Brazil ratings in the 1982 World Cup

 

7,16 Falcão
7,14 Sócrates
7,05 Toninho Cerezo
6,90 Zico
6,76 Júnior
6,44 Luizinho
6,14 Oscar
6,09 Leandro
5,94 Éder
5,80 Serginho Chulapa
5,76 Waldir Peres

Brazil ratings in the 1986 World Cup

7,00 Careca
6,78 Josimar
6,66 Júlio César
6,54 Carlos
6,46 Elzo
6,44 Alemão
6,38 Júnior
6,30 Zico
6,27 Sócrates
6,22 Müller
6,19 Edinho
5,96 Branco
5,21 Casagrande
 

1982 World Cup: average ratings in the 1st stage

 

Ratings: El Gráfico.

8,33 Osvaldo Ardiles (Arg)
8,00 Rinat Dasaev (URS)
7,67 Américo Gallego (Arg)
7,33 Pierre Littbarski (BRD), Ferenc Mészáros (Hun), Oleg Blokhin (URS)
7,00 Luizinho, Sócrates, Toninho Cerezo (Bra), Diego Maradona (Arg), Alain Giresse (Fra), Friedl Koncilia (Aut), Walter Meeuws (Bel)

Market value of foreign Serie A players, summer 1984

 

Source: Corriere della Sera.

6,5 million €: Maradona (Napoli)
4,0 million €: Rummenigge (Inter)
2,7 million €: Sócrates (Fiorentina)
2,5 million €: Zico (Udinese)
2,0 million €: Toninho Cerezo (Roma)
1,8 million €: Falcão (Roma)
1,7 million €: Schachner (Torino)
1,5 million €: Júnior (Torino), Wilkins (Milan)
1,3 million €: Passarella (Fiorentina)
1,2 million €: Boniek (Juventus), Briegel & Elkjær (Verona), Hateley (Milan)
1,1 million €: R. Díaz (Avellino), Souness (Sampdoria)
1 million €: Platini (Juventus), Strömberg (Atalanta); T. Francis (Sampdoria)
900.000 €: Bertoni (Napoli), Brady (Inter)
750.000 €: Batista (Lazio)
700.000 €: Corneliusson (Como)
650.000 €; Coeck (Ascoli)
600.000 €: Edinho (Udinese), H. Müller (Como)
500.000 €: Lars Larsson (Atalanta), P. Hernández (Ascoli), Barbadillo (Avellino)
250.000 €: M. Laudrup (Lazio)

The 30 best players in the 1982 World Cup

Based on ratings and surveys in the international sports press.

1. Falcão (Bra)
2. Júnior I (Bra)
3. Paolo Rossi (Ita)
4. Zico (Bra)
4. Alain Giresse (Fra)
5. Zbigniew Boniek (Pol)
6. Rinat Dasaev (URS)
7. Daniel Passarella (Arg)
8. Sócrates (Bra)
9. Karlheinz Rummenigge (BRD)
10. Dino Zoff (Ita)
11. Jean Tigana (Fra)
12. Gaetano Scirea (Ita)
13. Eric Gerets (Bel)
14. Michel Platini (Fra)
15. Osvaldo Ardiles (Arg)
16. Marco Tardelli (Ita)
17. Uli Stielike (BRD)
18. Fulvio Collovati (Ita)
19. Karl-Heinz Förster (BRD)
20. Marius Trésor (Fra)
21. Bruno Conti (Ita)
22. Giancarlo Antognoni (Ita)
23. Manuel Amoros (Fra)
24. Claudio Gentile (Ita)
25. Thomas N'Kono (Cam)
26. Paul Breitner (BRD)
27. Leandro (Bra)
28. Toninho Cerezo (Bra)
29. Grzegorz Lato (Pol)
30. Pierre Littbarski (BRD)

Los puntajes uno por uno de Brasil en el Mundial de México 1986

Ratings: Guerin Sportivo - France Football - El Mundo Deportivo - La Stampa.

7,00 Careca
6,78 Josimar
6,66 Júlio César
6,54 Carlos
6,44 Alemão
6,38 Júnior I
6,30 Zico
6,27 Sócrates
6,26 Elzo
6,22 Müller
6,19 Edinho
5,96 Branco
5,21 Casagrande

1982 World Cup average ratings

Ratings: France Football.

