Greatest World Cup player ever

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Originally Posted by RogerMilla

Diego for me , pele over-rated imo but still good enough to come in second best in world cup terms , Zidane performed hugely for Real as well and i would put him in second after diego on my all time list with pele third.
I think Diego is by far the best player ever though, a world cup and another final , went to napoli who had never won eff all and then won them a couple of leagues and a uefa cup , they never won eff all after he left either. can't be a coincidence that argentina lost the game that he left early against germany this year either!!

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what has napoli / league / uefa cup got to do with world cup ..

it that is the case then gary neville must be up there 8-9 league medals / european cup/ fa cups etc :confused: :confused:

Jimmy Bullard

roy keane lol

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Originally Posted by old git

what has napoli / league / uefa cup got to do with world cup ..

it that is the case then gary neville must be up there 8-9 league medals / european cup/ fa cups etc :confused: :confused:

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Agreed. I'm more of a Maradona fan but you can't argue that Pele's world cup record was superior.
More games, more wins, more medals.

pele for me although i like maradona more.

Surprised to see that a player who has scored in 2 World Cup finals and carried his team to the second one fails to make this shortlist. Its amazing.

I'm in the Maradona camp on this one. Pele was playing in a team frequently hailed as the best ever, Maradona basically won the thing on his own, so he shades it for me.

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Originally Posted by keenanboy

Surprised to see that a player who has scored in 2 World Cup finals and carried his team to the second one fails to make this shortlist. Its amazing.

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He may have carried his team in the knock out stages, a whole three games against a sub standard Brazilian team, the under achieving Spanish and a tired Portugal side.

He was non existant in the group games.

Has to be Maradona. Won a world cup on his own. Pele was surrounded by greats in his Brazil team. Also, dragging Napoli to 2 titles and a UEFA Cup while coked out his head is some achievement. The handball against England is my favourite moment as it still ****es them off over 20 years later!!!

leon best

94 world cup, georgi hagi& hristo stoichkov, great players
anyone remeber yordan letchkov a baldy fella for bulgaria, a one hit wonder but wasnt he great for that one hit

McGrath....he would appreciate the accolade the most. maradona and pele have plent of titles to their name already. giants stadium 94, baggio and signori didnt get a kick and he was playing with an infection in his arm. rome 90, he bossed the midfield. with a better tactician at the helm we would have beaten italy.

he is the greatest irish soccer plyer of all time

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Originally Posted by The-Beer-Baron

McGrath....he would appreciate the accolade the most. maradona and pele have plent of titles to their name already. giants stadium 94, baggio and signori didnt get a kick and he was playing with an infection in his arm. rome 90, he bossed the midfield. with a better tactician at the helm we would have beaten italy.

he is the greatest irish soccer plyer of all time

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Amen to that. He's probably also the best loved Irish soccer player of all time by fans too into the bargain.:ball:

Roberto Carlos

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Originally Posted by Shilts

Has to be Maradona. Won a world cup on his own. Pele was surrounded by greats in his Brazil team. Also, dragging Napoli to 2 titles and a UEFA Cup while coked out his head is some achievement. The handball against England is my favourite moment as it still ****es them off over 20 years later!!!

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Your highlight of all World Cups is a moment of cheating. :rolleyes: Pathetic.

No doubt though Maradona was the best player I have ever seen, the moment above aside.

All in all it has to be between Pele/Maradona/Ronaldo and Zidane

Pele - Well do I really need to go into what this guy has done at the World Cup? (He'd be my pick incidentally)

Maradona (Won the '86 World Cup, did about as good as most in the poorest World Cup ever (90), and, well, lets forget about his moment of madness at USA 94. I think what counts against him is that he's a cheating ***** to b honest

Ronaldo - All time top goalscorer, was part of the 94 winning squad, played some great stuff at then 98 World Cup before his breakdown, came back after terrible injuries to lead Brazil to the 2002 World Cup. What counts against him is the '98 Final when he shouldn't have been played (not his fault I know, but still), and Brazil's poor showing at the 2006 World Cup

Zidane - Inspired at the '98 World Cup Final, caught the whole of Frances imagination during that tournament, didn't do anything in a poor French side at the '02 Cup, played some great stuff in the knockout stages at the 2006 World Cup, scored one of the most memorable goals of World Cup Final history at the same tournament. What counts against him is his sendings off at both the 98 and 06 World Cup, and the disaster that was France at the 02 World Cup

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Originally Posted by The-Beer-Baron

McGrath....he would appreciate the accolade the most. maradona and pele have plent of titles to their name already.

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Sure why not name me as greatest player then - I've never won anything and I'd really appreciate it!

Haw,Haw Haw,at the end of the day like...it has to be Roy.....

What about Platini...was France's best player in 3 world cups and was robbed
for a place in the final by West Germany...twice. Probably the classiest player of his generation. Hes a bit of a ***** now but was top,top player in his day!

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Originally Posted by Rambler1

Haw,Haw Haw,at the end of the day like...it has to be Roy.....

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..of the Rovers ?