Who is your favorite player of all time?
Discussion
As it's currently World Cup fever, thought it would be a good time to discuss our favorite player's of all time - not necessarily the player you consider the best.
I always had a soft spot for the Croatia team of the late 90s/early-00s and genuinly my favorite player of all time is Davor Suker. That guy was an underrated magician at his peak.
Golden Boot winner in the '98 World Cup.
Who could forget this (least of all Schmeichel):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5842qD17uu4
skip to 3:30
I always had a soft spot for the Croatia team of the late 90s/early-00s and genuinly my favorite player of all time is Davor Suker. That guy was an underrated magician at his peak.
Golden Boot winner in the '98 World Cup.
Who could forget this (least of all Schmeichel):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5842qD17uu4
skip to 3:30
ker ! he made me support Spurs if only i had known the misery he would have caused me throughout the years.
I've always loved watching Peter Beardsley. A local hero for me and a lovely bloke to meet in person. At his peak, he could do magical things with a football. There have been greater, more technical and bigger flair players but he's the man I think of most fondly when talking about football.
George Best, without question the greatest player I have ever seen live. He played several games when I was present and the thrill around the crowd when he just touched the ball has never been equalled IMO. The expectation and reverence in a football crowd of that size was just exhilarating to perceive.
The other side players were all equally affected by turning into headless chickens. Best ran around three with the ball glued to his feet sidestepped a side ankle from a fourth, jumped over another rubbish attempt to break his legs, lined up with goal tipped the ball over the goalie into the goal and pandemonium ensued.
Best was already on his way back to his restart position before the ball even entered the net. Just supern confident football demonstrated by the most glorious footballer there has ever been. I though Tom Finney was highly regarded but with Best the losing supporters were cheering with the scoring side. The skill was so consummate and the results so breathtaking there was nothing else anyone on the ground could do except admire the depth of skill and vision in the greatest natural footballer of all time.
The other side players were all equally affected by turning into headless chickens. Best ran around three with the ball glued to his feet sidestepped a side ankle from a fourth, jumped over another rubbish attempt to break his legs, lined up with goal tipped the ball over the goalie into the goal and pandemonium ensued.
Best was already on his way back to his restart position before the ball even entered the net. Just supern confident football demonstrated by the most glorious footballer there has ever been. I though Tom Finney was highly regarded but with Best the losing supporters were cheering with the scoring side. The skill was so consummate and the results so breathtaking there was nothing else anyone on the ground could do except admire the depth of skill and vision in the greatest natural footballer of all time.
For me it was Del Piero, I was a big fan of Italian football in the 90's and the things he could do with a football at pace never failed to make my jaw drop. He was never the same after injury, but even in his twilight years with Juve, he was different class. I still remember him taking a free kick against Man City in the Europa League from about 45 yards out, and promptly pinged it off the crossbar - keeper was nowhere.
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