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The Top Ranked Soccer Defenders of the 1970s
Notes: Players are only ranked in the position they played the most during this decade.
| Rnk | Athlete | Overall Decade Rnk |
| 1 | Franz Beckenbauer | 2 |
| 2 | Bobby Moore | 7 |
| 3 | Ruud Krol | 10 |
| 4 | Berti Vogts | 12 |
| 5 | Paul Breitner | 16 |
| 6 | Giacinto Facchetti | 18 |
| 7 | Marius Tresor | 21 |
| 8 | Pirri | 32 |
| 9 | Gordon McQueen | 47 |
| 10 | Jerzy Gorgon | 57 |
| 11 | Albert Shesternyov | 71 |
| 12 | Gerard Janvion | 74 |
| 13 | Terry Cooper | 80 |
| 14 | Josip Katalinski | 93 |
| 15 | Alberto Tarantini | 100 |
| 16 | Carlos Alberto Torres | 101 |
| 17 | Daniel Passarella | 102 |
| 18 | Nelinho | 105 |
| 19 | Dobromir Zhechev | 111 |
| 20 | Hector Chumpitaz | 112 |
| 21 | Tarcisio Burgnich | 115 |
| 22 | Bjorn Nordqvist | 117 |
| 23 | Barry Hulshoff | 119 |
| 24 | Antonio Cabrini | 130 |
| 25 | Bruno Pezzey | 132 |
| 26 | Jan Pivarnik | 142 |
| 27 | Manfred Kaltz | 145 |
| 28 | Murtaz Khurtsilava | 146 |
| 29 | Rinus Israel | 148 |
| 30 | Atilio Ancheta | 152 |
| 31 | Elias Figueroa | 153 |
| 32 | Ernie Brandts | 165 |
| 33 | Ali Kaabi | 176 |
| 34 | Arturo Vazquez | 179 |
| 35 | Christian Lopez | 183 |
| 36 | Erich Obermayer | 190 |
| 37 | Gustavo Pena | 194 |
| 38 | Juan Mujica | 206 |
| 39 | Karl-Heinz Schnellinger | 208 |
| 40 | Mokhtar Dhouieb | 217 |
| 41 | Ramon Heredia | 222 |
| 42 | Ricardo Pavoni | 226 |
| 43 | Todor Kolev | 235 |
| 44 | Antoni Szymanowski | 242 |
| 45 | Antonio Juliano | 243 |
| 46 | Dimitar Penev | 246 |
| 47 | Hans-Georg Schwarzenbeck | 250 |
| 48 | Horst-Dieter Hottges | 253 |
| 49 | Kent Karlsson | 257 |
| 50 | Marco Antonio Feliciano | 258 |
| 51 | Martin Buchan | 260 |
| 52 | Mauro Bellugi | 261 |
| 53 | Roland Grip | 266 |
| 54 | Sandy Jardine | 267 |
| 55 | Stefan Aladzhov | 270 |
| 56 | Willie Donachie | 273 |
| 57 | Wim Jansen | 275 |
| 58 | Wim Rijsbergen | 276 |
| 59 | Wim Suurbier | 277 |
| 60 | Wladyslaw Zmuda | 278 |
| 61 | Ze Maria Rodrigues | 279 |
| 62 | Anton Ondrus | 284 |
| 63 | Colin Todd | 286 |
| 64 | Jean Djorkaeff | 294 |
| 65 | John Greig | 295 |
| 66 | Abdallah Lamrani | 312 |
| 67 | Abdelkader El Khiati | 313 |
| 68 | Abel Braga | 316 |
| 69 | Adam Musial | 317 |
| 70 | Adrie van Kraay | 323 |
| 71 | Alberto Quintano | 330 |
| 72 | Aldo Maldera | 332 |
| 73 | Aleksandar Shalamanov | 334 |
| 74 | Alexander Horvath | 336 |
| 75 | Alfredo Mostarda | 340 |
| 76 | Alfredo Tena | 342 |
| 77 | Alireza Ghashghaean | 345 |
| 78 | Amaral dos Santos | 348 |
| 79 | Amor Jebali | 350 |
| 80 | Andranik Eskandarian | 352 |
| 81 | Angel Bargas | 356 |
| 82 | Antonello Cuccureddu | 358 |
| 83 | Antonio Arias | 359 |
| 84 | Antonio Biosca | 360 |
| 85 | Antonio de la Cruz | 361 |
| 86 | Antonio Olmo | 366 |
| 87 | Arsene Auguste | 367 |
| 88 | Augustin Deleanu | 371 |
| 89 | Baudilio Jauregui | 373 |
| 90 | Bernard Dietz | 377 |
| 91 | Bernd Bransch | 378 |
| 92 | Bernd Patzke | 379 |
| 93 | Bjorn Andersson | 380 |
| 94 | Boris Gaganelov | 384 |
| 95 | Boujemaa Benkhrif | 385 |
| 96 | Bozhil Kolev | 386 |
| 97 | Brian Labone | 388 |
| 98 | Brito | 389 |
| 99 | Bwanga Tshimen | 391 |
| 100 | Carlos Gomez (1952) | 395 |
