Football is an ever-changing meritocracy and, therefore, deciding the best player in the world at any precise moment is a difficult challenge. That title could theoretically change hands after any ...

Zlatan is the best Swedish footballer in the world right now and currently leads the Serie A goal-scoring charts with 18 to date. Maicon 6 of 51.

More like a dancer than a football player, Laudrup was mesmerising to watch. The Dane's World Cup appearances came 12 years apart in 1986 and 1998, the forward captaining his country in the latter.

Herein lies who I consider to be the greatest 50 goal scorers in World Football History. They aren't all strikers, they aren't all retired and some of them have certainly fallen from grace ...

The World Cup's best players are ranked by Gary Lineker, Alan Shearer and Micah Richards in the latest Match of the Day Top 10 podcast.