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With the WC around the corner, I started watching some reviews since Spain 82 and got me thinking about some amazing footballers that changed this games. So, without any running around, what is the best eleven you ever saw?

I will start. 4-3-3 formation

Zenga - Cafu, Nesta, Cannavaro, Maldini - Hagi, Maradona, Silva - Messi, Ronaldinho, Inzaghi.
coach: Guardiola.

Kolarov
Kolarov Kolarov Kolarov Kolarov
Kolarov Kolarov Kolarov Kolarov
Kolarov Kolarov

----------------Dasayev
Thuram---Baresi----Mattheus---Maldini
---------------------Vieira
-----------Iniesta--------Zidane
----------------Maradona
---------Messi---------Henry

You just can't have a best 11 without Baresi.

Mase wrote:Kolarov
Kolarov Kolarov Kolarov Kolarov
Kolarov Kolarov Kolarov Kolarov
Kolarov Kolarov

Doesn't Razza get a game?

patrickblue wrote:

Mase wrote:Kolarov
Kolarov Kolarov Kolarov Kolarov
Kolarov Kolarov Kolarov Kolarov
Kolarov Kolarov

Doesn't Razza get a game?

Maybe if Kolarov gets injured, but then there's still Kolarov to come off the bench. Depends if the manager Kolarov puts him on.

Brazil 1970

Except the goalkeeper

Niall Quinns Discopants wrote:----------------Dasayev
Thuram---Baresi----Mattheus---Maldini
---------------------Vieira
-----------Iniesta--------Zidane
----------------Maradona
---------Messi---------Henry

That's a cracking eleven! Would walk over any team in this WC.

Her from stranger things turned in a great performance

---------------------Trautmann------------------
Cafu----Cannavaro----Beckanbauer---Maldini
---------Bell ---------Xavi---------Zidane-----------
-------Messi---------Pele----------Ronaldo-------

Cooper
Fleming
Hinchcliffe
Bishop
Gayle
Redmond
White
Brightwell
Morley
Oldfield
Lake

Tokyo Blue wrote:Cooper
Fleming
Hinchcliffe
Bishop
Gayle
Redmond
White
Brightwell
Morley
Oldfield
Lake

Like

Tokyo Blue wrote:Cooper
Fleming
Hinchcliffe
Bishop
Gayle
Redmond
White
Brightwell
Morley
Oldfield
Lake

Was Lake that good? Never had the chance to see him at all, not even in highlights.

PeterParker wrote:

Tokyo Blue wrote:Cooper
Fleming
Hinchcliffe
Bishop
Gayle
Redmond
White
Brightwell
Morley
Oldfield
Lake

Was Lake that good? Never had the chance to see him at all, not even in highlights.

I am biased, of course, but yes, I believe he was that good and was only 21 at the time of his injury.

He'd have fitted into today's team a treat. Think KdB's role. Or Fernandinho's. Or either side as a full-back.

Tokyo Blue wrote:Cooper
Fleming
Hinchcliffe
Bishop
Gayle
Redmond
White
Brightwell
Morley
Oldfield
Lake

Solid.

Cloughie's Forest at their imperious best :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAIs0yFvHFk

PeterParker wrote:

Tokyo Blue wrote:Cooper
Fleming
Hinchcliffe
Bishop
Gayle
Redmond
White
Brightwell
Morley
Oldfield
Lake

Was Lake that good? Never had the chance to see him at all, not even in highlights.

Yes. quite simply, he was THAT good.

I'm going with my personal favourite WC players rather than the best.

...........................Bast.......................
Maldini.......Koeman....Baresi.... Zabaleta...
...............Tigana ........Schwarz........
Socrates.........Laudrup........Burruchaga
.......................Stoichkov................

Assume the thread is about World Cup best XIs

Therefore.

Banks
Carlos Alberto, Beckenbauer, Baresi, Maldini
Zidane, Vieira, Maradona
Pele, Messi,Ronaldo

If it’s actual sides who have played together in a World Cup then Brazil 1970 would take some beating

If it’s actual sides who have played together than City 2018 will take some beating

nottsblue wrote:Assume the thread is about World Cup best XIs

Therefore.

Banks
Carlos Alberto, Beckenbauer, Baresi, Maldini
Zidane, Vieira, Maradona
Pele, Messi,Ronaldo

If it’s actual sides who have played together in a World Cup then Brazil 1970 would take some beating

If it’s actual sides who have played together than City 2018 will take some beating

No Cruyff?