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The Top Ranked Soccer Defenders of the 1990s
Notes: Players are only ranked in the position they played the most during this decade.
| Rnk | Athlete | Overall Decade Rnk |
| 1 | Paolo Maldini | 11 |
| 2 | Franco Baresi | 14 |
| 3 | Roberto Carlos | 22 |
| 4 | Matthias Sammer | 25 |
| 5 | Laurent Blanc | 35 |
| 6 | Lilian Thuram | 36 |
| 7 | Paul McGrath | 40 |
| 8 | Andreas Brehme | 51 |
| 9 | Ronald Koeman | 56 |
| 10 | Guido Buchwald | 59 |
| 11 | Frank de Boer | 60 |
| 12 | Philippe Albert | 68 |
| 13 | Georges Grun | 72 |
| 14 | Jurgen Kohler | 76 |
| 15 | Myung-Bo Hong | 86 |
| 16 | Dan Petrescu | 89 |
| 17 | Rune Bratseth | 114 |
| 18 | Bixente Lizarazu | 126 |
| 19 | Sinisa Mihajlovic | 130 |
| 20 | Sergi Barjuan | 134 |
| 21 | Trifon Ivanov | 135 |
| 22 | Marcio Santos | 137 |
| 23 | Jorginho Amorim | 138 |
| 24 | Branco | 150 |
| 25 | Dan Eggen | 152 |
| 26 | Michel De Wolf | 166 |
| 27 | Roger Ljung | 175 |
| 28 | Aldair Nascimento | 181 |
| 29 | Gheorghe Popescu | 183 |
| 30 | Marcelo Balboa | 186 |
| 31 | Rafael Alkorta | 187 |
| 32 | Roberto Sensini | 188 |
| 33 | Marcel Desailly | 193 |
| 34 | Christian Ziege | 194 |
| 35 | Ciro Ferrara | 196 |
| 36 | Des Walker | 197 |
| 37 | Jaap Stam | 201 |
| 38 | Miodrag Belodedici | 205 |
| 39 | Stelios Manolas | 210 |
| 40 | Carlos Gamarra | 212 |
| 41 | Davor Jozic | 227 |
| 42 | Slobodan Komljenovic | 240 |
| 43 | Celso Ayala | 257 |
| 44 | Emmanuel Kunde | 269 |
| 45 | Javier Zanetti | 293 |
| 46 | Leo Clijsters | 303 |
| 47 | Marc Rieper | 308 |
| 48 | Mark Wright (1963) | 310 |
| 49 | Mauricio Pineda | 313 |
| 50 | Pedro Monzon | 328 |
| 51 | Pierre Njanka | 332 |
| 52 | Roger Flores | 336 |
| 53 | Ronald Gonzalez Brenes | 337 |
| 54 | Sang-Chul Yoo | 340 |
| 55 | Thomas Helveg | 343 |
| 56 | Abdelkrim El Hadrioui | 350 |
| 57 | Abdullah Sulaiman Zubromawi | 351 |
| 58 | Abelardo Fernandez | 352 |
| 59 | Ahmed Jamil | 353 |
| 60 | Albert Ferrer | 355 |
| 61 | Alessandro Costacurta | 357 |
| 62 | Alexi Lalas | 358 |
| 63 | Alexis Mendoza | 359 |
| 64 | Andre Kana-Biyik | 362 |
| 65 | Andres Escobar | 363 |
| 66 | Anton Pfeffer | 365 |
| 67 | Arthur Numan | 367 |
| 68 | Augustine Eguavoen | 368 |
| 69 | Benedict Iroha | 369 |
| 70 | Cafu | 371 |
| 71 | Claudio Suarez | 373 |
| 72 | Danny Blind | 376 |
| 73 | Eric Van Meir | 386 |
| 74 | Giuseppe Bergomi | 392 |
| 75 | Gunnar Halle | 394 |
| 76 | Henning Berg | 397 |
| 77 | Jose Chamot | 412 |
| 78 | Kevin Moran | 420 |
| 79 | Luis Carlos Perea | 427 |
