Your all time World 11?

Marty McFly

After reading the "your world 11" thread and the debate on Ronaldo and Messi being the best of all time got me thinking what would the all time 11 be.

Here's mine

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Olive Khan

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Paolo Maldini---Tony Adams--- Marcel Desailly---Lilian Thuram

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Patrick Vieira---Bastian Schweinsteiger

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--Messi

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Zinedine Zidane

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Christiano Ronaldo

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Ronaldo

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Subs Ronadlinho, Thiery Henry, Clarence Seedorf, Lizarzu, Fabio Cannavaro, Peter Schmeichel and Figo.


Now I know I left out a lot the likes of Maradona, Pele etc but I decided to go with players I have seen on a regular basis not just seen clips of etc. along with maybe a bit of an Arsenal bias .

EuropeanSon

Bastian Schweinsteiger over the likes of Makelele, Xavi and Busquets is a big big call.

(This is just restricting it to people I've seen)

And there are too many far more accomplished CBs to include Tony Adams IMO.

doncarlos

No point in picking players like Pele or Best who I've never seen play so here is my world eleven from when I started watching football.

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Kahn

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Cafu----McGrath

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Cannavaro

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Maldini
Figo

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Mattaus

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Zidane

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C.Ronaldo

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Ronaldo--- Messi

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Red Crow

Buffon

Cafu
Thuram
Cannavaro
Maldini

Makelele
Xavi
Zidane

C. Ronaldo
Ronaldo
Messi

EuropeanSon

Casillas
Maldini Desailly Cannavaro Cafu
Busquets Viera
Zidane
Messi Ibrahimovic C. Ronaldo

Ibrahimovic vs Ronaldo is a tough call. Lahm deserves a spot too.

Casillas vs Khan vs Buffon is a pretty tough call too.

Obviously it's quite biased towards recent years, but then I've only been watching football a lot since about 2001.

Marty McFly

EuropeanSon wrote: »

Bastian Schweinsteiger over the likes of Makelele, Xavi and Busquets is a big big call.

(This is just restricting it to people I've seen)

And there are too many far more accomplished CBs to include Tony Adams IMO.

Yea I get ya I just felt Schweinsteiger offers the team more of a balance than say Makelele, Xavi or Busquets would although all terrific players. Although I think looking at it Xavi or Iniesta would at least deserve a spot on the bench.

Tony Adams I do think was a brilliant best CB I have seen really was a rock and did admit to maybe a small bit of Arsenal bias in that one.

GTR63

Buffon;
Cafu, Baresi, Maldini, Zanetti;
Rijkaard, Pirlo;
Zidane, Maradona;
van Basten, Ronaldo(brazil)

Doubt it'd work but damn this was hard to do. That back 5 will Never change for me but the midfield was hard to pick.

Marty McFly

GTR63 wrote: »

Buffon;
Cafu, Baresi, Maldini, Zanetti;
Rijkaard, Pirlo;
Zidane, Maradona;
van Basten, Ronaldo(brazil)

Doubt it'd work but damn this was hard to do. That back 5 will Never change for me but the midfield was hard to pick.

Brave move no C. Ronaldo or Messi.

BMMachine

Yashin

Maldini
Baresi
Beckenbauer
Cafu

Rijkaard
Platini
Zidane

Maradonna
Messi
Ronaldo

Will I Amnt

Marty McFly wrote: »

Brave move no C. Ronaldo or Messi.

They didn't play in Italy...

dor83

Khan
Zanetti-Baresi-Beckenbauer-Maldini
Matthaus-Makelele
C. Ronaldo-Messi-Giggs
Ronaldo

DazMarz

I'm eschewing some all-time greats (Yashin, Best, Pele, Beckenbauer, etc.) in favour of players whom I've seen play and who have just been definitively brilliant from my "career" of watching football.

Casillas

Cafu
Maldini
Cannavaro
Roberto Carlos

Makelele
Xavi
Zidane

C. Ronaldo
Messi
Ronaldo

Honourable mentions: Kahn, Cech, Buffon, Carvalho, Ferdinand, Vidic, Terry, Cole, Iniesta, Pirlo, Ballack, Ronaldinho, Kaka, Shevchenko, Drogba, van Nistelrooy, Shearer, Nedved, Beckham, Zola, Bergkamp, Henry, Owen, Weah, Gerrard, Lampard, Baggio, Van Basten, Van Bronkhoorst, Schweinsteiger, Lahm, Neuer, Ibrahimovic, Alaba, Hazard, Aguero, Figo, McManaman, Del Piero, Vieri, Inzaghi, Rivaldo, Dunga, Neymar, Thuram, Trezeguet, Gattuso, Deco, Crespo, Batistuta, Carragher, Fowler, Alonso, Roy Keane, Larsson, Eto'o, Fabregas...... I better stop now....

astonaidan

Buffon

Cafu
Nesta
Maldini
Roberto Carlos

Roy Keane
Pirlo

C Ronaldo
Zidane
Ronaldinho

Ronaldo

So clearly Im too young to include players like Van Basten, Cryuff, Pele etc so went with players Im familiar with

Will I Amnt

I can never take part in these kind of threads. It would take me the rest of the day to argue with myself and settle on a team and as soon as I posted it I'd want to change it :pac:

Kerrydude1981

4-2-3-1 job,I think I have a solid enough defence,with a back four all comfortable on the ball,with Keano and Matthaus providing enough cover so the lads ahead of them can do their thing.

