Cristiano Ronaldo is the most football expensive player to date, having been purchased by Real Madrid for £80m (approx $125m) from Manchester United. However, while he'd be best known to fans of football, he would undoubtedly be less well known than Beckham to non-fans.
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Famous NFL Football Players
1. Sammy Baugh
2. Joe Montana
3. Jerry Rice
4. Dick Bitkis
5. Booby Bell
6. Vince Lombardi
7. Lamar Hunt
8. Joe Greene
9. Mike Ditka
10. Brett Favre
In NFL history, they're mostly in category's, by position, by team fans, and by coaches. The most popular player is probably Joe Montana, cause the 49ers have a HUGE fan base, they're actually THE biggest. Joe Montana's very popular cause he and his go-to-guy Jerry Rice literally created the "49er Dynasty". The current most popular is LaDainian Tomlinson, they say he's the best player in the business right now, but some people think that there are a little question marks over him, cause there's no doubt he's a great player, but he's surrounded by a great team.
Messi. No way Messi has 26million likes on facebook. Cristiano Ronaldo from Portugal has 34 million. That's a huge difference.
The most famous soccer player currently is strangely David Beckham although he is not the best. Behind would be Brazillian Ronaldinho Gaucho. Another rising star is Portuguese ace Cristiano Ronaldo. The all time world most popular football figures would either be Diego Armando Maradona or Pele its up to personal favoritism for they were both football gods of the game.
A portuguese footballer Christanio Ronaldo is the world famous footballer who is a top scorer in all career and has over 1 milllion fans.Christanio Ronaldo short name is cr7 ( Christanio Ronaldo 7 ).
There have been several famous footballers, after all it is a personal opinion , my choice is Pele.
The most famous American footballers include Joe Montana and Deion Sanders
The most famous English footballers (soccer players) include Lionel Messi and Franz Beckenbauer.