The National Squad Player Selection

I.  Introduction and Historical Literature Review

    
               The all-time greatest national footballers and its historical squad have traditionally been an interested topic of discussion in each country that has its own identity and specialized knowledge in football history.  

               The planet world cup all-time dream team[1] selected players in all-time national squad for its simulated situation of all-time world cup competition without criteria of selection. The PES national all stars [2] has been developing the player selection by a group of members and the criteria of selection between them is perceivably varied.

             Accordingly, this work is objective to integrate between advice of expert and methodological technique that standardize the criteria of selection and ranking through the national football rating.

          

II. Methodology

    The methodological implementation of selection and ranking is conducted the same procedures as World’s all-time greatest footballer for players who have been rated in top 50 in any main position and the 9x100 positional ranking list for players who rated below top 50 in any main position. In exception to the basic criteria, the absence due to opportunistic limitation is 50 % less impact. 

    The tactical reason is also an important factor to make players selection, a lower rated players could be selected if their rating are in the same class as another contender and they're more fit to the tactical formation. 

    The standardization of players being made a profile is depend on competitive level in each nation as provided table of minimum score requirement that implemented from criteria in 9x100 positional ranking list . The criteria to name player in positional list/reserved group is set a minimum requirement of 3 international-class seasons. The grade is categorized by overall level of legend.

Grade A	Grade B	Grade C
7 point	6 point	5 point

  

Players National Identification

1) Players who played for only one nation at least 20 games is eligible to be identified in that nation regardless of other identified factors. If capped less than 20 games, transferring to the second criteria. 

2) Players who played for more than one nation will be taken into the identifying scoring system.

Born-Nation (1 Point), Race (1 Point, it can split if any parent is a mixture), The growing nation (1.5 Point), the first capped nation (1 Point), the longevity in each capped nations (2 point, calculated by ratio, if capped less than 20 games, the total given point will be calculated by appearances divided by 20), The longevity of club (0.5 Point)

* In case score is resulted in the same level (difference <0.2), performance in prime period is a decisive factor *The dependent nation in colonized era is considered 50%-50% between colonized nation and colonizing nation. 

* A national awards bonus can be added such as UEFA Jubilee Award

III. Implementation     

Only players appear in positional hall of fame are methodologically implemented. In addition to that, comparison technique case by case is carried out.

IV. Result & Statistics

Please see the selection in each country/zone

Nation/Group	Profile Numbers	Nation/Group	Profile Numbers	Nation/Group	Profile Numbers
Brazil	98	Portugal	34	Romania	24
Italy	97	Major Africa	32	East Asia	24
Germany	95	Belgium	30	Greece	23
Argentina	91	Austria	30	Ireland	22
England	74	Sweden	29	Rest of Nordic	20
Yugoslavia	58	North Africa	29	Chile	18
Spain	51	Czechoslovakia	29	Switzerland	17
Soviet Union	46	Denmark	27	Wales	15
France	46	Peru	25	Colombia	13
Uruguay	44	Bulgaria	25	Mexico	13
Netherlands	41	West Asia	25	Paraguay	13
Hungary	41	Turkey	25	Oceania	13
Scotland	35	Poland	24	Northern Americas& Caribbean Central America Bolivia Ecuador	11 7 4 3

Statistics                   

 There are totally 1382 qualified players' profiles in international legendary museum from 84 nations (Excludes Series A and La Liga).

V.  Discussion

    The selection process is conducted through all level of competitions not only performance in national team. The performance evaluation result from players ranking series played as an important role in application to this selection with higher amount of international country criteria but less affected in limitation of opportunistic factor. For the specialized knowledge of national legend, the advice of expert group in specific country has been largely influenced on the selection and positional ranking. Moreover, the historical survey/selections by magazine or football organization are an important supported evidence to identify legendary status of player in the history. 

