All time best WC team/squad

[Figaro]

Where's Just Fontaine?

 

Just missed the cut off.

[Gilps]

Stop being picky and get yer 11 down...

 

OK, sticking to players I was old enough to see:

 

Zoff

Cafu

Baresi

Desailly

Maldini

Socrates

Maradona

Platini

Zidane

Baggio

Ronaldo

 

Subs

 

Kahn

Cannavaro

Thuram

Matthaüs

Milla

Romario

Rossi

[Knox_Harrington]

Maradona always said that half of those "goals" were scored in the post match showers.

Try it. I would.

[Stevie H]

from my lifetime:

 

zoff

cafu

baresi

desailly

brehme

zico

socrates

platini

maradona

rossi

ronaldo.

[cochyn]

World-cup one-tournament wonders (that I remember anyhoo):

 

Salif Diao

Saeed Al Owairan

Norman Whiteside

Toto Schillacci

Paolo Rossi

 

Any more?

[nvdm]

Sepp Maier doesn't deserve to be in that company, Ray Clemence was miles better than him and Gordon Banks/Dino Zoff were from a different planet.

 

No John Charles? No Ruud Gullit? No Puskas? No Rumenigge? No Djimi Traore?

 

No Lev Yashin? (480 clean sheets in 812 games including 150 penalty saves)

Edited June 5, 2006 by Shaka

[Stevie H]

Sepp Maier doesn't deserve to be in that company, Ray Clemence was miles better than him and Gordon Banks/Dino Zoff were from a different planet.

 

No John Charles? No Ruud Gullit? No Puskas? No Rumenigge? No Djimi Traore?

gullit only played one world cup didn't he? 1990? and holland were crap in that one.

 

how good was lev yashin, murph?

[Murphman]

No Lev Yashin? (480 clean sheets in 812 games including 150 penalty saves)

 

 

Good shout that. Yashin was brilliant although a bit before my time.

 

often heard around grounds circa 1966....

 

'aye,aye,aye,aye (insert name of keeper) is better than Yashin

(insert name of striker) is better than Eusebio and .... are in for a thrashin'.

 

Fair takes me back.

 

gullit only played one world cup didn't he? 1990? and holland were crap in that one.

 

 

 

 

Fair point but Gullit circa 1988 was stupendous. For probably the same reason there's no Van Basten in the list either.