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World Cup 2026 is here, and you want to play some soccer games with the best players ever. So do we, actually. Thing is, the best players in football game history are actually wildly OP. So much so that they kinda break the very fabric of the sport.
Have you read about the strong link theory? It’s the idea that in some team sports, outcomes are determined by the mistakes of the weakest players on their team, and in others it’s the strongest links who take over and decide the outcome. Football is generally thought of as a weak link sport. All we can say is, whichever academics decided that theory have obviously never had Tijani Babangida in their PES Master League squad.
Journey with us through the greatest game-breakers in virtual football past and present, from cult heroes to bona fide legends of the real sport, several of whom are in attendance at World Cup 2026.
Ibrahima Bakayoko – Championship Manager 97/98
Nineties football. A golden pre-internet age, in which we permitted players to keep a bit of mystique and we were thus allowed to idolise them from a distance in relative ignorance. A decade or two later, social
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