Your best national player ever

gerd

gerd

Retired Footballer
8 January 2002
Over the moon
KRC Genk, Spurs
To start i will give what IMHO are the best players ver of some countries, please your opinion...


Argentina: Maradonna
Austria: ????
Brazil: Pele
Belgium: Wilfried Van Moer
Bulgaria: Hristo Stoichov
Croatia: Prosinecki
Czechoslovakia: Masopust
Denmark: Michael Laudrup
England: Bobby Charlton
Finland: Jari Litmanen (but he should stop)
France: Zidane
Greece:????
Germany: Beckenbauer
Holland: Cruijff
Hungary: Puskas
Iceland: Asgeir Sigurvinsson
Italy: Rivera or Mazzola
Ireland: Liam Brady
Northern-Ireland: George Best
Norway: Tore Andre Flo or Kjetil Rekdahl
Poland: Lubanski, Tomaszewski (Wembley) or Boniek
Portugal: Eusebio
Roumania: Hagi
Russia: Yashin
Scotland: Dalglish
Spain: Gento (i've the feeling i've been overlooking someone)
Sweden: Ibrahimovic (????)
Switzerland: ????
Ukrain: Blokhine
Wales: Southall or Giggs
Yougoslavia: Dzjaic


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Sweden:

Today Ibrahimovic

alltime Nils Liedholm playmaker nicknamed Il Barone in italy, active 1943-1961 was captain of the swedish NT and AC Milan. He led sweden to gold in the 1948 olympics and second place in 1958 world cup and won loads of trophies with Milan including 4 scudettos. Is also one of Milans and Romas more memorable coaches.

taken fron wiki: "According to the legend, it took two years playing for Milan until Liedholm misplaced his first pass at the San Siro, the rarity prompting a five-minute ovation from the home crowd"

or Gunnar Nordahl, striker that played in AC milan during the same period as Liedholm and still has the Serie A record with 225 goals in 257 games.

but id personally say Liedholm for his achievments with both the NT and club
 
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gerd said:
Austria: ????
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Andreas Herzog

gerd said:
Switzerland
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Stéphane Chapuisat

gerd said:
Spain: Gento (i've the feeling i've been overlooking someone)
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Alfredo Di Stefano, and soon Raul.

Cameroon : Roger Milla
Chile : Ivan Zamorano
Colombia : Carlos Valderrama
Liberia : George Weah
Mexico : Hugo Sanchez
Nigeria : Jay-Jay Okocha
Uruguay : Enzo Francescoli
USA : Mia Hamm :)
 
I'd just stick to Gerd's national list, more or less.. Some of them are not the best, but I consider them my favourite ones..

Argentina: Maradonna
Brazil: Pele
Belgium: Baseggio
Bulgaria: Stoichkov
Cameroon: Milla
Croatia: Boban
Czech Republic: Rosicky
Denmark: Schmeichel
England: Owen
France: Zidane
Greece: Dellas
Germany: Beckenbauer
Holland: Cruyff
Hungary: Puskas
Italy: Baggio
Mexico: Campos
Northern Ireland: Best
Norway: Flo
Poland: Boniek
Portugal: Eusebio
Romania: Hagi
Russia: Yashin
Spain: may I say Di Stefano, even if he was not Spanish?
Sweden: Ravelli
Switzerland: Sforza
Ukraine: Shevchenko
USA: Ramos
Wales: Giggs
Yougoslavia: Savicevic
 
Argentina: Tevez
Brazil: Anderson
England: Rooney
France: Evra
Holland: Van Der Sar
Portugal: Cristiano Ronaldo
Scotland: Fletcher
Wales: Giggs
Poland: Kuszczak
Ireland: O'Shea
Northern Ireland: Evans
Spain: Pique
Serbia: Vidic
Angola: Manucho
South Korea: Ji-Sung Park
China: Fangzhuo
Canada: Hargreaves
 
Angola: Mantorras
Argentina: Maradona
Brazil: Pelé
Belgium: Baseggio
Bulgaria: Stoichkov
Cameroon: Milla
Cote D'Ivoire: Drogba
Croatia: Suker
Czech Republic: Nedved
Denmark: Michael Laudrup
England: Bobby Charlton
France: Zidane
Greece: Nikopolidis
Germany: Beckenbauer
Holland: Van Basten
Hungary: Puskas
Italy: Maldini
Mexico: Campos
Northern Ireland: George Best
Norway: Flo
Poland: Boniek
Portugal: Eusebio
Romania: Hagi
Russia: Yashin
Spain: Raúl
Sweden: Larson
Switzerland: Frei
Ukraine: Shevchenko
USA: Donovan
Wales: Giggs
Yugoslavia: Mijatovic
 
