Originally posted by RAIDER:
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KEEPER : Walter Zengar
DEFENDER : Franco Baresi
STRIKER : Marco Van Basten/ Ian Rush
My all time favourite would be Marco Van Basten.Can anyone name another player who scored three consecutive hat tricks in top level competitive matches?The likes of Henry and Owen still have a long way to go before they can go into the Football World's Strikers' Hall of Fame.
Anyway,I also like "hard" and physical players such as Edgar Davids,Roy Keane,Patrick Viera and Christian Vieri.Another type of player I like is the "defensive playmaker"(as opposed to the "offensive playmaker" read Zinedine Zidane,Pavel Nedved etc etc).In this category would be Gaikza Mendieta,Xavi,Josep Guardiola,Fernando Redondo,Edgar Davids,Demetrio Albertini and recently Becks.Their position is defensive midfield but they possess great playmaking skills on top of their defensive qualities.
It's a shame that Mendieta,who I think is the most complete player in the football fraternity,is rotting away in a third rate team somewhere...Only 3 years ago,he had the world at his feet...