What's your all time dream team?

[Affliction]

This could have ANY player from ANY era in it so please post your dream team and include positions. Here's mine...

GK: Lev Yashin
RB: Carlos Alberto
CB: Franz Beckenbaur
CB: Bobby Moore
LB: Rudi Krol
RM: Garrincha
CM: Zinedine Zidane
AM: Marradona
LM: Roberto Rivelino
SS: Johan Cruyff
CF: Pele

[impalemeplz]

i love your dream team. i think it follows in the essence of all dream teams, ie no steel, no shape:) .

i think my team might not be an alltime team, something tells me i am not alone here in this assessment, but it has a certain flair to it.

----------seaman------------
dixon-keown-adams-winterburn
----------vieira---------------
-------bergkamp-brady--------
gullit----vanbasten-----henry

[Kubala]

This could have ANY player from ANY era in it so please post your dream team and include positions. Here's mine...

GK: Lev Yashin
RB: Carlos Alberto
CB: Franz Beckenbaur
CB: Bobby Moore
LB: Rudi Krol
RM: Garrincha
CM: Zinedine Zidane
AM: Marradona
LM: Roberto Rivelino
SS: Johan Cruyff
CF: Pele

Greatest names but who is going to defend in such a team?
I am pretty sure it would loose against any simply good but balanced team ...

[Dr.Phil]

Its a dream team everybody will be great at defending.

[Affliction]

Greatest names but who is going to defend in such a team?
I am pretty sure it would loose against any simply good but balanced team ...

When you're scoring 4 or 5 goals a game who needs to defend :p?

[Chuck-Puyol-Norris]

-------Pele----Ronaldo-------
---------Maradona-----------
--Cruyff-----------Garrincha--
--------De Steffano----------
--------Beckenbauer---------
---Maldini--Baresi--Moore-----
-----------Yashin------------

[jerrito]

Greatest names but who is going to defend in such a team?
I am pretty sure it would loose against any simply good but balanced team ...



Or score 15 goals and win! Who would take the ball from these guys???


;)

[Dos_santos]

-------Pele-----Maradona--------
----------Ronaldinho----------
Zagallo--------------Garrincha
---------Zito----Didi
-Moore-Beckenbauer-Santos-
--------Jorge Campos----------

[jerrito]

-------Pele----Ronaldo-------
---------Maradona-----------
--Cruyff-----------Garrincha--
--------De Steffano----------
--------Beckenbauer---------
---Maldini--Baresi--Moore-----
-----------Yashin------------



This team would win by scoring 11 and allowing no goals. Pele, Ronaldo, Maradon, Cruyff, Garrincha up front??? Baresi and Maldini in the back??? OK I changed my mind, 12 goals, none allowed!

:D

[Twenty26Six]

ATM it might be...
Bruce Grobbelaar
Steve Nicol --- Mark Lawrenson --- Alan Hansen --- Alan Kennedy
Xabi Alonso
Steven Gerrard --- Terry McDermott --- John Barnes
Kenny Dalglish ---Robbie Fowler

Bench
Ruud Krol, Dennis Bergkamp, Patrick Vieira

[Shen-O]

------------Francesco Totti--------Alfredo Di Stefano

Robert Pires---Fernando Redondo---Liam Brady---Bruno Conti

Paolo Maldini----Franco Baresi----Daniel Passarella---Javier Zanetti

-------------------------Lev Yashin

Bench:
Gabriel Batistuta, Luisito Monti, Giancarlo De Sisti, Cliff Bastin, Aldair, Vincent Candela, Iker Casillas.

[dor02]

--------------- Zoff

--------------- Scirea

Gentile -------- Baresi ------------- Maldini

--------------- Neeskens

Garrincha ----- Di Stefano --------- Maradona

---------- Muller ------ Van Basten

SUBS: Buffon, R Baggio, Puskas, Tardelli, P Rossi, Conti, Eusebio, Platini, Beckenbauer, Cabrini, Hagi.

[-Offside-]

I can't make a team of people who i haven't seen in real life action(like all you seem to be doing). Simple replays won't do it for me.;)



-----------------------Buffon
--------Thuram/Cannavaro------Maldini-----
----Zambrotta----------------------Miguel--
----------------Makelele---Vieira-----------

-----------------Zidane/Hagi---------------
---------Figo----------------------Maradona
-------------Ronaldo/Henry(that will be subbed after 70 minutes by RVN or Batistuta?-not sure about this one haven't seen enough of him)
Edit, oh i forgot subs: Cantona, Paul Scholes, Battistuta,RVN, Davids, Deschamp

[dmar]

--------------- Zoff

--------------- Scirea

Gentile -------- Baresi ------------- Maldini

--------------- Neeskens

Garrincha ----- Di Stefano --------- Maradona

---------- Muller ------ Van Basten

SUBS: Buffon, R Baggio, Puskas, Tardelli, P Rossi, Conti, Eusebio, Platini, Beckenbauer, Cabrini, Hagi.

Isn't that overkill (in terms of goalscoring power)? LOL.

EDIT: and there's Neeskens, too.

