including Diego Armando Maradona in the Super Ballon d'Or in 2029 the second edition ! 1986 until 2025v until here ! 1 . Lionel Messi 2. C. Ronaldo 3. Marco van Basten 4. Ronaldo Nazario de Lima 5. Diego Armando Maradona 6. Zinedine Zidane 7. Lothar Matthaus 8. Ruud Gullit 9. Roberto Baggio 10 . H. Stoichkov 11. A. Schevchenko . !
THE 50 BEST FOOTBALLERS (+34 HONOURABLE MENTIONS) 1987. GOLD: Diego MARADONA (Napoli) SILVER: Ruud GULLIT (PSV) BRONZE: Hugo SANCHEZ (Real Madrid) 4 Marco VAN BASTEN (Ajax) 5 Emilio BUTRAGUENO (Real Madrid) 6 Ian RUSH (Liverpool) 7 Gary LINEKER (Barcelona) 8 Paolo FUTRE (FC Porto) 9 Enzo SCIFO (Anderlecht) 10 Lothar MATTHÄUS (Bayern) 11 CARECA (Sao Paolo) 12 MICHEL (Real Madrid) 13 Jean TIGANA (Bordeaux) 14 Enzo FRANCESCOLI (RC Paris) 15 Carlos VALDERRAMA (Deportivo Cali) 16 Michael LAUDRUP (Juventus) 17 Oleksandr ZAVAROV (Dynamo Kiev) 18 Glenn HODDLE (Tottenham) 19 Preben ELKJAER (Verona) 20 Bryan ROBSON (Manchester U) 21 Jean Marie PFAFF (Bayern) 22 Rudi VÖLLER (Werder Bremen) 23 John BARNES (Watford) 24 Igor BELANOV (Dynamo Kiev) 25 Rinat DASSAEV (Spartak Moscow) 26 Jorge BURRUCHAGA (Nantes) 27 Oleg KUZNETZOV (Dynamo Kiev) 28 Chris WADDLE (Tottenham) 29 Manuel AMOROS (Monaco) 30 Gheorghe HAGI (Steaua Bucharest) 31 Franco BARESI (AC Milan) 32 Klaus ALLOFS (FC Cologne) 33 Gianluca VIALLI (Sampdoria) 34 Julio Cesar ROMERO (Fluminense) 35 Frank ARNESEN (PSV) 36 Salvatore BAGNI (Napoli) 37 Antonio ALZAMENDI (River Plate) 38 Julio CESAR (Brest) 39 Peter BEARDSLEY (Newcastle) 40 Frank RIJKAARD (Ajax) 41 Luis DIAZ (Fiorentina) 42 Andreas BREHME (Bayern) 43 Alessandro ALTOBELLI (Inter) 44 Toni POLSTER (Austria Vienna) 45 Pierre LITTBARSKI (RC Paris) 46 Ronald KOEMAN (PSV) 47 Soren LERBY (Monaco) 48 Gerald VANENBURG (PSV) 49 Oscar RUGGERI (River Plate) 50 CELSO (FC Porto) 51 Rabah MADJER (FC Porto) 52 Alan HANSEN (Liverpool) 53 John BOSMAN (Ajax) 54 Renato GAUCHO (Flamengo) 55 Roberto MANCINI (Sampdoria) 56 Brian MCCLAIR (Celtic) 57 Mark HUGHES (Barcelona) 58 Trevor STEVEN (Everton) 59 Fernando GOMES (FC Porto) 60 Fernando DE NAPOLI (Napoli) 61 Neville SOUTHALL (Everton) 62 Oleg PROTASOV (Dnipro) 63 Dragan STOJKOVIC (Red Star) 64 Giuseppe GIANNINI (Roma) 65 Uwe RAHN (Mönchengladbach) 66 BEBETO (Flamengo) 67 ALEMAO (Botafogo) 68 Wim KIEFT (Torino) 69 ROMARIO (Vasco da Gama) 70 Kevin RATCLIFFE (Everton) 71 Manuel SANCHIS (Real Madrid) 72 Jan CEULEMANS (Club Bruges) 73 Thomas BERTHOLD (Frankfurt) 74 Victor MUNOZ (Barcelona) 75 Glenn HYSEN (Gothenburg) 76 Juan Antonio SENOR (Zaragoza) 77 Oleksiy MYKHAYLYCHENKO (Kiev) 78 Johnny VAN´T SCHIP (Ajax) 79 MÜLLER (Sao Paolo) 80 Paul MCSTAY (Celtic) 81 Paul MCGRATH (Manchester U) 82 Roberto DONADONI (AC Milan) 83 Clive ALLEN (Tottenham) 84 Ricardo GOMES (Fluminense) Player of