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The 100 greatest football players of all time.
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Yes, Hagi and Prosinecki were great players. So was Stoichkov the Bulgarian. Eastern players didn`t get the recognition they deserved. imo.
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I remember Dumitrache (Rumania or is it now Romania) from the 1970 WC - just looked him up on wiki - poor fella died in 2007 aged 59 - might have gone to juventus but the communist regime refused to allow it
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stoichkov might not be looked back on in the same light as other 90's strikers such as george weah or batistuta as he never made it in italy, the best league in the world at the time.
theres no doubt at all he got the recognition he deserved, he won the spanish league 4 times with barcelona and got to 2 european cup finals with them, winning one of them. he won the ballon d'or in the 94 world cup year, its just from our perspoective in the uk he (and hagi) appeared to emerge from obscurity at the usa world cup, he was already an established european star by then. |
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Laszlo Kubala top 10 easy
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Ronaldinho
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and Henrik Larsson
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Gerd Muller
365 Bundesliga goals 68 International Goals in 62 Games |
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Jimmy Greaves not only the most gifted goalscorer but also the most beautiful player.
Nobody could, with his back to goal, turn and beat 3 or 4 defenders and score with the same style and vision...not even Best, or Cruff, or Pele or Messi. Greaves was a masterpiece. |
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Fabio Cannavaro, Hugo Sanchez and Romario.
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1. messi
2. pele 3. maradonna 4. garrincha 5. cryuff |
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jimmy greaves still has the european goalscoring record.........366 league goals...........messi and ronny soon to overtake
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Platini great footballer
corrupt administrator genius forumite  |
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BTW,
KENNY DALGLISH a shocking omission, so far |
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Mathias Sindelar
Carlos Valderrama |
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Messi for me
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Jim Baxter. The best I've ever seen live and would be in my team of best ever.
Scored the two goals here to give us a 2-1 win at Wembley after Scotland had been reduced to 10 men early on. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pu4knK0fu0k |
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roberto baggio pretty good
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Ronaldinho. He wasn't at his very best for long, but for a period of about 12 months he was better than Pele, Maradona, Ronaldo or Messi. Whilst at Barca, I once saw him receive the ball near the half way line, quickly turn away from from 2 opposition players who were so bamboozled that they ran into each other and ended up on the deck in a heap.
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Le Tissier
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rp-XhGIyGdo
a man, never more than 50% fit, playing at the speed of a tortoise and carrying 10 other players week in week out... very few to have ever played the game could have managed that |
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ian merseyside 08 Jun 16 23:33 Ronaldinho The Barca front three of Ronaldhino, Eto'oo and Messi was wonderful and that Barca side I think around 2005 under Rijkard was the most exciting football playing side I have ever had the privilege to watch in awe ( apart from Brasil '70 and '82 of course ). You can kep your tika taka, that is not football as God intended. |
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Jimmy Hogan ?
Alfredo Di Stefano ? Guillermo Stábile ? Juste Fontaine ? what a ridiculous thread .... greatest of all time ...how da feck would the gonzos on here ever be in a position to take an informed view ? |
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just a bit of fun Irish. Nothing wrong with nostalgia and a bit of bullsheite.
You want to try comparing greatest cricketers ever! Some people think Alistair Cook would be a shoe in for Opener in Englands Greatest XL. He wouldn't even make my list of water carriers! |
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He was some talent Ch2005 - exceptional goals ,enjoyed them .
Even the Villa fans took time to applause |
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Aguero.
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Justin Fashanu
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pmkr8LrNw14
All 10 of the above Ronaldinho goals are pretty tasty but number 2 is the one I will always remember. Any England fans close your eyes for number 7!  |
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BOBAN
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No player in history has cost me more money than Zvonimir Boban. So he can do one.
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Enzo Francescoli
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IMO I'd hazard a guess that 95%+ of the population of the UK
have never seen Maradona play near 10 hours of football live (maybe much less) given that he'd long gone from Napoli when Ch4 'Football Italia' started and the tendency (in those days) of BBC and ITV not showing all live World Cup games, be it due to group fixture clashes, time schedules or only highlights (you'd get 3 minutes of Paraguay v Belgium) Yet so many keyboard experts personally portray him as the all-conqering Messiah, in football terms Only 4 major medals and about 20 international goals from the age of 22 How spoilt we are now with hundreds and thousands of hours of Messi, Zidane, Ronaldo, Buffon etc. |
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Roy Keane, Eric Cantona, Christiano Ronaldo
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Morricone
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