Christian Vieri. Hes so goddam consistent its scary. Close second would be Roberto Baggio. This guy was my idol from wc94 until he bailed on Juventus for their biggest rival AC Milan.
Ruud Gullit= complete player, played defense,midfield and could play forward, created lots of goals and scored lots of goals, in 1988, won both World and European player of the year, dedicated his Honor to Nelson Mandela, and won everything in Club Football with AC Milan.
Franco Baresi - Slow,ugly, scored very few goal, read the game better than anybody - always in the right place
For along time it was Erwin "Platini" Sanchez a Bolivian midfielder playing in Portugal. But after watching Marco Etcheverry for the last six years in DC , I'm sure I saw the best player ever to come out of my country. He's done some amazing things.
Ya, but Rivaldo can get his shot off so quickly with very little space...better than any active player at least.
Ole Gunnar Solskjaer. He's from a part of Norway near where my mom is from. He's got the cool nickname (which he doesn't like) - "the baby faced assasin". I was fortunate enough to see him play in person this past summer when Norway took on Holland at Ullevaal Stadium in Oslo. Oh yeah, he's not a bad player, either.