World Team Of The Decade

[elnino99]

Goal.com will release their world team of the decade on monday.
let's discuss it on PFDC, what is your world team of the decade from 1999-2009
mine goes like this:

--------------------Oliver Kahn----------------------------------
--Cafu-------Fabio Cannavaro----Lucio------Roberto Carlos------
----------------------------------------------------------------
-Luis Figo-----Zinedin Zidane---Steven Gerrard-------Ronaldinho--
------------------Thiery Henry----------------------------------
-----------------------------Straight Ronaldo-------------------

coach: Guus Hiddink

honorable mentions to: Paolo Maldini , Johp Stam, Lionel Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo, Patrick Vieira, Pavel Nedved, Michael Ballack, Andrea Pirlo

Kahn: one of the greatest goalie ever, Buffon and Casillas have a long way to match his level. anyone rememebrs WC2002 when Germany had a shit team and Kahn single handedly helped them to make the finals ? He was always fantastic with amazing saves. Klinsman was a joke to take Lehman over him for WC06

Cafu: awesome RB, Maicon and Alves are amazing, but none of them are in Cafu level just yet. Cafu was unbelievable in world cup 2002 and he was an awesome player in Roma and Milan. no contest

Cannavaro: the reason Italy won the WC. an absolute rock in Juve's defense. won fifa pleyr of the year being a defender. Italy missed him so much in euro 08.

Lucio: this one is debatable. I wish I could put Maldini there, but it is not his natural position. Nesta can make that place too, but Lucio has been awesome since 2002. He is an absolute rock in the back and scores goals too. Van Gaall is the biggest douche in the world to sell him to Inter for 5 mill.

Roberto Carlos: This was one of the hardest choices. I love Maldini, but I would say Carlos takes over here. Carlos offers more attacking wise and his freekicks are absolute stunners. He sometimes makes stupid mistakes, but I still pick Carlos over Maldini by the narrowesst margin .

Luis Figo: absolute legend form 2000-2006. awesome footballer, amazing crosses and freekicks, plus a lot of "gheyrat". Portugal national team weakened significantly when he left. Figo

Zinedin Zidane: best player of all time. self explanatory

Steven Gerrard: I was thinking about Pirlo and Vieira too. but I think Steven tops it here, you may think it is because I have a Liverpool bias but let's see Steven Gerrard is the only player ever to score in every single final games. the man who inspired his team to come back from a 3-0 defeat at half time UCL final when he was only 25. He has a lot of heart and has been playing world class football since 2001. A lot of people even Liverpool haters, admit Stevie G is probably the most complete football atm.

Ronaldinho: His form during 2003-2006 was absolutely unbeliavable. I say Ronnie at his prime > the current Messi. Barca was a loser club before he arrived and Ronaldinho changed the club drastically. He is an absolute legend. too bad he reached his peak way too early

Thierry Henry: hats off please. 2001-2007 HE WAS F**** AWESOME IN ARSENAL. The type of goals he would score were so unique. I have no friggin idea how he never won fifa player of the year

Straight Ronaldo: look at WC2002, look at his goal scoring record for everysingle club he has played for. absolute legend. player of the century maybe, he has to battle it with Zidane. once you have Ronaldo on your team and he gets the ball around the box or in it..ITS A GOAL


Guus Hiddink: 4th in the world with SOUTHKOREA- I know they cheated, but they till played amazing football
UCL semi-finals with PSV: they nearly made the final
WC2006 (Aussie): deserved to beat the world champs Italy, totally dominated them
Russia: eliminated England, beat the mighty Netherlands, made semi finals of Euro
Chelsea: Chelsea was gonna drop outta top 4 with fagscolari, until this man arrived, his record speaks for itself. totally ourRafa'd Benitez and almost made CL finals

[yashar_fasihnia]

i think lucio was actually sold for around 8 million, not 5 as to wat goal.com and some other sources reported.

also, lucio wanted a 3 year extension to his contract which was expiring next year, but bayern was offering only 1 year. he is 31 at the moment..

although in general i think it was a correct policy by bayern, but in this case, they should have had an exception for lucio because they didnt have any replacements for him.
if bayern hadnt sold him this year, next year when his contract would expire, he would go for free because bayern would still offer him a 1 year extension, so bayern made some money out of him. the problem was not letting lucio go, the problem was not bringing a proper replacement for him and its gonna hurt bayern this season...

[EKBATAN]

its hard to pick the best, there are so many good players and they've all had ups and downs...some injuries, etc...


i would pick buffon over kahn, he's alot better

[Super Shojaei]

i agree with all of them but

buffon instead of khan

pascal cygan instead of lucio

[Darvish11]

i predict elnino will get 6 correct

[Türküm]

Lucio and Ronaldinho off the list

[persiangodfather]

buffon

cafu----cannavaro----terry-----maldini

Figo----- Zidane-----Del Piero----- Kaka

Henry str8 Ronaldo

[persian boy]

Buffon instead of Kahn
Terry instead of Lucio

somebody else besides Gerrard. I dont like seeing him in the starting lineup for team of the decade...

[EKBATAN]

oh yea get ronaldinho off that list too

[1Heesham1]

gerrard. lol

[milad]

-------------henry-----ronaldo--------------
--ronaldinho------zidane-------------messi--
-----------------makalele-------------------
rcarlos----------------------------------cafu
----------maldini--------cannavaro----------
-----------------casillas---------------------

[1Heesham1]

cassilas

roberto carlos javier zanetti maldini cafu

rui costa kaka zizou giggs

henry villa

buffon i think is immensly overrated.. ronaldo hasnt been consistent enough - i wouldnt want him on my team.

[elnino99]

cassilas
roberto carlos javier zanetti maldini cafu
rui costa kaka zizou giggs
henry villa
buffon i think is immensly overrated.. ronaldo hasnt been consistent enough - i wouldnt want him on my team.

Why is Kahn so under-rated :| ?
woww
VILLA over the great R9 ??
Years Club Apps† (Gls)†
1993–1994 Cruzeiro 14 (12)
1994–1996 PSV 45 (42)
1996–1997 Barcelona 37 (34)
1997–2002 Internazionale 69 (56)
2002–2007 Real Madrid 127 (83)
2007–2008 AC Milan 20 (9)
2009– Corinthians 7 (6)
National team‡
1994– Brazil 97 (62[1])

here is R9 scorign record...astonishing

and you have a LB (Maldini) and a RB (Zanetti) playings as CBs
and put aside your ManU bias and admit Nedved > Giggs
and I am shocked how eveyrone is ignoring LUIS FIGO


and btw: Have you guys forgotten Ronaldinho 2003-2006 ??
won best player of the year twice

[Masoud_A]

Members who were just born in the last decade shouldnt even suggest World team of the decade, they should wait, a time comes when they are mature enough to do that.

[elnino99]

Buffon instead of Kahn
Terry instead of Lucio

somebody else besides Gerrard. I dont like seeing him in the starting lineup for team of the decade...

obviously. you are a Chelsea fan after all