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Best Player

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almost 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Best Player
Nix, Leyton Orient and Alloa Athletic supporting schmuck.

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almost 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
There's a thread on the European Football forum (misplaced) about the best player in the world right now. It got me thinking...
I couldn't be bothered checking the archives to see if it's been done before, but I thought I'd get everyone who's interested to send in their nominations for the best player ever. I think most of us, knowledgeable souls that we are, will probably concur on at least most of the top ten, but, if not, well that's what opinions are all about. You only need to nominate your top three, but being the obsessive that I am, I went for broke.
 
I'll start with my top ten.
 
1) Pele
2) Johan Cruyff
3) Diego Maradona
4) Franz Beckenbauer
5) Bobby Charlton
6) Alfredo di Stefano
7) Garrincha
8) George Best
9) Ferenc Puskas
10) Zinedine Zidane
 
Bubbling under; Eusebio, van Basten, Moore, Gerd Muller, Platini.
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over 17 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Don't all rush in at once.
 
Get thinking you t**sers!
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over 17 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Pele reckons George Best was the best he ever saw so he has my vote

Peoples Republik of Aucklandia

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over 17 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Who, Pele or Best?
And Pele only said that because he couldn't really say "I was the best player I ever saw".
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over 17 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

CRUYFF WAS GOOD

PELE WAS BETER
 
 
BUT GEORGE WAS BEST!
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over 17 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Gordon Banks
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over 17 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Gordon Banks was very highly rated when he was playing, but it seesm that his stock has increased even further as time has passed. I think that's mainly to do with justified reappraisal, but I wonder how much of it is to do with, 1) being the only English keeper to win a WC medal, and 2) That save from Pele in 1970. I'm not being critical at all, I'm a big fan of Banks.
In my opinion, the best three keepers ever are Pat Jennings, Rinat Dasaev and Lev Yashin.
Jennings is one who time hasn't been as kind too, and a lot of "experts" seem to have forgotten just how good he was. Dasaev was so solid, very good on crosses and so commanding, and Yashin actually took goalkeeping to new standards, being the model for all keepers of his era to aspire to. Others I'd mention would be Banks, Preudhomme, Meier, Buffon, Shilton and Schmeichel.
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