The Season: 1 Maradona 2 Gullit 3 Futre 4 Sanchez 5 Van Basten 6 Butragueno 7 Valderrama 8 Rush 9 Matthäus 10 Michel Overall, Maradona was still riding high from his WC exploits and now also a Scudetto winner. However, the Dutch were narrowing the gap. In South America – they had a new star – Carlos Valderrama. However, Hugo Sanchez was the brightest star of them all. Bebeto was referred to as the new Zico! Lot´s was expected of him. The Soviet Union (mostly Ukrainians) had a great team led by Zavarov, Belanov and Dassaev. The Italians still couldn´t find the form the showed in 1982. Giannini was a great hope but disappointed so did Dossena. However, Baresi, Mancini, Vialli and a very young Maldini gave them hope for the future. In Spain they had a two world stars by now – Michel and Butragueno. In England most of the biggest names wanted to go and play on the continent. Hoddle had rosen to be a big star. He rejected FC Cologne in 1979, and he missed a golden opportunity to join Juventus in 1984 due to an injury. He was desperate to force a transfer by now. However, his name simply wasn´t as big in Europe as it was in England so he couldn´t choose what he wanted. John Barnes was voted Most Exciting Player and was set to leave Watford. He also wanted to go to the continent, and he even asked Dalglish to wait when Liverpool wanted to sign him. His move to the continent didn´t materialize. Lineker vs Rush was a big debate. They even pitted them up for a fight. Measured on seven strengths such as ball control, shooting, heading etc Rush won the contest 93-90. The Dutch were a force by now led by Gullit. He was in fact way ahead of the others at this stage. However, Vanenburg was the player everybody was talking about. BEST XI: PFAFF - AMOROS – BREHME – KUZNETZOV – BARESI – MATTHÄUS – SCIFO – FUTRE - GULLIT – MARADONA – SANCHEZ VENABLES (Manager) GOLDEN BOY: 1 Paul GASCOIGNE (Newcastle) 2 Paolo MALDINI (AC Milan) 3 Claudio CANIGGIA (River Plate)
there is an article in France Football Magazine saying that Rabah Rabah Madjer would win the Ballon D'or 1987 The main issue is that Rabah Madjer and Paulo Futre would steal and fight for the main votes to be the maximum representative of FC Porto, champion of the European Champions Cup... of the European Super-Cup final against Ajax and the Inter-Club World Cup So Gullit, Maradona and Hugo Sanchez could win because of this too, similar to Real Madrid when they had Di Stefano, Ferenc Puskas, Gento, Kopa, SantaMaria , Rial, Del Sol or Real Madrid in 2024 Vini Jr... Jude... Rodrygo goes... Dani Carvajal, Toni Kroos etc.etc.etc.. the own France Football ... would bet on Gullit winning by one point over Madjer Gullit 80 points Madjer ...79 Points .. Maradona .... 77 points Futre ....... 71 points ....
