Carrying on the best 11 players theme, who do you think are the best ever? Here's my team: -------------Shmeicel--------------- ---Cafu-------Moore----------Maldini -----------Beckenbauer-------------- Garrincha--Socrates--Platini-- Maradona ----------Pele-------Charlton--------- Subs: G. Banks Baresi Di Stefano Best Eusebio Imagine, oh imagine!!!! If only we could go back in time and cryogenically suspend all these players in their prime and put them together - unfrozen obviously!
Klinsmann? Zidane? Please. Neither sniff a best XI of all time. Neither, however, does Socrates, whom I like as a player.
Baggio and Klinsmann were almost unstoppable in their hey day- Baggio is the most underrated superstar of all time and Klinsmann was just extraordinary
Yes, Klinsmann sure was a great diver. There are better German strikers than him. And Baggio, while a wonderful player isn't good enough.
Oh what do you know, Baggio was the 8th wonder of the soccer world and Klinsmann was an automatic much better than Van basten
Before this thread continues any further, I would strongly advise people to take a few minutes to read through this: https://www.bigsoccer.com/forum/showthread.php?t=129040&page=1&pp=15&highlight=greatest
More than you. Too bad he wasn't in the same league as Cruyff. Van Basten was better, and there are better GERMAN strikers than Klinsmann.
I just watched highlights of Gerd Muller and no doubt Klinsmann was a better player and the only reason you mentioned Cruyff cause we just finished talking about him, and you therefore know not as much as me
We've had many of these discussions and have made "best of XI" formations all the time. Find one, you're likely to see my lineups there. With Cruyff. Klinsmann and Muller shouldn't be mentioned in the same sentence, its an insult to der Bomber.
I know, I was hard pushed to leave him out. Too many amazing players and too little room to fit them all in!
--------------------Kahn---------------------- Cafu-----Beckenbauer----Alberto----Maldini -------------------Matthaeus----------------- --Maradona----------Pele------------Cruyiff-- --------------Mueller------Van Basten-------
ACK Klinsmann was a good striker but Müller was so much better. Also Rudi Völler the second striker in the Nationalelf (around 1990) was better than Jürgen. IMO Klinsmann had one SUPERB season for Tottenham Hotspurs. After this season he got the Award for Best Player in Premier League...prob hard to win for a german guy
ACK Klinsmann was a good striker but Müller was so much better. Also Rudi Völler the second striker in the Nationalelf (around 1990) was better than Jürgen. IMO Klinsmann had one SUPERB season for Tottenham Hotspurs. After this season he got the Award for Best Player in Premiership League...probably hard to win for a german guy
Bundesliga 1984/1985 VfB Stuttgart 15 Bundesliga 1985/1986 VfB Stuttgart 16 Bundesliga 1986/1987 VfB Stuttgart 16 Bundesliga 1987/1988 VfB Stuttgart 19 Bundesliga 1988/1989 VfB Stuttgart 13 Serie A 1989/1990 Inter Mailand 13 Serie A 1990/1991 Inter Mailand 14 Serie A 1991/1992 Inter Mailand 7 Ligue 1 1992/1993 AS Monaco 19 Ligue 1 1993/1994 AS Monaco 10 Premier League 1994/1995 Tottenham Hotspur 20 Bundesliga 1995/1996 Bayern München 16 Bundesliga 1996/1997 Bayern München 15 Serie A 1997/1998 Sampdoria Genua 2 Premier League 1997/1998 Tottenham Hotspur 9 Plus 47 goals in 108 games for the german national team. (10 in World Cups)
I think Hugo Sanchez deserves to be in the subs list(at least)........He accomplished so many things with a team as important as REAL.....was a five time leader in scoring....second to Di Stefano in the history of the Spanish Primera....the only reason he is pushed aside is because he never won anything with Mexico....which I believe is bull cause we are talking about an INDIVIDUAL not a team....had Maradona played for a team that didn't win anything....we probably would consider him good...but not great.....Sanchez said it himself.....had he been Argentinian or Brazilian he would of gotten a lot more attention and recognition....that was my comment i know alot of you will disagree but it's kool....thanks guys