Skill Leaders — Best in Every Category

Speed

#	Player	Club	Position	Value
1	Ryan Giggs	Manchester United	LM	94
2	Andrei Kanchelskis	Fiorentina	RW	94
3	George Weah	AC Milan	FOR	94
4	Marc Overmars	Ajax	LW	93
5	Mark Bergan	EA All Stars	AM	93
6	Steve McManaman	Liverpool	AM	90
7	Alessandro Del Piero	Juventus	FOR	90
8	Luiz Nazario De Lima Ronaldo	FC Barcelona	FOR	90
9	Jose Luis Caminero	Atlético Madrid	LW	89
10	Marek Citko	Widzew Lodz	FOR	89

Agility

#	Player	Club	Position	Value
1	Nigel Martyn	Leeds United	GK	95
2	Jose Rene Higuita	Spare	GK	95
3	David Seaman	Arsenal	GK	94
4	Peter Schmeichel	Manchester United	GK	94
5	Angelo Peruzzi	Juventus	GK	93
6	Roberto Baggio	AC Milan	FOR	93
7	Dejan Savicevic	AC Milan	AM	93
8	Andy Goram	Rangers	GK	93
9	Neville Southall	Everton	GK	92
10	Vitor Baia	FC Barcelona	GK	92

Acceleration

#	Player	Club	Position	Value
1	Andrei Kanchelskis	Fiorentina	RW	94
2	Ryan Giggs	Manchester United	LM	92
3	Steve McManaman	Liverpool	AM	90
4	Steve Stone	Nottingham Forest	RM	88
5	Trevor Sinclair	Queens Park Rangers	AM	88
6	Ion Vladoiu	1. FC Köln	FOR	88
7	George Weah	AC Milan	FOR	88
8	Franck Vandecasteele	Bastia	FOR	88
9	Henryk Baluszynski	VfL Bochum	FOR	88
10	Robbie Fowler	Liverpool	FOR	87

Stamina

#	Player	Club	Position	Value
1	Marino Helder	Deportivo La Coruña	SW	96
2	Steve McManaman	Liverpool	AM	95
3	Gianluca Ricci	Bari	SW	95
4	Andrei Kanchelskis	Fiorentina	RW	93
5	Frank De Boer	Ajax	SW	93
6	Dirk Dammann	FC St. Pauli	SW	92
7	George Weah	AC Milan	FOR	92
8	Darren Anderton	Tottenham Hotspur	AM	91
9	Trevor Sinclair	Queens Park Rangers	AM	90
10	Vladimir Jugovic	Juventus	RW	90

Strength

#	Player	Club	Position	Value
1	Yury Nikiforov	Spartak Moscow	CD	99
2	Bernard Schuiteman	Feyenoord	CD	96
3	Alain Roche	Paris Saint-Germain	CD	95
4	Roberto Solozabal	Atlético Madrid	CD	95
5	Georgi Slavchev	Leveski Sofia	CD	95
6	Fernando Nelson	Aston Villa	RB	94
7	Jon Newsome	Sheffield Wednesday	CD	94
8	Winston Bogarde	Ajax	LB	94
9	Colin Hendry	Blackburn Rovers	CD	93
10	Mark Hughes	Chelsea	FOR	93

Fitness

#	Player	Club	Position	Value
1	Paulinho Santos	Porto	DM	99
2	Alexandr Grishin	Dinamo Moscow	DM	99
3	Ludovic Asuar	Marseille	DM	98
4	Berhard Allou	Paris Saint-Germain	AM	97
5	Daniel Kenedy	Paris Saint-Germain	DM	96
6	Jean-Jacques Eydelie	Bastia	DM	95
7	Arnold Scholten	Ajax	DM	95
8	Christophe Le Roux	Nantes	DM	94
9	Kjetil Rekdal	Rennes	DM	94
10	Gustavo Poyet	Real Zaragoza	DM	94

Shooting

#	Player	Club	Position	Value
1	George Weah	AC Milan	FOR	96
2	Bernard Diomede	Auxerre	FOR	96
3	Luiz Nazario De Lima Ronaldo	FC Barcelona	FOR	96
4	Roberto Baggio	AC Milan	FOR	95
5	Peter Hoekstra	Ajax	FOR	95
6	Dejan Savicevic	AC Milan	AM	94
7	Yaw Preko	Anderlecht	FOR	94
8	Gianfranco Zola	Chelsea	FOR	93
9	Gabriel Batistuta	Fiorentina	FOR	93
10	Enrico Chiesa	Parma	FOR	93

