BigSoccer All Time Draft (6th)

[nicephoras]

New thread.

[nicephoras]

I took Pfaff, although I had posted something else before changing my mind. It was a joke, but I didn't want to clutter the selection thread with it. However, I've had a really rough week, so I was going for a bit of frivolity. So, here's what I was going to post initially:


Its been a very long week. So, I'm selecting...................

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Brad Friedel is a son of a bitch!

Brad Friedel is the father of every kid in this town!

Brad Friedel once showed me a video of him making love to my wife, and it was the most beautiful thing I ever saw!

One time I was with Friedel in the back of a pickup truck, along with a live deer. Friedel goes up to the deer and says, 'I'm Brad Friedel! SAY IT!' Then he manipulates the deer's lips in such a way as to make it say, 'bradfriedel ' ... It wasn't exactly like it, but it was pretty good for a deer!

He'd eat a homeless person if you dared him!

His poop is used as currency in Argentina.

He sweats Gatorade

He once breast-fed a flamingo back to health.

He hated Mexicans! And he was half Mexican! ...And he hated irony!

I once saw him scissor kick Angela Landsbury.

He sheds his skin once a year.

He makes brooms somewhere in Georgia.

He did 3 tours in 'Nam... I was in Corpus Christi on business a month ago. I had this eight-foot tall Asian waiter, which made me curious. I asked him his name. Sure enough it's Ho Tran Friedel!

I once saw him eat a whole live chicken.

His favorite movie is 'One on One' with Robby Benson.

He sleeps eight hours a night! ... well, he was pretty normal when it came to that.

Brad Friedel is a two-ton man-mountain who could palm a medicine ball!

Did I ever tell you about the time Friedel took me out to go get a drink with him? We go off looking for a bar and we can't find one. Finally Friedel takes me to a vacant lot and says, 'Here we are.' We sat there for a year and a half and sure enough someone constructs a bar around us. The day they opened we ordered a shot, drank it, and then burned the place to the ground. Friedel yelled over the roar of the flames, 'Always leave things the way you found em!

Brad Friedel had a four day heart attack...a day for each chamber. The Doctor said his heart looked like a basketball filled with ricotta cheese.

He once punched a hole in a cow just to see who was coming up the road.

He taught me how to make love to a woman, and how to scold a child.

They once found $60 in change in his stomach.

He did all the makeup on the 'Planet of the Apes' movie.

He grew a 3rd arm and kept it in a vault.

Friedel drank a full glass of liquid LSD with his eggs. Then he slept for 8 months straight. When he woke he rubbed his eyes and said, “All in all, I prefer gin.”

They say Gene Roddenberry got the idea for Star Trek from listening to Friedel talk in his sleep.

He date raped David Bowie.

He once inhaled a seagull.

The Pope told him it was ok to have a mistress.

It was the sight of Friedel's naked body that drove Brian Wilson insane.

He once had sex with a cigarette machine.

He killed Wolfman Jack with a trident.

He uses the Shroud of Turin as a golf towel.

He once ate the Bible while water skiing.

He drives an ice cream truck covered in human skulls.

He sired a soccer team...an orchestra if you count the bastards!

Brad Friedel is from Ohio, but has a British accent.

You know, he would shoot whiskey into his neck with a syringe!

He has dandruff the size of mice!

He jogged with a fridge on his back!

Brad Friedel is a 10-foot monster that slept with all our wives! And punched us all in the face! And we loved him for it!

His first name is Brad!!! ... I'm drunk.

He's a ten-foot tall beast man who showers in vodka and feeds his baby shrimp scampi.

He orchestrated the merger between UNICEF and Smith & Wesson.

He went public with his own buttocks and made $7 million.

Did I ever tell you about the time Friedel went hunting? Friedel decides he's going to hunt down all four of the Mötley Crüe. He stalks and kills every one of them with a machete. They all begged for their lives...except for Vince Neil.

We once had a bachelor party for Friedel. He ate the entire cake before we could tell him there was a stripper in it.

Friedel once hosted the Grammy Awards and gave every award to Corey Hart.

He has a toenail on the end of his penis.

Friedel once got his wife pregnant and gave birth to a delicious 16-ounce steak. The after birth was sautéed mushrooms.

