Interesting Best XI

Discussion in 'The Beautiful Game' started by Excape Goat, Aug 30, 2005.

  1. Rakim_22

    Rakim_22 Member

    Manchester United
    Netherlands
    Sep 6, 2004
    Florida
    Club:
    Manchester United FC
    Nat'l Team:
    Netherlands
    Oh how Ajax and the rest of the world should rue the fact that they missed you. :p Great post though.
     
  2. Bertje

    Bertje New Member

    Nov 10, 2004
    Leiden
    Just Ajax, I would never leave that club.
     
  3. dor02

    dor02 Member

    Aug 9, 2004
    Melbourne
    Club:
    UC Sampdoria
    Nat'l Team:
    Italy
    And the never will. Italy hasn't shown any interest in playing against the Socceroos and Max struggles to get into the Socceroos line-up.

    Not Juve, Sampdoria, Reggina, Lecce, Udinese and Catanzaro. They're currently interested in signing me. They really need a quality striker and I can shoot from every angle and distance possible. I can score volleys like the one Van Basten scored in the Euro 88 Final on a regular basis and long range efforts like Hagi. :) ;) :D
     
  4. Andy TAUS

    Andy TAUS Member

    Jan 31, 2004
    Sydney, AUS
    True, but weird things do sometimes happen in world football.
     
  5. Excape Goat

    Excape Goat Member+

    Mar 18, 1999
    Club:
    Real Madrid
    Do you have a PP2 or X box at jhome?
     
  6. dor02

    dor02 Member

    Aug 9, 2004
    Melbourne
    Club:
    UC Sampdoria
    Nat'l Team:
    Italy
    No but I used to play the FIFA soccer games a lot on PC. I only said that as a joke because Bertje's comment was just as much of a joke. You have to be silly to actually believe what I have said there.
     
  7. dor02

    dor02 Member

    Aug 9, 2004
    Melbourne
    Club:
    UC Sampdoria
    Nat'l Team:
    Italy
    They really do and they're are occuring more frequently these days.
     
  8. spoonman

    spoonman Member

    Sep 6, 2005
    Nat'l Team:
    Netherlands

    Van Basten in Euro '92
     
  9. Excape Goat

    Excape Goat Member+

    Mar 18, 1999
    Club:
    Real Madrid
    Some other ideas'

    Best XI for expensive transfer that failed.

    Best XI for free fransfer
     
  10. PirateJohn

    PirateJohn New Member

    Aug 31, 2005
    California
    Gotta put Sergei Rebrov on that list...
     
  11. Gregoriak

    Gregoriak BigSoccer Supporter

    Feb 27, 2002
    Munich
    OK, here's a silly Best of XI. Best Italian side without players ending with an "i".


    ---------------Riva--------R Baggio

    -----A Mazzola----Rivera----Zola----Causio

    ----Burgnich-----Scirea-----Rosato-----Gentile

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


    Wasn't really hard. What's really hard is coming up with an Italian All-Time XI of players without a single "i" in their names!
     
  12. dor02

    dor02 Member

    Aug 9, 2004
    Melbourne
    Club:
    UC Sampdoria
    Nat'l Team:
    Italy
    Great line-up. Lots of quality players. To come up with an Italian All-Time XI with players who have no "i" in their surname is impossible. If you wanted to create an Italian XI with players who have no "i" in their surname, you will need to put in some duds.

    I've created a team of players who played in the Serie A in the 1990s and the have surnames that have at least 11 letters. There's another post that is similar but it only has current players. This will only have Italian players.

    GK --------------Taglialatela

    SW --------------Franceschetti

    DF Tempestilli -----Baronchelli --------Maltagliati

    MD Giandebiaggi Notaristefano Guglieminpietro Piangerrelli

    ST -------Giovannelli ----------Martusciello

    With some of the players that I had put in midfield, I'm not too sure about their real positions. If someone can correct these, it will be well appreciated.
     
  13. CoAdriaanse

    CoAdriaanse New Member

    Mar 30, 2005
    On A Moving Platform
    davids was born in 1973 and hasselbaink in 1972 so both of them where born when surinam was still dutch (indipendence 1975)...so they are not really imigrants....
     
