Whom do you rate....?

Zwarte Piet on weed wrote:

Pierre Littbarski wrote:Best at volleys

HughesLe Tissier

No way.

1. Taking freekicks?

Juninho

2. Crossing the ball?

David Beckham

3. Most elegant tackles?

Franco Baresi

4. Scoring off the head?

Nicos Dabizas

5. Dribbling past players?

C. Ronaldo

Tweesus of Nazareth wrote:

5. Push and run?

C. Ronaldo/Henry

Taking freekicks: Lampard

Crossing the ball: Ashley Cole

Most Elegant tackles: Scholes

Scoring off the head: Tavano

Dribbling past players: Sol Campbell/Thierry Henry

Pierre Littbarski wrote:

Most Elegant tackles: Scholes

Another good choice.

Pierre Littbarski wrote:

Tweesus of Nazareth wrote:

5. Push and run?

C. Ronaldo/Henry

Taking freekicks: Lampard

Crossing the ball: Ashley Cole

Most Elegant tackles: Scholes

Scoring off the head: Tavano

Dribbling past players: Sol Campbell/Thierry Henry

Yeh right. Now i know you're taking the piss.

Taking freekicks: Van hooidonk

Crossing the ball: Figo

Most Elegant tackles: dunno

Scoring off the head: crespo the ones he did against ajax were pure class

Dribbling past players: zidane because he didnt have the pace of ronaldo/ronaldinho/messi yet he still seemed to stroll past players.

Zwarte Piet on weed wrote:

Pierre Littbarski wrote:Best at volleys

HughesLe Tissier

Crossing the ball - Oddo

Threads like this have good mileage. You could easily include categories like finishing or flair.

Volleys-Van Basten better than Hughes IMO even Jeremy Goss was good at it once

as for Flair can someone please explain what Flair really is because i tend to hear different views on it.

Taking freekicks: Nakamura >>>> Juninho=Riquelme

Crossing the ball: Figo= Beckham

Most Elegant tackles: Toure

Scoring off the head: Crespo=Inzaghi

Dribbling past players: Messi=Hleb >>>> Ronaldo

Taking freekicks: Just too many outstanding candidates to choose. Juninho, Zidane, Rivaldo, Beckham (more for indirect delivery), Van Hooijdonk

Crossing the ball: If you're not including Beckham in the this category you don't know what you're talking about. Best crosser of the ball of all time without a doubt.

Most Elegant tackles: Elegant?!? What?

Scoring off the head: Crespo, Shearer recently at least

Dribbling past players: Maradona, Messi

Krimbo wrote:

The Bulk wrote:

Krimbo wrote:Taking freekicks - Juninho/Van Hooijdonk
Crossing the ball - Figo
Most elegant tackles - Maldini
Scoring off the head - Shearer
Dribbling past players - Kanchelskis/Zidane/Ronaldinho(i appreciate the ones that don't need pace or acceleration to get past players, it's more impressive)

Kanchelskis! Kanchelskis!

I can't even remember him beating players with his pace never mind beating players with trickery!

Ok maybe at Man Utd with his acceleration but are you sure about skill?!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rySVv9Ka5Ag

Ok I think this is genius but he didnt beat anybody just took the absolute pi55 out of a small scottish team...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQJtZF_6Fyc&feature=related

I just wanted to put a little guy on there. I was going to put Ginola on but thought it would appear biased. I seem to remember a game where he took on a bunch of players, i think it might've been for City, which is probably why he popped into my head.

You sure you arent thinking of Kinkladze? He played for City and was a skillful player..Kanchelskis was all about the pace I think really..


Taking freekicks - Beckham/Juninho
Crossing the ball - Beckham...Downing
Most elegant tackles - I dunno..Nigel Pearson?
Scoring off the head - Shearer..Pogatetz
Dribbling past players - JUNINHO PAULISTA

Kanchelskis did do the ultimate showboat though when he was at Everton. Stood on the ball and pretended to be looking for ships sailing in...

Was it Kanchelskis who did the thing where he just jumped and span in the air as a trick one time aswell?

Juninhio and Kinkladze would both be good choices if they were Italian.

Kancheslkis did both of those btw.

1. Taking freekicks? Juninho, Haessler, Ruben Sosa.
2. Crossing the ball? Beckham, Haessler, Deisler
3. Most elegant tackles? Best were before my time. Jurgen Kohler was my fav
4. Scoring off the head? K-H Riedle
5. Dribbling past players? Ronaldo & Maradona

Isar Truppe wrote:1. Taking freekicks? Juninho, Haessler, Ruben Sosa.
2. Crossing the ball? Beckham, Haessler, Deisler
3. Most elegant tackles? Best were before my time. Jurgen Kohler was my fav
4. Scoring off the head? K-H Riedle
5. Dribbling past players? Ronaldo & Maradona

No Bierhoff? Didnt he break some kind of Serie A record for the most headed goals in a season or something?

