Top rated players in the 1998 World Cup

At least 4 rated appearances. Source: Guerin Sportivo.

7,12 Luis Hernández (4, Mex)

7,10 Zinédine Zidane (5, Fra), Gianluca Pagliuca (5, Ita)

7,08 Lilian Thuram (6, Fra)

7,00 Christian Vieri (5, Ita)

6,88 Roberto Baggio (4, Ita), José Luis Chilavert (4, Par), Vladimir Jugović (4, Yug)

6,80 Luigi Di Biagio (5, Ita), Oliver Bierhoff (5, Ger)

6,75 Emmanuel Petit (6, Fra), Edgar Davids (6, Ned), Michael Owen (4, Eng)

6,67 Didier Deschamps (6, Fra)

6,62 Miguel Ángel Benítez (4, Par), Jesús Arellano, Cuauhtémoc Blanco (4, Mex)

6,60 Paolo Maldini (5, Ita), Martin Jørgensen, Michael Laudrup (5, Den)

6,57 Aimé Jacquet (Fra), Ronaldo (7, Bra), Davor Šuker (7, Cro)

Milan ratings 1998/99

Coach: Alberto Zaccheroni.

6,61 Christian Abbiati

6,52 George Weah

6,47 Zvonimir Boban

6,41 Paolo Maldini

6,35 Demetrio Albertini, Leonardo

6,29 Massimo Ambrosini

6,23 Sebastiano Rossi

6,16 Luigi Sala, Andrés Guglielminpietro

6,14 Alessandro Costacurta

6,08 Roberto Ayala

6,07 Oliver Bierhoff

5,92 Maurizio Ganz

5,89 Thomas Helveg

5,85 Bruno N'Gotty

5,54 Christian Ziege, Ibrahim Ba

The 25 greatest "giants" in football history.

According to Guerin Sportivo. Players taller than 190 cm.

1. Zlatan Ibrahimovic
2. Sócrates
3. Gerard Piqué
4. Patrick Vieira
5. Laurent Blanc
6. Yaya Touré
7. Luca Toni
8. Oliver Bierhoff
9. Nwankwo Kanu
10. Jaap Stam
11. Peter Crouch
12. Marco Materazzi
13. Tony Adams
14. Tomas Skuhravý
15. Jan Koller
16. Sergio Brio
17. Glenn Strömberg
18. Igor Tudor
19. Frédéric Kanouté
20. Edin Džeko
21. Walter Casagrande
22. Fernando Llorente
23. John Carew
24. Kennet Andersson
25. Emmanuel Adebayor

Serie A, top rated players 1997/98.

Average ratings, Gazzetta dello Sport.

6,63 Bierhoff (Udinese)
6,58 Totti (Roma), Winter (Inter)
6,57 R. Baggio (Bologna)
6,53 Pagliuca (Inter)
6,52 Buffon (Parma)
6,50 Konsel (Roma)
6,49 Nedved (Lazio)
6,48 Davids (Juventus).