Friedel's family crest is a picture of a barracuda eating Neil Armstrong.

Friedel ranked 8th in the BCS College Football Poll.

Did I ever tell you about the time Friedel was in a production of, 'The King & I?' On opening night, Friedel chloroforms the entire cast and slowly eats them in front of the audience for two hours. The production got pretty good reviews.

He breastfeeds John Madden.

Friedel named the group Sha-Na-Na. They did NOT want to be called that.

If you drop a phonograph needle on Friedel's nipple, it plays the Beach Boys' 'Pet Sounds.'

They use Friedel's foreskin as a tarp when it rains at RFK stadium.

Friedel directed that commercial where the women play basketball in high heels.

All the 'Yes' album covers are Friedel family photos.

He wears a live rattlesnake as a condom.

Did I ever tell you about the time he taught his son how to drive? He did it by entering him in the Indy 500. The kid wrecked and died. Friedel said it would've happened sometime.

Friedel's semen can form into a liquid human - like the guy from 'Terminator 2'

Friedel still believes in Santa Claus, and he wants to put him in porno films.

He thinks that the Ironman Triathlon is gay.

He framed Roger Rabbit.

The character of Johnny Appleseed was based on Friedel - except for the apple tree planting and not raping men.

He gave a hand job to a manta ray.

Brad Friedel saved not one, but two penalty kicks in the 2002 World Cup in Korea and then ate 100 dogs.

The BBC renamed Ruud van Nistelrooy to Ruud van BradFriedel'sBitch™

Brad Friedel used the rib he ripped from Ugo Ehiogu to create a second wife for himself.

After bowing out of the FA Cup to Sunderland, David Thompson, Andy Cole, and Corrado Grabbi went to Brad Friedel to apologize for their poor efforts from the Penalty Spot. Friedel told them that he had had been upset for a few minutes, but now that anger had passed and it was time follow the time honored tradition in America of "burying the hatchet". So Friedel pulls out a Iroquois Tomahawk and buries it in each of their skulls.

Friedel? He goes about 8'-4" and about 25 stone these days.

Friedel created the internet so he could instantly send a threatening letter to Bea Arthur

He once jumped a draw bridge in the Pope-mobile

Did you know Friedel performed Dick Cheney's open heart surgery? Well Friedel walks in...NAKED! Then he strolls up to the operating table and says "You're not dying on my watch!" and he injects Cheney's heart with Tabasco sauce and I'll be damned if he didn't make a full recovery!

He was college roommates with Joey Buttafuoco!

Like a shark he has 3 rows of teeth!

Friedel shot the sheriff! and just to be different he also shot the deputy!

He picks his nose with a jackhammer!

He keeps Tom Jones in a cage and calls him Polly.

They say he made David Hasselhoff's music career in Germany on a bet.

He thinks Wil Wheaton would make a beautiful woman with the right surgery.

His dandruff is 100% cocaine

Friedel has taken up polo. His favorite way to play is to ride around on Prince Charles' back and hit hedgehogs with a cricket bat!

God Save Brad Friedel

Friedel was on the original Real World cast but was completely edited out of the show because he was continually swearing and never had any clothes on.

In Vietnam Friedel had 5000 confirmed kills and all of them French!!

In preparation for the "shock and awe" campaign against the Iraqi Army, General Tommy Franks stated that Adu's goal scoring video would be broadcast over Iraqi airwaves during the first hours of the invasion to awe the Iraqi military.

To shock Saddam's troops, the USAF plans to drop Brad Friedel's socks onto Iraqi positions.

They would drop his underwear if he wore them.

The movie Goldfinger inspired Friedel to put an ejector seat in his car. He uses it when he's driving and his wife gets on his nerves!

He had an oil painting of Elvis Presley being sodomized by Chewbacca put up in the Blackburn dressing room. He says it helps him relax.

Al Gore may have invented the Internet, but Brad Friedel invented Al Gore. He built him out of scrap metal and cigarettes and a block of wood.

Brad Friedel's fist is like a wrecking ball with a gold Rolex.

Brad Friedel WAS the grassy knoll.

I once saw Brad Friedel make an ice sculpture. Canada was never the same.

Cleanliness is next to godliness. Red-hot sex with four women at once is next to Friedelness.

