Gianluigi Buffon is a goalkeeper who plays for Italian side Juventus and the Italian national team. Buffon is widely recognised as currently being the best goalkeeper in the world. He has been Serie A’s Goalkeeper of the Year a record 8 times. He has numerous individual top awards in international football.
Buffon came up through the ranks at Parma but moved to Juventus in the summer of 2001. With Parma he won the Italian Cup and the UEFA Cup in 1999. With Juventus he has won Serie A four times. Buffon made his debut for his national team in October 1997, at the age of 19. He won the 2006 FIFA World Cup with Italy after having played a brilliant tournament, only conceding two goals.

Kanouté is a French born striker playing for Spanish side Sevilla. He started his professional career for Lyon before heading to West Ham in England. After 84 appearances for the Hammers, scoring 29 goals, he brought his services to Tottenham Hotspur. He had mixed success during two years at Tottenham and was sold to Sevilla in August 2005 for €6.5 million. At Sevilla Kanouté has played his best football. He has also played 41 times for his country, Mali, and scored 29 goals. In 2007 he was named African footballer of the year.

Didier Zokora is a defensive midfielder who plays for Spanish side Sevilla and the Côte d’Ivoire national team. Zokora started his career in the Ivorian ASEC Mimosas’ youth academy, which has produced so many top quality players. From Mimosas he went on to Belgian team Racing Genk and French team Saint-Étienne before arriving at Tottenham Hotspur in 2006. Zokora had played in the Côte d’Ivoire national team since 2000. His strong performances at the 2006 FIFA World Championship made several English clubs interested in signing him and he chose Tottenham. He had three good seasons with Spurs, where the team won the 2008 League Cup and were runners-up the following season.
Zokora signed with Sevilla ahead of the 2009-10 season and had another successful year. Sevilla won the Spanish Cup and came 4th in the league, qualifying for the Champions League.

Niko Kranjčar is an attacking midfielder who plays for English side Tottenham and Croatia. Kranjčar developed as a youth playing for Dinamo Zagreb and made his senior debut already at the age of 16. He quickly became one of the team’s key players and helped them win two Croatian cups and the Croatian league. Because of a dispute with the club’s management Kranjčar left for rivals Hajduk Split in 2005. With Split he won another Croatian league title. Concurrently he delivered some impressive performances for his national team when qualifying for the 2006 FIFA World Championship, followed by equally impressive displays at the Championship. At the time his father Zlatko Kranjčar was the Croatian coach.
In August 2006 he signed for English club Portsmouth and made his Premier Leage debut away at Tottenham. The following season he won the FA Cup with Portsmouth. During the 2008-09 season Kranjčar stated his desire wanting away from Portsmouth, for a club with bigger ambitions. There were rumours that AS Monaco, Arsenal and Everton were all interested, but on 1 September 2009 he joined Tottenham Hotspur. A deciding factor was that ex-Portsmouth manager Harry Redknapp was at the club, in addition to his fellow Croatians Luka Modrić and Vedran Ćorluka. Kranjčar went on to play a huge part in Tottenham’s top-4 finish that season, earning them entry into the Champions League. He was the one to step into the playmaker role when Luka Modrić was out injured. In the start of the 2010-11 season Kranjčar has found himself on the Spurs bench because of a very competitive midfield, while he scored three goals in two matches for Croatia. For the time being he intends to stay at Spurs to battle it out for a place in the team. In the January transfer window Spurs accepted a bid from Werder Bremen but Kranjčar chose not to leave. On February 5th he came on as a substitute to score the match-winning goal in a 2-1 win against Bolton. The following week he was the match-winner in a 2-1 away win against Sunderland.