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Football player ranking generated by multivariate methods

2022; Grupo de Pesquisa Metodologias em Ensino e Aprendizagem em Ciências; Volume: 11; Issue: 11 Linguagem: Inglês

10.33448/rsd-v11i11.33901

2525-3409

Aniela Pilar Campos de Melo, Luiz Henrique Arruda Lima, Ana Beatriz Dutton da Silva Braúna, Hafy Mourad Jacoub de Cuba Kouzak, Fábio Borges Costa, João Felipe Batista da Silva Pinto, Fernando de Castro Júnior,

Sports Performance and Training

The objective was to build a ranking of football players based on multivariate methods. The players evaluated were the winners of FIFA; UEFA; Ballon D'Or; FIFPro; World Soccer; Golden Ball World Cup and King of América awards. A total of 95 players were evaluated based on the variables: games played, wins, draws, losses, goals scored, yellow/red cards, awards, dream team, title in national leagues/ continental championships in a football club, title in world cups/ continental championship in a national team, Olympics gold medal. We performed the multivariate clustering and principal components analyses. The grouping technique resulted in three groups: regionally renowned players (Group 1), renowned players for their extraordinary performance (Group 2), and globally renowned players (Group 3). The players in Group 2, except for Maradona, reached the highest indexes. The leaders of the ranking were Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo, Xavi, Pelé, and Iniesta.