1. Charles Miller
For Saints: The legacy of a former young Saints player who went on to be responsible for a World Cup triumph is hard to beat. In fact we have to go back around 120 years to find someone in the Saints squad to top that, a young man who would be the cause of 5 World Cup wins. The son of a Scottish railway engineer father and a Brazilian mother, Charles Miller was born in Sao Paulo, but his father wanted him to receive a traditional British education. As a result the ten year old Miller was sent to boarding school in Southampton in 1884. Of course a Victorian British education involved plenty of British sports and Miller soon developed a love of football and a natural talent as a forward. The teenage Miller turned out for famous amateur team Corinthians and was spotted by St. Mary's F.C. (as Southampton were then called, showing the origin of the current nickname) in 1892. Over the next two seasons Miller played a handful of games for Saints in the Hampshire Cup before moving back to Brazil and a job in the civil service in 1894. Saints would not have another Brazilian player until clumsy forward Guly do Prado in the current squad. After Saints: Miller is widely regarded as the "father of Brazilian football" and, as such, is likely to receive a lot of coverage during this summer's World Cup in his home country. When he left Southampton for Brazil in 1894 Miller brought with him two footballs and a set of Hampshire Football Association rules and soon set about joining up with other British ex-pats to introduce the game he loved to the country of his birth. Miller formed the Sao Paulo Athletic Club, for whom he played as a forward, and in 1902 was instrumental in setting up Brazil's first established league: the Campeonato Paulista or Sao Paulo Championship that still runs to this day. Miller's SPAC won the first three Paulista titles and when a group of railway workers wanted to found their own team Miller, who worked for the Sao Paulo Railway Company, suggested the name and colours of his old club Corinthians, which is how the 2012 World Champions share their name with a group of Victorian London amateurs. Miller lived to see the sport that he had introduced become a national obsession in his home country. He was 75 when the World Cup arrived in Brazil for the first time in 1950, but he died three years later before he had the chance to see his ultimate legacy: Brazil as World Champions in 1958.