4,80 Paulo Roberto Falcão & Zico (Brazil)
4,60 Osvaldo Ardiles (Argentina)
4,57 Gregorz Lato (Poland)
4,50 Alain Giresse (France)
4,40 Sócrates & Júnior (Brazil)
4,33 Jean Tigana (France)
4,29 Marco Tardelli (Italy)
4,25 Toninho Cerezo (Brazil)
4,20 Rinat Dasaev & Aleksandr Chivadze (USSR), Daniel Passarella (Argentina), Michel Platini (France)
4,17 Uli Stielike (West Germany)
4,14 Gaetano Scirea (Italy)
4,00 Dino Zoff, Antonio Cabrini & Bruno Conti  (Italy), Hans-Peter Briegel, Karlheinz Förster & Paul Breitner  (West Germany), Thomas N’Kono (Cameroon), Pat Jennings & Gerry Armstrong  (N. Ireland), 4,00 Marius Trésor (France), Władysław Żmuda (Poland), Bryan Robson (England)
3,86 Józef Młynarczyk (Poland)
3,83 Karl-Heinz Rummenigge & Pierre Littbarski (West Germany), Maxime Bossis (France), Giancarlo Antognoni (Italy), Zbigniew Boniek(Poland)
3,71 Fulvio Collovati & Paolo Rossi (Italy),
3,60 Leandro & Éder (Brazil)

1982 World Cup: average ratings in the 1st stage

Ratings: El Gráfico.

8,33 Ardiles (Arg)
8,00 Dasaev (URS)
7,67 Gallego (Arg)
7,33 Littbarski (BRD), Meszaros (Hun), Blokhin (URS)
7,00 Luizinho, Sócrates, Toninho Cerezo (Bra), Maradona (Arg), Giresse (Fra), Koncilia (Aut), Meeuws (Bel)

Players' market value 33 years ago.

Values estimated by weekly magazine Guerin Sportivo April 1980, in perspective of the opening of Italian borders. Spanish players, extremely reluctant to leave their country, not taken into consideration.

In Italics, players that eventually played in the Serie A.


3000 m. lire (apprx 1,5 m€):
Maradona (Argentinos Juniors)

1.000.000€:
Zico (Flamengo)

550.000-650.000€:
T. Francis (Nottingham Forest), Woodcock (Köln), Cunningham (Real Madrid)

500.000-600.000€:
Brady (Arsenal), Sócrates (Corinthians)

450.000-550.000€:
Kh Rummenigge (Bayern Munich), H. Müller (Stuttgart)

400.000-500.000€:
Birtles (Nottingham Forest), Dalglish (Liverpool), Keegan (HSV), Schachner (Austria Vienna), Krankl (First Vienna)

350.000-450.000€:
Stapleton (Arsenal), Ward (Brighton), Regis (West Bromwich), Coppell (Man United), K. Allofs (Fortuna Düsseldorf), Kaltz (HSV), Platini (St-Etienne), Prohaska (Austria Vienna), Simonsen (Barcelona)

300.000-400.000€:
Case (Liverpool), Mariner (Ipswich), D. Müller (Köln), Breitner (Bayern Munich), Stielike (Real Madrid), Gomes (FC Porto)

250.000-350.000€:
R. Kennedy & Johnson (Liverpool), Thijssen (Ipswich), Wallace (Coventry), Williams (Southampton), Neumann (Köln), Kempe (Duisburg), Dell'Haye (M'gladbach), Hartwig (HSV), Abramczik (Schalke 04), Bonhof (Valencia), Carpegiani (Flamengo), Falcão (Internacional), Ischia (Vélez)

200.000-300.000€:
McDermott (Liverpool), McQueen (Man United), Ritchie (Morton), Schuster (Köln), Nickel (M'gladbach), Hrubesch (HSV), D. Hoeness (Bayern Munich), Sigurvinsson (Standard de Liège), Vandenbergh (Lierse), Van der Elst (Anderlecht), Ceulemans (Brugge), Pécout (FC Nantes), Tahamata (Ajax), Kist (AZ '67), Pétursson (Feyenoord), Morena (Rayo Vallecano), D. Bertoni (Sevilla), Dirceu (Atlético de Madrid), Reinaldo & Jordão (Benfica), Sulser (Grasshoppers), Júlio César (Flamengo), Jorge Mendonça (Vasco da Gama), Nílton Batata (Santos), Toninho Cerezo (Atlético Mineiro), Passarella & R. Díaz (River Plate)

150.000-250.000€:
Somner (St Mirren), McAdam (Partick Thistle), McCluskey (Celtic), Hannes (M'gladbach), Fischer (Schalke 04), Voordeckers (Standard de Liège), Van der Eycken (Brugge), Elkjær (Lokeren), Rep, Zimako & Rocheteau (St-Etienne), Alves (Paris SG), Krol, La Ling, Arnesen & Lerby (Ajax), R. van der Kerkhof, W. van der Kerkhof & Brandts (PSV), Zenon & Careca (Guarani), Pita (Santos), Edinho (Fluminense), Randazzo (Boca Juniors), Beto Alonso (River Plate), Bochini (Independiente), Gallego (Newell's Old Boys), Reinaldi (Talleres Córdoba), J. Olsen (Næstved)

100.000-200.000€:
Deyna (Man City), Edström (Standard de Liège), Christophe (Monaco), Stopyra (Sochaux), Wildschut (PSV), Vermeulen (Roda), Ponte (Grasshoppers), Zé Sérgio (São Paulo), Fortunato (Estudiantes), Bravo (Talleres Córdoba)

100.000-150.000€:
H. Jensen (Ajax), Thychosen (M'gladbach)

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