  14. Excape Goat

    Excape Goat Member+

    Mar 18, 1999
    Club:
    Real Madrid
    Best XI for players who played in a WC Final, but never won it.

    GK Grosics
    RB Buzánszky
    CB Baresi
    CB Kohl
    LB Maldini
    RM Rummenigge
    CM Neeskens
    CM Bozik
    LM Masopust
    FW Puskás
    FW Cruffy
     
  15. Gregoriak

    Gregoriak BigSoccer Supporter

    Feb 27, 2002
    Munich
    Here's another silly Italian All-Time XI: Players without any 'i' in there names!


    --------------Pruzzo------Serena

    -----A Mazzola---Zola---Capello----Cuccureddu

    ----Ferrarra-----Rosato----Nesta-----Costacurta

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



    In a similar vein, here's an All-Time German XI made of players that do not end with an 'er':


    ------Rummenigge----Klinsmann------Rahn

    ------Overath--------Matthäus-------Bonhof

    -----Brehme-----Liebrich----Stielike-----Vogts

    -----------------------Kahn
     
  16. dor02

    dor02 Member

    Aug 9, 2004
    Melbourne
    Club:
    UC Sampdoria
    Nat'l Team:
    Italy
    I don't consider these Italian XI's silly. I think that they're quite interesting and this team is actually not a bad side but with a few problems. Fabio Capello was a forward and Cuccureddu was more of a defender.

    In my opinion, I thought that upfront, you could have put in Roberto Bettega.

    That German side that you created looks like a very good side. I love that forward line.
     
  17. Cassano

    Cassano Member

    Jul 16, 2004
    Club:
    AC Milan
    Nat'l Team:
    Italy
    Capello was a hard-nosed midfielder in his day, not a forward.
     
  18. Excape Goat

    Excape Goat Member+

    Mar 18, 1999
    Club:
    Real Madrid
    I also thought those Italian and German Best XI are cool.

    BTW, can someone come up with an all-time coach selection? I meant the playing position for great coaches.

    I have the following candidate Zoff for keepr, Beckenbauer for sweeper, Capello for wherever once you all settled on his playing postion.
     
  19. Bertje

    Bertje New Member

    Nov 10, 2004
    Leiden
    Cruijff, van Basten, Ronald Koeman, Neeskens, Rijkaard, van Hanegem. Plenty to choose from. Unless you have as a criteria the coach has to be succesfull.

    Michels was a very promising forward before he got injured. But I guess the promise of being a great player isn't enough.

    Edit: Okay, you said great coaches. Well Cruijff, Puskas(not an all time great but he did take Panathinaikos to a final).
     
  20. Gregoriak

    Gregoriak BigSoccer Supporter

    Feb 27, 2002
    Munich
    Can anybody think of a decent Yugoslavian All-Time XI without any players ending with 'ic'?
     
  21. Gregoriak

    Gregoriak BigSoccer Supporter

    Feb 27, 2002
    Munich
    Wow, it was easier than I thought:

    -----------Popivoda--------Surjak

    ----Oblak----Bobek---Sekularac----Zebec

    ---Cajkovski----Katalinski----Jusufi----Buljan

    ----------------------Beara
     
  22. girco

    girco New Member

    Jul 3, 2005
    São Paulo
    You could throw in Jarni, Prosinecki, Suker, Boban and Pancev as well
     
  23. SuperJville

    SuperJville Member

    May 7, 2004
    Florida
    Club:
    SC Freiburg
    Also Barbarez currently HSV and Meho Kodro (ex Barcelona) come to mind
     
  24. Gregoriak

    Gregoriak BigSoccer Supporter

    Feb 27, 2002
    Munich
    Barbarez never played for Yugoslavia. The other players listed are famous for playing for Croatia, not Yugoslavia, although some of them did play in 1990. But considering the history of how Yugoslavia fell apart in the 1990s, I would reckon none of these Croatian players would like to be called "Yugoslavian", that's why I didn't include the Prosineckis, Jarnis, Sukers and Bobans.
     
  25. Gregoriak

    Gregoriak BigSoccer Supporter

    Feb 27, 2002
    Munich
    Thanks.

    Take out Serena and Pruzzo and put in Meazza and Bettega!
     

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