The magazine Football Italia has listed Serie A’s top 50 foreign players since foreign players once again where allowed to play in Italy in 1980. On top of the list there is no surprise, Diego Armando Maradona.
“Ask any football fan in Italy any person who was the best import in Serie A and they will all respond Diego Armando Maradona”.
Here is the list
1. Diego Armando Maradona.
2. Michel Platini
3. Marco van Basten
4. Falcao
5. Ruud Gullit
6. Zinedine Zidane
7. Kaká
8. Ronaldo
9. Gabriel Batistuta
10. Zlatan Ibrahimovic
11. Pavel Nedved
12. Andrej Sjevtjenko
13. Frank Rijkaard
14. Manuel Rui Costa
15. Javier Zanetti
16. Zico
17. George Weah
18. Marcel Desailly
19. Antonio Careca
20. Lothar Mathäus
21. Edgar Davids
22. Liliam Thuram
23. Dejan Stankovic
24. Zbigniew Boniek
25. Zvonomir Boban
26. Liam Brady
27. Marcos Cafu
28. Toninho Cerezo
29. David Trezeguet
30. Oliver Bierhoff
31. Paolo Montero
32. Alen Boksic
33. Ruben Sosa
34. Sinisa Mihajlovic
35. Tomas Skuhravy
36. Andreas Brehme
37. Jürgen Kohler
38. Youri Djorkaeff
39. Aldair
40. Jürgen Klinsmann
41. Diego Simeone
42. Ramon Diaz
43. Karl-Heinz Riedle
44. Abel Balbo
45. Carlos Aguilera
46. Andreas Möller
47. Enzo Fransescoli
48. Walgter Casagrande
49. Mattias Almeyda
50. Glenn Strömberg