| 80 | Luis Fernando Herrera | 428 |
| 81 | Mazinho Nascimento | 431 |
| 82 | Miguel Angel Nadal | 433 |
| 83 | Mike Burns | 434 |
| 84 | Mohammed Al-Khilaiwi | 436 |
| 85 | Noureddine Naybet | 438 |
| 86 | Oscar Ruggeri | 440 |
| 87 | Peter Schottel | 443 |
| 88 | Rachid Neqrouz | 445 |
| 89 | Raymond Kalla | 447 |
| 90 | Ricardo Rocha (1962) | 448 |
| 91 | Rigobert Song | 449 |
| 92 | Roland Nilsson | 452 |
| 93 | Sang-Bum Gu | 455 |
| 94 | Sergei Gorlukovich | 458 |
| 95 | Smahi Triki | 459 |
| 96 | Stefan Reuter | 460 |
| 97 | Stephen Tataw | 462 |
| 98 | Steve Staunton | 463 |
| 99 | Stig Inge Bjornebye | 464 |
| 100 | Thomas Berthold | 466 |
| 101 | Thomas Helmer | 468 |
| 102 | Tibor Selymes | 470 |
| 103 | Uche Okafor | 473 |
| 104 | Uche Okechukwu | 474 |
| 105 | Victor N'Dip | 477 |
| 106 | Vital Borkelmans | 478 |
| 107 | Wilmer Cabrera | 479 |
| 108 | Young-Il Choi | 480 |
| 109 | Basile Boli | 486 |
| 110 | Gary Pallister | 494 |
| 111 | Henrik Andersen | 496 |
| 112 | Abdelilah Saber | 517 |
| 113 | Abdulaziz Al-Janoubi | 523 |
| 114 | Abdullah Al-Dosari | 525 |
| 115 | Abdulrahman Al-Haddad | 528 |
| 116 | Abdulrahman Mohamed | 529 |
| 117 | Adalbert Zafirov | 532 |
| 118 | Adri van Tiggelen | 536 |
| 119 | Adrian Popescu | 538 |
| 120 | Afshin Peyrovani | 539 |
| 121 | Agustin Aranzabal | 540 |
| 122 | Ahmed Al-Dokhi | 542 |
| 123 | Ahmed Masbahi | 545 |
| 124 | Ahmed Ramzy | 546 |
| 125 | Akhrik Tsveiba | 547 |
| 126 | Akira Narahashi | 548 |
| 127 | Alain Geiger | 551 |
| 128 | Alan Kernaghan | 553 |
| 129 | Alessandro Nesta | 560 |
| 130 | Alex McLeish | 561 |
| 131 | Alexis Alexiou | 565 |
| 132 | Alfie Haaland | 567 |
| 133 | Alfonso Dominguez | 568 |
| 134 | Ali Akbar Ostad-Asadi | 572 |
| 135 | Alphonse Yombi | 582 |
| 136 | Anatoliy Demyanenko | 585 |
| 137 | Andre Cruz | 586 |
| 138 | Andre Egli | 587 |
| 139 | Andre Ooijer | 588 |
| 140 | Andrej Panadic | 592 |
| 141 | Anthony Seric | 599 |
| 142 | Anton Dobos | 600 |
| 143 | Antonio Benarrivo | 602 |
| 144 | Ashraf Kasem | 609 |
| 145 | Awad Al-Anazi | 611 |
| 146 | Benjamin Massing | 617 |
| 147 | Berry van Aerle | 621 |
| 148 | Bertin Ebwelle | 622 |
| 149 | Bertrand Crasson | 623 |
| 150 | Brian Bliss | 633 |
| 151 | Carlos Aguilera (1969) | 642 |
| 152 | Carlos Hoyos | 647 |
| 153 | Carlos Mozer | 649 |
| 154 | Catalino Rivarola | 652 |
| 155 | Celestine Babayaro | 653 |
| 156 | Chendo | 656 |
| 157 | Chidi Nwanu | 657 |
| 158 | Chris Hughton | 661 |
| 159 | Chris Morris | 662 |
| 160 | Christian Dailly | 664 |
| 161 | Christian Worns | 667 |
