Best Of All — FIFA Soccer Manager 97

Best Player by Position

Position	Name	Best Player	Club	Nationality	Natural Position	Rating
GK	Goalkeeper	David Seaman	Arsenal	🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 English		89
RB	Right Back	Miguel Angel Nadal	FC Barcelona	🇪🇸 Spanish	CD	86
LB	Left Back	Miguel Angel Nadal	FC Barcelona	🇪🇸 Spanish	CD	86
CD	Central Defence	Miguel Angel Nadal	FC Barcelona	🇪🇸 Spanish		88
RWB	Right Wing Back	Mark Bergan	EA All Stars	🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 English	AM	85
LWB	Left Wing Back	Mark Bergan	EA All Stars	🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 English	AM	85
SW	Sweeper	Mark Bergan	EA All Stars	🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 English	AM	84
DM	Defensive Midfield	Matthias Sammer	Borussia Dortmund	🇩🇪 German	SW	86
RM	Right Midfield	Mark Bergan	EA All Stars	🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 English	AM	88
LM	Left Midfield	Mark Bergan	EA All Stars	🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 English	AM	88
AM	Attacking Midfield	Mark Bergan	EA All Stars	🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 English		89
RW	Right Winger	Mark Bergan	EA All Stars	🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 English	AM	90
LW	Left Winger	Mark Bergan	EA All Stars	🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 English	AM	90
FR	Free Role	Ryan Giggs	Manchester United	🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Welsh	LM	90
FOR	Forward	George Weah	AC Milan	🇱🇷 Liberian		89
SS	Support Striker	Romario	Spare	🇧🇷 Brazilian	FOR	89

Leader in Every Skill

Skill	Player	Club	Nationality	Position	Value
Speed	Ryan Giggs	Manchester United	🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Welsh	LM	94
Agility	Nigel Martyn	Leeds United	🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 English	GK	95
Acceleration	Andrei Kanchelskis	Fiorentina	🇷🇺 Russian	RW	94
Stamina	Marino Helder	Deportivo La Coruña	🇵🇹 Portuguese	SW	96
Strength	Yury Nikiforov	Spartak Moscow	🇷🇺 Russian	CD	99
Fitness	Paulinho Santos	Porto	🇵🇹 Portuguese	DM	99
Shooting	George Weah	AC Milan	🇱🇷 Liberian	FOR	96
Passing	Bill Lusty	EA All Stars	🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 English	AM	97
Heading	Duncan Ferguson	Everton	🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scottish	FOR	93
Control	Luiz Nazario De Lima Ronaldo	FC Barcelona	🇧🇷 Brazilian	FOR	92
Dribbling	Paul Gascoigne	Rangers	🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 English	AM	94
Cool	Luiz Nazario De Lima Ronaldo	FC Barcelona	🇧🇷 Brazilian	FOR	90
Awareness	Hakan Sukur	Galatasaray	🇹🇷 Turkish	FOR	97
Tackling Determination	Marcio Santos	Spare	🇧🇷 Brazilian	CD	98
Tackling Skill	Fernando Couto	FC Barcelona	🇵🇹 Portuguese	CD	95
Flair	Faustino Asprilla	Newcastle United	🇨🇴 Colombian	FOR	97
GK Kick	Tommy Wright	Manchester City	🇮🇪 Irish	GK	90
GK Throw	Peter Schmeichel	Manchester United	🇩🇰 Danish	GK	95
GK Handling	Jose Rene Higuita	Spare	🇨🇴 Colombian	GK	96
Throw-in	Philip Gilchrist	Oxford United	🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 English	CD	84
Leadership	Stuart Pearce	Nottingham Forest	🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 English	LB	93
Consistency	Alan Shearer	Newcastle United	🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 English	FOR	90
Determination	Viktor Ikpeba	Monaco	🇳🇬 Nigerian	FOR	93
Greed	Romulus Buia	Uni Craiova	🇷🇴 Romanian	FOR	89

Best Player by League

League / Nation	Player	Club	Nationality	Position	Rating
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 English Premier League	David Seaman	Arsenal	🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 English	GK	89
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 English First Division	Alan Kelly	Sheffield United	🇮🇪 Irish	GK	77
🇩🇪 German Bundesliga 1	Jürgen Klinsmann	Bayern München	🇩🇪 German	FOR	85
🇩🇪 German Bundesliga 2	Pavel Kuka	1. FC Kaiserslautern	🇨🇿 Czech	AM	73
🇮🇹 Italian Serie A	George Weah	AC Milan	🇱🇷 Liberian	FOR	89
🇮🇹 Italian Serie B	Stefano Pioli	Padova	🇮🇹 Italian	CD	79
🇫🇷 French Division 1	Andreas Köpke	Marseille	🇩🇪 German	GK	84
🇫🇷 French Division 2	Abdelsalam Sow	Martigues	🇵🇬 Guinean	FOR	77
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scottish Premier League	Paul Gascoigne	Rangers	🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 English	AM	84
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scottish First Division	Alan Main	St Johnstone	🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scottish	GK	74
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 English Second Division	Alec Chamberlain	Watford	🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 English	GK	71
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 English Third Division	Jan Molby	Swansea City	🇩🇰 Danish	DM	70
	Romario	Spare	🇧🇷 Brazilian	FOR	89