| 101 | Claudio Gentile | 403 |
| 102 | Colin Curran | 406 |
| 103 | Daniel Killer | 413 |
| 104 | Danny McGrain | 415 |
| 105 | Dave Harding | 417 |
| 106 | David Karako | 420 |
| 107 | Doug Utjesenovic | 433 |
| 108 | Edinho Nazareth | 440 |
| 109 | Eduardo Ramos | 442 |
| 110 | Eloy Campos | 446 |
| 111 | Enrique Wolff | 450 |
| 112 | Enver Hadziabdic | 451 |
| 113 | Erich Schaedler | 455 |
| 114 | Everaldo Marques | 464 |
| 115 | Evgeny Lovchev | 465 |
| 116 | Fabrizio Poletti | 466 |
| 117 | Felix Salinas | 467 |
| 118 | Francesco Morini | 473 |
| 119 | Francisco Camera | 474 |
| 120 | Francisco Montes | 476 |
| 121 | Francisco Sa | 477 |
| 122 | Francisco Uria | 478 |
| 123 | Francois Bracci | 480 |
| 124 | Fritz Andre | 485 |
| 125 | Gaetano Scirea | 487 |
| 126 | Gennady Logofet | 490 |
| 127 | Georges Heylens | 493 |
| 128 | Gerd Kische | 500 |
| 129 | Gerhard Breitenberger | 502 |
| 130 | Giorgio Puia | 510 |
| 131 | Giuseppe Furino | 511 |
| 132 | Giuseppe Sabadini | 512 |
| 133 | Giuseppe Wilson | 513 |
| 134 | Guillermo Castro | 517 |
| 135 | Guillermo Hernandez (1942) | 518 |
| 136 | Gustavo de Simone | 524 |
| 137 | Gyozo Martos | 528 |
| 138 | Hans Selander | 534 |
| 139 | Harald Konopka | 536 |
| 140 | Harry Vos | 538 |
| 141 | Harry Williams | 539 |
| 142 | Hassan Nazari | 541 |
| 143 | Hasse Borg | 542 |
| 144 | Heinrich Strasser | 545 |
| 145 | Helmut Kremers | 547 |
| 146 | Henryk Maculewicz | 550 |
| 147 | Heribert Weber | 555 |
| 148 | Hossein Kazerani | 558 |
| 149 | Hugo Hovenkamp | 560 |
| 150 | Ignacio Flores | 563 |
| 151 | Ingemar Erlandsson | 564 |
| 152 | Ion Dumitru | 565 |
| 153 | Isidoro San Jose | 567 |
| 154 | Istvan Kocsis | 569 |
| 155 | Ivan Buljan | 571 |
| 156 | Ivan Dimitrov | 573 |
| 157 | Ivan Zafirov | 576 |
| 158 | Ivo Rudic | 578 |
| 159 | Jack Charlton | 579 |
| 160 | Jacques Beurlet | 580 |
| 161 | Jaime Duarte | 582 |
| 162 | Jalili Fadili | 584 |
| 163 | Jan Olsson (1942) | 588 |
| 164 | Jan Poortvliet | 590 |
| 165 | Jan Zlocha | 592 |
| 166 | Janusz Kupcewicz | 593 |
| 167 | Javad Allahverdi | 594 |
| 168 | Javier Guzman | 597 |
| 169 | Jean Thissen | 602 |
| 170 | Jean-Herbert Austin | 604 |
| 171 | Jesus Martínez | 609 |
| 172 | Jim Holton | 611 |
| 173 | Joachim Fritsche | 617 |
| 174 | Joel Camargo | 620 |
| 175 | John Blackley | 623 |
| 176 | Jorge Carrascosa | 627 |
| 177 | Jorge Olguin | 629 |
| 178 | Jorgen Augustsson | 632 |
| 179 | Jose Baldocchi | 633 |
| 180 | Jose Fernandez Santini | 636 |
| 181 | Jose Fontana | 637 |
| 182 | Jose Navarro | 639 |
| 183 | Jose Polozzi | 641 |
| 184 | Jose Vantolra | 643 |
| 185 | Juan Carlos Masnik | 651 |
| 186 | Juan Machuca | 653 |
| 187 | Juan Manuel Alejandrez | 654 |
| 188 | Juan Rodriguez Vega | 658 |
| 189 | Jupp Kapellmann | 667 |
| 190 | Kabasu Babo | 670 |
| 191 | Kacem Slimani | 671 |
| 192 | Kamel Chebli | 675 |
| 193 | Karol Dobias | 677 |
| 194 | Kees van Ierssel | 681 |
| 195 | Keith Newton | 682 |
| 196 | Kenny Burns | 684 |
| 197 | Kiril Dojcinovski | 690 |
| 198 | Klaus Fichtel | 693 |
| 199 | Klaus-Dieter Sieloff | 694 |
| 200 | Konrad Weise | 695 |
| 201 | Krister Kristensson | 697 |
| 202 | Kurt Axelsson | 698 |
| 203 | Lajos Satmareanu | 701 |
