Who wore number 27 in football?

Here are the greatest soccer players to wear number 27 on their jersey.

Vitaly Janelt

Vitaly Janelt is a German professional footballer who is known as a defensive midfielder for Premier League club Brentford.

Janelt is a product of the Hamburger SV and RB Leipzig academies and made his professional breakthrough at VfL Bochum in 2017, before moving to England to join Brentford in 2020. He was capped by Germany at youth level and was a part of the 2021 European U21 Championship-winning squad.

Timothy Castagne

Timothy Castagne is a Belgian professional footballer who is known as a right-back or left-back for Premier League club Leicester City and the Belgian national team. Castagne began his senior career with Genk after graduated from the club’s youth academy and moved to Leicester City in 2020.

Divock Origi

Divock Okoth Origi is a Belgian professional footballer who is known as a forward for Premier League club Liverpool and the Belgium national team.

Origi began his career at Lille, and scored on his professional debut for them in 2013. A year and a half later, he was signed for £10 million by Liverpool, who loaned him back to Lille for the 2014–15 Ligue 1 season.

After struggling at Liverpool due to injuries, and spending a year on loan at VfL Wolfsburg, Origi made various crucial contributions to the club during the 2018–19 season. He scored the second goal against Tottenham Hotspur in the 2019 UEFA Champions League Final as Liverpool won 2–0. Also in the 2018-19 season, he scored a brace (including the fourth goal) of the second leg of the semifinal against Barcelona (the 4-0 second-leg win was later known as the “Miracle of Anfield”), which helped to overturn a 3-0 deficit from the first leg. He was a part of the squad that won the 2019–20 Premier League the following season, Liverpool’s first league title for 30 years.

Origi made his international debut for Belgium in 2014, and was part of their team which reached the quarter-finals of the 2014 FIFA World Cup, during which he became one of the youngest goalscorers in Belgian World Cup history.

João Cancelo

João Pedro Cavaco Cancelo is a Portuguese professional footballer who is known for playing either as a right back, left back or right winger for Premier League club Manchester City and the Portugal national team.

After coming through Benfica’s youth academy, Cancelo began playing for the club’s reserve side in 2012 and was promoted to the first team two years later. He was subsequently loaned to La Liga club Valencia during the 2014–15 season, with Los Ches making the move permanent in the summer of 2015. Cancelo was on loan to Serie A team Inter Milan during the 2017–18 season, in which he was included in Serie A’s Team of the Year. Cancelo’s performances sparked the interest of Italian rivals Juventus, who signed him in 2018 for a reported fee of €40.4 million. During his stint with Bianconeri, Cancelo won the league and the Supercoppa Italiana in his first and only season. In 2019, he was signed by English club Manchester City, for a reported fee of €65 million (£60 million). He has since won a Premier League title and League Cups with the club. In 2020–21, he had a significant role on Manchester City reaching their first UEFA Champions League final.

Cancelo made his senior debut for Portugal in 2016 after previously being capped by the nations’s all youth team levels, winning 75 caps and scoring three goals overall. He was also part of Portugal’s under-21 team that reached the 2015 UEFA European Championship Final. He was chosen in Portugal’s squad for the 2019 UEFA Nations League Finals on home soil, winning the latter tournament.

Alex Telles

Alex Nicolao Telles is a Brazilian professional footballer who is known as a left-back for Premier League club Manchester United and the Brazil national team.

Telles started his career at Brazilian Série D side Juventude, before being sold to Série A side Grêmio in 2013. That year, he was voted the best left-back in the league. In January 2014, Telles signed with Turkish Süper Lig club Galatasaray, winning various trophies including a league title, two Turkish Cups and the Turkish Super Cup, only to be loaned to Serie A team Inter Milan during the 2015–16 season. In July 2016, Telles was sold to Primeira Liga side FC Porto, where he established himself as one of the best left-backs in the league.

He made almost 200 appearances for Porto and won four trophies, including two league titles, one Taça de Portugal and one Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira, as well as being named in the Primeira Liga Team of the Year for three consecutive seasons. Telles’ performances sparked the interest of several European clubs, and in October 2020, he signed for Manchester United for an initial €18 million (£15.4 million).