| 162 | Christophe Ohrel | 668 |
| 163 | Cle Kooiman | 674 |
| 164 | Colin Calderwood | 675 |
| 165 | Colin Hendry | 676 |
| 166 | Corneliu Papura | 677 |
| 167 | Craig Levein | 678 |
| 168 | Cristian Castaneda | 679 |
| 169 | Cristian Dulca | 680 |
| 170 | Dae-Il Jang | 682 |
| 171 | Daniel Prodan | 684 |
| 172 | Daniel Revelez | 685 |
| 173 | Dario Simic | 690 |
| 174 | David McPherson | 696 |
| 175 | David Nyathi | 697 |
| 176 | David O'Leary | 698 |
| 177 | David Regis | 699 |
| 178 | David Weir | 701 |
| 179 | Dean Sewell | 702 |
| 180 | Denis Caniza | 707 |
| 181 | Denis Irwin | 708 |
| 182 | Deok-Yeo Yoon | 709 |
| 183 | Derek Whyte | 711 |
| 184 | Desmond Armstrong | 712 |
| 185 | Dirk Medved | 717 |
| 186 | Dmitri Galiamin | 718 |
| 187 | Dmitri Kuznetsov | 721 |
| 188 | Duilio Davino | 733 |
| 189 | Durrant Brown | 735 |
| 190 | Eddie Pope | 737 |
| 191 | Edgar Aguilera | 738 |
| 192 | Edgardo Bauza | 739 |
| 193 | Eissa Meer | 745 |
| 194 | Eisuke Nakanishi | 746 |
| 195 | Emeka Ezeugo | 749 |
| 196 | Emil Kremenliev | 751 |
| 197 | Emil Sandoi | 752 |
| 198 | Eric Deflandre | 757 |
| 199 | Eric Gerets | 759 |
| 200 | Erik Hoftun | 760 |
| 201 | Erland Johnsen | 761 |
| 202 | Ernst Aigner | 762 |
| 203 | Ever Palacios | 765 |
| 204 | Fabio Cannavaro | 768 |
| 205 | Faruk Hadzibegic | 773 |
| 206 | Ferid Chouchane | 777 |
| 207 | Fernando Caceres | 778 |
| 208 | Fernando Clavijo | 779 |
| 209 | Francisco Arce | 788 |
| 210 | Francisco Rojas | 790 |
| 211 | Frank Leboeuf | 793 |
| 212 | Frank Sinclair | 795 |
| 213 | Frankie Hejduk | 797 |
| 214 | Frantisek Straka | 798 |
| 215 | Gareth Southgate | 805 |
| 216 | Gary Gillespie | 806 |
| 217 | Gary Kelly | 807 |
| 218 | Gary Neville | 809 |
| 219 | Gary Stevens | 810 |
| 220 | Genar Andrinua | 811 |
| 221 | Geovanis Cassiani | 817 |
| 222 | Geovanny Jara | 818 |
| 223 | Gheorghe Mihali | 829 |
| 224 | Gianluca Pessotto | 831 |
| 225 | Gildardo Gomez | 835 |
| 226 | Glen De Boeck | 839 |
| 227 | Glenn Hysen | 840 |
| 228 | Godwin Okpara | 841 |
| 229 | Goran Dorovic | 842 |
| 230 | Goran Juric | 843 |
| 231 | Gordan Vidovic | 845 |
| 232 | Gosho Ginchev | 846 |
| 233 | Graeme Le Saux | 847 |
| 234 | Graeme Rutjes | 848 |
| 235 | Gustavo Quinteros | 852 |
| 236 | Hans Agbo | 857 |
| 237 | Hans Pflugler | 859 |
| 238 | Hany Ramzy | 861 |
| 239 | Hatem Trabelsi | 865 |
| 240 | Hector Marchena | 866 |
| 241 | Henk Fraser | 868 |
| 242 | Hernan Diaz | 870 |
| 243 | Hesham Yakan | 871 |
| 244 | Hong-Gi Shin | 876 |
| 245 | Hugo de Leon | 879 |
| 246 | Hussein Abdulghani | 884 |
