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Its difficult to warm to players that play in teams you never liked, Ronaldo for Portugal for example, I dont care how good he is, he makes me want to boot the TV.
I always had a bit of a hero worship for Claudio Caniggia, even though he played for an abhorrent Argentina side. He looked and played like a genuine Rockstar.
Might have been a different story in Italia 90 had he not got himself suspended for the final for what was deemed a deliberate handball in extra time against Italy (where he'd already scored the equalizer with a deft header)
Barry Davies commentary in the Round of 16 where Maradona dribbled passed a couple of Brazilian players before half stretching/ half collapsing but managing to thread a beautiful though pass to Caniggia who rounded Taffarel and put the ball away to knock out the Brazillians, has always stuck with me.
And Caniggiaaaaaaaaaa...........scores! Totally undeserved but totally Argentina in that World Cup. Claudio still looks like an 80s Rockstar to this day.
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Players you liked in Teams you didnt? World Cup edition on 17:31 - May 9 with 1609 views
Luka Modric. The Croatia team were pretty average, but he made them tick. Had that uncanny ability, like Ray Wilkins, to always appear to have time on the ball even in a game going at a million miles an hour.
England still don't have a player like him, and neither do we.
Players you liked in Teams you didnt? World Cup edition on 18:54 - May 9 by Wilkinswatercarrier
Luka Modric. The Croatia team were pretty average, but he made them tick. Had that uncanny ability, like Ray Wilkins, to always appear to have time on the ball even in a game going at a million miles an hour.
England still don't have a player like him, and neither do we.
We never historically have a great deal of fondness for any German team, and the group that won the 1990 World Cup were functional as opposed to outstanding.
As Germany have a reputation to be.
However they had one outstanding player in their World Cup Winning Squad that year. Lothar Mattheus had an absolute stormer in that competiion. Scored.some outstanding goals, one in particular remains vivid and if ever you were.to offer.a name to describe box to box midfielder, its Lothar Mattheus.Great midfielder for me.
Players you liked in Teams you didnt? World Cup edition on 19:07 - May 9 by numptydumpty
We never historically have a great deal of fondness for any German team, and the group that won the 1990 World Cup were functional as opposed to outstanding.
As Germany have a reputation to be.
However they had one outstanding player in their World Cup Winning Squad that year. Lothar Mattheus had an absolute stormer in that competiion. Scored.some outstanding goals, one in particular remains vivid and if ever you were.to offer.a name to describe box to box midfielder, its Lothar Mattheus.Great midfielder for me.
I actually thought, and you get to see this in fine detail in the One Night in Turin movie, Mattheus consoling Chris Waddle immediately after his penalty miss in that semi final. It was one of the most heart warming and classy moments of selflessness I've ever seen, to the point where on a human level, it brings a tear to your eye.
I agree, what a player he was. .
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Players you liked in Teams you didnt? World Cup edition on 16:24 - May 10 with 1136 views
My abiding memory of Caniggia is half the Cameroon team treating him like the knight in The Holy Grail, but, unlike most cheating Jonny Foreigner types, he kept going and going until they finally killed him.
Anyway, I found it and my memory wasn’t exaggerating too much - it was almost half the team 🤣
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I need a SAGA. What’s the SAGA? It’s ….. Queen’s Park Rangers.
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Players you liked in Teams you didnt? World Cup edition on 19:09 - May 10 with 1069 views
Players you liked in Teams you didnt? World Cup edition on 16:24 - May 10 by Ghost_on_the_Westway
My abiding memory of Caniggia is half the Cameroon team treating him like the knight in The Holy Grail, but, unlike most cheating Jonny Foreigner types, he kept going and going until they finally killed him.
Anyway, I found it and my memory wasn’t exaggerating too much - it was almost half the team 🤣
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Still the finest red card foul in the history of football. Loses his boot in the process, Burruchaga the number 7 sees his opportunity to stand on his stockinged foot
So bad that the ref gives him another yellow card after the red card.
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