For me:
Freekicks - Van Hooijdonk, Juninho, Mihailovic, Beckham
Crossing - Beckham, Figo
Tacklers - From what I've seen Der Kaiser, Moore, Maldini
Head - Bierhoff, Shearer, Vieri
Dribbling - Maradonna, Zidane, Waddle, Ribery, Ronaldo

1. Taking freekicks? Direct - Juninho, PVH. Indirect - Beckham.
2. Crossing the ball? Beckham; I dont think I have ever seen anyone cross the ball as well as him.
3. Most elegant tackles?
4. Scoring off the head? Bierhoff, Les Ferdinand, Vieri, Boggetti, Shearer
5. Dribbling past players? Ronaldo, Maradona, Messi, Giggs

bluenine wrote:

When someone puts Del Piero or even Pirlo above him in terms of fks, its either just complete bias or they just haven't seen enuf of Mihajlovic. There is no way these guys are better than Mihajlovic.... absolutely no way.

I agree. Delps is better than Pirlo but still definitely not as good as Mihajlovic.

Good to see you back, RnB!!

Red n' Black wrote:

bluenine wrote:

When someone puts Del Piero or even Pirlo above him in terms of fks, its either just complete bias or they just haven't seen enuf of Mihajlovic. There is no way these guys are better than Mihajlovic.... absolutely no way.

I agree. Delps is better than Pirlo but still definitely not as good as Mihajlovic.

borocooper wrote:

Krimbo wrote:

The Bulk wrote:

Krimbo wrote:Taking freekicks - Juninho/Van Hooijdonk
Crossing the ball - Figo
Most elegant tackles - Maldini
Scoring off the head - Shearer
Dribbling past players - Kanchelskis/Zidane/Ronaldinho(i appreciate the ones that don't need pace or acceleration to get past players, it's more impressive)

Kanchelskis! Kanchelskis!

I can't even remember him beating players with his pace never mind beating players with trickery!

Ok maybe at Man Utd with his acceleration but are you sure about skill?!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rySVv9Ka5Ag

Ok I think this is genius but he didnt beat anybody just took the absolute pi55 out of a small scottish team...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQJtZF_6Fyc&feature=related

I just wanted to put a little guy on there. I was going to put Ginola on but thought it would appear biased. I seem to remember a game where he took on a bunch of players, i think it might've been for City, which is probably why he popped into my head.

You sure you arent thinking of Kinkladze? He played for City and was a skillful player..Kanchelskis was all about the pace I think really..

$h!t, i was thinking of Kinkladze!!! Good spot smogcopter. Easy to get the two mixed up.

1. Taking freekicks? Mijathovic
2. Crossing the ball? Figo
3. Most elegant tackles? Maldini
4. Scoring off the head? Jardel (it was something really out of this world when he was in form...)
5. Dribbling past players? Maradona (an honorable mention to Paulo Frute here also. Wonderful left foot.)

1. Taking freekicks? Mihajlovic - agree with Blue, his conversion rate was unbelievable.

2. Crossing the ball? Beckham - he always finds the head of the striker!

3. Most elegant tackles? Maldini - in the 90s, elegance personified!

4. Scoring off the head? Batistuta - the complete striker!

5. Dribbling past players? Maradona - 86, anyone?

1. Best Penalty Stopper-?
2. Best Penalty Taker-?
3. Best Impact Player-?
4. Best Passer-?
5. Best Finisher?

1. Taking freekicks?
Pirlo, Beckham, Hugo Viana

2. Crossing the ball?
Figo... then Beckham

3. Most elegant tackles?
Polga, Maldini

4. Scoring off the head?
Jardel the best there was. Shearer was good too.

5. Dribbling past players?
Zidane, Ronaldinho, Rui Costa, Figo (Schmeichel goal )

Luso wrote:1. Taking freekicks?
Pirlo, Beckham, Hugo Viana

I remember him scoring a couple for us. He had a sweet left foot, just a shame he was in the same team as Robert and Solano.

1. Best Penalty Stopper- Goycochea
2. Best Penalty Taker- Baggio
3. Best Impact Player- I am not sure I understand what you mean
4. Best Passer- Veron for accuracy, Zidane/Totti for vision
5. Best Finisher? too many over the years... at the mo, its will probably be one of RVN, Toni, or Treze

Impact Player i mean by Substitute(i.e which player is best at coming off the bench and change a game) because i stupidly bought the latest edition of World Soccer Magazine which picked out Julio Cruz as the best impact player around