| Heroes | Villains | |
|---|---|---|
| 1930 | King Carol II of Romania | Almeida Rego |
| 1934 | Giuseppe Meazza | Jules Rimet |
| 1938 | Vittorio Pozzo | Benito Mussolini |
| 1950 | Joe Gaetjens | George Graham |
| 1954 | Toni Turek | Mervyn Griffiths |
| 1958 | Wales | Just Fontaine |
| 1962 | Carlos Dittborn | Antonio Ghirelli & Corrado Pizzirelli |
| 1966 | Tofiq Bakhramov | Antonio Rattin |
| 1970 | Mario Zagallo | Alf Ramsey |
| 1974 | Johan Cruyff | Ferruccio Valcareggi |
| 1978 | Rob Rensenbrink | Willie Johnston |
| 1982 | Claudio Gentile | Harald Schumacher |
| 1986 | Josimar | The Mexican Wave |
| 1990 | Roger Milla | Frank Rijkaard |
| 1994 | Hristo Stoichkov | Mauro Tassotti |
| 1998 | Lilian Thuram | Slaven Bilic |
| 2002 | Paolo Maldini | Luciano Gaucci |
| 2006 | Fabio Grosso | Felipe Scolari |
| 2010 | Diego Forlan | Nicolas Anelka |
