Maradona - FIFA Player of the Century

Jugador del Siglo de la FIFA , Roma, Dec. 11, 2000 The Azteca Stadium authorities also built a statue of him scoring the "FIFA World Cup Goal of the Century" (voted on the Official Website of the 2002 FIFA World Cup™), and placed it at the entrance of the stadium. 1 Diego Maradona 53.60% 2 Pelé 18.53% 3 Eusébio 6.21% 4 Roberto Baggio 5.42% 5 Romário 1.69% 6 Marco Van Basten 1.57% 7 Ronaldo 1.55% 8 Franz Beckenbauer 1.50% 9 Zinedine Zidane 1.34% 10 Rivaldo 1.19% 11 Zico 1.15% 12 Garrincha 1.08% 13 Johan Cruyff 0.87% 14 Alfredo Di Stéfano 0.68% 15 Michel Platini 0.58% 16 Bobby Charlton 0.39% 17 Ferenc Puskás 0.37% 18 Lothar Matthäus 0.37% 19 Lev Yashin 0.36% 20 George Best 0.32% from Wikipedia: Maradona won the Internet based poll by wide margins, garnering 53.6% of the votes against 18.53% for Pelé. In spite of this, and shortly before the ceremony, FIFA unexpectedly decided to add a second award and appointed a "Football Family" committee composed of football journalists that also gave to Pelé the title of best player of the century to make it a draw. Many suspected that Pelé was rewarded for his constant support of FIFA, in contrast to Maradona's frequent criticism