Who is the greatest World Cup player of all time? FIFA calls vote on Twitter

The FIFA vote opens on Twitter on 26 May.


The FIFA World Cup 2018 is drawing near and the fever is catching up fast. FIFA launched the official song on Friday and it has started to grow on the fans. After conducting a social media vote to decide the World Cup’s greatest team so far, FIFA will be launching a Twitter poll on Saturday to know who the popular vote goes to when it comes to choosing the greatest World Cup player ever.

Cashing in on the fan frenzy around the World Cup, FIFA will be asking the Tweeple to go down the memory lane and choose the “all-time greatest to have featured at the global finals since 1930”.

The recent social media vote to decide the World Cup’s greatest team was won by Uruguay’s Maracanazo marvels of 1950.

Voting to choose greatest World Cup player of all time begins at 4.30 pm (Indian time) on Saturday on the official FIFA World Cup Twitter account. The game of football has given a number of greats, and FIFA will pit 32 World Cup legends against one another in a bracket vote. The final set will take place on Sunday, 3 June.

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This Twitter game will be interesting. The bracket of 32 legends will move to a round of 16, then to quarter-finals and semi-finals, before narrowing down to a final two.

The vote is set to witness a lot of debate with fans finally deciding and crowning the greatest World Cup player.

This video can come in handy to refresh the memories of football lovers to make their decision easier.