Here is the thing, annyone who saw ronaldinho knew how good he was, but unfortunately his bad habits dumped his career. zidane is a bit older, and unfortunately most people remember him for the head against materazi, but annyone that saw that era, knew that we had allot of goat material those years, and zidane stood out so let that, the same people that underrate zidane also do with Henry because he never won a balon d or
Not a player, but i think due to the media, teams like juventus or Real madrid tend to overrate their players in general, i mean why we hear more abour ronaldo nazario, zidane, cr7, raul, etc than the manchester united or liverpool legends? I mean Van de sar is not even in the best goal keeper debate of this century, its allways Buffon, Casillas, Courtois, Neuer or Kahn
It deppends, in copa america you have the big 3 (Uruguay, Brazil and Argentina), outside of those 3, its really hard, in the euro you have allot of good teams, but it also has its disadvntages, for example defensive italy and tiki taka spain require different tactics, so you have to be more versatile, ant that makes you less specializes in one single tactic, unlike jogo bonito from brazil who its more like an “come an get me” style, because its more sepcialized, they basically play that
Well, i dont know if you remember Boosman’s case, where europeans leagues became what they are today, by having the advantage that every player for the EU counts as “local” and with most teams having a maximum of foregin players, that made an open doors to create teams that in the past would be dream teams. Also tactics evolved, sinse Sacchi’s milan in 88, tatics plays a bigger role in the game, that is the main reason messi could not single handedly win the world cup like maradona did (of course he had a great team, but you understood wht i wanted to say). Also add the advancements in preparation and modern players are almost superhuman compared to the ones before the 90s.
Of course i think if you take a young pele, maradona, cruyff, etc. to the modern times, prepare them with modern methods ant tactics, they would shure stand out the same way they did on thier glory years, but you get the point
That is why I love current football sistem, we have the cups were luck plays a big role like the champions were a bad day could kick you out and that makes it more emotional, but we also have the leagues who depends more on how good your team really is
Canavaro 2006 or modric 2018 could be, but the ballon d’or was polemic since the first edition, they gave it to Mattews because of his trayectory more than his season
Here’s the thing, as a striker, halland made a wonderfull season, and for me this year he deserves it more than messi, but actually the results were both real madrid and cr7 fans; let me explain. Messi was not aknowledge by them as the GOAT because of the world cup, that was their excuse, so messi’s world cup was so noisy that they had to give it to him. Now the reason why messi and cr7 are so great is not just goals + asists, the simple presence of them could change the whole strategy of their rivals, and they got statistics compared to lewandowski, haaland or suarez almost anny season, so basically playmakers who also are better strikers than the strikers
Lets see, he was raised in a humble familly in argentina, had growth problems that barcelona paid for the treatment. In barcelona as stated by Ibrahimovic, they did not act as superstars, but as children obeying the teacher (guardiola), so yes, add all that and you get your answer
I think Cameroon, Ivory Coast or others in Africa would be the closest to win, If mexico fixes their corruption in football they would also be a candidate (the main reason mexico sucks is becuase of corruption, they have the talent to be competitive) the US as well is in that level