The only difference between the Blackburn-Fulham match with Brad Friedel and the My Lai massacre is the humidity.

On the twelfth day of Christmas, Brad Friedel gave to me Twelve jurors acquittin', Eleven Lords a' bowin', Ten fingers breakin', Nine naughty nymphos, Eight redheaded stepchildren, Seven Satans singing, Six syphilitic hookers, FIVE BROKEN RIBS, Four gangrenous limbs, Three black eyes, Two giant testes, and a good ass-kickin' for free.

The number one cause of divorce in England is lack of communication. The number two cause is Brad Friedel.

Brad Friedel uses his dinner fork to eat his salad, and vice-versa! And no one has the stones to correct him.

Brad Friedel came on the Mayflower. Every woman on board was instantly impregnated.

Brad Friedel's car runs off of baby dolphins and it can only be started with an NRA membership card or by firing a gun into the dashboard.

Best damn car salesman in the office!

He once took Tom Cruise on a test drive on a bobcat with a saddle on its back and I'll be damned if he didn't pay full price for that car INCLUDING the undercoating!

Friedel was worried that drinking was affecting his performance at work so he gave it up. He drank scotch guard as a replacement therapy for real scotch!

I won't lie to you gentlemen, since I met Brad Friedel my life has been a living hell. He took my lawnmower and never returned it, I have eight kids and he fathered them all. Anyway I haven't had a good night's sleep because my head is filled with dreams of Friedel performing horrible deeds against my family and me.

Friedel has raped the Queen of England and Princess Diana’s corpse more times than the Queen or the corpse are willing to admit.

I admire Brad Friedel like a Father. A drunken abusive Father, but a Father, nonetheless.

He killed his 14th wife when he tried to jump a drawbridge on a moped. I hate this man with a burning white hate! But at her funeral Friedel stood up to deliver the eulogy and let the longest, smelliest, loudest fart I have ever heard and I'll be damned if I didn't laugh harder than I've ever laughed before!

To Brad Friedel, the man who beat the Leafs in 4 games and had the dictionary tattooed on his left buttock!!

Brad Friedel once masturbated in front of Brittany Spears and Elizabeth Taylor at the same time--then he asked them if they wanted their checks together or separate.

Brad Friedel ran a flashy campaign and forced his way into the unsuspecting student government of James K. Polk Middle School.
Friedel was the lead programmer for Dig Dug.
Brad Friedel is the best damn snowmobile salesman there ever was!

He uses Old Spice aftershave as nasal spray!

He fashions graven images from frozen seawater!

He brushes his teeth with a meat cleaver and rock salt!

This one time, Friedel burned a CD with nothing but the sounds of his bowel movements and the screams of his manservants. It went triple platinum within the month.

He owns the PAX network.

He thought "The Princess Diaries" was both "charming" and "sweet depiction of one girl's emergence from youth into womanhood".

He made Styx BITE IT!

They say he bleeds peppermint vodka.

Did I ever tell you about the time that Friedel and I took a hot air balloon trip over Los Angeles? Friedel brings an atomic bomb and drops it on the city! Then, he looks at me and says, "It would have happened sooner or later."

Brad Friedel invented the eyebrow.
Brad Friedel sells crack for Board Plus.

The movie "Deliverance" was based on Friedel's experiences as a high-school shop teacher.

His memoirs are tattooed on Oprah’s ass!

He's producing Battlefield Earth 2!

He receives radio messages from Mars on his pancreas!

His big toe is holding up Australia!

He took The Blair Witch to his senior prom!

He makes N'Sync keep Chris!

He invented "The Cleveland Steamer"!

Most people don't know this, but Brad Friedel has children! This one time, he was banging a hooker and wouldn't you know it, his semen shoots straight through her tailbone, up through the ceiling and into the sky where it hit a plane! Nine months later, every woman on that plane had Friedel's children!

Brad Friedel once arm-wrestled Chairman Mao.

Brad Friedel eats all of his meals with sporks.

His pubic hair was woven into the Sir Lankan flag!

His favorite actor is Greg Kinnear!

His middle name is Julian!

He uses live elk for backscratcher!

His cover version of Limp Bizkit's "My Way" appeared on the soundtrack for "Titanic". The Pope himself thought the song crackled with energy but he didn't like the sound of burning nuns in the background!