The 50 Best Footballers (and 35 HM) in The World 1988. GOLD: Ruud GULLIT (AC Milan) SILVER: Diego MARADONA (Napoli) BRONZE: Marco VAN BASTEN (AC Milan) 4 Hugo SANCHEZ (Real Madrid) 5 Ronald KOEMAN (PSV) 6 Lothar MATTHÄUS (Bayern) 7 Frank RIJKAARD (Zaragoza) 8 CARECA (Napoli) 9 Gary LINEKER (Barcelona) 10 Franco BARESI (AC Milan) 11 MICHEL (Real Madrid) 12 John BARNES (Liverpool) 13 Gianluca VIALLI (Sampdoria) 14 Oleksandr ZAVAROV (Dynamo Kiev) 15 Glenn HODDLE (Monaco) 16 Paolo FUTRE (Atletico Madrid) 17 Gerald VANENBURG (PSV) 18 Bryan ROBSON (Manchester U) 19 Rinat DASSAEV (Spartak Moscow) 20 Rabah MADJER (FC Porto/Valencia) 21 Emilio BUTRAGUENO (Real Madrid) 22 Carlos VALDERRAMA (Montpellier) 23 Chris WADDLE (Tottenham) 24 Rui BARROS (FC Porto) 25 Enzo SCIFO (Inter) 26 Ian RUSH (Juventus) 27 Paolo MALDINI (AC Milan) 28 Ruben PAZ (Racing Club) 29 Lajos DETARI (Frankfurt) 30 BEBETO (Flamengo) 31 ROMARIO (Vasco da Gama) 32 Alan HANSEN (Liverpool) 33 ALEMAO (Atletico Madrid) 34 Andreas BREHME (Kaiserslautern) 35 Oleksiy MYKHAYLYCHENKO (Kiev) 36 Dragan STOJKOVIC (Red Star) 37 Gheorghe HAGI (Steaua) 38 Jan WOUTERS (Ajax) 39 Jean TIGANA (Bordeaux) 40 Peter BEARDSLEY (Liverpool) 41 Mark HUGHES (Bayern) 42 Jean Pierre PAPIN (Marseille) 43 Oleg PROTASOV (Dynamo Kiev) 44 Martin VASQUEZ (Real Madrid) 45 Enzo FRANCESCOLI (RC Paris) 46 Manuel AMOROS (Monaco) 47 Julio Cesar ROMERO (Fluminense) 48 Oscar RUGGERI (Logrones) 49 Bernd SCHUSTER (Real Madrid) 50 GEOVANI Silva (Vasco da Gama) 51 Walter ZENGA (Inter) 52 RENATO Gaucho (Flamengo) 53 Jürgen KOHLER (FC Cologne) 54 Jürgen KLINSMANN (Stuttgart) 55 Soren LERBY (PSV) 56 Thomas HÄSSLER (FC Cologne) 57 Roberto DONADONI (AC Milan) 58 Neville SOUTHALL (Everton) 59 Giuseppe BERGOMI (Inter) 60 Oleg KUZNETSOV (Dynamo Kiev) 61 Olaf THON (Schalke) 62 Giuseppe GIANNINI (Roma) 63 Fernando DE NAPOLI (Napoli) 64 Bruno Giordano (Napoli) 65 Hugo DE LEON (Nacional) 66 Rune BRATHSETH (Werder Bremen) 67 Jorge BURRUCHAGA (Nantes) 68 John ALDRIDGE (Liverpool) 69 Carlos MOZER (Benfica) 70 Jose Marie BAKERO (Barcelona) 71 Michel PREUD´HOMME (Mechelen) 72 Ray HOUGHTON (Liverpool) 73 Manuel SANCHIS (Real Madrid) 74 Hans VAN BREUKELEN (PSV) 75 John BOSMAN (Ajax) 76 Pietro VIERCHOWOD (Sampdoria) 77 Carlo ANCELOTTI (AC Milan) 78 Paul McSTAY (Celtic) 79 Karl-Heinz RIEDLE (Werder Bremen) 80 Paul GASCOIGNE (Newcastle) 81 Nelson GUTIERREZ (Rivaer Plate) 82 Frank ARNESEN (PSV) 83 BRANCO (Brescia) 84 Claudio CANIGGIA (River Plate) 85 Dejan SAVICEVIC (Buducnost) Player of The Season: 1 Van Basten 2 Gullit 3 Maradona 4 Koeman 5 Rijkaard 6 Barnes 7 Sanchez 8 Matthäus 9 Mykhaylychenko 10 Vialli 11 Baresi 12 Paz 13 Hoddle Overall, Gullit was – BY FAR – the talk of the town before The Euro´s. No European came close to matching Gullit. Everybody referred to Gullit as the best player in the world by now (even Franz Bekenbauer). Maradona could have kept his crown had Napoli not crumpled in the race for the Scudetto vs a formidable defensive AC Milan team. Baresi and Maldini were becoming a force to be reckoned with. Van Basten was injured most of the season but came back and scored an all-important goal vs Napoli and his Euro´s we know all about. He was Player of The Season due to his three phenomenal games at the Euro´s but he was not yet the best overall even if Gullit was somewhat disappointing in The Euro´s. The most sought-after player was Ronald Koeman. Manchester U made him an offer but he wouldn´t go England. He promised PSV one more season and which he would surely go to Italy, he said…. And then he went to Spain! The biggest flops were probably Rush and Scifo. They were both utter