Greatest players by Country

leedsfan88

Hey all i rememmber reading a list of football players who are considered to be the best of all time by country.

The list was done by picking only one player from each country, i think it was only european countries.

Its not the FIFA 100, an help would be great if you can posat a link to the list, i think John Giles was irelands player on this list.

Mr.Nice Guy

You might be thinking of the UEFA Jubilee Awards. Here's the list:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UEFA_Jubilee_Awards

leedsfan88

Mr.Nice Guy wrote: »

You might be thinking of the UEFA Jubilee Awards. Here's the list:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UEFA_Jubilee_Awards

thats the one, much appreicated buddy

Johnny Utah

Mr.Nice Guy wrote: »

You might be thinking of the UEFA Jubilee Awards. Here's the list:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UEFA_Jubilee_Awards

The Great John Giles :cool:

ziggy

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Coillte_Bhoy

ziggy wrote: »

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Me neither but then we're paranoid aint we?;)

steelcityblues

Fontaine over Platini?
Bobby Moore over Bobby Charlton?
Law over Dalglish?
Giles over Keane or McGrath?

karma_

steelcityblues wrote: »

Fontaine over Platini?
Bobby Moore over Bobby Charlton?
Law over Dalglish?
Giles over Keane or McGrath?

McGrath is a good shout but Ireland's best player was Brady.

Shanotheslayer

steelcityblues wrote: »

Giles over Keane or McGrath?

McShane tbh...

dreamers75

Giles> Brady>Mc grath

in that order, seriously Giles was a legend of a player imagine Keane with Xavis passing. Filthy bastid tho

UnknownSpecies

Aboy Gilesy, I'd love to see him say it to Eamonn

pickarooney

Ah Darko Pancev, what a bizarre fall from grace. 94 goals in 91 games and then 16 in the next five years.

Mart Poom is Estonia's greatest ever player. What a country.

eagle eye

Fontaine over Platini? Yeah Zizou imo.
Bobby Moore over Bobby Charlton? Tom Finney or Stanley Matthews for me.
Law over Dalglish? Dave Mackay and Jinky Johnstone deserve a shout.
Giles over Keane or McGrath? ugh each to his own. Keano was the best midfielder in his time in the league, Giles was one of the best in his time.

DazMarz

Northern Ireland had a nice handy one; George Best. Probably the most gifted midfielder to grace these islands... and the only decent footballer to ever come out of Northern Ireland!

Pauleta

Pauleta>Eusebio

eagle eye

DazMarz wrote: »

Northern Ireland had a nice handy one; George Best. Probably the most gifted midfielder to grace these islands... and the only decent footballer to ever come out of Northern Ireland!

Agreed on Best but Northern Ireland had a lot of top footballers. Pat Jennings comes to mind immediately, Sammy McIrloy was a top class footballer too, Gerry Armstrong, Mal Donaghy, Martin O'Neill, Danny Blanchflower, Jimmy McIlroy, Harry Gregg are others.

gosplan

Spain – Alfredo di Stéfano

sneaky!!!!

tommyhaas

eagle eye wrote: »

Giles over Keane or McGrath? ugh each to his own. Keano was the best midfielder in his time in the league, Giles was one of the best in his time.

Agree with you but theres not a chance the FAI were guna choose Roy Keane

Eddie Mcgoldrick deserves a mention tho

Macca07

Try and pick the best starting XI from that list... not that easy

Neil3030

Macca07 wrote: »

Try and pick the best starting XI from that list... not that easy

The bias towards strikers makes a plausible team a bit tricky, but once this team got the ball I'd reckon they'd be pretty damn good:

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Zoff

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Moore----Charles--Bratseth----

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-Best----Giles----Laudrup----Džajić-

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Cruyff

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di Stefano

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Puskas

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Macca07

I'd pick Lev Yashin over Zoff any day!!!

pickarooney

How about some non-UEFA ones?

There are a few no-brainers like
Liberia: George Weah (Christopher Wreh fans keep it down)
Panama: Julio Dely Valdez
Costa Rica: Paulo Wanchope
Zambia: Kalusha Bwalya
Iran: Ali Daei

dyl10

I'd be surprised if many of the posting community here ever got to see much of Giles tbh.

dyl10

Nedved probably passed out Josef Masopust for Czech Republic shortly after this list was made.

rednik

DazMarz wrote: »

Northern Ireland had a nice handy one; George Best. Probably the most gifted midfielder to grace these islands... and the only decent footballer to ever come out of Northern Ireland!

You seem to have forgotten the great Ian Dowie.:p

greendom

steelcityblues wrote: »

Fontaine over Platini?

Fontaine wasn't even the best player for France in the 58 WC. Still, doubt his record will ever be beaten

gosplan

greendom wrote: »

Fontaine wasn't even the best player for France in the 58 WC. Still, doubt his record will ever be beaten

Yeah, he was on a goal-scoring mad one!!

Anyway, he shouldn't be there. Only got 20 or so caps for France.

It just has to be Zidane and I really don't see that there's a worthy discussion about it.

One world cup win, dragged team to another final. Set world record transfer fee, tonnes of club honours, 108 international caps. How can you argue against Zizou?

It seems that the only way you can give it to Fontaine is that he set a world cup goalscoring record.

However, 7 of his goals were netted in a first round match against Paraguay and in the third place playoff against Germany. Zizou got a double in the final.

tommyhaas

rednik wrote: »

You seem to have forgotten the great Ian Dowie.:p

How could anyone forget that hansom devil

rednik

tommyhaas wrote: »

How could anyone forget that hansom devil

To be fair on the children and everyone else you should have put NSFW on that photo.

I saw Giles play near the end of his career and he was a football great. Brady was the best of his era and Keane was in his era. But I would put Paul McGrath above them all. He was the most naturally gifted footballer I have ever seen. He made the game luck easy, never got flustered and made some of his centre back partners look good, which in itself was some feat. I would put him up with the great defenders like Baresi, Moore, Costacurta, Maldini, Nesta's of this world. If only he trained.:)

aidan24326

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I would have thought Dalgleish tbh.


And I've never seen Just Fontaine play but if he was better than Zidane he must have been one hell of a player. For me Zidane would be in the reckoning for an all-time 11.

lubo_moravcik

ziggy wrote: »

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Surely John Fleck would top the list Timmy

Bob the Seducer

tommyhaas wrote: »

How could anyone forget that hansom devil

Leave Dirk Kuyt's da out of this

leedsfan88

Bob the Seducer wrote: »

Leave Dirk Kuyt's da out of this

The resembles is uncanny:D