I am not Portuguese, so from an unbiased perspective my top 5 would be: 1. Deco 2. Carvalho 3. Ronaldo 4. Figo 5. Maniche I think Deco is currently their best, he is their go to guy. Carvalho could be #1 but lets see what he does at Chelsea this year. Ronaldo is going to be good, but not #1 yet. Figo is on the downhill, Rui Costa is already fell out of this list a while ago and Maniche squeeks in at #5 due to his great season last year.
For me personally, in the top 15 -top 10 material yet. Playing well in Chelsea will move him up on the rankings.
deco does dive... my top, from a strikely village idiot perspective: 1) carvalho 2)Ronaldo 3)Deco, who'd be #2 if he didnt dive constantly 4)Maniche 5)Figo...on a good day he'd be three.
So it looks like Carvalho is getting the most #1 picks thus far. I find it kind if interesting that perhaps our best player is a defender considering Portugal is known as a fancy, offensive minded "beautiful game" type team. Miguel, another defender is arguably a top 5 guy also.
figo (still a galactico) deco(mvp) carvalho(best defender award) c.ronaldo (young european award) andrade (spanish team of the season)
maniche is a darkhorse he scares me he has the potential to be a good solid player and speaking of leadership skills i think hell be a great leader but we will have to see. forca portugal
Yeah I can definitely see him being captain...but don't you think he's a good solid player already...
1.carvalho 2.deco 3.ronaldo(only because he has'nt done nothing to impress me (Skills) so what score goals then i might have respect. 4.figo 5.maniche
Yes he scored some important goals. But Miguel had a better Euro. Maniche's seems to dissapear for long stretches and can't take over a game like Deco or Figo or even Quaresma.
I believe it was Maniche, Carvalho and Ronaldo that were named to the Euro 2004 All star squad. Miguel was very good, but didn't have the same impact.
I dont really follow the league games so I dont really know but based solely on NT games, Ill say.... 1. Carvalho (Played awesomely at the euro and saved us in a couple of games) 2. Ronaldo (People may hate me for saying this, but I think he made a major impact in the Euro..) 3. Miguel (He was one of our best offensive players and hes a defender!) 4. Maniche ( I said it before, he came up big for us and he had the goal of the Euro) 5. Tie between Figo and Deco (I would choose Figo over deco at this point tho because he has been the rock of the National team for like ever, plus, he was born in Portugal, Deco is brazilian..lol) Now I know a lot of people arent going to agree with my choices but I dont care, lol. Everyone probably thinks Im crazy for putting Deco tied for last, but I dont think he lived up to his reputation in the Euro, except that he dove alot!
1. Cristiano Ronaldo 2. Andrade 3. Carvalho 4. Miguel 5. Figo Our strength is in defence its between portugal and italy for the best defence deco is awesome but in the big games i have to say the defence has rarely let us down.