disasters and their world-class status was now in doubt. Rush was shipped back to Liverpool and Scifo left Inter for around 25% of the fee Inter paid the year before. As far as I´m concerned Glenn Hoddle was now – for the first time in his career – looked upon as a global superstar. Had it been possible, Johan Cruyff would have signed him for Barca. In Spain Real Madrid won their third title in a row. They had assembled a formidable team – Buyo in goal and a back four of Chendo, Tendillo, Sanchis and Camacho. A midfield led by new sensation Michel together with Gallego, Vasquez and Gordillo. The team was spearheaded by Sanchez and Emilio “The Vulture” Butragueno. This was a sensational side even if Butragueno completely fell out of form during the second half of the season. However, they weren´t considered that great – why? They simply couldn´t win the European Cup! BEST XI: DASSAEV – AMOROS – BREHME – KOEMAN – BARESI – RIJKAARD – MATTHÄUS – GULLIT – MARADONA – SANCHEZ – VAN BASTEN. MICHELS (Manager) GOLDEN BOY: 1 Paolo MALDINI (AC Milan) 2 Robert PROSENECKI (Red Star) 3 Zvonimir BOBAN (Dinamo Zagreb) 4 Davor SUKER (Dinamo Zabreb) 5 Fernando HIERRO (Valladolid) 6 Didier DESCHAMPS (Nantes)
Players always get "a million" points in various votes when they win The Euro´s, The World Cup or The Champions League even if they are not that good. That´s why The Ballon d´Or is flawed and that´s why my rankings are not The Ballon d´Or. However, I would agree that I had Madjer too low for 1987. I will move him up a bit when the rankings are revised.
I disagree totally from you dear Mate ! i'm saying this .. because i really see All the whole Matches Of all the possible players ! so, that's it my friend . !
Your personal concept of great performances may certainly be wrong. I haven't seen you providing evidence to support your choices so far until now.. only showing me that you know a littlebit about the historical context of that time. But scientifically, you are not effectively proving anything.. it seems like a list of personal taste or preference taken from Highlights at YouTube that you saw. You are using the same wrong concept of privileging forwards or attacking midfielders, simply forgetting about classic midfielders and defenders. I am watching several full games ..Diego Maradona in 1984/1985 season ..he was not better than Hans Peter Briegel ...in anything , Antonio di Gennaro and Pietro Fanna . these awards really commit serious misdeeds or crimes... against players like Thuram... in 1996/1997 and 1997/1998 .
for you Michel Platini or Zinedine Zidane or Raymond Kopa or Mbappé ??? Michel Platini est-il le plus grand joueur français de l'histoire ?
WORLD´S BEST FOOTBALLERS 1989: GOLD: Marco VAN BASTEN (AC Milan) SILVER: Diego MARADONA (Napoli) BRONZE: Ruud GULLIT (AC Milan) 4 Lothar MATTHÄUS (Inter) 5 Hugo SANCHEZ (Real Madrid) 6 Franco BARESI (AC Milan) 7 Frank RIJKAARD (AC Milan) 8 Ronald KOEMAN (PSV) 9 Antonio CARECA (Napoli) 10 MICHEL (Real Madrid) 11 Chris WADDLE (Tottenham) 12 Gianluca VIALLI (Sampdoria) 13 John BARNES (Liverpool) 14 Glenn HODDLE (Monaco) 15 Paolo MALDINI (AC Milan) 16 Dragan STOJKOVIC (Red Star) 17 Gheorghe HAGI (Steaua) 18 Jean Pierre PAPIN (Marseille) 19 Oleksiy MYKHAYLYCHENKO (Kiev) 20 Roberto BAGGIO (Fiorentina) 21 BEBETO (Vasco da Gama) 22 Gary LINEKER (Barcelona) 23 Andreas BREHME (Inter) 24 Roberto MANCINI (Sampdoria) 25 Jürgen KLINSMANN (Stuttgart) 26 ALEMAO (Napoli) 27 Walter ZENGA (Inter) 28 Neville SOUTHALL (Everton) 29 Bryan ROBSON (Manchester U) 30 Giuseppe GIANNINI (Roma) 31 Jan WOUTERS (Ajax) 32 Michael LAUDRUP (Juventus) 33 ROMARIO (PSV) 34 Thomas HÄSSLER (FC