Europe's 20 best goalkeepers in the 1970s and '80s

1. Dino Zoff (Italy)

2. Rinat Dasaev (USSR)

3. Jean-Marie Pfaff (Belgium)

4. Ronnie Hellström (Sweden)

5. Peter Shilton (England)

6. Gordon Banks (England)

7. Sepp Maier (West Germany)

8. Harald "Toni" Schumacher (West Germany)

9. Ivo Viktor (Czechoslovakia)

10. Pat Jennings (N. Ireland)

11. Michel Preud'homme (Belgium)

12. Jan Tomaszewski (Poland)

13. Evgeniy Rudakov (USSR)

14. Ivan Ćurković (Yugoslavia)

15. Neville Southall (Wales)

16. Arconada (Spain)

17. Walter Zenga (Italy)

18. Bento (Portugal)

19. Ray Clemence (England)

20. Jan Möller (Sweden)

Top rated players Euro 1968

3,75 Albert Shesternev (URS)

3,50 Bobby Moore (Eng)

3,25 Anatoliy Byshovets, Gennadiy Evryuzhikhin (URS) 

3,17 Dino Zoff (Ita)

3,00 Giacinto Facchetti (Ita), Dobrivoje Trivić, Dragan Džajić (Yug), Bobby Charlton (Eng)

2,83 Angelo Domenghini (Ita)

Juventus ratings 1982/83

 

Ratings: Guerin Sportivo - La Stampa.

6,59 Michel Platini
6,48 Giuseppe Furino
6,38 Gaetano Scirea
6,35 Claudio Gentile
6,33 Roberto Bettega
6,32 Marco Tardelli
6,31 Sergio Brio
6,30 Antonio Cabrini
6,26 Zbigniew Boniek
6,18 Massimo Bonini
6,15 Dino Zoff
6,04 Paolo Rossi
6,00 Giuseppe Galderisi
5,88 Massimo Storgato
5,81 Domenico Marocchino

Average ratings Juventus 1976/77

6,49 Claudio Gentile

6,47 Francesco Morini

6,46 Roberto Bettega

6,41 Dino Zoff

6,40 Antonello Cuccureddu

6,26 Franco Causio, Marco Tardelli

6,21 Gaetano Scirea

6,18 Romeo Benetti

6,06 Giuseppe Furino

5,99 Sergio Gori

5,98 Roberto Boninsegna

Italy all-time Best XI

According to Guerin Sportivo, 1994.

Dino Zoff
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Claudio Gentile
Gaetano Scirea
Carlo Parola
Antonio Cabrini
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Marco Tardelli
Giuseppe Meazza -photo-
Gianni Rivera
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Bruno Conti
Paolo Rossi
Gigi Riva

Italy ratings in the 1978 World Cup

 

Ratings: Corriere della Sera - El Gráfico.

6,92 Marco Tardelli
6,43 Gaetano Scirea
6,29 Franco Causio
6,21 Paolo Rossi, Antonio Cabrini
6,07 Claudio Gentile
6,00 Dino Zoff, Antonello Cuccureddu
5,93 Roberto Bettega
5,80 Renato Zaccarelli
5,38 Mauro Bellugi
5,30 Giancarlo Antognoni
5,25 Romeo Benetti
5,00 Francesco Graziani

Italy ratings in the 1974 World Cup

Ratings: El Gráfico (Argentina).

7,00 Sandro Mazzola
6,67 Dino Zoff, Giacinto Facchetti
5,67 Tarcisio Burgnich
5,00 Franco Causio
4,67 Luciano Spinosi, Francesco Morini, Fabio Capello
4,50 Giuseppe Wilson
4,33 Romeo Benetti, Pietro Anastasi
4,00 Gianni Rivera
3,50 Giorgio Chinaglia

 

Ideal XI in the 1982 World Cup, according to El Gráfico (Argentina) and El Mundo Deportivo (Spain)

 

Juventus ratings 1982/83

6,59 Michel Platini
6,48 Giuseppe Furino
6,38 Gaetano Scirea
6,35 Claudio Gentile
6,33 Roberto Bettega
6,32 Marco Tardelli
6,31 Sergio Brio
6,30 Antonio Cabrini
6,26 Zbigniew Boniek
6,18 Massimo Bonini
6,15 Dino Zoff
6,04 Paolo Rossi
6,00 Giuseppe Galderisi
5,88 Massimo Storgato
5,81 Domenico Marocchino

Ratings: Guerin Sportivo - La Stampa.

20 greatest Italian footballers of all time

 

1. Giuseppe Meazza [1910-79]
Inter - Milan - Juventus - Varese - Atalanta - Inter

2. Roberto Baggio [1967]
LR Vicenza - Fiorentina - Juventus - Milan - Bologna - Inter - Brescia

3. Paolo Maldini [1968]
Milan 

4. Gigi Buffon [1978]
Parma - Juventus - Paris-SG - Juventus

5. Franco Baresi [1960]
Milan 

6. Gianni Rivera [1943]
Alessandria - Milan 

7. Silvio Piola [1913-96]
Pro Vercelli - Lazio - Torino - Juventus - Novara

8. Dino Zoff [1942]
Udinese - Mantova - Napoli - Juventus

9. Valentino Mazzola [1919-49]
Tresoldi - Alfa Romeo - Venezia - Torino    

10. Andrea Pirlo [1979]
Brescia - Inter - Reggina - Brescia - Milan - Juventus - New York City

11. Giacinto Facchetti [1942-2006]
Inter

12. Gigi Riva [1944]
Legnano - Cagliari

13. Paolo Rossi [1956]
Como - LR Vicenza - Perugia - Juventus - Milan - Verona

14. Sandro Mazzola [1942]
Inter

15. Gaetano Scirea [1953-89]
Atalanta - Juventus

16. Francesco Totti [1976]
Roma

17. Giampiero Boniperti [1928]
Juventus

18. Fabio Cannavaro [1973]
Napoli - Parma - Inter - Juventus - Real Madrid - Juventus - Al-Ahli (Dubai)

19. Marco Tardelli [1954]
Pisa - Como - Juventus - Inter - St. Gallen

20. Alessandro Del Piero  [1974]
Padova - Juventus - Sydney FC - Delhi Dynamos

Italian poll 'Campione Mio', 1986

 

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)