7 categories, one sample: Percy Liza against 199 of the most recognizable footballers in DailyFoot's data. Every card shows the whole field's distribution with Percy Liza pinned inside it.
Every ranking here is drawn from the same sample: DailyFoot's 199 most recognizable footballers, using the caps, goals, career years and honours in the game's own data.
Goals measured against appearances, seasons and the era the player scored them in.
Career goals for the senior national team, the raw total before any rate is computed.
When the career started, how long it ran, and how densely it was played.
Senior national-team appearances. The denominator under most of this page, and a longevity record in its own right.
Seasons from first cap to last, inclusive. Longevity at the top level, independent of how many matches it produced.
Age in the year of a first senior cap. The small numbers are the prodigies, and they are the story here rather than a weakness.
Age in the year of a last senior cap. Measured in whole years, so a player capped either side of a birthday can sit a year either way.
Output measured against listed height. Ratios nobody else ranks, on Wikidata heights.
Listed height in centimetres, from Wikidata. Context for the ratios below rather than a performance measure.
Trophies won, trophies per appearance, and how widely the player is written about.
World Cups, continental titles, Nations Leagues, Olympic golds and European Cups/Champions Leagues added together. Domestic leagues and cups are not in this data, so this counts the honours the game itself asks about, not a full trophy cabinet.