Cologne) 35 Olaf THON (Bayern) 36 Paul GASCOIGNE (Tottenham) 37 Gerald VANENBURG (PSV) 38 Ruben SOSA (Lazio) 39 Manuel AMOROS (Monaco) 40 Peter BEARDSLEY (Liverpool) 41 MÜLLER (Torino) 42 Giuseppe BERGOMI (Inter) 43 Carlos DUNGA (Fiorentina) 44 Roberto DONADONI (AC Milan) 45 Carlos VALDERRAMA (Montpellier) 46 Martin VASQUEZ (Real Madrid) 47 Paolo FUTRE (Atletico Madrid) 48 RENATO Gaucho (Roma) 49 Rabah MADJER (FC Porto) 50 Jürgen KOHLER (FC Cologne) 51 BALTAZAR (Atletico Madrid) 52 Mark HUGHES (Manchester U) 53 Oscar RUGGERI (Logrones) 54 Carlos MOZER (Benfica) 55 Rune BRATSETH (Werder Bremen) 56 Glenn HYSEN (Fiorentina) 57 TITA (Pescara) 58 Aldo SERENA (Inter) 59 Oleksandr ZAVAROV (Juventus) 60 Hristo STOICHKOV (CSKA Sofia) 61 Oleg PROTASOV (Dynamo Kiev) 62 Andreas MÖLLER (Dortmund) 63 Oleg KUZNETSOV (Dynamo Kiev) 64 Nicola BERTI (Inter) 65 Michel PREUD´HOMME (Mechelen) 66 Uwe BEIN (HSV) 67 Enzo FRANCESCOLI (RC Paris) 68 VALDO (Benfica) 69 Mauro TASSOTTI (AC Milan) 70 Ian RUSH (Liverpool) 71 John ALDRIDGE (Liverpool) 72 Rui BARROS (Juventus) 73 Jorge BURRUCHAGA (Nantes) 74 Emilio BUTRAGUENO (Real Madrid) 75 Rudi VÖLLER (Roma) 76 MAZINHO (Vasco da Gama) 77 Claudio CANAGGIA (Verona) 78 Sergei ALEINIKOV (Dynamo Minsk) 79 Enzo SCIFO (Bordeaux) 80 Marius LACATUS (Steaua) 81 JORGINHO (Flamengo) 82 Jan CEULEMANS (Club Bruges) 83 Anatoli DEMYANENKO (Dynamo Kiev) 84 Wim KIEFT (PSV) 85 Toni POLSTER (Sevilla) 86 Steve NICOL (Liverpool) 87 Alan HANSEN (Liverpool) 88 Kevin RATCLIFFE (Everton) 89 Andoni ZUBIZARETTA (Barcelona) 90 George WEAH (Monaco) Player of The Season: 1 Van Basten 2 Matthäus 3 Baresi 4 Maradona 5 Rijkaard 6 Bebeto 7 Gullit 8 Careca 9 Hagi 10 Papin 11 Romario Van Basten was now the world´s greatest player. Johan Cruyff wanted him to join him at Barca. Ruud Gullit was still world-class. Look at the Champions League Final where he dismantled Steaua even if he played injured. Maradona wanted out of Napoli and join the Marseille revolution. He was promised a transfer if he won the UEFA Cup and so he did (with a little help from his friends, notably Careca). The promise was broken though so he had to stay. So, Marseille instead went and bought Chris Waddle from Tottenham for a 4,5M Pound fee – 1,3M more than the previous British Transfer record. One player not particularly happy about that was Gary Lineker as he had chosen to join Tottenham with the excitement of partnering Waddle in the Spurs attack. It was now time for Paul Gascoigne to step up. Rijkaard also wanted out of AC Milan due to Sacchi throwing him around in central defence, midfield and even at right back. In the Bundesliga Klinsmann, Hässler and Thon were now the stand-out players. In France it was Papin and maybe Hoddle. In Brazil Bismarck was emerging as the stand-out player at the FIFA World Youth Championship. BEST XI: ZENGA – BERGOMI – MALDINI – BARESI – KOEMAN – RIJKAARD – MATTHÄUS – MARADONA – GULLIT – VAN BASTEN – SANCHEZ ARRIGO SACCHI (Manager) GOLDEN BOY: 1 Robert PROCENECKI (Red Star) 2 Brian LAUDRUP (Brondby) 3 BISMARCK (Vasco da Gama)
...and farewell to the eighties. By the end of the decade, much had changed in the game. The revolution heralded by the "Dutch" AC Milan (as evident in the 88 and 89 lists by Happie11) sent many old heroes to enjoy the deserved retirement. A few players (Maradona above all, but also Careca) could thrive all the ten years long, but it was clear that "classic football" era was over and a new kind of player had established himself as the dominator of world pitches: an athlete more than a performing artist, a destroyer more than a creator, quantity more than quality. Sad but inescapable.