| 247 | Hyung-Seok Jang | 885 |
| 248 | Ian Goodison | 886 |
| 249 | Ibrahim Hassan | 888 |
| 250 | Ibrahim Meer | 890 |
| 251 | Ignacio Ambriz | 892 |
| 252 | Igor Stimac | 896 |
| 253 | Igor Tudor | 897 |
| 254 | Ik-Soo An | 898 |
| 255 | Iliyan Kiryakov | 900 |
| 256 | Ioan Andone | 903 |
| 257 | Ioannis Kalitzakis | 905 |
| 258 | Isaac Terrazas | 908 |
| 259 | Ivan Campo | 912 |
| 260 | Ivan Cordoba | 913 |
| 261 | Ivaylo Petkov | 917 |
| 262 | Jacob Laursen | 920 |
| 263 | Jamal Sellami | 923 |
| 264 | Jan Eriksson | 925 |
| 265 | Jan Heintze | 926 |
| 266 | Jan Kocian | 927 |
| 267 | Javad Zarincheh | 929 |
| 268 | Javier Margas | 930 |
| 269 | Jean-Claude Pagal | 932 |
| 270 | Jean-Franois De Sart | 933 |
| 271 | Jeff Agoos | 935 |
| 272 | Jes Hogh | 940 |
| 273 | Jimmy Banks | 944 |
| 274 | Joachim Bjorklund | 948 |
| 275 | Joel Sanchez | 951 |
| 276 | John de Wolf | 953 |
| 277 | John Doyle | 954 |
| 278 | Jong-Hwa Lee | 961 |
| 279 | Jorg Heinrich | 964 |
| 280 | Jorge Bermudez | 965 |
| 281 | Jorge Borelli | 967 |
| 282 | Jorge Otero | 969 |
| 283 | Jose Herrera | 973 |
| 284 | Jose Luis Salgado | 975 |
| 285 | Jose Pintos | 981 |
| 286 | Jose Ricardo Perez | 982 |
| 287 | Jose Santa | 983 |
| 288 | Jose Serrizuela | 984 |
| 289 | Juan de Dios Ramirez | 994 |
| 290 | Juan Manuel Pena | 995 |
| 291 | Juan Simon | 996 |
| 292 | Julio Olarticoechea | 1003 |
| 293 | Julius Bielik | 1004 |
| 294 | Jung-Bae Park | 1005 |
| 295 | Junior Baiano | 1006 |
| 296 | Jurg Studer | 1007 |
| 297 | Kang-Hee Choi | 1009 |
| 298 | Karl Petter Loken | 1011 |
| 299 | Khaled Badra | 1013 |
| 300 | Khalil Ghanim | 1015 |
| 301 | Klaus Augenthaler | 1018 |
| 302 | Kurt Russ | 1021 |
| 303 | Kyriakos Karataidis | 1022 |
| 304 | Kyung-Hoon Park | 1023 |
| 305 | Lahcen Abrami | 1024 |
| 306 | Lauren Bisan-Etame | 1026 |
| 307 | Lim-Saeng Lee | 1033 |
| 308 | Linval Dixon | 1034 |
| 309 | Liviu Ciobotariu | 1036 |
| 310 | Lorenzo Minotti | 1038 |
| 311 | Lucas Radebe | 1042 |
| 312 | Luigi Apolloni | 1045 |
| 313 | Luigi De Agostini | 1046 |
| 314 | Luis Antonio Moreno | 1047 |
| 315 | Luis Cristaldo | 1049 |
| 316 | Magnus Erlingmark | 1057 |
| 317 | Manolo Sanchis | 1063 |
| 318 | Manuel Jimenez | 1064 |
| 319 | Marc Hottiger | 1066 |
| 320 | Marcelo Goncalves | 1071 |
| 321 | Marco Sandy | 1078 |
| 322 | Mark Fish | 1086 |
| 323 | Markus Babbel | 1087 |
| 324 | Martin Hiden | 1091 |
| 325 | Martin Keown | 1092 |
| 326 | Martin Rueda | 1093 |
| 327 | Marvin Obando | 1095 |
| 328 | Masami Ihara | 1096 |
| 329 | Mats Gren | 1099 |