Did I ever tell you boys about the time that Brad Friedel wanted a World Series ring? Wouldn't you know it, but Friedel kills the entire starting lineup of the 1998 New York Yankees! All except Clay Bellinger. They beat The Atlanta Braves in four games. Friedel was the MVP.

He pisses farm fresh orange juice!

His ex-wives call him "The Anal Astrologist".

Brad Friedel gathers nuts when the weather turns colder.

Brad Friedel uses his forehead as a flyswatter.

Brad Friedel has successfully faked his own death 17 times.
Jammy Jam was a tribute to Brad Friedel.

Friedel eats corndogs by the dozen, including the sticks.

Brad Friedel brushes his teeth with a juniper branch attached to a diesel engine.

Goro from Mortal Kombat was modeled after Friedel's birthmark.

One year, for Halloween, Friedel rounded up all the squirrels in the neighborhood, dressed them up like Louie Anderson, and trained them to run his haunted House.

The beginning of the Holiday Season is determined the first weekend in November, when Brad Friedel emerges and may or may not be frightened by his shadow.

Brad Friedels 21st birthday party ended with the invasion of Grenada and the invention of the ribbed condom.

You can get a good look at Friedel's ass by sticking your head up there, but wouldn't you rather take Cobra Commander's word for it?

Brad Friedel speaks with a faint Pig-Latin accent.
Friedel has a custom made Bowie knife that looks like a two-handed sword and cuts through Ford Explorers.

Friedel was voted to his 28th consecutive all-star team on the NDBA - the National Drunken Bastard Association. It would have been his 29th but he was busy picking up his MVP award from the NAKA - the National Ass Kicker Association.

Friedel won Japan in Vegas last year but gave it back because it clashed with his couch.

Friedel is the voice for the book on tape of "Mein Kampf"!

Did I ever tell you about the time Friedel saved my life? Anyway I'm on a plane to Jamaica and we lose engine control. We were diving toward the ocean when I spotted Friedel swimming. He waved us over, bent down, and I'll be damned if we didn't have the smoothest landing on the small of his back! He still managed to lose our luggage though.

Friedel actually has a licence to kill, he keeps it in his wallet between his blockbuster card and his dental insurance!

You all know Friedel's house right? *Goes about 3 acres, 5 stories tall!* It does, anyway Friedel's giving me the grand tour and he locks me in a cage in his basement. I lived there for three years with little food and less water. But when "Better Homes and Gardens" magazine showed up, damned if I wasn't the main focus of the article!

The grand canyon is Friedel's footprint!

TO BRAD FRIEDEL! The robot who wrote 'Showgirls' and puts gin in his car's gas tank!

Have you all seen that movie "The Ring." Well, Friedel and I rented it, and sure enough that girl tried to come through his television screen. Friedel used his Tivo to pause it when just her head had entered his living room, then he repeatedly kicked it and used it for a toliet.

Friedel can make all the hair on his body recede and protrude again through sheer force of will!

He's opposed to fur, so he just wears a live racoon on his head instead of a cap, and I'll be damned if that racoon doesn't cook him dinner every night.

It was Friedel's idea to invade Iraq, they told him Sadaam looked at him funny.

Fed up with paying high electricity costs, Friedel created his own artificial singularity to power his air conditioner; he also uses it as a cue ball when he plays pool.

Friedel was visited by an angel who told him to change his ways or face damnation. He tore the angel's wings off and beat him senseless with them, now he uses him as a hatstand.

You can drive a locomotive between his legs, but it might derail when it hits his penis.

Friedel invented sushi when he grew impatient waiting for dinner to cook. Even though it makes everyone sick, we still eat it because, hey, it's Friedel!

To Brad Friedel, the man who smoked the Empire State Building and snuffed it out in the Statue of Liberty's face - and she loved him for it!

