These are the champions who have it all: ball skills, creative vision, power and speed. But what they have above all is courage. From Lionel Messi to Cristiano Ronaldo, from Gigi Buffon to Pele, and many others, here are profiles of 30 world-class players who rewrote the history of association football. Fact-files and anecdotes that tell moving stories of personal hardship and hope, fabulous wealth and generosity, heroic determination, but above all, the will to win.
