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The Top Ranked Soccer Defenders of the 1980s
Notes: Players are only ranked in the position they played the most during this decade.
| Rnk | Athlete | Overall Decade Rnk |
| 1 | Glenn Hysen | 22 |
| 2 | Bruno Pezzey | 30 |
| 3 | Manuel Amoros | 33 |
| 4 | Morten Olsen | 38 |
| 5 | Paul Breitner | 40 |
| 6 | Antonio Cabrini | 45 |
| 7 | Maxime Bossis | 49 |
| 8 | Anatoliy Demyanenko | 54 |
| 9 | Eric Gerets | 55 |
| 10 | Hans-Peter Briegel | 56 |
| 11 | Aleksandr Chivadze | 64 |
| 12 | Leo Junior | 67 |
| 13 | Karl-Heinz Forster | 71 |
| 14 | Franco Baresi | 73 |
| 15 | Andreas Brehme | 86 |
| 16 | Marius Tresor | 94 |
| 17 | Josimar Higino | 98 |
| 18 | Antonio Maceda | 99 |
| 19 | Gaetano Scirea | 101 |
| 20 | Rafael Gordillo | 103 |
| 21 | Viv Anderson | 104 |
| 22 | Fulvio Collovati | 105 |
| 23 | Daniel Passarella | 111 |
| 24 | David Narey | 115 |
| 25 | Edinho Nazareth | 117 |
| 26 | Jozsef Varga | 120 |
| 27 | Oscar Bernardi | 122 |
| 28 | Stefan Majewski | 125 |
| 29 | Oleh Kuznetsov | 133 |
| 30 | Ronald Koeman | 135 |
| 31 | Ruud Krol | 136 |
| 32 | Antonio Oliveira | 140 |
| 33 | Gary Stevens (1963) | 142 |
| 34 | Georgi Dimitrov | 143 |
| 35 | John Sivebaek | 145 |
| 36 | Manfred Kaltz | 146 |
| 37 | Uli Stielike | 154 |
| 38 | Claudio Gentile | 159 |
| 39 | Julio Cesar da Silva | 160 |
| 40 | Luizinho Ferreira | 161 |
| 41 | Fernando Quirarte | 173 |
| 42 | Andoni Goikoetxea | 190 |
| 43 | Hector Zelaya | 209 |
| 44 | Jose Luis Brown | 220 |
| 45 | Jozsef Toth (1951) | 222 |
| 46 | Oscar Ruggeri | 237 |
| 47 | Raul Servin | 243 |
| 48 | Ruben Toribio Diaz | 248 |
| 49 | Sergei Baltacha | 250 |
| 50 | Stephane Demol | 252 |
| 51 | Alex McLeish | 263 |
| 52 | Faouzi Mansouri | 268 |
| 53 | Giuseppe Bergomi | 270 |
| 54 | Imre Garaba | 271 |
| 55 | Jimmy Nicholl | 276 |
| 56 | John McClelland | 277 |
| 57 | John O'Neill | 278 |
| 58 | Jose Antonio Camacho | 279 |
| 59 | Jozsef Csuhay | 280 |
| 60 | Julio Olarticoechea | 281 |
| 61 | Kenny Sansom | 283 |
| 62 | Mahmoud Guendouz | 284 |
| 63 | Mal Donaghy | 285 |
| 64 | Michel Renquin | 286 |
| 65 | Noureddine Kourichi | 288 |
| 66 | Patrick Battiston | 289 |
| 67 | Pietro Vierchowod | 291 |
| 68 | Roman Wojcicki | 295 |
| 69 | Sandor Sallai | 297 |
| 70 | Terry Butcher | 298 |
| 71 | Willie Miller | 302 |
| 72 | Wladyslaw Zmuda | 303 |
| 73 | Costica Stefanescu | 307 |
| 74 | David O'Leary | 309 |
| 75 | Paolo Maldini | 323 |
| 76 | Paul McGrath | 324 |
| 77 | Abdelhamid Sadmi | 340 |
| 78 | Abdelkader Horr | 341 |
| 79 | Abdellah Bidane | 342 |
| 80 | Abdellah Liegeon | 343 |
| 81 | Abdelmajid Lamriss | 346 |
| 82 | Abdullah Mayouf | 349 |
| 83 | Adrian Elrick | 352 |
| 84 | Alan Hansen | 356 |
| 85 | Alan McDonald | 357 |
| 86 | Alberto Tarantini | 359 |
| 87 | Aleksandar Markov | 362 |
| 88 | Aleksandr Bubnov | 363 |
| 89 | Allan Evans | 370 |
| 90 | Alvaro Monteiro | 371 |
| 91 | Alvin Martin | 372 |
| 92 | Antal Nagy | 379 |
| 93 | Antal Roth | 380 |
| 94 | Anthony Costly | 381 |
| 95 | Anton Pichler | 382 |
| 96 | Antonio Morato | 385 |
| 97 | Armando Manzo | 388 |
| 98 | Arthur Albiston | 389 |
| 99 | Attila Kerekes | 392 |
| 100 | Augusto Inacio | 393 |