Passing

#	Player	Club	Position	Value
1	Bill Lusty	EA All Stars	AM	97
2	Mark Bergan	EA All Stars	AM	95
3	Stefan Effenberg	Borussia Mönchengladbach	AM	93
4	Paul Gascoigne	Rangers	AM	93
5	Ljubimko Drulovic	Porto	AM	93
6	Steve McManaman	Liverpool	AM	92
7	Matthias Sammer	Borussia Dortmund	SW	92
8	Vladimir Jugovic	Juventus	RW	92
9	Zinedine Zidane	Juventus	AM	92
10	Roberto Baggio	AC Milan	FOR	92

Heading

#	Player	Club	Position	Value
1	Duncan Ferguson	Everton	FOR	93
2	Miguel Angel Nadal	FC Barcelona	CD	93
3	Teddy Sheringham	Tottenham Hotspur	FOR	92
4	Danny Isaac	EA All Stars	CD	92
5	Tony Adams	Arsenal	CD	90
6	Colin Hendry	Blackburn Rovers	CD	90
7	Jürgen Klinsmann	Bayern München	FOR	90
8	Dos Santos Aldair	Roma	CD	90
9	Mark Hateley	Rangers	FOR	90
10	Niall Quinn	Sunderland	FOR	90

Control

#	Player	Club	Position	Value
1	Luiz Nazario De Lima Ronaldo	FC Barcelona	FOR	92
2	Roberto Baggio	AC Milan	FOR	91
3	Gianfranco Zola	Chelsea	FOR	90
4	Dejan Savicevic	AC Milan	AM	90
5	Christophe Dugarry	AC Milan	FOR	90
6	Paul Gascoigne	Rangers	AM	90
7	Zvonimir Boban	AC Milan	AM	89
8	Ryan Giggs	Manchester United	LM	88
9	Lars Ricken	Borussia Dortmund	AM	88
10	Zinedine Zidane	Juventus	AM	88

Dribbling

#	Player	Club	Position	Value
1	Paul Gascoigne	Rangers	AM	94
2	Steve McManaman	Liverpool	AM	93
3	Ryan Giggs	Manchester United	LM	93
4	Krassimir Balakov	VfB Stuttgart	RM	92
5	Mark Bergan	EA All Stars	AM	92
6	David Ginola	Newcastle United	LW	91
7	Marek Citko	Widzew Lodz	FOR	91
8	Andrei Kanchelskis	Fiorentina	RW	90
9	Roberto Baggio	AC Milan	FOR	90
10	Abdelsalam Sow	Martigues	FOR	90

Cool

#	Player	Club	Position	Value
1	Luiz Nazario De Lima Ronaldo	FC Barcelona	FOR	90
2	Steve McManaman	Liverpool	AM	88
3	Robert Prosinecki	Spare	DM	88
4	David Seaman	Arsenal	GK	87
5	Dennis Bergkamp	Arsenal	FOR	87
6	Ruud Gullit	Chelsea	AM	87
7	Alan Shearer	Newcastle United	FOR	87
8	Vitor Baia	FC Barcelona	GK	87
9	Roberto Mancini	Sampdoria	AM	86
10	Hristo Stoïchkov	FC Barcelona	FOR	86

Awareness

#	Player	Club	Position	Value
1	Hakan Sukur	Galatasaray	FOR	97
2	David Seaman	Arsenal	GK	93
3	Alan Shearer	Newcastle United	FOR	93
4	Matthias Sammer	Borussia Dortmund	SW	93
5	Stefan Effenberg	Borussia Mönchengladbach	AM	93
6	Luiz Nazario De Lima Ronaldo	FC Barcelona	FOR	93
7	Dennis Bergkamp	Arsenal	FOR	92
8	Eric Cantona	Manchester United	FOR	92
9	John Jakobsen	Rosenborg	AM	92
10	Marek Citko	Widzew Lodz	FOR	92

Tackling Determination

#	Player	Club	Position	Value
1	Marcio Santos	Spare	CD	98
2	Danny Blind	Ajax	CD	96
3	Jorge Costa	Porto	CD	95
4	Paolo Maldini	AC Milan	LB	94
5	Franco Baresi	AC Milan	CD	94
6	Jan Suchoparek	Strasbourg	CD	93
7	Paolo Tramezzani	Piacenza	CD	92
8	Gianluca Grassadonia	Cagliari	CD	91
9	Paul Okon	Lazio	CD	91
10	Thomas Ritter	Karlsruher SC	CD	90

Tackling Skill

#	Player	Club	Position	Value
1	Fernando Couto	FC Barcelona	CD	95
2	Marcio Santos	Spare	CD	95
3	Marcel Desailly	AC Milan	DM	94
4	Paolo Maldini	AC Milan	LB	94
5	Miguel Angel Nadal	FC Barcelona	CD	94
6	Moreno Torricelli	Juventus	CD	93
7	Stefano Pioli	Padova	CD	93
8	Thomas Schneider	VfB Stuttgart	CD	92
9	Paul Ince	Inter	DM	92
10	Paolo Montero Iglesias	Juventus	CD	92

