Footballers that are more/less famous than normal for their quality level

[The Original]

Scholes is underrated by the English media but appreciated on the continent. Scholes was technically sound, had a great passing range and could score goals.

On the contrary, Gerrard is overrated by the English and probably justly rated on the continent. Gerrard was a headless chicken in the midfield with poor positional sense and often poorly executed hollywood passes. He stood out amongst a bad bunch which got him the fame.

Stop it.

 

[Ibi Dreams]

For some reason I thought of Rui Costa, a great player that I rarely see anyone talk about these days

 

[Fobal]

For some reason I thought of Rui Costa, a great player that I rarely see anyone talk about these days

Yet sometimes he is named (since the 90's are a bit overhyped), yet from the 70's and 80's we can make a huge list of great/even phenomenal players a lot less named: Futre, Overath, Littbarski, Butrageño, Kempes, Ardiles, Toninho Cerezo, Falcao, Socrates...etc etc etc

 

[Dwight Corke]

I feel like Toni Polster could be a little more famous.

Career highlights:
-Still Austria's all-time top scorer (44 in 95). Scored 8 against major teams (Spain, Portugal, West Germany/Germany, Italy and Netherlands).
- in 89/90, he scored 33 in 35 for a Sevilla team that finished 6th with 64 goals scored
- He bossed the Austrian division for 6 seasons with 119 in 146 goals before moving abroad.
- Maintained a scoring rate of at least 0.4 goals per league at every club he represented.