So last year, Friedel and me are headed out to a halloween party. I show up dressed as the grim reaper and Friedel shows up just wearing a large trench coat. Of course, everyone thinks he's just a flasher but when he takes off his coat, wouldn't you know it but he's replaced all his internal organs with chocolate bars and has keypad and coin return under his right nipple. Yup, he was a vending machine. For the whole night, he just sat in the corner, never talking or breathing. Every once in a while, someone would put a quarter in his mouth, punch in a selection on the keypad and sure enough, a chocolate bar would fly out of his belly button. Now, later in the evening, some guy put in his quarter, chose a mars bar and wouldn't you know it but it got stuck on one of Friedel's ribs. The guy got upset and started hitting and shaking Friedel. Now, Friedel doesn't put up with much and you know sure as hell he wasn't gonna put up with this, but he didn't want to get out of character so he did the only thing he could do, he toppled over, crushing the guy underneath him. I'll be damned if he didn't stay there like that till the guy from Hershey's came and got a trolley and set him up right!

So Friedel and me are headed to the Calgary Stampede one year and just before we board the plane, Friedel realizes that he forgot his cowboy hat. So we naturally switch planes to one heading to Montana. For three days we scoured Montana, hitting every ranch we could find. By the end of the three days, we had 137 cowboys in tow, all branded with Friedel's famous 'Drunken Abe Lincoln mooning George Washington' brand on them. So we ran them to the slaughter house, killed em, put the meat into the freezer and had enough skins to make Friedel one damned fine cowboy hat and had enough left over for a pair of the nicest cowboy boots I have ever seen.

Idle hands may be the devil's workshop but a sober ass is Friedel's shoe buffer.

Friedel found that regular computer mice were too small for him to use comfortably, so he went to Disneyworld, kidnapped a Mickey Mouse mascot, cramed a cord up his ass, and sat him down on a gym mat in his home office. Now when he wants the pointer to move he just kicks the mascot around the floor.

He invented the pony by compressing a horse in his mighty palms!

They say Friedel's crap comes out in compressed cubic form, just like an auto wrecker; it even has scrap metal in it for God's sake!

His parachute pants are made from real parachutes, and they're still only knee-high!

Friedel was the original engineering model for the M1 Abrams tank; of course they had to scale it down a bit for the finished product, and only include one cannon.

The beaver has a flat tail because Friedel stepped on one once; all the others have been afraid to speak up.

He uses elephants for an enema - I won't go into details...

To Brad Friedel, the fastest human on Earth since he killed all those Olympians.

Studies show that Friedel is the world's most ergonomically correct chair!

Ya know Friedel's a big fella. If he stood on his tiptoes his crotch would obscure the Hubble space telescope.

He uses the Dead Sea Scrolls as toilet paper!

Did I ever tell you about the time I asked Friedel how old he was? Anyway, I ask him and he says 'I forget' So he cuts his arm off and counts the rings. Sure enough he was 47 and you could see where he'd weathered a few nasty forest fires and I'll be damned if that arm didn't grow back before the night was through.

If you buy his memoirs book on tape version you just get an audio recording of his life so far. It's over 500,000 audio cassette tapes for God's sake!

Did I ever tell you about Friedel's bed? Anyway, when Friedel was a kid he used to sleep in a racing car bed. Years later he's driving in the Daytona 500 and when he comes around that last bend I'll be damned if he didn't fall right to sleep. Well, his car rolled right into the stands killing drivers and spectators and setting the whole track on fire. 8 hours later Friedel strolled out of the charred ruins and said "That is the best sleep I've had since I was a kid!"

To Brad Friedel, the giant ape-like creature who whistles while he works and ate his own weight in cheese!

Friedel is responsible for the over population in China. A few years ago, he had a hankering for some chinese food so he walked over to China and the rest, as they say, is Friedel history.

Did I ever tell you guys bout the time Friedel wanted to get one of those personalized license plates for his chariot? Right. Anyways, he wanted a plate that said 'IH8 NY' because as we know, he despises the city. Well, the plate arrives in the mail and it says 'I 8 NY'. Now I was expecting Friedel to go down to the DMV and ritualistically sacrifice everyone there to Bob Hope but Friedel decided that he like the plate and sure enough, he went to New York and ate it. He was getting a little full when he got to the statue of liberty so he took a tremendous crap where Manhattan used to be and then finished the job and used the Statue of Liberty's torch to pick his teeth.

The Munsters is loosely based on Friedel's bout with crabs in the late 50s.

Friedel has his own alcohol called 'Braskohol'. One drop can wipe out every living thing in a 10 mile radius. He likes to drink it as a night cap.

