14. Alfredo Di Stefano
S&>/S&> and Barratts/EMPICS SportThe late, great Di Stefano has been the talk of football in the past few days since his recent death, and is rightly being remembered as one of the greatest ever players to grace the game. His achievements with Real Madrid in the 50s is staggering: he won 5 European cups in a row with Madrid between 1956 and 1960, scoring in every one of the finals, and in one of them scoring a hattrick at Hampden park in a 7-3 win over Eintracht Frankfurt. It was a big surprise then, when Celtic tried to sign him in 1964, 3 years before they eventually won the European cup. At that time, Di Stefano was 36 years old - at the end of his career, and he actually told papers a few years ago that he did in fact nearly sign, with the paperwork all done and ready to join, only for his family to express their desire to stay in Spain. He then later joined Espanyol. It's almost a good thing that he didn't join, as we would never have been able to say we won the cup with players all born in Glasgow - an achievement truly unique to Celtic.