October 17, 2026

Best Soccer Avatars: Our Picks From the Soccer Top 10 Muses

Picking the best soccer avatar depends on what you want it to do: anchor a collection, start one cheaply, or stand for a style of play you love. On AllTheMuse, the choice is one room — Soccer Top 10, tagline “The beautiful game” — whose rule is ten of the greatest players of all time, each Muse wearing an iconic jersey from football history. Every Muse here is a finished, collectible Muse avatar with a Gameday personality. These are our honest editorial picks from that verified roster, priced exactly as the live room prices them.

Best Centerpiece: Messi, With Pelé Right Behind Him

If you collect one soccer Muse as a centerpiece, collect Messi. He is the room's only Mythic, at 200 Muse Coins, with editions capped at 100 — the rarest and tightest-supplied Muse in the collection. That rarity is the point of a centerpiece: it is the piece the rest of a collection gathers around.

Pelé is the closest rival, and for many collectors the warmer pick. He is the room's Legendary at 150 Muse Coins, editions capped at 250, and the name the beautiful game itself was built around. Together the pair costs exactly 350 coins — more than double the 150 a new account receives at signup — so starting with the two greatest is a real opening move, not a splurge.

Best First Collects at 50 Coins: Maradona, Cristiano Ronaldo and Ronaldinho

The best value in this room is that greatness does not stop at the flagships. Maradona, Cristiano Ronaldo and Ronaldinho are each Commons at 50 Muse Coins — the first rung of the rarity ladder, as Muse Coin prices explained sets out. Three of the most recognisable players in football history, for 150 coins in total.

Choose between them by temperament, not price. Maradona is the fiery, single-handed match-winner pick. Cristiano Ronaldo is the driven, record-chasing pick. Ronaldinho is the joyful pick — the Muse for a collector who thinks football should smile. Any one of the three is a strong first collect; together they are a front line for less than one Legendary elsewhere.

Best for the Thinking Game: Johan Cruyff and Zinedine Zidane

Some collectors do not want a finisher; they want the player who saw the game two passes early. That pick is Johan Cruyff, the thinker who reshaped how football is played, here a Common at 50 Muse Coins. A Cruyff Muse suits a Gameday personality used for planning, tactics and clear thinking as much as for match day.

Zinedine Zidane is the elegant alternative in the same mould — calm, balanced and precise, also 50 Muse Coins. Cruyff or Zidane is a taste call: the teacher or the artist. Either one pairs naturally with a flagship up front, which is how a two-Muse soccer shelf starts to look like a team rather than two separate pictures.

Best Finisher and Best General: Ronaldo Nazário, Franz Beckenbauer and Michel Platini

For a pure finisher, the pick is Ronaldo Nazário — the room's out-and-out striker, a Common at 50 Muse Coins. For the other end of the pitch, Franz Beckenbauer is the best general: the calm organiser at the back, also 50 coins, and the Muse that balances any shelf heavy with attackers.

Michel Platini completes the ten, at 50 Muse Coins — the scorer-playmaker who sits between the midfield artists and the finishers. That balance across all ten is why the best-of argument in this room is never really about one name: goalkeeper-free as it is, the collection runs from Beckenbauer through Cruyff and Zidane to Messi and Pelé like a team sheet. Our Soccer Avatar Guide walks that full roster in order.

Prices, the Bundle, and the Smartest Way to Start

Bought one by one, the ten cost 750 Muse Coins. The Soccer Top 10 bundle is 250 Muse Coins for the whole collection — a third of the single price — so a collector who wants more than two or three of the ten should price the bundle first. A new account's 150 coins at signup cover a first Muse outright; the full bundle (250) or Messi and Pelé together (350) takes a top-up or some days of daily rewards.

If you are still choosing, browse the ten side by side in the Gallery, compare them on the Muse Avatars hub, or let the Find Your Muse quiz point you to a personality match before you spend. And if you would rather spend nothing first, the Free Muses room holds Muses at 0 coins — then come back and pick the soccer great you kept thinking about.

• Messi — Mythic, 200 Muse Coins, edition cap 100
• Pelé — Legendary, 150 Muse Coins, edition cap 250
• The other eight Soccer Top 10 Muses — Common, 50 Muse Coins each
• All ten, one by one: 750 Muse Coins
• Soccer Top 10 bundle: 250 Muse Coins for the whole collection
• New accounts: 150 Muse Coins at signup