   The number of expert participation and sources of rating is provided in below table

Nation	Number of Expert	Related Sources of Rating
Brazil	3	Placar Magazine (1970 – Present)
Germany	1	Kicker Magazine (1955 – Present) Kicker Magazine : Best Pre-War Players (1941) German Footballer of the Year ranking (1960 – Present) Bundesliga Team of the Season (1963 – Present)
Argentina	2	El Grafico Magazine (1960 – Present)
Italy	1	Guerin Sportivo Magazine (1956 – Present)
England Scotland Ireland	3	PFA Team of the Year (1974 – Present) Media Rating (1995 – Present) Irish Post Ireland Rep. Positional Ranking Daily Star Irish Greatest Players Ever Comme’s English Top Division All-Time Positional Ranking
Holland	1	Dutch Footballer of the year ranking (1979 – present)
Yugoslavia	2	Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia UEFA Jubilees Award Ranking
Soviet Union	2	Soviet Footballer of the year ranking (1963 – 1990) Soviet Footballer of the year ranking Literature Review (1910 – 1963) Matveev’s poll survey of Russian Coach and Expert
Spain	-	Don Balon Magazine (1976 – 2010) Mundo & marca La Liga Old Rating (1957 - 1965)
Uruguay	1	Msioux’s South American Positional Ranking by Era
France	1	France Football 100 Best French Players of the Century (1904 – 2004) Onze’Dor Team of the Year (1976 – Present)
Hungary	2	2010 Hungarian Magazine Greatest Players Ranking Valogatott Hungarian Players Positional Ranking
Major Africa	-	African Footballer of the Year ranking (1971 – Present)
Portugal	2	All-Time Portuguese Positional Legends Poll Goncalves’ All-Time Portuguese Positional Ranking
Sweden Denmark Rest of Nordic	1	Scandinavian Annual Best Player and Ranking (Unofficial) Scandinavian Magazines Poll of All-Time Best Players
Austria	-	Austria Football Association Team of the Century
Czechoslovakia	1	Czech and Slovak Newspaper Best Player Ranking
Belgium	1	Belgian Golden Shoe Top Five Ranking(1954 – Present)
Peru	3	-
West Asia	2	-
Poland	2	Pika Notza Magazine Best Polish Players (1956 – 2016) Poland UEFA Jubilee Award Ranking
Romania	2	Romanian Footballer of the Year Ranking (1966 – Present) Libertatia Greatest Romanian Footballers Poll
Bulgaria	-	Bulgarian Footballers of the Century ranking (1900 – 1999)
Turkey	1
North Africa	1	African Footballer of the Year ranking (1971 – Present)
Greece	-	Live Sports Magazine Greek Positional Ranking
East Asia	-	Sportus Channel All-Time East Asian XI
Chile	1	-
Latin North Americas	2	Costa Rican Players of the Century Poll
Northern South Americas	1	Fulbolsiemprefulbol.com Colombia Positional Ranking South American Team of the Year (1986 – Present)
Paraguay	-	South American Team of the Year (1986 – Present) Msioux’s South American Positional Ranking by Era
Switzerland	-	-
British North Americas	-	-

Reference

[1] http://www.planetworldcup.com/atwc/atwc_squads.html

[2] www.pesmitidelcalcio.com/viewforum.php?f=58

INDEX : Record of Players Profile

The Oldest Player Ever : John Goodall (England, Born 19 June 1863)

The Youngest Player Ever : Kylian Mbappe (France, Born 20 December 1998)

The Highest Rating Player : Lionel Messi (Argentina)

The Lowest Rating Player : Seigo Narazaki (Japan)

The Tallest Player : Jan Koller (Czech Republic, 202 cm)

The Shortest Player : Manuel Seoane, Delfin Benitez Cazeres (Argentina, 160 cm)

The Most Caps Player : Cristiano Ronaldo (Portugal, 196 Games)

The Most Club Appearances : Peter Shilton (England, 1054 Games in Top Division)

The Most NT Scorers : Cristiano Ronaldo (118 Goals)

The Most League Winners : Ryan Giggs (13 Times)

The Most International Clubs Winners : Francisco Gento, Dani Carvajal, Luka Modric (6 Times)
The Most World Cup Winners : Pele (3 Times)