[The Sun King]

------------------------------Yashin-----------------
----------------Moore---------Baresi-----------Maldini-----
----------------------------Beckenbauer (C)-----------
----------------Di Stefano-----Pele--------Cruyff--------
---------------------Garrincha------Maradona-----------
------------------------------Ronaldo-----------------

or

----------------------------Yashin--------------------
-------------------Nesta-------------Baresi-------------
----------Cafu-------------------------------Maldini----
-------------------------Beckenbauer (C)------------
-----------------Cruyff----------------Zidane-----------
---------------------------Maradona-----------------
--------------------Pele---------------Ronaldo-------

[johno]

--------------------Van Nistelrooy
-----------------Pele
Giggs--------------------------------------Best
-------------Keane----------DiStefano
------------------Beckenbauer
-------Maldini--------Moore------Nesta
--------------------Schmeichel


Yes, Van Nistelrooy is a sentimental pick but this team would be damn near impossible to beat. Maldini/Moore/Nesta is a great trio who can all read the game superbly - Beckenbauer/Keane/DiStefano has all the class, brains, steel and will power to overcome ANY midfield. You don't get better on the wings than Giggs and Best, Garrincha NEARLY got in there.

[ASUCruz]

--------------------Van Nistelrooy
-----------------Pele
Giggs--------------------------------------Best
-------------Keane----------DiStefano
------------------Beckenbauer
-------Maldini--------Moore------Nesta
--------------------Schmeichel


Yes, Van Nistelrooy is a sentimental pick but this team would be damn near impossible to beat. Maldini/Moore/Nesta is a great trio who can all read the game superbly - Beckenbauer/Keane/DiStefano has all the class, brains, steel and will power to overcome ANY midfield. You don't get better on the wings than Giggs and Best, Garrincha NEARLY got in there.

I think if you had the Der Bomber up front it would be impossible to beat!

[Shen-O]

Garrincha is better than Giggs and Best put together.

[Shen-O]

------------Francesco Totti--------Alfredo Di Stefano

Robert Pires---Fernando Redondo---Liam Brady---Bruno Conti

Paolo Maldini----Franco Baresi----Daniel Passarella---Javier Zanetti

-------------------------Lev Yashin

Bench:
Gabriel Batistuta, Luisito Monti, Giancarlo De Sisti, Cliff Bastin, Aldair, Vincent Candela, Iker Casillas.

Not the toughest of midfields, relies on Redondo being the hard man, but its full of creativity, with Pires, Brady and Conti doing their best. Forward line has no real out-and-out striker, but I was going for more of a Totti-Cassano partnership, where two creative players play off each other. Barei and Passarella, well, we know them. Zanetti and Maldini providing width, some of the two very best.

With my subs, you would probably get a more solid team. Add Monti and De Sisti into the midfield, remove a forward, put on Batigol, and that team is pure steel.

-----------Batigol
-------Totti/Di Stefano
Pires---Monti---De Sisti---Conti

[Kubala]

When you're scoring 4 or 5 goals a game who needs to defend :p?

Yeah, like the "Galacticos" of Real Madrid ... who cares about Makelele, put together Roberto Carlos-Beckham-Figo-Zidane-Raul-Ronaldo and nobody will have a chance! lol

Putting big names is not a sufficient condition to play effectively, and even less sufficient to win.

I believe a serious best 11 should respect the balance a team must have:

1) the scheme designed must be realiable one: for instance, if you define a 4-2-3-1 you need to have 4 defenders, 2 IMs, 2 wingers, an offensive midfielder/second forward, 1 centerforward;

2) the players choosen must be suitable for the relevant positions: you can't put all together Maradona/Pelé/Di Stefano/Cruyff/Van Basten/Zidane, simply saying a couple of them will act as forward, 2 will play as wingers and 2 ad central midfielders ... 4 of them will be this way simply out of their natural position!

3) no more than 1 defender should be a very offensive one. Only in few cases 2 offensive wingbacks or an offensive wingbacks + an offensive central defender, provided defence is given by other means (3 central defenders or a couple of central midfielders very keen to defensive tasks).
If you look at concrete teams, this is the way they normally played: Brasil 1970 and 1982 had only one offensive wingback (Carlos Alberto and Junior), the others playing very defensively (Everaldo+Brito+Piazza in 1970 / Leandro+Oscar+Luisinho in 1982); Brasil 1994/98/2002 had two offensive wingbacks (Jorginho+Branco in 1994 / Cafu and Roberto Carlos in 1998/2002) but were plenty of central defenders & defensive midfielders (1994: Aldair+Marcio Santos+Mauro Silva+Dunga+Mazinho / 1998: Junior Baiano+Aldair+Cesar Sampaio+Dunga / 2002: Lucio+Roque Junior+Edmilson+Gilberto Silva+Kleberson).

4) same way, of the two wingers at least one should be keen to help the midfield. Brasil 1958/62 had Garrincha but also Zagalo helping the midfield and the defence, Brasil 1970 had Jairzinho but also Rivelino helping the midfield, Brasil 1982 had Eder but also Socrates placed on the right of the midfield, ...

5) team must have 2 central midfielders (or 3, depending on the scheme choosen) and at least one of them must be a defensive one.

6) if you have only 2 central midfielders, the other one may be a playmaker (possibkly paying some attention also to defending tasks) but not an offensive midfielder or a second forward.


To make an example, a
4-2-3-1 with
Yashin
Djalma Santos-Cannavaro-Beckenbauer-Maldini
Cerezo-Falcao (or Rijkaard-Gerson)
Garrincha-Maradona-Rivelino
Van Basten
is something which maybe could work
a 4-4-2 with
Yashin
Carlos Alberto-Bobby Moore-Beckenbauer-Junior
Garrincha-Cruyff-Di Stefano-Best
G. Muller-Pelé
IMHO will loose against any simply good team (for instance, I believe they would loose against Italy 2006 ;-) )