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Title: World Cup 2006: My players of the tournament Post by: Nem on July 10, 2006, 10:51:01 PM GK: Buffon ITA - Never made a mistake.
RB: Zambrotta ITA - Definitely the best full back in the world. CB: Thuram FRA - One of the all time greats CB: Cannavaro ITA - Outstanding performances by the Italian Captain. LB: Grosso ITA - I was very impressed with this player. Won a penalty against Australia, scored against Germany in the semi final - what a player. MF: Cristiano Ronaldo POR - Love him or hate him, the boy is world class and showed what a great player he is. Could be better than Figo and Eusebio. MF: Andres Pirlo ITA - He really suprised me. I never rated him, but he had a great tournament and played a vital role for the Italians. MF: Patrick Vieira FRA - Reminded me of the old Vieira of 5 years ago. MF: Zinedine Zidane FRA - The greatest? FC: Miroslav Klose GER - Tournament top goal scorer FC: Thierry Henry FRA - Played very well. Title: Re: World Cup 2006: My players of the tournament Post by: Royal Flush on July 10, 2006, 10:56:31 PM Not much i would disagree about there. Not sure about Henry but then there are not many strikers who played well in the comp.
Title: Re: World Cup 2006: My players of the tournament Post by: Nem on July 10, 2006, 11:08:49 PM but then there are not many strikers who played well in the comp. My thoughts exactly. Defenders ruled this world cup. Title: Re: World Cup 2006: My players of the tournament Post by: The Baron on July 10, 2006, 11:12:21 PM MF: Cristiano Ronaldo POR - Love him or hate him, the boy is world class and showed what a great player he is. Could be better than Figo and Eusebio.
**Coughs and splutters!** Title: Re: World Cup 2006: My players of the tournament Post by: Nem on July 10, 2006, 11:16:17 PM MF: Cristiano Ronaldo POR - Love him or hate him, the boy is world class and showed what a great player he is. Could be better than Figo and Eusebio. **Coughs and splutters!** He has a very bad attitude and he is a diving cheat, but he is very very good. Title: Re: World Cup 2006: My players of the tournament Post by: brad.strider on July 10, 2006, 11:53:00 PM buffon
lahm cannavarro ayala zambrotta maxi rodrigez pirlo zidane riquelme klose henry Title: Re: World Cup 2006: My players of the tournament Post by: Royal Flush on July 10, 2006, 11:59:04 PM but then there are not many strikers who played well in the comp. My thoughts exactly. Defenders ruled this world cup. I would still have gone for Podolski. Title: Re: World Cup 2006: My players of the tournament Post by: Nem on July 11, 2006, 12:01:27 AM but then there are not many strikers who played well in the comp. My thoughts exactly. Defenders ruled this world cup. I would still have gone for Podolski. Title: Re: World Cup 2006: My players of the tournament Post by: Ukgatsby on July 11, 2006, 12:32:19 AM One of the most overlooked players has been
R Marquez (Mexico) Playing for a supposed lesser team and unlucky to come up against Argentina when they were on fire. Single handedly dragged Mexico up a few notches and made them go toe to toe with the Argies until the wonder goal put them out Title: Re: World Cup 2006: My players of the tournament Post by: bobby1 on July 11, 2006, 12:55:45 AM Nem, I agree your left back was very good but did he win a penalty against Australia or did he cheat by running into an opponent that was on the ground and tumbling to fool the ref?
Title: Re: World Cup 2006: My players of the tournament Post by: maldini32 on July 11, 2006, 01:40:50 AM buffon...Best keeper in world
zambrotta...best full back in world Cannavaro...best centre halve in world Marquez...reminds me a lot of sammer, quality defender and very good going forward Grosso...the winning penalty made me the happiest guy in the world! Kaka...best of the brazilians Gattuso...ran and ran and ran one of those unsung heroes. Pirlo...like nem never impressed me before, had a big rep in italy but passing ability awesome Zidane...best player ive ever seen, against brazil he was immense Klose...top scorer wot else can i say Ronaldo...jus because hes the highest scorer in world cup ever. manager...LIPPI!!!!!!!! The guys an absolute legend..Thank u lippi. Title: Re: World Cup 2006: My players of the tournament Post by: bobby1 on July 11, 2006, 01:43:01 AM I thought Pirlo was a fantastic passer with great vision, if he could run, tackle and had some strength he would be a good player.............. 8)
Title: Re: World Cup 2006: My players of the tournament Post by: Royal Flush on July 11, 2006, 02:04:06 AM Best thing about Zambrotta is he has only been a defender for a few years! He adjusted after Camronesi took his spot in midfield at Juve, that is true class.
Title: Re: World Cup 2006: My players of the tournament Post by: Nem on July 11, 2006, 09:05:01 AM Nem, I agree your left back was very good but did he win a penalty against Australia or did he cheat by running into an opponent that was on the ground and tumbling to fool the ref? The defender did go down easily. However, Neil shouldn't have given him the opportunity to do so, by going to ground in the area. It was the last minute of extra time, in a World cup knockout match. Most players are going down easily in the area, if given the chance. Title: Re: World Cup 2006: My players of the tournament Post by: Rod Paradise on July 11, 2006, 11:21:24 AM Pleased to see someone mention Riquelme. In a time where Midfield Generals seem to be almost extinct, to see someone like Riquelme pulling the strings so effectively is great to watch. If Argentina hadn't been hamstrung by a cowardly manager he could have been holding a winners medal.
Title: Re: World Cup 2006: My players of the tournament Post by: The Baron on July 11, 2006, 05:48:09 PM MF: Cristiano Ronaldo POR - Love him or hate him, the boy is world class and showed what a great player he is. Could be better than Figo and Eusebio. **Coughs and splutters!** He has a very bad attitude and he is a diving cheat, but he is very very good. Watch more of Eusebio! Now he was a one man football team! I agree with Brad.Strider's team more or less. Title: Re: World Cup 2006: My players of the tournament Post by: The Baron on July 11, 2006, 05:55:30 PM Manager: Jurgen Kilnsmann purely for his celebrations!
Domenech for the ridiculous pressure he was under for no real reason and Lippi for turning a pretty good team into world beaters. Title: Re: World Cup 2006: My players of the tournament Post by: brad.strider on July 11, 2006, 11:25:20 PM the manager of my team is leo beenhakker of trinidad and tobago, he made a team with a handfull of lower league scottish based players be competitive in the world cup, awsome!!
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