Worlds Best XI while you’ve been alive

[Stortford]

Gordon Banks; Carlos Alberto, Tony Adams, Bobby Moore, Paolo Maldini; Ronaldo, Roy Keane, Gerson, George Best; Messi, Kenny Dalglish.
Subs: Pele, Bobby Charlton, Colin Todd, Denis Law, Dave Watson, Peter Schmeichel, Rio Ferdinand.

Old twat, like the Dave Watson inclusion

 

[shkatërrues]

Gordon Banks; Carlos Alberto, Tony Adams, Bobby Moore, Paolo Maldini; Ronaldo, Roy Keane, Gerson, George Best; Messi, Kenny Dalglish.
Subs: Pele, Bobby Charlton, Colin Todd, Denis Law, Dave Watson, Peter Schmeichel, Rio Ferdinand.

Genuine question.....

....who’s Gerson?

 

[johnnyat87]

Have a look on that internet thing , he was top class , probably better than the 3 lads you’ve mentioned

I will do. I took the OP to mean that you remember from your lifetime though. Spent many Saturday mornings watching Maldini and that through my early teens and that's who I remember most. Baresi was a little too early for me.

 

[Fulwellmackem]

Gk peruzzi
DL maldini
DC puyol
DC nesta
DR lahm
MR C Ronaldo
MC gullit
MC nedved
ML messi
FC ronaldo
FC henry

 

[Mr Vertigo]

Norman

Kay
Gray
Bennett
McPhail

Bracewell
Ball
Rae

Phillips
Bent
Quinn

 

[gipetto]

Rodgers' Swansea a few years back.

Gk peruzzi
DL maldini
DC puyol
DC nesta
DR lahm
MR C Ronaldo
MC gullit
MC nedved
ML messi
FC ronaldo
FC henry

Canny, but Nedved in front of Zidane?

 

[Stortford]

Norman

Kay
Gray
Bennett
McPhail

Bracewell
Ball
Rae

Phillips
Bent
Quinn

Nee Don Hutchison?

 

[BNM]

Hollands 1974 team.
With a half decent goalkeeper.

 

[Stortford]

Hollands 1974 team.
With a half decent goalkeeper.

Or the 78 team with Cruyff ....oh and a keeper

 

[Brian Griffin]

I don't get the Cole thing, myself.

 

[horselover]

......................Buffon...................
Alvez...Ramos...Puyol...Carlos
............Zidane......Platini..........
Baggio......Maradona...Messi
.....................Ronaldo..............

 

[parsonjohn1985]

Schmeichal

I know there are better individuals but there's never been a better unit than

Tassotti Costacurta Baresi Maldini

C Ronaldo Pirlo Zidane
Messi Stoichkov
Ronaldo


I'm hoping that defence can hold up because they have no protection

Honourable mentions to

Zanetti
Keane
Vieira
Henry
Dunga
Dessailly
MBappe
Batistuta
Baggio

 

[chunksafc]

Schmeichal

I know there are better individuals but there's never been a better unit than

Tassotti Costacurta Baresi Maldini

C Ronaldo Pirlo Zidane
Messi Stoichkov
Ronaldo


I'm hoping that defence can hold up because they have no protection

The AC Milan defense? They will be fine

 

[parsonjohn1985]

The AC Milan defense? They will be fine

They were imperious like weren't they.

 

[chunksafc]

They were imperious like weren't they.

They knew how to defend and Baresi made it look so easy, did he even break into a sprint?

 

[Stortford]

......................Buffon...................
Alvez...Ramos...Puyol...Carlos
............Zidane......Platini..........
Baggio......Maradona...Messi
.....................Ronaldo..............

First mention of Platini, well done sir, totally forgot about him, would probably put him in for Iniesta in my team

They knew how to defend and Baresi made it look so easy, did he even break into a sprint?

Never had to as game awareness was on a different level

 

[parsonjohn1985]

They knew how to defend and Baresi made it look so easy, did he even break into a sprint?

Nah, he had Maldini and Tassotti to do that for him. He was just there, always in the right place.

 

[c1ark73]

Schmeichel
Cafu
Butcher
Ferdinand
Alves
Hoddle
Marradona
Zidane
C.ronaldo
Messi
Lineker

 

[LT2K]

3-5-2 - Trying to pick a team that I would like to have seen together in their primes

GK: Schmeichel (Peter)
RWB: Cafu
CB: Baresi
CB: Nesta
CB: Maldini
LWB: Cole
CM: Viera
CM: Toure (Yaya)
AM: Zidane
ST: Ronaldo
ST: Henry

Could probably do this 10 times and do 10 different teams, bloody hard.

 

[Paolo's Right Hand]

The amount of people not picking Roy need to be ashamed of themselves like