| 330 | Matt Elliott | 1101 |
| 331 | Maurice Malpas | 1102 |
| 332 | Mauricio Aros | 1103 |
| 333 | Mauricio Montero | 1104 |
| 334 | Mauro Galvao | 1107 |
| 335 | Mauro Tassotti | 1109 |
| 336 | Mehdi Pashazadeh | 1112 |
| 337 | Michael Emenalo | 1115 |
| 338 | Michael Klein | 1116 |
| 339 | Michael Reiziger | 1117 |
| 340 | Michael Schjonberg | 1118 |
| 341 | Michael Streiter | 1119 |
| 342 | Michael Tarnat | 1120 |
| 343 | Michel Pensee | 1121 |
| 344 | Mick McCarthy | 1122 |
| 345 | Miguel Ramirez | 1127 |
| 346 | Miguel Rimba | 1128 |
| 347 | Mikael Nilsson (1968) | 1130 |
| 348 | Mike Lapper | 1131 |
| 349 | Mike Verstraeten | 1133 |
| 350 | Mike Windischmann | 1134 |
| 351 | Min-Kook Cho | 1138 |
| 352 | Min-Sung Lee | 1139 |
| 353 | Mircea Rednic | 1140 |
| 354 | Miroslav Dukic | 1141 |
| 355 | Miroslav Kadlec | 1142 |
| 356 | Mirsad Baljic | 1144 |
| 357 | Mobi Oparaku | 1146 |
| 358 | Modesto Soruco | 1147 |
| 359 | Mohamed Abd Al-Jawad | 1149 |
| 360 | Mohamed Salim | 1150 |
| 361 | Mohammad Khakpour | 1152 |
| 362 | Mohammed Sheliah | 1153 |
| 363 | Moises Villarroel | 1154 |
| 364 | Moreno Torricelli | 1156 |
| 365 | Mounir Boukadida | 1159 |
| 366 | Mubarak Ghanim | 1161 |
| 367 | Nacer Abdellah | 1166 |
| 368 | Nader Mohammadkhani | 1167 |
| 369 | Naeim Saadavi | 1168 |
| 370 | Naoki Soma | 1169 |
| 371 | Nelson Gutierrez | 1175 |
| 372 | Nelson Vivas | 1178 |
| 373 | Nestor Fabbri | 1179 |
| 374 | Nestor Lorenzo | 1180 |
| 375 | Nestor Ortiz | 1181 |
| 376 | Nikolay Iliev | 1187 |
| 377 | Nisa Saveljic | 1191 |
| 378 | Norio Omura | 1194 |
| 379 | Oleh Kuznetsov | 1199 |
| 380 | Omari Tetradze | 1200 |
| 381 | Oscar Cortes | 1203 |
| 382 | Oscar Sanchez | 1206 |
| 383 | Pablo Paz | 1209 |
| 384 | Paco Camarasa | 1210 |
| 385 | Pan-Keun Kim | 1212 |
| 386 | Pascal Plovie | 1214 |
| 387 | Pascal Renier | 1215 |
| 388 | Patrice Abanda | 1216 |
| 389 | Patrik Andersson | 1219 |
| 390 | Paul Krumpe | 1223 |
| 391 | Paul Parker | 1228 |
| 392 | Paul Steiner | 1229 |
| 393 | Pedro Reyes | 1233 |
| 394 | Pedro Sarabia | 1234 |
| 395 | Petar Hubchev | 1238 |
| 396 | Peter Artner | 1241 |
| 397 | Peter Fieber | 1244 |
| 398 | Peter Larsson | 1246 |
| 399 | Phil Babb | 1251 |
| 400 | Pierre Issa | 1256 |
| 401 | Pierre Wome | 1257 |
| 402 | Pietro Vierchowod | 1258 |
| 403 | Pontus Kamark | 1260 |
| 404 | Predrag Spasic | 1262 |
| 405 | Quique Sanchez Flores | 1265 |
| 406 | Rabie Yassin | 1266 |
| 407 | Radostin Kishishev | 1270 |
| 408 | Raul Gutierrez | 1276 |
| 409 | Rene Henriksen | 1280 |
| 410 | Reza Shahroudi | 1281 |
