Football Dream Team (All-Time)

[MvB ACM No9]

Alrite.....enough of the cricket dream team......too many cricket fans.... So how about 1 in football. Spanning eras (to avoid the Henry v RvN v Ronaldo v Raul feud )

Here's my 11:

1. Lev Yashin
2. Paolo Maldini
3. Franz Beckenbauer
4. Franco Baresi
5. Lothar Mattheus (I know ther's gonna be a debate on this one)
6. Alfredo di Stefano
7. Eusebio
8. Johann Cruyff
10. Diego Armando Maradona
11. Pele
9. Marco van Basten (Please note the number!!!)

Post yours ppl....let's see if we can have a better discussion than the cricket thread (read: less bickering)

Cheers!
Mike

[anupam will return]

My team includes present day players only. And this is how the line up looks like:

1 Oliver Kahn.(g)
2 Maldini.(c)
3 F.Couto.
4 Bekham
5 Zidane
6 Roberto Carlos
7 Rio Ferdinand
8 Ronaldo
9 Nesta
10 Rudd Van Nistelrooy
11 Thiery Henry

12th man Baichung Bhutia

Anupam.

[rajeev_r]

Lothar Mattheus ? <let me start that debate >

i'd prefer zidane.
cruyff was all flamboyance.
--
r.

to start a riot, <and i actually do think so>, beckham isn't all that great.

[MvB ACM No9]

Originally Posted by rajeev_r

Lothar Mattheus ? <let me start that debate >

i'd prefer zidane.
cruyff was all flamboyance.
--
r.

to start a riot, <and i actually do think so>, beckham isn't all that great.

Errrr.......Zidane over Mathheus???? Umm......Defender (libero actually) vs attacking midfielder???????? Cruyff all flambuoyance???? Am I forgetting my football

Mike

[ace_bubble]

1. Lev Yashin
2. Paolo Maldini
3. Franz Beckenbauer
4. Franco Baresi
5. Lothar Mattheus (I know ther's gonna be a debate on this one)
6. Alfredo di Stefano
7. Eusebio
8. Johann Cruyff
10. Diego Armando Maradona
11. Pele
9. Marco van Basten (Please note the number!!!)

Spot on pal

but can these players survive in the rough game of today, can they get up again after a rough tackle by defenders on say Ronaldo
These are the players of yesterday and the defination of game has changed a lot today ..

can we come out with a list that is relevent to today's defination of football ..
and no beckham and owen please

cruyff was all flamboyance.

no comments

ace

[psmith]

aha....
all generations... mabbe i would replace matthaeus with zidane and keep cryuff intact....

for the present gen
1.Gianlugga Buffon
2.Paulo Maldini
3.Alessandro Nesta
4.Rio Ferdinand
5.Roberto Carlos
6.Luis Figo
7.David Beckham
8.Robert Pires( open to criticism)
9.Zinedine Zidane
10.Thierry Henry
11.Ronaldo

adios...
psmith

[PRGKT]

Here's my team.

Lev Yashin
Beckenbauer
Bobby Moore
Roberto Carlos
Maradona
Zidane
Zico
Pele
Puskas/Sandor Koscis/de Stefano
Gerd Mueller/Juergen Klinsmann
Johann Cryuff

[MvB ACM No9]

Originally Posted by catcracker

Here's my team.

Lev Yashin
Beckenbauer
Bobby Moore
Roberto Carlos
Maradona
Zidane
Zico
Pele
Puskas/Sandor Koscis/de Stefano
Gerd Mueller/Juergen Klinsmann
Johann Cryuff

Errrr....Mueller/Klinsmann instead of Marco van Basten???? I don't generally like criticizing....but y'know you're leaving out a man who's a 3-time European Player of the Year, 2-time FIFA World Footballer of the Year....and was the highest goalscorer (per season) in the Dutch as well as Italian League...also holds the record for max. goals in a single UCL match...has won the UCL several times and the European Championship with the most spectacular goal ever seen in a Championship final......and all this within the span of a 7-year career!!!!!

I really don't think Mueller and Klinsmann can evern think of rating themselves even close to his sheer class!!!!! It shows in uefa's Top50 Players of the past 50 years.....MvB right at the TOP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Mike

[PRGKT]

Hmmmm... MvB....umm...ok agreed.....kick out Klinsmann,Mueller.......put MvB in.....Hey ppl, any other defender????Rio Ferdinand perhaps...??? Any other Brazilian??Garrincha, Rivelino,Socrates. How 'bout having Platini???

[MavericK]

Originally Posted by catcracker

Hey ppl, any other defender????Rio Ferdinand perhaps...???

Rio Ferdinand ? drunk kya ? the only contemporary defender who cud make it to this list has to be Nesta.. any comments ?