| 101 | Basim Qasim | 399 |
| 102 | Bernd Forster | 405 |
| 103 | Bernd Krauss | 407 |
| 104 | Bob Lenarduzzi | 409 |
| 105 | Bobby Almond | 410 |
| 106 | Branco | 415 |
| 107 | Bruce Wilson | 418 |
| 108 | Byung-Ok Yoo | 423 |
| 109 | Carlos Recinos | 432 |
| 110 | Cesar Vega | 438 |
| 111 | Cesar Zabala | 439 |
| 112 | Chaabane Merzekane | 440 |
| 113 | Chendo | 443 |
| 114 | Chris Nicholl | 444 |
| 115 | Christian Lopez | 447 |
| 116 | Colin Miller | 449 |
| 117 | Danny McGrain | 454 |
| 118 | Dario Pereyra | 455 |
| 119 | Dariusz Kubicki | 457 |
| 120 | Dave Bright | 458 |
| 121 | Ditmar Jakobs | 467 |
| 122 | Domingo Drummond | 470 |
| 123 | Edevaldo | 474 |
| 124 | Edmond Enoka | 477 |
| 125 | Edson Boaro | 478 |
| 126 | Eduardo Acevedo | 479 |
| 127 | Efrain Gutierrez | 483 |
| 128 | Elías Figueroa | 484 |
| 129 | Elie Onana | 485 |
| 130 | Eliseo Rivero | 486 |
| 131 | Emmanuel Kunde | 489 |
| 132 | Enzo Escobar | 490 |
| 133 | Enzo Trossero | 491 |
| 134 | Erich Obermayer | 493 |
| 135 | Felix Cruz | 506 |
| 136 | Fernando Bandeirinha | 510 |
| 137 | Fernando Bulnes | 511 |
| 138 | Fodil Megharia | 514 |
| 139 | Francisco Osorto | 520 |
| 140 | Francois N'Doumbe | 525 |
| 141 | Frank Gray | 527 |
| 142 | Frantisek Jakubec | 531 |
| 143 | Frederico Nobre | 533 |
| 144 | Gary Stevens (1962) | 537 |
| 145 | Gennady Morozov | 539 |
| 146 | George Burley | 540 |
| 147 | Georges Grun | 544 |
| 148 | Gerald Messlender | 546 |
| 149 | Gerard Janvion | 547 |
| 150 | Gerard Plessers | 548 |
| 151 | Ghanim Oraibi | 553 |
| 152 | Glen Adam | 560 |
| 153 | Glenn Dods | 561 |
| 154 | Gyozo Martos | 570 |
| 155 | Hamoud Al-Shemmari | 573 |
| 156 | Henrik Andersen | 578 |
| 157 | Heribert Weber | 580 |
| 158 | Holger Hieronymus | 583 |
| 159 | Hugo Broos | 585 |
| 160 | Hugo Gastulo | 586 |
| 161 | Ian Bridge | 588 |
| 162 | Ibrahim Aoudou | 590 |
| 163 | Iliya Dyakov | 593 |
| 164 | Ivan Nielsen | 597 |
| 165 | Ive Jerolimov | 600 |
| 166 | Jaime Duarte | 603 |
| 167 | Jaime Rodriguez | 606 |
| 168 | Jaime Villegas | 607 |
| 169 | Jamal Al-Qabendi | 609 |
| 170 | Jan Fiala | 613 |
| 171 | Jan Jalocha | 615 |
| 172 | Joao Pinto | 633 |
| 173 | Johann Pregesbauer | 638 |
| 174 | John Hill | 639 |
| 175 | Jong-Soo Chung | 641 |
| 176 | Jorge Olaechea | 649 |
| 177 | Jorge Olguin | 650 |
| 178 | Jose Antonio Prudencio | 652 |
| 179 | Jose Batista | 653 |
| 180 | Jose Francisco Jovel | 655 |
| 181 | Jose Luis Cruz | 657 |
| 182 | Jose Luis Cuciuffo | 658 |
| 183 | Jose Ramon Alexanko | 662 |
| 184 | Jose Van Tuyne | 665 |
| 185 | Josef Degeorgi | 668 |
| 186 | Jozef Barmos | 672 |
| 187 | Jozef Kukucka | 673 |
| 188 | Jozsef Kardos | 676 |
| 189 | Juan Torales | 683 |
| 190 | Julio Alberto | 685 |
| 191 | Juninho Fonseca | 688 |
| 192 | Karim Allawi | 692 |
| 193 | Kazimierz Przybys | 696 |
| 194 | Kent Nielsen | 699 |
| 195 | Khalil Allawi | 702 |
| 196 | Klaus Augenthaler | 703 |
| 197 | Krzysztof Pawlak | 707 |
| 198 | Kyung-Hoon Park | 711 |
| 199 | Labid Khalifa | 712 |
| 200 | Ladislav Jurkemik | 713 |
| 201 | Lahcen Ouadani | 714 |
| 202 | Laszlo Balint | 716 |
| 203 | Laszlo Disztl | 718 |
| 204 | Leandro de Souza | 719 |
| 205 | Leo Clijsters | 720 |