| 411 | Ricardo Gardner | 1284 |
| 412 | Ricardo Gomes | 1286 |
| 413 | Ricardo Rojas | 1287 |
| 414 | Riccardo Ferri | 1288 |
| 415 | Richard Gough | 1289 |
| 416 | Rio Ferdinand | 1292 |
| 417 | Robert Pecl | 1297 |
| 418 | Roberto Ayala | 1300 |
| 419 | Roberto Mussi | 1302 |
| 420 | Roger Nilsen | 1307 |
| 421 | Ronald Fuentes | 1309 |
| 422 | Ronald Marin | 1310 |
| 423 | Ronaldao | 1311 |
| 424 | Ronny Johnsen | 1312 |
| 425 | Rosen Kirilov | 1313 |
| 426 | Roy Aitken | 1314 |
| 427 | Rudi Smidts | 1321 |
| 428 | Sabri Jaballah | 1324 |
| 429 | Saleh Al-Dawod | 1327 |
| 430 | Salvador Carmona | 1329 |
| 431 | Sami Trabelsi | 1330 |
| 432 | Samuel Ekeme | 1331 |
| 433 | Sang-Hun Lee | 1335 |
| 434 | Sergei Fokin | 1345 |
| 435 | Sergio Vazquez | 1350 |
| 436 | Slaven Bilic | 1359 |
| 437 | Sol Campbell | 1361 |
| 438 | Soren Colding | 1364 |
| 439 | Stan Valckx | 1368 |
| 440 | Stephane Demol | 1379 |
| 441 | Stephen Keshi | 1382 |
| 442 | Stephen Malcolm | 1383 |
| 443 | Steve Trittschuh | 1388 |
| 444 | Stewart McKimmie | 1389 |
| 445 | Stratos Apostolakis | 1392 |
| 446 | Stuart Pearce | 1393 |
| 447 | Tae-Young Kim | 1397 |
| 448 | Tarek Thabet | 1402 |
| 449 | Taribo West | 1403 |
| 450 | Teddy Lucic | 1405 |
| 451 | Terry Butcher | 1407 |
| 452 | Terry Phelan | 1408 |
| 453 | Thanasis Kolitsidakis | 1411 |
| 454 | Themba Mnguni | 1412 |
| 455 | Tom Boyd | 1422 |
| 456 | Tony Adams | 1424 |
| 457 | Tony Dorigo | 1425 |
| 458 | Tosh McKinlay | 1426 |
| 459 | Toshihide Saito | 1427 |
| 460 | Tsanko Tsvetanov | 1430 |
| 461 | Ulrich van Gobbel | 1431 |
| 462 | Vagiz Khidiyatullin | 1434 |
| 463 | Vaios Karagiannis | 1435 |
| 464 | Vegard Heggem | 1441 |
| 465 | Vidar Riseth | 1443 |
| 466 | Viktor Onopko | 1445 |
| 467 | Vincent Candela | 1447 |
| 468 | Vladimir Kinier | 1451 |
| 469 | Vladimir Quesada | 1452 |
| 470 | Vladislav Ternavsky | 1456 |
| 471 | Volodymyr Bezsonov | 1457 |
| 472 | Voro Gonzalez | 1459 |
| 473 | Vujadin Stanojkovic | 1460 |
| 474 | Walter Kogler | 1463 |
| 475 | Willem Jackson | 1466 |
| 476 | Wilson Perez | 1472 |
| 477 | Winston Bogarde | 1473 |
| 478 | Wolfgang Feiersinger | 1474 |
| 479 | Yassir Al-Taifi | 1477 |
| 480 | Yong-Hwan Chung | 1478 |
| 481 | Youssef Rossi | 1482 |
| 482 | Yousuf Hussain | 1483 |
| 483 | Yuriy Nikiforov | 1484 |
| 484 | Yutaka Akita | 1485 |
| 485 | Yvan Quentin | 1486 |
| 486 | Ze Carlos de Almeida | 1489 |
| 487 | Zeljko Petrovic | 1491 |
| 488 | Zoran Mirkovic | 1496 |
| 489 | Zoran Vulic | 1497 |
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