I totally agree. However, I think it became even worse after the 2006 World Cup than it did when we entered the 90s. What I mean is that I still loved Michael Laudrup, Ronaldinho, Ronaldo Nazario and Zidane as artists. Others such as Baggio, Figo, Iniesta and the young Cristiano at Man United came close. But since the 2006 WC there has not been a single artist. There has been players so good that they were almost inhuman but they were never artists. Only athletes. Today it has never been worse. I totally agree. I still love football though and I’m still looking forward to posting my rankings right up until today.
for me ! was Michel Platini the best player of the 80's not not not Maradona for sure . ! But ... but, as all the players suffered from many many injuries in the 80's, this dispute ends up from being very very balanced between about 100 players who were great symbols of the 80's . decade of great technique but at the same time a very very violent, balanced, competitive, tougher decade... a place where the football product in general was not well cared for people responsible for the own product ... did not protect the big stars... from the extreme violence on the football pitch. place where the butcher of Death was very very happy. and protected
What catches my attention the most about Rabah Madjer is that he is very good at juggling But at the same time very very technical and very very ambi-dextrous feet ;; Volleys Lobs Free-kick taking Crossing shooting swerve Tries first time shots passing skills always with guidance of ambi-dextrous feet and vision .. one mentality very very ambi-dextrous feet ! like Johan Cruyff, Andreas Brehme and Pelé etc..etc..etc.. !
Zinedine Zidane Build The Ultimate Team #efootball #efootballmobile - YouTube between Michel Platini or Diego Armando Maradona Zidane stays with Michel Platini oui oui oui !
And with the 1988/89 season the 1980s concludes: A short overview: 1980 WORLD´S BEST PLAYER: Diego Maradona PLAYER OF THE SEASON: Diego Maradona GOLDEN BOY: Diego Maradona WORLD´S BEST MANAGER: Bob Paisley 1981 WORLD´S BEST PLAYER: Diego Maradona PLAYER OF THE SEASON: Zico GOLDEN BOY: Lothar Matthäus WORLD´S BEST MANAGER: Bob Paisley 1982 WORLD´S BEST PLAYER: Diego Maradona PLAYER OF THE SEASON: Zico GOLDEN BOY: Norman Whiteside WORLD´S BEST MANAGER: Tele Santana 1983 WORLD´S BEST PLAYER: Zico PLAYER OF THE SEASON: Michel Platini GOLDEN BOY: Michael Laudrup WORLD´S BEST MANAGER: Ernst Happel 1984 WORLD´S BEST PLAYER: Michel Platini PLAYER OF THE SEASON: Michel Platini GOLDEN BOY: Michael Laudrup WORLD´S BEST MANAGER: Giovanni Trappatoni 1985 WORLD´S BEST PLAYER: Michel Platini PLAYER OF THE SEASON: Michel Platini GOLDEN BOY: Enzo Scifo WORLD´S BEST MANAGER: Giovanni Trappatoni 1986 WORLD´S BEST PLAYER: Diego Maradona PLAYER OF THE SEASON: Diego Maradona GOLDEN BOY: Enzo Scifo WORLD´S BEST MANAGER: Valery Lobanovskiy 1987 WORLD´S BEST PLAYER: Diego Maradona PLAYER OF THE SEASON: Diego Maradona GOLDEN BOY: Paul Gascoigne WORLD´S BEST MANAGER: Arrigo Sacchi 1988 WORLD´S BEST PLAYER: Ruud Gullit PLAYER OF THE SEASON: Marco Van Basten GOLDEN BOY: Paolo Maldini WORLD´S BEST MANAGER: Arrigo Sacchi 1989 WORLD´S BEST PLAYER: Marco Van Basten PLAYER OF THE SEASON: Marco Van Basten GOLDEN BOY: Robert Prosinecki WORLD´S BEST MANAGER: Arrigo Sacchi TOP-10 Best Players: GOLD: Diego Maradona SILVER: Michel Platini BRONZE: Zico 4 Marco Van Basten 5 Ruud Gullit 6 Falcao 7 Hugo Sanchez 8 Jean Tigana 9 Frank Rijkaard 10 Lothar Matthäus BEST XI: SCHUMACHER - AMOROS - JUNIOR - SCIREA - FÖRSTER - TIGANA - FALCAO - ZICO - MARADONA - PLATINI - VAN BASTEN SACCHI (Manager) SUBS: (30-MAN SQUAD) DASSAEV - BERGOMI - BRIEGEL - KOEMAN - BARESI - HANSEN - MATTHÄUS - SOUNESS - CEREZO - SCHUSTER - BURRUCHAGA - GULLIT - GIRESSE - HODDLE - CARECA - ELKJAER - RUSH - LINEKER - SANCHEZ
