Best World XI....

3 minutes ago, markg said:

 

Chilavert

 

Lahm

Paul McGrath

Godin

Maldini

 

 

 

Nedved

Mascherano

Okacha

 

Bale

Shearer

Bebeto

Yep.

Think you've done it.

I was born in 86, so my team was...

Southall (Wales) - Everton (numerous others but no one good)

Lahm (Germany) - Stuttgart, Bayern
Kompany (Belg) - City, Anderlecht
Koubailly (Senegal) - Napoli, Genk
Maldini (Italy) - AC Milan

Nedved (Czech) - Lazio, Juventus
Gerrard (Eng) - Liverpool, LA Galaxy 
Keane (Irish) - Man U, Celtic

Raul (Spain) - Real Madrid, Schalke
Drogba (Ivory Coast) - Chelsea, Marseille, Gallatasary
Messi (Argen) - Barcelona

Assume that's correct, but no doubt two of them were at Guingamp for six months.

23 minutes ago, SiJ said:

Yep.

 

Think you've done it.

 

I was born in 86, so my team was...

 

Southall (Wales) - Everton (numerous others but no one good)

Lahm (Germany) - Stuttgart, Bayern
Kompany (Belg) - City, Anderlecht
Koubailly (Senegal) - Napoli, Genk
Maldini (Italy) - AC Milan

Nedved (Czech) - Lazio, Juventus
Gerrard (Eng) - Liverpool, LA Galaxy 
Keane (Irish) - Man U, Celtic

Raul (Spain) - Real Madrid, Schalke
Drogba (Ivory Coast) - Chelsea, Marseille, Gallatasary
Messi (Argen) - Barcelona

Assume that's correct, but no doubt two of them were at Guingamp for six months.

That's a good team. I was struggling towards the end. Not happy with my keeper choice really.

F*** me this is harder than it looks

Gordon Banks 

Roland Nilsson

Alessandro Nesta

Virgil Van Dijk

Phillip Lahm

Kevin De Bruyne

Michel Platini

Eusabio

George Best

Lionel Messi

Pele

Dont think i,ve ballsed up ??

30 minutes ago, sheriwozgod said:

F*** me this is harder than it looks

 

Gordon Banks 

 

Roland Nilsson

Alessandro Nesta

Virgil Van Dijk

Phillip Lahm

 

Kevin De Bruyne

Michel Platini

 

Eusabio

George Best

Lionel Messi

 

Pele

 

Dont think i,ve ballsed up ??

Nice.

Great thread! 

Friedel

Maldini

Giminez

Adams

Okocha

Kante

Juninho P. 

Sneijder

Messi

Lewandowski 

C. Ronaldo

4 hours ago, SiJ said:

Saw this on Twitter.

 

Pick your world best XI.

 

Rules are:

 

- you have to have been alive to see them actually play 

- none of the players can have played for the same club(s) 

- none of the players can be of the same nationality...

 

Enjoy...

So seeing clips of them on TV (when originally before you were born) doesn’t count?

And nor does stuff you can’t remember live (ie. when you were about 2/3)?

2 hours ago, sheriwozgod said:

F*** me this is harder than it looks

 

Gordon Banks 

 

Roland Nilsson

Alessandro Nesta

Virgil Van Dijk

Phillip Lahm

 

Kevin De Bruyne

Michel Platini

 

Eusabio

George Best

Lionel Messi

 

Pele

 

Dont think i,ve ballsed up ??

I think you're good.

The ones that kept catching me out were the Italian players or those who play in Serie A.

Unlike other countries, it is reasonably common for the top players to have played for or being on the books at some point of all the big clubs.

You look at Zlatan and he had spells with Inter, Juve and AC.

Same with Pirlo.

1 minute ago, PeteG_1984 said:

So seeing clips of them on TV (when originally before you were born) doesn’t count?

 

And nor does stuff you can’t remember live (ie. when you were about 2/3)?

Basically, you had to have been alive when they played and, ideally, seen them play at some point, whether on tv, in the flesh etc.

So no, if you're 25, you cant chuck in Pele.

If you're in your mid-30s you could put old Diego in though...

1 hour ago, CalmJimmers said:

Great thread! 

 

Friedel

 

Maldini

Giminez

Adams

 

Okocha

Kante

Juninho P. 

Sneijder

 

Messi

Lewandowski 

C. Ronaldo

I think sneijder played for madrid at some  point as with  c Ronaldo 

2 minutes ago, markg said:

I think sneijder played for madrid at some  point as with  c Ronaldo 

Bugger! 

Take out Sneijder for David Silva

5 hours ago, markg said:

Schmeichel

 

Lahm

Desailly

Godin

Maldini

 

 

 

Nedved

Mascherano

Okacha

 

Bale

Shearer

Bebeto

 

 

Surprisingly difficult. Bet I've messed up somewhere too.

 

 

Desailly played for Milan didn't he? Same as Maldini? 

5 hours ago, Stoop said:

                        Schmeichel

 

      Lahm           Nesta.     Stam       Cole
 

  Ronaldinho   Iniesta.  Zidane.     Ronaldo     

   
                  Messi.    Ibrahimovic

 

So many Milan players

Jeez this is hard, was happy until I had to take Van Basten out as both he and Maldini played for Milan.

Hopefully this qualifies?

Probably not solid enough with only 3 at the back but I plan on keeping the ball in midfield

Peter Schmeichel (Den)

Roland Nilsson (Swe)
Paolo Maldini (Ita)
Philipp Lahm (Ger)

Socrates (Bra)
David Silva (Esp)
Zinedine Zidane (Fra)
Dragan Stojković (Yug/Ser)
Paul Gascoigne (Eng)

Lionel Messi (Arg)
Dennis Bergkamp (Ned)

That is really hard!
 

Attacking 4-3-3 with a set piece specialist goalkeeper
 

GK Rogério Ceni (Brazil) São Paulo.

RB Roland Nilsson (Sweden) Helsingborg, IFK, Wednesday, Coventry, GAIS.

CB Lothar Matthäus (Germany) Mönchengladbach, Bayern, Inter, Metrostars, Herzogenaurach.

CB Alex McLeish (Scotland) Aberdeen, Motherwell.

LB Takis Fyssas (Greece) Panionis, Panathinaikos, Benfica, Hearts.

MF Andrés Iniesta (Spain) Barcelona, Kobe.

MF Francesco Totti (Italy) Roma.
MF Steven Gerrard (England) Liverpool, LA Galaxy.
 

FW Sergio Agüero (Argentina) Independiente, Atletico Madrid, Man City.

FW Marco van Basten (Netherlands) Ajax, Milan.

FW Cristiano Ronaldo (Portugal) Sporting, Man United, Real Madrid, Juventus.

Alex McCleish in a world X1