| 204 | Laszlo Balint | 703 |
| 205 | Leif Malberg | 709 |
| 206 | Leon Jeck | 712 |
| 207 | Lionello Manfredonia | 720 |
| 208 | Lobilo Boba | 721 |
| 209 | Lothar Kurbjuweit | 722 |
| 210 | Luciano Spinosi | 726 |
| 211 | Luis Galvan | 729 |
| 212 | Luis Garisto | 730 |
| 213 | Luis Pereira | 731 |
| 214 | Luis Ubina | 732 |
| 215 | Luka Peruzovic | 733 |
| 216 | Magnus Andersson | 734 |
| 217 | Manfred Schaefer | 738 |
| 218 | Manuel Najera | 739 |
| 219 | Marcelino Perez | 741 |
| 220 | Marinho Chagas | 745 |
| 221 | Marinho Peres | 746 |
| 222 | Mario Galindo | 748 |
| 223 | Mario Gonzalez (1950) | 749 |
| 224 | Mario Perez | 752 |
| 225 | Mauricio Manzano | 755 |
| 226 | Maxime Bossis | 760 |
| 227 | Menachem Bello | 763 |
| 228 | Migueli Bernardo | 766 |
| 229 | Mihai Ivancescu | 767 |
| 230 | Mihai Mocanu | 768 |
| 231 | Milko Gaydarski | 770 |
| 232 | Miroslaw Bulzacki | 774 |
| 233 | Miroslaw Justek | 775 |
| 234 | Mladen Vasilev | 776 |
| 235 | Mohsen Labidi | 783 |
| 236 | Moulay Khanousi | 786 |
| 237 | Mwanza Mukombo | 788 |
| 238 | Mwape Mialo | 789 |
| 239 | Mwepu Ilunga | 790 |
| 240 | Nasrollah Abdollahi | 791 |
| 241 | Nicolae Lupescu | 799 |
| 242 | Nicolae Pescaru | 800 |
| 243 | Nicolas Dewalque | 801 |
| 244 | Nicolas Fuentes | 802 |
| 245 | Nobby Stiles | 804 |
| 246 | Norman Hunter | 807 |
| 247 | Omar Caetano | 813 |
| 248 | Orlando de la Torre | 815 |
| 249 | Oscar Bernardi | 816 |
| 250 | Pablo Forlan | 823 |
| 251 | Patrice Rio | 825 |
| 252 | Patrick Battiston | 826 |
| 253 | Peter Persidis | 842 |
| 254 | Peter Torok | 843 |
| 255 | Peter Wilson | 844 |
| 256 | Pierluigi Cera | 847 |
| 257 | Pierre Bayonne | 848 |
| 258 | Piet Wildschut | 850 |
| 259 | Pleun Strik | 852 |
| 260 | Rafael Gonzalez | 856 |
| 261 | Revaz Dzodzuashvili | 866 |
| 262 | Ridha El Louze | 869 |
| 263 | Rigoberto Cisneros | 870 |
| 264 | Robert Sara | 872 |
| 265 | Roberto Matosas | 874 |
| 266 | Roberto Perfumo | 876 |
| 267 | Roberto Rivas | 877 |
| 268 | Roberto Rojas | 878 |
| 269 | Roberto Rosato | 879 |
| 270 | Rodolfo Manzo | 881 |
| 271 | Rodolfo Sandoval | 882 |
| 272 | Rodrigues Neto | 883 |
| 273 | Roland Andersson | 886 |
| 274 | Rolando Garcia | 888 |
| 275 | Roman Wojcicki | 891 |
| 276 | Roy Andersson | 896 |
| 277 | Ruben Glaria | 902 |
| 278 | Ruben Pagnanini | 903 |
| 279 | Ruben Toribio Diaz | 904 |
| 280 | Salvador Mariona | 910 |
| 281 | Santiago Cortes | 914 |
| 282 | Saturnino Osorio | 915 |
| 283 | Serge Ducoste | 916 |
| 284 | Serge Racine | 917 |
| 285 | Shmuel Rosenthal | 920 |
| 286 | Shraga Bar | 921 |
| 287 | Siegmar Watzlich | 922 |
| 288 | Stuart Kennedy | 931 |
| 289 | Tibor Rab | 937 |
| 290 | Tom Forsyth | 938 |
| 291 | Tommy Wright | 943 |
| 292 | Toninho Dias | 945 |
| 293 | Vaclav Migas | 950 |
| 294 | Valentin Afonin | 951 |
| 295 | Vasile Gergely | 955 |
| 296 | Vladimír Hagara | 957 |
| 297 | Vladimir Hrivnak | 958 |
| 298 | Vladimir Kaplichny | 959 |
| 299 | Wilfried Louis | 966 |
| 300 | Willi Schulz | 969 |
| 301 | Wilner Nazaire | 972 |
| 302 | Wojciech Rudy | 975 |
| 303 | Yochanan Vollach | 987 |
| 304 | Zbigniew Gut | 988 |
| 305 | Zoltan Kereki | 992 |
| 306 | Zvi Rosen | 993 |
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