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Rank	Topic	Wikipedia views
1	Cristiano Ronaldo	24,824
2	Ronaldo	12,679
3	Kaká	10,923
4	Ronaldinho	9,531
5	Zinedine Zidane	7,372
6	Michael Owen	5,436
7	George Best	3,240
8	Andriy Shevchenko	2,997
9	Ballon d'Or	2,607
10	Johan Cruyff	2,522
11	Rivaldo	2,276
12	Fabio Cannavaro	2,223
13	Hristo Stoichkov	2,155
14	Luís Figo	1,959
15	Bobby Charlton	1,637
16	Roberto Baggio	1,633
17	Pavel Nedvěd	1,591
18	Franz Beckenbauer	1,560
19	Marco van Basten	1,451
20	Lothar Matthäus	1,401
21	George Weah	1,262
22	Gerd Müller	1,201
23	Kevin Keegan	1,201
24	Alfredo Di Stéfano	1,197
25	Ruud Gullit	1,129
26	Michel Platini	1,096
27	Lev Yashin	928
28	Eusébio	798
29	Stanley Matthews	749
30	Denis Law	653
31	Jean-Pierre Papin	440
32	Paolo Rossi	389
33	Karl-Heinz Rummenigge	378
34	Oleg Blokhin	299
35	Matthias Sammer	291
36	Luis Suárez Miramontes	256
37	Gianni Rivera	243
38	Omar Sívori	241
39	Ballon d'Or 2009	170
40	Raymond Kopa	165
41	Flórián Albert	131
42	Josef Masopust	126
43	Allan Simonsen	119
44	Ihor Belanov	100
45	Ballon d'Or 2008	99
46	Ballon d'Or 2001	84
47	Ballon d'Or 2006	69
48	Ballon d'Or 2005	67
49	Ballon d'Or 2007	61
50	Ballon d'Or 2000	39
51	Ballon d'Or 2002	37
52	Ballon d'Or 2004	31
53	Ballon d'Or 2003	19
54	Ballon d'Or 1956	18
55	Ballon d'Or 1994	15
56	Ballon d'Or 1991	14
57	Ballon d'Or 1968	14
58	Ballon d'Or 1957	13
59	Ballon d'Or 1958	10
60	Ballon d'Or 1965	9
61	Ballon d'Or 1982	8
62	Ballon d'Or 1971	7

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