My opinion: 1) Careca, H. Sanchez > Van Basten (as I have already stated a couple of times on this forum) 2) Cerezo > Rijkaard and Cerezo >=Tigana 3) Socrates > Hoddle, Giresse and Socrates >= Elkjaer
THE 50 BEST FOOTBALLER (1st AUGUST) 1990 (+20 HM) GOLD: Lothar MATTHÄUS (Inter) SILVER: Marco VAN BASTEN (AC Milan) BRONZE: Diego MARADONA (Napoli) 4 Franco BARESI (AC Milan) 5 Ruud GULLIT (AC Milan) 6 Hugo SANCHEZ (Real Madrid) 7 Jean-Pierre PAPIN (Marseille) 8 CARECA (Napoli) 9 Ronald KOEMAN (Barcelona) 10 Paul GASCOIGNE (Tottenham) 11 Roberto BAGGIO (Fiorentina) 12 Frank RIJKAARD (AC Milan) 13 Dragan STOJKOVIC (Red Star) 14 Chris WADDLE (Marseille) 15 Jürgen KLINSMANN (Inter) 16 Gianluca VIALLI (Sampdoria) 17 Andreas BREHME (Inter) 18 Gary LINEKER (Tottenham) 19 Enzo SCIFO (Auxerre) 20 Michael LAUDRUP (Barcelona) 21 John BARNES (Liverpool) 22 ALEMAO (Napoli) 23 Thomas HÄSSLER (FC Cologne) 24 Rudi VÖLLER (Roma) 25 Gheorghe HAGI (Steaua) 26 Salvatore SCHILACCI (Juventus) 27 Jürgen KOHLER (Bayern) 28 Paolo MALDINI (AC Milan) 29 Martin VASQUEZ (Real Madrid) 30 Paolo FUTRE (Atletico Madrid) 31 ROMARIO (PSV) 32 Roberto DONADONI (AC Milan) 33 Robert PROCINECKI (Red Star) 34 Hristo STOICHKOV (Sofia) 35 Des WALKER (Nottingham F) 36 MICHEL (Real Madrid) 37 Giuseppe GIANNINI (Roma) 38 Giuseppe BERGOMI (Inter) 39 Walter ZENGA (Inter) 40 Ricardo GOMES (Benfica) 41 Roberto MANCINI (Sampdoria) 42 Guido BUCHWALD (Stuttgart) 43 Carlos DUNGA (Fiorentina) 44 Pierre LITTBARSKI (FC Cologne) 45 Marc DEGRYSE (Anderlecht) 46 Claudio CANIGGIA (Atalanta) 47 David PLATT (Aston Villa) 48 BEBETO (Vasco da Gama) 49 Ruben SOSA (Lazio) 50 Carlos VALDERRAMA (Montpellier) 51 VALDO (Benfica) 52 Dejan SAVICEVIC (Red Star) 53 Franck SAUZEE (Marseille) 54 Tomas SKHURAVY (Sparta Prague) 55 Michel PREUD´HOMME (Mechelen) 56 Ruben PAZ (Strasbourg) 57 Brian LAUDRUP (Uerdingen) 58 Toni POLSTER (Torino) 59 Uwe BEIN (Frankfurt) 60 Andreas MÖLLER (Frankfurt) 61 Neville SOUTHALL (Everton) 62 Ian RUSH (Liverpool) 63 Mark HUGHES (Manchester U) 64 Carlos MOZER (Marseille) 65 Eric CANTONA (Montpellier) 66 Darko PANCEV (Red Star) 67 Tomas BROLIN (Norrkoping) 68 Pietro VIERCHOWOD (Sampdoria) 69 Laurent BLANC (Montpellier) 70 Hugo DE LEON (River Plate) Player of The Season: 1 Matthäus 2 Baresi 3 Maradona 4 Schilacci 5 Brehme 6 Gascoigne 7 Stojkovic 8 Papin 9 Sanchez 10 Waddle 11 Baggio Overall, it was tight. Prior to the World Cup, Van Basten was surely still no. 1. Before the World Cup, the Internazionale President wanted to off-load Matthäus because he felt Matthäus was past his peak. Sure to say he changed his mind after the WC. Did Matthäus leapfrog Van Basten due to being the best player at the World Cup? He just might have by a whisker. Gullit was injured all season and clearly wasn´t match fit for the WC. However, he was still regarded as one of the very best. Van Basten too had a stinker at the WC. He wanted to drop deeper and become a new Cruyff. He failed and as Gullit said “Van Basten isn´t good enough to play like Cruyff judged by this showing”. There was uproar in the Dutch camp. Gascoigne was immense. Scifo had a revival after two very poor seasons. So did