4. Sir Stanley Matthews
When your peers call you “The Wizard of the Dribble” and “The Magician”, that means you are doing something right, and people are finding it hard to believe even after they see it with their own eyes. Sir Stanley Matthews is often regarded as the best English soccer player ever, and for very good reasons. He is the only player to have been knighted before his retirement from football. He was also the first soccer player to win both of the European Footballer of the Year and the Football Writers’ Association Footballer of the Year awards.
