OutByEaster? Posted June 2, 2009 Moderator Share Posted June 2, 2009 A very nice gentleman has e-mailed us asking us to enter a competition to pick an all-time world cup XI. This is to help publicise England's bid for the World Cup in 2018 and they would like as many of us as is possible to register our support here.. By adding this link to the competition they are hoping we'll help towards achieving their target of two million registered fans supporting the bid to bring the World Cup to Villa Park and some other places in this country. Now, here's the interesting bit, the forum with the closest line up to an XI selected by John Barnes (one of the bid's Vice Presidents) will win the chance to send a forum correspondent to the post-match press conference for the England versus Andorra match on June 10th, as well as a ticket for the match itself. They would like a team submitted by the 5th June, which means we've only got the rest of this week, so please register your support for the England's World Cup bid and vote here for your all-time best World Cup Forward. Thank you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maradona10 Posted June 2, 2009 Share Posted June 2, 2009 Wheres the Best Ever player? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AVFC-Prideofbrum Posted June 2, 2009 Share Posted June 2, 2009 clearly Ronaldo. Best striker to play the game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maradona10 Posted June 2, 2009 Share Posted June 2, 2009 Ronaldo by a country mile for me! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheSufferingVilla Posted June 2, 2009 Share Posted June 2, 2009 I went with Gerd Muller my old mans choice. Probably one of the least athletic players to ever grace the game but what gift god gave him was surely the most lethal combination of positional awareness and finishing ability. His record speaks for itself 68 goals in 62 games for Germany undoubtedly the most clinical striker the game has ever known despite being an average footballer. But goals make forwards not fancy tricks and Muller is the greatest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jondaken Posted June 2, 2009 Share Posted June 2, 2009 Madona. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonno_2004 Posted June 2, 2009 Share Posted June 2, 2009 Pele Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rjw63 Posted June 2, 2009 Share Posted June 2, 2009 Madona. She might do a lot of things but I doubt she's ever played football :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LancsVillan Posted June 3, 2009 Moderator Share Posted June 3, 2009 Maradonna for me too, brought football to a new level and single HANDEDly won the Argies the Cup. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HongKongVillan Posted June 3, 2009 VT Supporter Share Posted June 3, 2009 Ronaldo!!! When he was at his peak!Maradonna would be a close 2nd. And you can add Gabriel Agbonlahor to the list a couple of years later. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrissmith921 Posted June 3, 2009 Share Posted June 3, 2009 Ronaldo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BOF Posted June 3, 2009 Moderator Share Posted June 3, 2009 Ronaldo over Maradona & Pele ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gabby15 Posted June 3, 2009 Share Posted June 3, 2009 Ronaldo all day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Troglodyte Posted June 3, 2009 VT Supporter Share Posted June 3, 2009 Went for Pele. Love Ronaldo - for me the best player of his generation and haven't seen anyone better since. But couldn't put him over Pele. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nigel Posted June 3, 2009 VT Supporter Share Posted June 3, 2009 Maradona for me, single handedly won it for his team! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paddy Posted June 3, 2009 Share Posted June 3, 2009 As much as I love Ronaldo it's got to be Maradona. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xela Posted June 3, 2009 Share Posted June 3, 2009 Maradona for me. Won the World Cup on his own.....the rest of the team were no better than average. He would be partnered by Ronaldo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Zen Posted June 3, 2009 Share Posted June 3, 2009 Maradona for me too. Now, I'm a bit too young to have seen him play in his prime but I've still seen enough clips, highlights and taped games to confidently say he's the best footballer in history. A cheat and a thug, probably, but my lord he was gifted. Pele's stats are amazing and he'd be a close (yet so distant) second for me. I can see why people would go for (the only one) Ronaldo as well. He was in his prime as I was growing up, and he was breathtakingly good. His pace and skill combined with being possibly the best finisher in modern football makes him a very qualified candidate indeed. And I'd have my childhood hero Romario on that list too. And Batistuta. You can tell the 90s were my childhood years And if Lineker and Geoff Hurst are in there, where's Paolo Rossi? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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