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How highly do you rate... Robert Pires?


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Being an inter milan fan from the year 2000 i can safely say having watched cafu and javier both at their peaks, zanetti was the better player. Someone said here that zanetti isn't as flash, while i agree to an extent i challenge anyone to find a better dribbler of the ball that javier zanetti during the 90s and early to late 00s he would go on magical runs down the right flank beating 3,4,5 players at a time for fun. While people who haven't zanetti for a long time like myself he has slowed down abitin recent times and his dazing runs are not as often but for god sake the fella is nearlt 40, and consistently plays 50 games per season. Maldini in his later days was limited to 20 apps per season. Here, is a few of my memories of "el tractor":

 

 

to put this into perspective, kaka during this time was the fastest player the world had ever seen with the ball at his feet

This fella was 38 and just played 90minutes and done that, brings me to tears thinking about when will he retire

 

Also, i agree he hasn't appeared for argentina asmuch as he should have, but 150 isn't too bad eh?

 

Edit: No copyrighted football videos. Sorry if they're not, but I'm at work and don't have time to check.

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I was able to be a ball boy for a training match between Romania and Sweden just before World Cup 94. Hagi was awesome and scored an amazing free kick, the best I've ever seen in person. Was lucky enough to pass the ball a few times with Henrik Larsson while he was warming up as well. Awesome day.

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I was able to be a ball boy for a training match between Romania and Sweden just before World Cup 94. Hagi was awesome and scored an amazing free kick, the best I've ever seen in person. Was lucky enough to pass the ball a few times with Henrik Larsson while he was warming up as well. Awesome day.

 

Best free kick, or best player?

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Maybe both. Growing up in the states I haven't seen a ton of the best players live. The free kick was incredible, but the way that he controlled the game with such ease and authority on the ball was remarkable.

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I didn't get to see him much in his prime but will always remember him being quite one footed but probably having a left foot that was better than most people's left and right combined  :laugh:

 

It's funny his free kicks are mentioned because he seemed some what of a specialist ( where have those gone btw? )

 

A proper #10 and quite frankly there's not enough players like him anymore, he always reminded me of Maradona in terms of style and probably is seen as much of a hero in Romania as Maradona is in Argentina.

 

I honestly wonder where his type has disappeared to in today's game as they are quite a rarity nowadays.

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Hagi man, drove me nuts. He was mostly w*** and walked around the pitch for us, that's when he wasn't just making friends in the club's infirmary. Yet you knew he was capable of such magic that you still were on your toes every time he managed to get the ball.

 

Anyway, all in all I don't rate him. He had that World Cup, but he played for two big European clubs and failed at both. One of those geniuses that just can't do it unless they are king of the mice.

 

That said, I still remember that goal he scored from kickoff against Celta.

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Hagi man, drove me nuts. He was mostly w*** and walked around the pitch for us, that's when he wasn't just making friends in the club's infirmary. Yet you knew he was capable of such magic that you still were on your toes every time he managed to get the ball.

 

Anyway, all in all I don't rate him. He had that World Cup, but he played for two big European clubs and failed at both. One of those geniuses that just can't do it unless they are king of the mice.

 

That said, I still remember that goal he scored from kickoff against Celta.

 

Seems a fair assumption is probably typical of a few traditional number 10s, see J.R. Riquelme for example.

 

Hell of a player on his day though, mercurial would be the word I'd use about Hagi and his type.

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Village Idiot, why did Jari Litmanen fail at Barcelona? Never really got a fair answer to this as Finnish media was of course biased and oddly I can't remember anything from his time in Barca.

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Hagi was one of the best passers of a football that I've seen. I recall he wasn't very strong or fast, and that lack of athleticism probably prevented from joining the ranks of the all-time greats. But very, very skilful on the ball.

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