Flair

#	Player	Club	Position	Value
1	Faustino Asprilla	Newcastle United	FOR	97
2	Mark Bergan	EA All Stars	AM	96
3	Eric Cantona	Manchester United	FOR	93
4	Matt Le Tissier	Southampton	FR	93
5	Hakan Sukur	Galatasaray	FOR	93
6	Steve McManaman	Liverpool	AM	92
7	Peter Beardsley	Newcastle United	AM	92
8	Bryan Roy	Nottingham Forest	FOR	92
9	Dennis Bergkamp	Arsenal	FOR	91
10	Ryan Giggs	Manchester United	LM	91

GK Kick

#	Player	Club	Position	Value
1	Tommy Wright	Manchester City	GK	90
2	Peter Schmeichel	Manchester United	GK	89
3	Chris Nicholls	EA All Stars	GK	89
4	Andy Goram	Rangers	GK	88
5	David Seaman	Arsenal	GK	87
6	Mark Crossley	Nottingham Forest	GK	87
7	Angelo Peruzzi	Juventus	GK	87
8	Sebastiano Rossi	AC Milan	GK	87
9	Bernard Lama	Paris Saint-Germain	GK	87
10	Jorge Campos	Spare	GK	87

GK Throw

#	Player	Club	Position	Value
1	Peter Schmeichel	Manchester United	GK	95
2	Giovanni Cervone	Roma	GK	93
3	David James	Liverpool	GK	92
4	Angelo Peruzzi	Juventus	GK	92
5	Gianluca Pagliuca	Inter	GK	90
6	Thomas Ravelli	Gothenburg	GK	89
7	Jorge Campos	Spare	GK	89
8	David Seaman	Arsenal	GK	87
9	Andy Goram	Rangers	GK	87
10	Andreas Köpke	Marseille	GK	86

GK Handling

#	Player	Club	Position	Value
1	Jose Rene Higuita	Spare	GK	96
2	David Seaman	Arsenal	GK	95
3	Bernard Lama	Paris Saint-Germain	GK	95
4	Andreas Köpke	Marseille	GK	94
5	Edwin van der Sar	Ajax	GK	94
6	David James	Liverpool	GK	93
7	Peter Schmeichel	Manchester United	GK	93
8	Angelo Peruzzi	Juventus	GK	93
9	Sebastiano Rossi	AC Milan	GK	93
10	Vitor Baia	FC Barcelona	GK	93

Throw-in

#	Player	Club	Position	Value
1	Philip Gilchrist	Oxford United	CD	84
2	Francesco Toldo	Fiorentina	GK	83
3	Gary Neville	Manchester United	RB	81
4	Vinny Jones	Wimbledon	DM	81
5	Manuel Rui Costa	Fiorentina	LW	81
6	Richard Logan	Plymouth Argyle	DM	78
7	Martin Griffiths	EA All Stars	RB	76
8	Allan Nielsen	Tottenham Hotspur	DM	74
9	Roberto Mancini	Sampdoria	AM	73
10	Lee Dixon	Arsenal	RB	72

Leadership

#	Player	Club	Position	Value
1	Stuart Pearce	Nottingham Forest	LB	93
2	Dave Colclough	EA All Stars	GK	92
3	Neville Southall	Everton	GK	91
4	Peter Schmeichel	Manchester United	GK	91
5	Jose Rene Higuita	Spare	GK	91
6	Tony Adams	Arsenal	CD	90
7	David Platt	Arsenal	AM	90
8	Bryan Robson	Middlesbrough	AM	88
9	Vinny Jones	Wimbledon	DM	88
10	Barry Horne	Birmingham City	DM	87

Consistency

#	Player	Club	Position	Value
1	Alan Shearer	Newcastle United	FOR	90
2	Viktor Ikpeba	Monaco	FOR	90
3	Teddy Sheringham	Tottenham Hotspur	FOR	89
4	David Seaman	Arsenal	GK	88
5	Peter Schmeichel	Manchester United	GK	87
6	Kasey Keller	Leicester City	GK	87
7	Colin Hendry	Blackburn Rovers	CD	86
8	Dave Colclough	EA All Stars	GK	86
9	Dwight Yorke	Aston Villa	FOR	85
10	Curtis Fleming	Middlesbrough	LB	85

Determination

#	Player	Club	Position	Value
1	Viktor Ikpeba	Monaco	FOR	93
2	Roy Keane	Manchester United	AM	90
3	Laurent Chichelski	Auxerre	CD	90
4	Geert Emmerechts	Antwerp	CD	90
5	Aleksandar Markov	Leveski Sofia	CD	90
6	Eric Assati	Auxerre	CD	89
7	Geoffrey Toyes	Bordeaux	CD	89
8	Paul McGrath	Derby County	CD	89
9	Zlatko Zahovic	Porto	LM	89
10	Christakis Christodoulou	Omonia Nicosia	CD	89

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