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Was going to post mine but my grandad's is a little better......

 

 

--------------------------Yashin----------------------------

 

Carlos Alberto----Moore-------Beckenbaur------Breitner-----

 

----------------------------Matthaus---------------------------------

 

------Zico----------------Maradona-------------------Cruyff-------

 

---------------------Pele--------------Muller--------------------------

 

Did he lose interest in football in 1990?

 

PS - Not wanting to mock. Otherwise, that's a good side.

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Guest Roger Kint

From what i have seen in live games. Guarantee i have missed out a few with this hangover.

 

Schmeichel

 

Zanetti-Baresi-Nesta-Maldini

 

Zidane-Matthaus-Xavi

 

Messi-Ronaldo-Maradona

 

Subs: Cronaldo, Iniesta, Desailly, Romario, Hagi, Cafu, Buffon

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                Schmeichel

 

Cafu      Puyol        Pique      Maldini

 

                    Vieira

          Xavi                Zidane

 

Messi          Ronaldo        C.Ronaldo 

 

This but,

                      Schmeichel

Zanetti -- Sammer -- Maldini -- Carlos

 

 

otherwise the same.

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                Schmeichel

 

Cafu      Puyol    Maldini  Lizarazu

 

 

            Xavi      Zidane 

 

Messi          Ronaldhino      Giggs

 

                  Ronaldo

 

Was tempted to go for Sammer or Baresi but didn't quite see enough of them so shifted Maldini to centre and got Lizarazu in there who I thought was an incredible leftback, better than Carlos.

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Impossible to even make a balanced team.

 

            Buffon

Cafu Baresi Maldini RCarlos

      Zidane Redondo

Messi                      Rivaldo/Ronaldinho/CRonaldo/Iniesta/Xavi impossible to pick.

      theRonaldo Romario

 

 

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Was going to post mine but my grandad's is a little better......

 

 

--------------------------Yashin----------------------------

 

Carlos Alberto----Moore-------Beckenbaur------Breitner-----

 

----------------------------Matthaus---------------------------------

 

------Zico----------------Maradona-------------------Cruyff-------

 

---------------------Pele--------------Muller--------------------------

 

 

That'll do for me - maybe with Banks in goal

 

I like the idea of Pele playing off Der Bomber

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Guest palnese

In my lifetime:

 

Peter the Dane

 

Cafu

Nesta

Maldini

Carlos

 

Xavi

Redondo (most underrated player in my time)

Zidane

 

Ronaldo

Ronaldo

Messi

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http://www.footballuser.com/Formations/2011/06/125903_Dream_Team.jpg

 

And the reserve squad...

 

http://www.footballuser.com/Formations/2011/06/125921_Dream_Team.jpg

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Two absolute non-arguments Re Messi above.

 

While I agree saying "He has to win a WC" is an abolsute non-argument, it is however not a non-argument whatsoever that it's fair to await final judgement on if Messi is "the best there's ever been" until he performs for Argentina. Why? Simply because he just so happens to only have played for what may well be the best team to ever grace a football field, with a style of play that suits him perfectly. The other people contesting for "best ever" have played in lesser teams, and commandeered them to greatness by their own virtue. For instance Maradona, who did it both for club and country. The baseline we've set for Messi is him in the best team in history. It's not easy to say he's the best there's been when that's the baseline. If he'd performed for Argentina as well on a regular basis and been the main force in their team (doesn't have to win a WC, obviously, just be as good for them as he is for Barcelona) I'd have no issue saying he's perhaps better than Maradona, but until then it's a bit of a shit argument. He'll probably never play for any other club than Barcelona in his career either, which makes it even harder to judge his brilliance due to the aforementioned baseline. Which is why it is better to measure up his performances for the only other "team" we'll see him play in, namely Argentina, and compare these performances with what he does for Barcelona. Is it the same class? Is it the same brilliance? Or is a lot of it made possible due to other great players around him at Barcelona?

 

His greatness may well be driven by the greatness of those around him in Barcelona. It's an absolutely brilliant team. He doesn't perform as well for Argentina, against what in many ways are lesser opponents than what Barcelona often meet. It makes me question the validity of his claim to "best ever" that he can't do the same things for two teams. Does he need the other great players of Barcelona around him to be as great as we see him? Maradona didn't need that. Pele didn't need that. The list goes on. He's not a one man show, and until he is I remain unconvinced as to "greatest ever".

 

However he is easily the "greatest right now", that I concede. But if he was in another team he could by all accounts just as easily not be the greatest right now based on his Argie performances, which makes me wonder why he should be named the "greatest ever" this early in his career.

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