| 206 | Libor Radimec | 723 |
| 207 | Lizardo Garrido | 724 |
| 208 | Luc Millecamps | 725 |
| 209 | Luis Caballero | 726 |
| 210 | Luis Galvan | 727 |
| 211 | Luis Sobrinho | 731 |
| 212 | Maad Ibrahim | 732 |
| 213 | Mahboub Juma'a | 734 |
| 214 | Manuel Jimenez | 735 |
| 215 | Marc Baecke | 737 |
| 216 | Marek Dziuba | 741 |
| 217 | Marek Ostrowski | 743 |
| 218 | Mario Castillo | 745 |
| 219 | Mario Galindo | 746 |
| 220 | Mario Soto | 750 |
| 221 | Mario Trejo | 751 |
| 222 | Matthias Herget | 754 |
| 223 | Maurice Malpas | 755 |
| 224 | Maurits De Schrijver | 757 |
| 225 | Mauro Galvao | 758 |
| 226 | Michel Bibard | 761 |
| 227 | Michel de Wolf | 762 |
| 228 | Michel Kaham | 763 |
| 229 | Mick Mills | 764 |
| 230 | Miguel Angel Diaz | 765 |
| 231 | Miguel Tendillo | 771 |
| 232 | Milos Hrstic | 773 |
| 233 | Min-Kook Cho | 775 |
| 234 | Mohamed Chaib | 776 |
| 235 | Mubarak Marzouq | 783 |
| 236 | Mustapha El Biyaz | 788 |
| 237 | Mustapha Kouici | 789 |
| 238 | Nadhim Shaker | 791 |
| 239 | Naeem Saad | 792 |
| 240 | Nelson Gutierrez | 795 |
| 241 | Nenad Stojkovic | 796 |
| 242 | Nestor Clausen | 797 |
| 243 | Nigel Worthington | 798 |
| 244 | Nikola Jovanovic | 799 |
| 245 | Nikolay Arabov | 800 |
| 246 | Nikolay Larionov | 801 |
| 247 | Norbert Eder | 803 |
| 248 | Noureddine Bouyahyaoui | 805 |
| 249 | Oleg Romantsev | 809 |
| 250 | Oleh Kuznetsov | 810 |
| 251 | Oscar Garre | 813 |
| 252 | Oscar Rojas | 814 |
| 253 | Pasquale De Luca | 816 |
| 254 | Pawel Janas | 829 |
| 255 | Pedrinho Vicencote | 830 |
| 256 | Petar Petrov | 835 |
| 257 | Phil Neal | 841 |
| 258 | Phil Thompson | 842 |
| 259 | Philippe Mahut | 846 |
| 260 | Piotr Skrobowski | 849 |
| 261 | Pyung-Seok Kim | 854 |
| 262 | Rafael Amador | 860 |
| 263 | Ramon Fagoaga | 862 |
| 264 | Randy Samuel | 867 |
| 265 | Rene N'Djeya | 872 |
| 266 | Rene Valenzuela | 873 |
| 267 | Richard Gough | 878 |
| 268 | Ricki Herbert | 880 |
| 269 | Roberto Tricella | 883 |
| 270 | Rogelio Delgado | 886 |
| 271 | Rostislav Vojacek | 890 |
| 272 | Roy Aitken | 891 |
| 273 | Salvador Salguero | 900 |
| 274 | Sam Malcolmson | 902 |
| 275 | Sami Al-Hashash | 903 |
| 276 | Samir Shaker | 904 |
| 277 | Sammy Nelson | 905 |
| 278 | Santiago Urkiaga | 909 |
| 279 | Sebastiano Nela | 911 |
| 280 | Sergei Borovsky | 912 |
| 281 | Soren Busk | 922 |
| 282 | Steve Foster | 926 |
| 283 | Steve Nicol | 928 |
| 284 | Tadeusz Dolny | 932 |
| 285 | Tengiz Sulakvelidze | 934 |
| 286 | Terry Fenwick | 937 |
| 287 | Terry Moore | 938 |
| 288 | Thierry Tusseau | 941 |
| 289 | Thomas Berthold | 943 |
| 290 | Tibor Rab | 944 |
| 291 | Tomas Renones | 948 |
| 292 | Vagiz Khidiyatullin | 956 |
| 293 | Velimir Zajec | 959 |
| 294 | Victor Diogo | 961 |
| 295 | Virginio Caceres | 963 |
| 296 | Vladimir Bigorra | 966 |
| 297 | Vladimiro Schettina | 967 |
| 298 | Waleed Al-Jasem | 970 |
| 299 | Walter Meeuws | 972 |
| 300 | Wilfried Hannes | 973 |
| 301 | William Ayache | 974 |
| 302 | Yong-Hwan Chung | 980 |
| 303 | Young-Jeung Cho | 982 |
| 304 | Yuri Susloparov | 984 |
| 305 | Yvon Le Roux | 986 |
| 306 | Zlatko Krmpotic | 989 |
| 307 | Zoltan Peter | 990 |
| 308 | Zoran Vujovic | 991 |
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