Raymond Kopa

France may not have invented football, but they were behind the first World Cup via Jules Rimet, the creator of this amazing event which wholeheartedly grabs our attention every four years.

More than once, I've heard the journalist Iñaki Gabilondo say: "When someone says a footballer is the best ever and it isn't Alfredo Di Stéfano..."

The other day, during the AS awards ceremony, Luis Suárez, the only Ballon d’Or winner born in Spain, insisted that the best player in History (I ...