The Most Famous
SOCCER PLAYERS from Libya
This page contains a list of the greatest Libyan Soccer Players. The pantheon dataset contains 16,880 Soccer Players, 2 of which were born in Libya. This makes Libya the birth place of the 137th most number of Soccer Players behind Kyrgyzstan and Somalia.
Top 2
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Libyan Soccer Players of all time. This list of famous Libyan Soccer Players is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Claudio Gentile (1953 - )
With an HPI of 56.16, Claudio Gentile is the most famous Libyan Soccer Player. His biography has been translated into 39 different languages on wikipedia.
Claudio Gentile (Italian pronunciation: [ˈklaudjo dʒenˈtiːle]; born 27 September 1953) is an Italian football manager and former player who played as a defender in the 1970s and 1980s. Gentile appeared for Italy in two World Cup tournaments, and played for the winning Italian team in the 1982 final. His club career was notably spent with Juventus for whom he made almost 300 league appearances, winning six national titles and two major European trophies.
2. Al-Saadi Gaddafi (1973 - )
With an HPI of 52.25, Al-Saadi Gaddafi is the 2nd most famous Libyan Soccer Player. His biography has been translated into 30 different languages.
Al-Saadi Muammar Gaddafi, also spelt as Al-Saadi Moammer Al-Gaddafi (Arabic: الساعدي معمر القذافي; born 25 May 1973), is a Libyan retired professional football player. He captained the national team, but his career was widely attributed to the influence of his father Muammar Gaddafi, the country's leader at the time. In 2011, Gaddafi was the commander of Libya's Special Forces and participated in the Libyan Civil War. An Interpol notice was issued against him in 2011. In March 2014, he was arrested in Niger and extradited to Libya, where he faced murder charges, which he was cleared of in 2018. In August 2015, a video surfaced allegedly showing him being tortured. He was a central figure in the SNC-Lavalin scandal in Canada. In 2019, SNC-Lavalin, Canada's biggest engineering firm, pled guilty to paying Saadi $28 million in bribes to secure construction contracts in Libya. SNC-Lavalin also allegedly paid over $2 million for Saadi's 2008 visit to Canada, including bodyguards, companion services, $10,000 to an escort service in Vancouver, a strip club in Montreal, and box seats for a Spice Girls concert at the Air Canada Centre in Toronto. He was released in September 2021 and left for Turkey.
Pantheon has 2 people classified as soccer players born between 1953 and 1973. Of these 2, 2 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living soccer players include Claudio Gentile and Al-Saadi Gaddafi.