Best Player by Nationality

Nationality	Players	Best Player	Club	Rating
🇦🇱 Albanian	54	Foto Strakosha	Olympiakos	74
🇩🇿 Algerian	5	Moussa Saib	Auxerre	60
🇺🇸 American	13	Kasey Keller	Leicester City	80
🇦🇷 Argentinian	31	Gabriel Batistuta	Fiorentina	86
🇦🇲 Armenian	19	Michel Terzian	Valence	69
🇦🇺 Australian	30	Mark Bosnich	Aston Villa	81
🇦🇹 Austrian	60	Michael Konsel	Rapid Vienna	83
🇦🇿 Azerbijanian	18	Nazim Suleymanov	Alania Vladikavkaz	72
🇧🇾 Belarussian	18	Gennadyi Tumilovich	Dinamo Minsk	75
🇧🇪 Belgian	93	Geert De Vilieger	Anderlecht	82
🇧🇴 Bolivian	6	Miguel Rimba	Spare	76
🇧🇦 Bosnian	12	Suad Katana	Anderlecht	73
🇧🇷 Brazilian	61	Romario	Spare	89
🇧🇬 Bulgarian	77	Hristo Stoïchkov	FC Barcelona	83
🇨🇲 Cameroonian	12	Patrick Mboma	Paris Saint-Germain	77
🇨🇦 Canadian	4	Craig Forrest	Ipswich Town	73
🇨🇱 Chilean	6	Ivan Zamorano	Internazionale	80
🇨🇴 Colombian	10	Jose Rene Higuita	Spare	88
🇭🇷 Croatian	63	Alen Boksic	Juventus	82
🇨🇾 Cypriot	40	Nicos Timotheou	APOEL Nicosia	77
🇨🇿 Czech	81	Petr Kouba	Deportivo La Coruña	83
🇩🇰 Danish	114	Peter Schmeichel	Manchester United	88
🇳🇱 Dutch	136	Edwin van der Sar	Ajax	87
🇪🇬 Egyptian	3	Hany Ramzy	Werder Bremen	71
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 English	1,833	David Seaman	Arsenal	89
🇪🇪 Estonian	20	Mart Poom	Derby County	73
🇫🇴 Faroese	15	Magni Jacobsen	Itrottarfelag	64
🇫🇮 Finnish	28	Jari Litmanen	Ajax	73
🇫🇷 French	817	Eric Cantona	Manchester United	84
🇬🇪 Georgian	20	Georgi Demetradze	Dinamo Tbilisi	75
🇩🇪 German	698	Jürgen Klinsmann	Bayern München	85
🇬🇭 Ghanian	15	Yaw Preko	Anderlecht	81
🇬🇷 Greek	66	George Kapouranis	Panathinaikos	76
🇬🇵 Guadeloupean	3	David Sommeil	Caen	75
🇵🇬 Guinean	9	Abdelsalam Sow	Martigues	77
🇭🇺 Hungarian	24	Attila Hajdu	Ferencvaros	78
🇮🇸 Icelandic	23	Eldur Gudjohnsen	PSV Eindhoven	75
🇮🇪 Irish	201	Roy Keane	Manchester United	82
🇮🇱 Israelian	18	Shlomi Maman	Betar Jerusalem	73
🇮🇹 Italian	831	Roberto Baggio	AC Milan	87
🇨🇮 Ivoryian	8	Cyril Domoraud	Bordeaux	74
🇯🇲 Jamaican	4	Roger Thomas	Spare	73
🇱🇻 Latvian	18	Oleg Grishin	Skonto Riga	71
🇱🇷 Liberian	8	George Weah	AC Milan	89
🇱🇹 Lithuanian	23	Valdas Ivanauskas	Hamburger SV	74
🇱🇺 Luxembourgen	27	Johny Thill	Jeunesse	65
🇲🇰 Macedonian	10	Josef Ivanovic	Arminia Bielefeld	73
🇲🇹 Maltese	31	Silvio Vella	Hibernians	75
🇲🇶 Martinican	4	Jean-Michel Modestin	Louhans-Cuiseaux	70
🇲🇽 Mexican	4	Jorge Campos	Spare	86
🇲🇦 Moroccan	15	Samir Lagnaoui	Spare	75
🇳🇬 Nigerian	28	Emmanuel Amunike	FC Barcelona	79
🇳🇴 Norwegian	67	Harald Brattbakk	Rosenborg	81
🇵🇱 Polish	93	Marek Citko	Widzew Lodz	85
🇵🇹 Portuguese	96	Vitor Baia	FC Barcelona	86
🇷🇴 Romanian	83	Ion Vladoiu	1. FC Köln	80
🇷🇺 Russian	130	Andrei Kanchelskis	Fiorentina	84
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scottish	466	Richard Gough	Rangers	83
🇸🇳 Senegalian	6	Abdallah Bah	Nice	75
🇷🇸 Serbian	3	Savo Milosevic	Aston Villa	71
🇸🇰 Slovakian	28	Alexander Vencel	Strasbourg	75
🇸🇮 Slovenian	20	Matjaz Florijancic	Torino	75
🇿🇦 South African	11	Mark Fish	Lazio	76
🇪🇸 Spanish	84	Miguel Angel Nadal	FC Barcelona	88
🇸🇪 Swedish	90	Thomas Ravelli	Gothenburg	85
🇨🇭 Swiss	66	Stéphane Chapuisat	Borussia Dortmund	81
🇹🇴 Tongan	4	Bachirou Salou	MSV Duisburg	75
🇹🇹 Trinidadian	3	Dwight Yorke	Aston Villa	78
🇹🇳 Tunisian	4	Adel Sellimi	Nantes	75
🇹🇷 Turkish	68	Kulibay Turkyilmaz	Grasshoppers	81
🇺🇦 Ukranian	48	Alexei Mikhailichenko	Spare	82
🇺🇾 Uruguayan	13	Paolo Montero Iglesias	Juventus	81
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Welsh	124	Neville Southall	Everton	86
Yugoslavian	75	Dejan Savicevic	AC Milan	83
Zarian	5	Maboula Lukunku	Valence	70