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10 Nicest Players in Football History [Ranked]
Mar 8, 2025
Having a nasty edge to your game is usually touted as a desirable trait for a player who wants to be a winner. Some of the most successful teams in the world have been comprised of players who would do anything to get the three points for their team. Names like Roy Keane and Gennaro Gattuso spring to mind when you think of successful warriors whose smiles were absent for the vast majority of their footballing lives.
The idea that kind people never win anything has been debunked in football, and the best footballer in the world in 2025 never fails to display a warm persona on and off the pitch. Liverpool's Mohamed Salah sits alongside Heung-min Son and N'Golo Kante on the sporting 'nice list'.
Whether it's giving endless amounts to charity, or carrying a likeable character in their day-to-day lives, it's hard not to love the players that put a smile on everyone's faces. We searched the world and counted down the ten nicest players in football history.
Ranking factors:
Charity - whether the player has used their wages to help others
Personality - how the player comes across on the pitch, and in the media
Sportsmanship - the amount of yellow and red cards the player picks up
10 Mohamed Salah
Egypt
With Mohamed Salah the hot favourite to clinch the 2025 Ballon d'Or, fans have fallen head over heels for the Egyptian's performances in Liverpool red. It's probably quite difficult not to be happy when you're dominating the modern game and topping the charts in almost every attacking statistic in the world.
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