I believe there is no doubt the deepest team is Brazil. Brazil has just won the Confederations Cup with it's Reserve Team. Take a look at Brazil reserve's team, it would be a strong WC06 contender by itself. Defenders: Luisao (Benfica), Alex (PSV) Side Backs: Cicinho (Sao Paulo), Gustavo Nery (Corinthians) Def. Mid: Gilberto Silva (Arsenal) Midfield: Julio Batista (Real Madrid), Juninho (Lyon), Alex (Fenerbache) Attack: Fred (Lyon), Robinho (Real)
I would say Italy, not the best team but I think they have the deepest squad. Brazil are the best in most positions, but a little light in some areas... having to play Roque Junior at centre back springs to mind.
Italy. Brazil never won the confed cup with their reserve team. they were just missing Carlos and Ronaldo.
Brazil has as deep a base of players as everyone, but the depth in the English Premier League and Italian Serie A give the national teams in those countries comparable depth.
Yes then "won" the game in PKs after being outplayed by Argentina's mostly olympic team. After the starting 11, Argentina is pretty deep in forward and midfield, but rather thin in defense and goal IN terms of depth, I'd say Brazil Argentina As for England, do they have any suitable replacements for Rooney, Owen, Lampard or Gerrard?
pretty obviouls Brazil has the deepest talent. Didnt the coach make a comment he could field 3 different Brazilian teams and have them all qualify for the WC???
why do people keep saying italy, their squad is paper thin. if either nesta or cannavaro are out their screwed, same goes for defensive mid and gattuso, goalkeeping they have no backup to buffon, and if zambrotta is out, where is his backup? in attack they have one winger, camoranesi, so no balance, and if he is out, also very big probs. brazil could probably tak 3 teams to this world cup, all filled with attacking brilliance, but in my opinion, at center back they are awful. lucio is not enough when surounded by players of the quality of roque jnr. and at wing back, their players are not defenders, they have 6 wing backs i think that would get into most teams in the world, neri, cafu, cicinho, carlos, silvinho, junior, but none defend which leaves me at my conclusion that the deepest team accross the whole park is england. they have backup in every position, except gk, they have finnishers, many brilliant midfielders, easily the deepest selection of world class center backs, four or five brilliant wing backs so like is said, brazil have easily the deepest squad, but it is very skewed in favour of attackers and very, very light on defensive players. ever seen a team win the wc that cant defend? i know i havent
Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't the last Brazilian team to win the WC (in 2002) crappy at defense, great in offense? And the 1998 Brazilian team that were runners-up to France were the same, strong offense, weak defense? So I think weak defensive teams can win WC, provided they have an offense like Brazil
England or Italy The only position where Brazil have a surplus are the Forward positions, other than that Brazil doesn't look too scary. I think Italy, England could keep up with Brazil easily.
england! only one goalkeeper tho robinson defenders cole bridge rio terry campbell carragher neville midfield king cole lampard gerrard beckham wright phillips forwards rooney owen smith defoe
Who would be their second Keeper??? Strikers after Owen and Rooney??? Midfielders after Lampard, Gerrard, Beckham, J.Cole (&SWP) Fullbacks?? Englnad has a great (close to best?) first team, but depth is it's bigest weakness
In this order, Brazil with a long shot, Argentina ( except for keepers ), England, Spain ( sad they don't know that themselves ), Italia, Holland.
they played with more midfielders who were responsible for holding the ball up in midfield and keeping team shape, yes they were crappy quality players, but they were more aware of defensive responsibilities than the present bunch. also the ball was not forever in the opponent final third for brazil, they were absorbing the offence of opponents as well, scolari had this team fighting for victories, declaring the beautiful game to be dead. now they have far more attacking potential than then, before 2002 no one thought ronaldo would return to form so suddenly after so long out, ronaldinho was still an unknown quantity, and they were playing men like edmilson and junhinho(the crap one), now there is kaka, robinho, adriano, baptista, and ronaldinho in better form than 4 yrs ago. however, all of the above will rarely be seen in their own half of the pitch. plus, to those saying england dont have depth, well, looking accross our second string players we have wayne bridge (chelsea) jonathon woodgate (real madrid) jamie carragher( liverpool, would walk into any defence in the world apart from ours and italy) michael dawson (spurs, top center back, easily gets into french or german squads) ledley king(spurs, great center back, still learning for dm) luke young( proven he can cope at the top, plyed internationally in wins v poland, usa and argentina) paul koncheski( west ham, plyed at wing back for england, solid in defence, pacy going up wing) mathew upson( birmingham, great center back, good game reader, strong, ex arsenal, would have been a first choice if wenger wasnt so anti english, proven international) j loyd samuel, (villa, wing back, even if this season he has been poor) gareth barry ( villa, centre back or wing back, suffers as we have too many quality players in his positions, would be an international in almost any other country) scott parker( newcastle, two teams have each spent 8m pounds on him, used to do tricks for nike adverts when he was a kid, now growing into a xabi alonso style midfield organiser) swp(chelsea, rw, awesome player) j cole( chelsea, lw, great player) michael carrick( spurs, cm, another top player) stewart downing(middlesboro great winger, geat left foot crosser, score a few as well, very fast, can dribble as well) jermaine jenas(spurs, great attacker, bags of energy, awesome free kicks) keiron dyer ( newcastle,hampered by injuries, still always plyed well for enland, pace to burn) keiron richardson( manu, many underate him, he can play left wing or wing back, extremely fast, messed up team america in the summer) kevin nolan( bolton captain, fits into midfield alongside nakata and jj okocha and outscores them both, vry good player) darius vassel ( man city, good finnisher, awesome pace) jermaine defoe ( spurs, highly sought after, great finnisher) peter crouch ( liverpool, if hes good enough for benitez then he is good enough for me, he provides many possibilities in attack, and as u saw in the arg game, their defence didnt have a clue how to handle him and he made space for the equaliser and winner in minutes) plus goalkeepers we have kirkland who is very good, and staying clear of injuries, we have scott carson at liverpool who is young but still very good, richard wright, who used to play but has had injury problems, but ccoming back into the form that made arsenal buy him(now at everton)