Malaysia: Mokhtar Dahari
Singapore: Fandi Ahmad
Thailand: Kiatisuk Senamuang
India: Baichung Bhutia
 
RuneEdge said:
Argentina: Tevez
Brazil: Anderson
England: Rooney
France: Evra
Holland: Van Der Sar
Portugal: Cristiano Ronaldo
Scotland: Fletcher
Wales: Giggs
Poland: Kuszczak
Ireland: O'Shea
Northern Ireland: Evans
Spain: Pique
Serbia: Vidic
Angola: Manucho
South Korea: Ji-Sung Park
China: Fangzhuo
Canada: Hargreaves
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I totally agree except for England Gerrard or Lampard...
Let's consider this list as a not so funny joke... (would have reacted the same way if a Liverpool fanatic would have posted the same sort of list with Liverpool players).
 
RuneEdge said:
Argentina: Tevez
Brazil: Anderson
England: Rooney
France: Evra
Holland: Van Der Sar
Portugal: Cristiano Ronaldo
Scotland: Fletcher
Wales: Giggs
Poland: Kuszczak
Ireland: O'Shea
Northern Ireland: Evans
Spain: Pique
Serbia: Vidic
Angola: Manucho
South Korea: Ji-Sung Park
China: Fangzhuo
Canada: Hargreaves
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i thought this was best players ever not best current players :-k
 
Ret KiT said:
i thought this was best players ever not best current players :-k
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Mate, RuneEdge is tottaly wrong! The best are:

Angola: Mantorras
Argentina: Di Maria
Brazil: Luisão
Cameroon: Binya
Cote D'Ivoire: Zoro
China: Yu Dabao
Germany: Butt
Greece: Katsouranis
Paraguay: Cardozo
Portugal: Rui Costa
Romania: Sepsi
Spain: Camacho
Uruguay: Cristian Rodriguez

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Italy: MALDINI! A Genius; the best defender ever (and we've ALL have the pleasure of saying to our grandchildren that we grew up with the guy. He is a great advert for football past & present too. Also RuneEdge; how the hell can you list Rooney for England? (I get the United theme ;) ) Scholes has been a far more consistent & better player for the last 10 years. Rooney is of yet to prove himself in World Football. Do your homework mate. :)

That's all for now.

Great thread Gerd. :)
 
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Plan M said:
Also RuneEdge; how the hell can you list Rooney for England? (I get the United theme ;) ) Scholes has been a far more consistent & better player for the last 10 years. Rooney is of yet to prove himself in World Football. Do your homework mate. :)
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Not sure why but when you think about Scholes, you don't really think about his international career. You think about Rooney and things like Euro 2004 suddenly spring to mind.
 
Scholes has won the FA Cup, League Cup, Premiership & European Cup with United and was always first on the team sheet.
 
That's an excellent list Gerd and I have to say I agree with most of it.

Rather than repeat all the same names, I will just state my personal favourite players of each country based only on who I have seen enough of and not necassarily the best I have seen. (I am 26)

Argentina: Batistuta/Redondo
Austria: Polster
Brazil: Rivaldo
Belgium: Enzo Scifo
Bulgaria: Hristo Stoickhov
Chile: Ivan Zamorano
Croatia: Zvonimir Boban
Czech: Tomas Skuhravy
Denmark: Peter Schmeichel
England: Alan Shearer
Finland: Jari Litmanen
France: Zinedine Zidane
Germany: Mehmet Scholl
Holland: Ronald Koeman
Iceland: Eidur Gudjohnsen
Italy: Demetrio Albertini
Ireland: Robbie Keane
Poland: Emanuel Olisadebe
Portugal: Manuel Rui Costa
Roumania: Georgi Hagi
Russia: Victor Onopko/Rinat Dassayev
Scotland: Gary McAllister
Spain: Fernando Hierro
Sweden: Zlatan Ibrahimovic
Switzerland: Stephane Chapuisat/Ciriaco Sforza
Ukrain: Andrei Shevchenko
Uruguay: Enzo Francescoli
Wales: Ryan Giggs
Yougoslavia: Dejan Savicevic
 
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Plan M said:
Scholes has won the FA Cup, League Cup, Premiership & European Cup with United and was always first on the team sheet.
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Exactly, with United. Not anything with England. I picked Rooney assuming we're only talking about what they've done with their national team.
 
But it's a list for best players in the specific countries. Scholes has won the lot with United. Rooney hasn't.

It doesn't say "What player has played best in an England shirt?" does it mate. :)
 
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