Völler. Klinsmann was now one of the world´s best strikers. Barnes was world class in the domestic season for Liverpool but once again failed immensely to deliver for the national team and it seemed the English fans had had enough. Chris Waddle´s star was, however, becoming even brighter. Jürgen Kohler and Des Walker were starting to become two of the world´s best central defenders. Juventus wanted them both. BEST XI: ZENGA – BERGOMI – BREHME – BARESI – KOEMAN – GASCOIGNE – MATTHÄUS – GULLIT - MARADONA – VAN BASTEN – SANCHEZ ARRIGO SACCHI (Manager) GOLDEN BOY: 1 CAFU (Sao Paolo) 2 Lee SHARPE (Manchester U) 2 Alan SHEARER (Southampton) 3 Alen BOKSIC (Hajduk Split)
Great notes - Thanks. SOCRATES: Well of course it is a mistake that he is not present in my overview. Of course Socrates is in the team or at least on the bench. My mistake. It will be corrected when I revise the list. Surely. Cerezo > Rijkaard. Maybe you´re right. I do not feel most Europeans believe your´re right but as my rankings should reflect a world-wide opinion you might be right. It sure is a close call. However, we can agree that they did not peak at the same time so in some years Cerezo > Rijkaard while in other years the opposite. Overall it´s close. Careca/Sanchez > Van Basten. No I cannot agree on that! Not at all. But as my rankings should not be my own opinion but rather a world-wide opinion I´m sure we can find people who agrees with you and other people who agrees with me. In my rankings Van Basten will remain > Careca/Sanchez because I truly believe it is what most people around the world would say. However, as you can see in my rankings both Careca and Hugo are very high up for multiple years. So I centainly regard them as world-class.
I disagree Frank 73 ! Hugo Sanchez ... Hugo Sanchez : was a much better finisher than Van Basten Hugo Sanchez has about 250 acrobatic goals Volleys Bicycles-kicks Lobs First-time shots Shoots from Distance Free kick taker Flair Of Goal composure decision-making power positioning leadership Off the ball " offensive only " Off the ball " defensive " defensively he did nothing ;; and did not participate great center of gravity difficult for defenders to find and disarm him due to his smaller size and offensive movements without the ball like Diego Maradona when he was playing very very well and very inspired within the matches or during the Matches Hugo Sanchez was one of the best finishers of all time.. same level Pelé Puskas C. Ronaldo Gerd Muller Romário Hugo Sanchez when he was playing really really well in the matches sometimes he gave good final passes he participated more in the build-up phase of the game.. Drop Deeper more ++ But.. Hugo Sanchez when he was playing really very very bad on the field for example the games I watched in full by Hugo Sanchez Barcelona x Atletico Madrid 1982/1983 == Diego Maradona's Show Ac Milan 5 vs 0 Real Madrid Real 1 vs 1 Ac Milan 1988/1989 Ac 2 Milan vs 1 Real Madrid 1988 etc.etc..etc. he practically didn't do anything during these matches, he only made part of the shots on Target ratio % goal But he didn't contribute anything in the defensive part and didn't participate in the phase or moment of game construction " Build Up phase " van basten, Marco as a player he was much more complete than ..Hugo Sanchez easily . ! had more technique and skill than Hugo Sanchez easily. Hugo Sanchez >>>> Van Basten in finishing skills Total ..package ! Van Basten >>>>> Hugo Sanchez as a Total Footballer " center-forward "