Your favorite football player

Zidane, excellent with his head!.  

Anyway, my favorite player is Robinho.  People knock on him so much that make me like him even more.  They say he's not big or strong enough to be successful in Europe.  I always like to believe that superior intelligence, technique, creativity and aesthetics beats a brute force any day.  They say he's too selfish.  Didn't they used to say that about Ronaldinho too?  Romario?  Besides, I bet Van Nistelrooy don't think Robinho is too selfish.  They say he's too much of a show-off.  If they had his skills they would show off too.  They say Messi is better than him.  Hmmm, Robinho brought La Liga trophy and Copa America trophy home this summer, both in expanse of yes, Messi.  But most of all he brings the joy of football, yes that cheeky school boy nonsense to the big stage.  It's like Miles Davis playing in Glenn Miller's Big Band, so ahead of his time.   

Too bad George Best never got to play in World Cup.  Sad life story too, but as were many gifted artists.  He was like Van Gogh of Football.  What if he was born little later as an English?  Best and Lineker in 82?  That would have been something I would have like to see.  He actually wanted Ireland and Northern Ireland to field an unified team.  That would have been nice, even politically, especially in 70's.  I'm gonna light up another cigarette for him.

On French side who's best French footballer ever?  Platini or Zidane?  Or Just Fontaine?  Henry?  Tigana? Cantona?  I know Ulrich will say Ribery.  Platini was great but Zidane brought home the bacon.  Both also played great for Juventus.

Speaking of 82 and Platini, anybody remember the Polish Platini from 82?  That would be a good football trivia.

Of course, the best Dutch player ever would be Cruyff, but who's the second?  Van Basten?  Guulit?  Rijkaard?  Kluivert?  De Boer?  In this case nobody brought home the bacon.

I haven't seen much of German players prior to 80's exception of Beckenbauer and Gerd Muller.  My first favorite German was Rummenigge.   Who's better, Rummenigge, Klinsman, Matthaus, or Ballack?  In this case they all brought home the bacon exception of Rummenigge but he made the final twice.

Who's best Icelander ever?  Gudjohnson or Ulrich?  In this case they went to market and got some Canadian Bacon.  Just kidding.

Hey, did anybody catch Norway beating Argentina the other day, even though it was just a friendly?  I didn't know Carew was a Norwegian.

Speaking of friendly, Bosnia and Croatia played against each other in a 'friendly' also same day.

 

Edited by King Kang of Mu - 26-Aug-2007 at 07:15

Originally posted by ulrich von hutten Originally posted by Surmount Why don't Americans like soccer?   Cause they don't have a vaguest notion of it.

Edited by red clay - 26-Aug-2007 at 13:48

Charles [Chuck, Concrete Charlie] Bednarik.  Phila. Eagles 1948-1962

Seen in this shot standing over an unconcious, Frank Gifford who, would remain unconcious for another 24 hours. This was the game that put the Eagles into the 1960 Championship game.

Originally posted by red clay Originally posted by ulrich von hutten Originally posted by Surmount Why don't Americans like soccer?   Cause they don't have a vaguest notion of it.     Not true, soccer has replaced little league baseball as the number one kids go to sport.  Obviously the term "Soccer Moms" hasn't reached Iceland yet.   BTW- Did you guys get Moving Pictures yet?

Gheorghe Hagi .   İN MY OPİNİON  HE S THE BEST FOOTBALLER  EVER. very very high technic,amazing shoots , milimetric passes,wonderful freekicks, he was full pension fottballer. he has all of this specialities.but other footballers have only one or two speciality.in turkey and romania everybody know him a football god.if he born in brasil all of the peoples'll accept  that  he s the best footballer.go youtube and whatch  him.u'll be agree with me.

Originally posted by Kochanoglu Gheorghe Hagi .   İN MY OPİNİON  HE S THE BEST FOOTBALLER  EVER. very very high technic,amazing shoots , milimetric passes,wonderful freekicks, he was full pension fottballer. he has all of this specialities.but other footballers have only one or two speciality.in turkey and romania everybody know him a football god.if he born in brasil all of the peoples'll accept  that  he s the best footballer.go youtube and whatch  him.u'll be agree with me.

mine is tom brady from new england