Born in Brazil, Telles also holds Italian citizenship, but ended up representing Brazil at international level. He made his senior international debut in 2019.

Freddie Woodman

Frederick John Woodman is an English professional footballer who is known as a goalkeeper for Premier League club Newcastle United.

Woodman started his career at Crystal Palace before moving to the academy setup at Newcastle United in 2013. He made his Newcastle debut on 6 January 2018 and has had other spells on loan to Hartlepool United, Crawley Town, Kilmarnock and Aberdeen.

Woodman has represented England up to U21 level, and won the 2014 UEFA European Under-17 Championship and the 2017 FIFA U-20 World Cup with his country. He received the Golden Glove award for best goalkeeper in the latter tournament.

Lucas Moura

Lucas Rodrigues Moura da Silva, or just Lucas Moura, is a Brazilian professional footballer who is known as a winger and forward for Premier League club Tottenham Hotspur and the Brazil national team.

Moura started his professional career at São Paulo where he became one of the best players in the Campeonato Paulista. His pace and dribbling skills garnered attention from numerous European clubs, eventually earning him a transfer to French side Paris Saint-Germain. After winning multiple domestic trophies over a five-year span at the club, Moura was then signed by English side Tottenham Hotspur. He was involved in the side reaching their first ever UEFA Champions League final, scoring a historic hat-trick in the second leg of the semi-final of the competition to help Spurs advance.

Moura made his senior international debut for Brazil in 2011 and represented the nation at the Copa América, the 2012 Olympics (where he won a silver medal), and the 2013 FIFA Confederations Cup, winning the latter title.

Konrad Laimer

Konrad Laimer is an Austrian footballer who is known for playing as a midfielder for Bundesliga club RB Leipzig and the Austria national team.

Laimer got his first call up to the senior Austria side for 2018 FIFA World Cup qualifiers against Wales and Georgia in September 2017.

He made his debut on 7 June 2019 in a Euro 2020 qualifier against Slovenia, as a starter.

Aymen Barkok

Aymen Barkok is a German-Moroccan professional footballer who is known as a midfielder for Bundesliga club Eintracht Frankfurt and the Morocco national team.

Barkok was born in Germany. He is a youth international for Germany. He represented the Morocco national team in a friendly 3–1 win over Senegal on 9 October 2020.

Florian Wirtz

Florian Richard Wirtz is a German footballer who is known as an attacking midfielder for Bundesliga club Bayer Leverkusen and the Germany national team.

Wirtz received his first call up to the senior team for 2022 FIFA World Cup qualifiers in March 2021. He made his debut on 2 September in a World Cup qualifier against Liechtenstein, a 2–0 away victory. He substituted Joshua Kimmich in the 82nd minute.

Robin Zentner

Robin Zentner is a German footballer who is known as a goalkeeper for Bundesliga club Mainz 05.

On 4 November 2017, Zentner went viral for an “air kick” after mistaking the penalty spot for the ball following a back-pass, which nearly resulted in a goal.

Daniel Maldini

Daniel Maldini is an Italian professional footballer who is known as an attacking midfielder for Serie A club AC Milan.

Maldini won his first international cap for Italy at the under-18 level, in a 2–0 win against the Netherlands on 22 March 2019. Subsequently, he won two further caps for the under-19 side in the same year.

Manuel Locatelli

Manuel Locatelli is an Italian professional footballer who is known as a midfielder for Serie A club Juventus, on loan from Serie A club Sassuolo, and the Italy national team.

After coming through the club’s youth system, Locatelli made his professional debut with AC Milan, helping them win the 2016 Supercoppa Italiana. He moved to Sassuolo in 2018, before joining Juventus in 2021.

Locatelli represented Italy internationally, participating in Italy’s victorious UEFA Euro 2020 campaign.

Antonio Blanco

Antonio Blanco Conde is a Spanish footballer who is known mainly as a captain and defensive midfielder for Real Madrid Castilla, and the Spain national team. He was included in The Guardian’s “Next Generation 2017”.

Due to the isolation of some national team players following the positive COVID-19 test of Sergio Busquets, Spain’s under-21 squad were called up for the international friendly against Lithuania on 8 June 2021. Blanco made his senior debut in the match as Spain won 4–0.