFA cup.1984. In his prime, Van Breukelen is one of the best keepers of Europe in 80s. Nonetheless, His consistency was still a problem through his career. He won 35 clean sheets for Holland national team.
42. Ronnie Hellstrom
Date Of Birth : 21 February 1949
Height : 192 cm
Nation : Sweden
Major Club : Hammarby, Kaiserslauterm
Caps. : 77 Games
World Cup Participation: 1970, 1974, 1978 (10 Games)
Club Honours : None
International Honours : None
Individual Achievement : 2 Times Swedish Footballer Of The Year (1971, 1978)
4 Times European Goalkeeper Of The Year (1974, 1977, 1978, 1979)
Hellstorm is considered as the greatest Swedish goalkeeper of all-time. He is one of the most underrated GK in the world because of playing for Hammarby and Kaiserslautern which incredibly didn’t win any trophy. His best club achievement was a two times DFB-Pokal runner-up only. But still, He was ranked in world-class a half of season and 6.5 seasons of international-class from total 10 seasons played in the Bundesliga game. His style of play was not exciting but full of effectiveness and reliability. 1978 was his best year, was voted 6th in Ballon d’Or. All in all, He is rated as one of the best goalkeepers of the world during 70
41. Nevile Southall
Date Of Birth : 16 September 1958
Height : 185 cm
Nation : Wales
Major Club : Everton
Caps. : 92 Games
World Cup Participation: None
Club Honours : 2 Times English Top Division
2 Times FA Cup
1985 UEFA Cup Winners Cup
International Honours : None
Individual Achievement : 1985 FWA Footballer Of The Year
1995 BBC Sports Personality of The Year
1999 IFFHS Wales Goalkeeper of The Century
Nevile Southall has been described as one of the best goalkeepers of his generation, regarded as the greatest goalkeeper ever Wales has ever produced. Southall joined Everton in 1981 and went on to make a club record 578 appearances in the Football League and 750 in all competitions. The Times media ranked him as the third greatest player ever of Everton. In international level, He was very closed to qualify the first time in history of world cup with Wales along with Ian Rush, Mark Hughes and Ryan Giggs but Wales finally regrettable disqualify.
40. Villiam Schrojf
Date Of Birth : 12 December 1945
Nation : Czechoslovakia
Height : 179 cm
Major Club : Slovan Bratislava
Caps : 39 Games
World Cup Participation : 1954, 1958, 1962 (6 Games)
Club Honours : None
International Honours : 1962 FIFA World Cup Runner-Up
Individual Achievement : 1962 FIFA World Cup Best Goalkeeper
1962 FIFA World Cup All-Star Team
Villiam Schrojf is best remembered for his performance in the 1962 FIFA World Cup, where Czechoslovakia surprised the world and went through to the final, losing to champions Brazil. The success of Czechoslovakia was largely attributed to Schrojf's superb performance. The final however proved to be a black day for Schrojf, with two Brazilian goals resulting from his mistakes. With his country leading 1-0, he expected a cross from Amarildo and left the goal, allowing the Brazilian to score from an acute angle. Half way through the second half, with his side already 1-2 down, the sun got into his eyes and failed to catch a simple ball properly, which landed directly at the feet of Vava, who took the opportunity to become the first ever player to score in two different World Cup finals.
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