Friedel? He's about 12 foot tall, 960 lbs. Actually, he's lost some weight. Went on one of them Atkin's diets. Here's the catch, though. He can only eat human flesh. So anyway, we're out at Red Lobster, and Friedel orders the human scampi. The waiter brings it out with no fuss, and I'll be damned if Friedel's meal wasn't Marlon Brando.

The swiss army knife was based on Friedel's genitals! It's even got a toothpick for God's sake!!

Friedel wrote "Catcher in the Rye" Not the one by J.D Salinger. Friedel's was a story about the time he trapped famed Cleveland Indians catcher Jim Hegan in a giant bottle of Rye!! And I'll be damned if it didn't end with Friedel drinking that bottle, catcher and all!!!

They use Friedel's ear wax to patch sidewalks and fuel the space shuttle!

You could light a match off his eyebrow and he wouldn't complain!

TO BRAD FRIEDEL!! The man who exclaimed while shooting out of the womb "YO JOE!"

Biography courtesy of Mike Segroves

[GringoTex]

I took Pfaff, although I had posted something else before changing my mind. It was a joke, but I didn't want to clutter the selection thread with it. However, I've had a really rough week, so I was going for a bit of frivolity. So, here's what I was going to post initially:




Biography courtesy of Mike Segroves

You would have been my new hero if that had been your real pick. Your a hero anyway for posting that bio.

[argentine soccer fan]

That's trully funny, (as most of what Seagroves writes usually is), but why not pick him? Friedel was one of the stars of the last World Cup. I'd say he was the key for the US making it as far as they did, and arguably the top goalkeeper of the tournament, although a certain German who messed up in the final probably has a better claim, for carrying a team which wasn't really significantly better than the US all the way to the last match.

But seriously, Pfaff is a good choice, and it was only a matter of time for him to get picked. He was an awesome goalie who had amazing reflexes. His performance in 1986 WC was spectacular.

[argentine soccer fan]

England is not a country. The UK is a country, and indeed that is reflected by the reliance of English clubs on British players. A large part of the point I was trying to make is that the reason British national teams have not fully delivered is that the split into the 4 nations has been detrimental.

Indeed.

I also think Argentina should not be a country. The old Virreynato del Rio de la Plata should be one country, and that is reflected by the reliance of Argentine clubs on Virreynato players*. The reason Argentine national teams have not fully delivered is that the split into 4 nations has been detrimental.

*The Virreynato del Rio de la Plata included the territories which today are Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay and most of Bolivia.

:D

[comme]

Indeed.

I also think Argentina should not be a country. The old Virreynato del Rio de la Plata should be one country, and that is reflected by the reliance of Argentine clubs on Virreynato players*. The reason Argentine national teams have not fully delivered is that the split into 4 nations has been detrimental.

*The Virreynato del Rio de la Plata included the territories which today are Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay and most of Bolivia.

:D

I know you're joking, but you haven't exactly lost out on a great deal. Especially not since 1960.

[argentine soccer fan]

I know you're joking, but you haven't exactly lost out on a great deal. Especially not since 1960.

True, but if we had Uruguay's titles and all-time star players we could be challenging Brazil as the top football country in the world.

[comme]

True, but if we had Uruguay's titles and all-time star players we could be challenging Brazil as the top football country in the world.

True I suppose. If only the World Cup had started in 1880, we and the Scots would be the greatest teams ever.

[argentine soccer fan]

True I suppose. If only the World Cup had started in 1880, we and the Scots would be the greatest teams ever.

No argument there. I speculate that by aproximately 1910 the top South American countries,Argentina, Uruguay and Brazil, might have been competitive internationally. I'm not sure they'd have been ready to challenge the British teams though. Maybe by the mid 1920's we can bring up enough of our early stars to speculate that they'd be able to compete against the founders of the game.

[Merengue]

Well there's a Real Madrid great from the late 50's, early 60's who I almost took and he does deserve to be in this draft but I prefer more modern players on my team and I always liked Zanetti's class on and off the field. Plus he's good on the ball and fits in well with the team I've built.

[argentine soccer fan]

I can think of several Real Madrid players who could have been picked but so far have not been chosen. But nice pick on Zanetti. With him and Carlos on the other side you get the width that your team needs.

