FIFA 100...From Pele's Lips to God's Ears

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copied from today's Guardian.co.uk:

The Fifa 100

Argentina
Alfredo Di Stefano
Daniel Passarella
Diego Maradona
Gabriel Batistuta
Hernan Crespo
Javier Saviola
Javier Zanetti
Juan Sebastian Veron
Mario Kempes
Omar Sivori

Belgium
Franky van der Elst
Jean-Marie Pfaff
Jan Cuelemens

Brazil
Cafu
Carlos Alberto
Djalma Santos
Falcao
Milton Santos
Junior
Pele
Rivaldo
Rivelino
Roberto Carlos
Romario
Ronaldinho
Ronaldo
Socrates
Zico

Bulgaria
Hristo Stoichkov

Cameroon
Roger Milla

Chile
Pablo Figueroa
Ivan Zamorano

Colombia
Carlos Valderrama

Croatia
Davor Suker

Czech Republic
Josef Masopust
Pavel Nedved

Denmark
Brian Laudrup
Michael Laudrup
Peter Schmeichel

England
Alan Shearer
Bobby Charlton
David Beckham
Gary Lineker
Gordon Banks
Kevin Keegan
Michael Owen

France
David Trezeguet
Didier Deschamps
Eric Cantona
Jean-Pierre Papin
Just Fontaine
Lilian Thuram
Marcel Desailly
Marius Tresor
Michel Platini
Patrick Vieira
Raymond Kopa
Robert Pires
Thierry Henry
Zinedine Zidane

Germany
Franz Beckenbauer
Gerd Mueller
Jurgen Klinsmann
Karl-Heinz Rummenigge
Lothar Matthaeus
Michael Ballack
Oliver Kahn
Paul Breitner
Sepp Maier
Uwe Seeler

Ghana
Abedi Pele

Hungary
Ferenc Puskas

Ireland
Roy Keane

Italy
Alessandro Del Piero
Alessandro Nesta
Christian Vieri
Dino Zoff
Francesco Totti
Franco Baresi
Giampiero Boniperti
Giacinto Fachetti
Gianluca Buffon
Gianni Rivera
Giuseppe Bergomi
Paolo Rossi
Paolo Maldini
Roberto Baggio

Japan
Hidetoshi Nakata

Liberia
George Weah

Mexico
Hugo Sanchez

Netherlands
Clarence Seedorff
Dennis Bergkamp
Edgar Davids
Frank Rijkaard
Johan Neeskens
Johan Cruyff
Marco Van Basten
Patrick Kluivert
Rene van de Kerkhof
Rob Rensenbrink
Ruud Gullit
Ruud van Nistelrooy
Willie van de Kerkhof

Nigeria
Jay-Jay Okocha

Northern Ireland
George Best

Paraguay
Romerito

Peru
Teofilo Cubillas

Poland
Zbigniew Boniek

Portugal
Eusebio
Luis Figo
Rui Costa

Romania
Gheorghe Hagi

Russia
Rinat Disayev

Scotland
Kenny Dalglish

Senegal
El Hadji Diouf

South Korea
Hong Myung-Bo

Spain
Emilio Butragueno
Luis Enrique
Raul

Turkey
Emre Belozoglu
Rustu Recber

Ukraine
Andriy Shevchenko

Uruguay
Enzo Francescoli

United States (women)
Michelle Akers
Mia Hamm

― Begs2Differ (Begs2Differ), Friday, 5 March 2004 16:24 (twenty-one years ago)

diddle it dit di dee
2 ladies..

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 5 March 2004 16:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Where are Denis Law and Henrik Larsson eh? Eh?

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 5 March 2004 16:42 (twenty-one years ago)

90s English football better represented than the mid-60s?

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 5 March 2004 16:44 (twenty-one years ago)

And the point of this list is (aside from some swanky wanky event in fucking Monte Bloody Carlo sponsored by corporate cockfarmery for Pele to say 'ees da beadifal game' and 'we can beat them, hatch' and then various self-satisfied tools suck Blatter's overtanned cock?

I'm getting sick of Pele. He always says whichever country he is in at the time will win the World Cup. Bloody fencesitter.

― Dave B (daveb), Friday, 5 March 2004 16:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Right, where's Claudio Gentile then?

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 5 March 2004 16:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Or, for that matter, John Charles? Actually, yeah, a list without John Charles is a list without merit.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 5 March 2004 16:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Got some bad news for you Dom...

― Dave B (daveb), Friday, 5 March 2004 17:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Lev Yashin, Sandor Kocsis, Jim Baxter, Rudi Kroll, and most glaringly of all, Garrincha and Stan Matthews! OK, I'm far too young to have seen any of these play but these often challenge in all time XI lists.

― Nick H (Nick H), Friday, 5 March 2004 17:02 (twenty-one years ago)

The list is of living players...

― Dave B (daveb), Friday, 5 March 2004 17:04 (twenty-one years ago)

oh yeah, I shoulda indicated that when I posted it
(actually, I didn't know)

― Begs2Differ (Begs2Differ), Friday, 5 March 2004 17:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Ah, I didn't know it was of living players. That would explain Lev Yashin's absence as well.

I actually thought Alfredo Di Stefano was dead, but then, what do I know?

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 5 March 2004 17:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Only 3 players from the Brazil 1970 team, which is one less than the current Arsenal team get, but at least is one more than the current Liverpool team get(Owen, El Hadji Diouf)

But it's still a good list, because Roy Keane's in it, and Mick McCarthy, strangely, isn't.

― Joe Kay (feethurt), Friday, 5 March 2004 17:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Is Jairzinho dead?

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Friday, 5 March 2004 19:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Jairzinho's alive.
Having only one Scot is poor.

― pete s, Friday, 5 March 2004 19:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Aah. I was wondering about the lack of Bobby Moore.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 5 March 2004 23:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Michelle Akers = constantly on the ground having been fouled

Abby Wambach is where it's at (for USA women)

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Saturday, 6 March 2004 00:25 (twenty-one years ago)

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