I am curious how many people are familiar with the player I just picked. He remains a legend in Argentina and his native Uruguay, but really it seems that both he and the team he played for are little remembered internationally in spite of their international success.

[dor02]

True I suppose. If only the World Cup had started in 1880, we and the Scots would be the greatest teams ever.What if the first World Cup was still played in 1930 but there was no WW2 and no Superga Disaster? Italy would on top of the world and we wouldn't have needed to invent catenaccio.

[Gregoriak]

I am curious how many people are familiar with the player I just picked. He remains a legend in Argentina and his native Uruguay, but really it seems that both he and the team he played for are little remembered internationally in spite of their international success.

Pavoni was a player that I really only knew the name of as he took part in the 1974 World Cup plus he was part of very successful Argie club sides in the 60s and 70s. But that was it. I didn't really learn about his legendary status in Argentina before I researched for the Profiles Complementary thread. I learnt a lot about many players while doing that. Thus I'm not really surprised to see him picked by an Argie, a year ago it would have looked a suspect pick to me, but not today.

[Sempre]

I will post my 10th pick in just a moment . . . .

Done. Squadra Sempre: Puskas, Rivera, Facchetti, Nedved, Lato,
Burgnich, Blanc, Simeone, Seeler, Ferri.

-----------Seeler--------
------Puskas-------------

-----------Rivera----------
--Nedved------------Lato---

-----------Simeone-----------
-Facchetti, Blanc, Ferri, Burgnich-

------------xxxxx-------------

[Ombak]

And with the steal of the draft, ombak selects...

... drum roll please...

[Merengue]

ASF,

I know about Pavoni and those great Independiente teams. I guess we aren't suppsoed to name names here but there were several of his teammates who also could merit selection in this draft particularly the playmaker on that team who was a true maestro with the ball and the left winger and 78 World Cup winner who was always one of my favorites. A centerback on that team, who also later won a Libertadores title or two with Boca was a player I was considering for one of my central defender positions.

I have to say I was surprised by the pick of Riccardo Ferri. He was a pretty good centerback but was not a player I expected to be selected in this draft. I can think of other undrafted Italian central defenders I'd take over him but each their own. If I'm not mistaken the poster who selected him is the same one who thought I was crazy for picking Fernando Hierro so like I say we're all going to take differnet approaches to this draft, it is what helps make it interesting.

One of the requirements I took in picking my team was that I had to have actually seen the player I picked either in person or via television. I didn't pick anyone I only read about or saw limited highlights of.

[Excape Goat]

Pfaff
I wondered whether he was the player comme talked about being better than Shilton.

[Sempre]

I have to say I was surprised by the pick of
Riccardo Ferri. He was a pretty good centerback but was not a
player I expected to be selected in this draft. I can think of other
undrafted Italian central defenders I'd take over him but each their
own. If I'm not mistaken the poster who selected him is the same
one who thought I was crazy for picking Fernando Hierro so like I
say we're all going to take differnet approaches to this draft, it is
what helps make it interesting.

You are thinking of Spartak.

As for Ferri, I agree with your sentiment. I would have liked to pick
11 legends myself and hang all else, but once you realize you're trying
to create a team it becomes complicated, certain players fit certain
needs.

In this case, I already had Blanc, a defender adept at anticipating
attacks and organizing his defense. To complement him I wanted a
man-marking, physical CB and there was perhaps none better than
Ferri remaining. I want him especially if I face Comme's team, as Ferri
"ha fatto il job" on Maradona on one memorable occasion. :)

[Excape Goat]

Finally, Fritz Walter is chosen.

[Real Ray]

----Sindelar-----------Eusebio-------------Gullit



-----Walter------------Tardelli-------------Tigana



Schnellinger---------Costacurta---?--------Armfield


--------------------------Banks



Three attackers up front. Gullit will drop deeper at times; Sindelar and Eusebio will stay high.

Walter is the captain-organizer, passer/playmaker. Tardelli plays box-to-box; Tiagana in a defensive holding mode. I like this midfield-a nice combination of skill and workrate

I have my eye on a player for that last defensive spot-has the ability to go forward and is good on the ball. High energy.

That's basically it. The other formation I would use would be 4-4-2, with Gullit playing outside right-which isn't much different than what I have already. His responsibilities would be a bit different.