Schmiechal

Irwin Baresi McGrath Maldini

Matthaus Keane

Messi Maradona C Ronaldo

Van Basten

Nalz

astonaidan wrote: »

Buffon

Cafu
Nesta
Maldini
Roberto Carlos

Roy Keane
Pirlo

C Ronaldo
Zidane
Ronaldinho

Ronaldo

So clearly Im too young to include players like Van Basten, Cryuff, Pele etc so went with players Im familiar with

Wow great side. Kahn and McGrath instead of Nesta and Buffon for me...maybe Messi ahead of Ronaldinho

This is very tough

doncarlos

Kerrydude1981 wrote: »

4-2-3-1 job,I think I have a solid enough defence,with a back four all comfortable on the ball,with Keano and Matthaus providing enough cover so the lads ahead of them can do their thing.

Schmiechal

Irwin Baresi McGrath Maldini

Matthaus Keane

Messi Maradona C Ronaldo

Van Basten

Apart from my own , this is my favorite so far. Plenty of steel in midfield but footballers too. Anybody that doesn't have Matthaus is their side must be under 30. Amazing player.

Lawrence1895

Anyone remembering Dino Zoff? Absolute legend

Marty McFly

Lars1916 wrote: »

Anyone remembering Dino Zoff? Absolute legend

Remember him alright but never got see him play on a regular basis so hard to pass judgement.

Much like Maradona my only real memory of him is the 94 World Cup when he got turfed out and the controversy that surrounded it.

Ulysses Gaze

Buffon

Cafu---- Baresi---Cannavaro ---Maldini

Keane

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Matthaus

Zidane

Messi

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Ronaldo----Maradona

titan18

Should just change the thread to best 11 I've seen if you're going to not include players you haven't seen. Not really an all time world 11 otherwise.

Here's mine, all time

Yashin

Cafu
Beckenbauer
Baresi
Maldini

Neeskens
Zidane

Garrincha
Maradona
Cruyff

Pele


Best I've seen is

Schmeichel

Cafu
Cannavaro
Nesta
Maldini

Keane
Scholes

Ronaldo
Zidane
Messi

Ronaldo

brianregan09

GK: KAHN
DR: CAFU
DC: FRANCO BARESI
DC: LOTHAR MATTAEUS
DL: PAULO MALDINI
DMF: FERNANDO REDONDO
CMF: PATRICK VIEIRA
CMF: XAVI
RWF: CRISTIANO RONALDO
CF JURGEN KLINSMAN
LWF MESSI

subs: Taffarel, Pep Guardiola, Riikaard, Gullit, Roberto baggio, Gerd Muller,marco van basten, jaap stam, henry, puskas, roy keane, bergkamp,maradona pele, best

eagle eye

These things really tear me apart and up until recently my team would be a lot different but now Messi and Ronaldo would both make my all-time team and its so hard to leave out Zidane, Ronaldo and Pele but you can't pick everybody and this is what I'd go with.
I just think with a Matthaus sitting in front of that back four that you don't need anymore help and the front four are the best I've seen and I couldn't leave out any of them I don't think.

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Dasayev
Cafu

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Baresi

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McGrath

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Maldini

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Matthaus

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Maradona
Best

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Messi

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C.Ronaldo

sReq | uTeK

Just posting on what I've seen..28 here

Great dame
Cafu
Stam
Thuram
Maldini

Keane/Zidane

Messi CR7 Ronaldinho

Henry

Nunu

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Schmeichel

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McGrath - Matthaus - Maldini

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Cruyff(c)

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C. Ronaldo - Zidane - Maradona - Messi

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Pele - Gerd Muller

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I know it's a ridiculous line up but I had to get them all in.
Cruyff the total footballer as captain orchestrating all that talent in front of him.

Santi101

Makelele is a laughable inclusion in my view.

GTR63

Will I Amnt wrote: »

They didn't play in Italy...

No still think Maradona is better than Messi & the two forwards I picked are the best no.9's in the last 25 years imo. Easier to judge a player when they have retired too.
Are you going to bother doing one or just moan about others?

Ferris_Bueller

Kahn

Cafu
Nesta
Maldini
Roberto Carlos

Xavi
Zidane

Messi
Ronaldinho
Cristiano Ronaldo

Ronaldo

Playing Zidane alongside Xavi might not be ideal but I couldn't leave out 1 of Zidane/Messi/C.Ronaldo/Ronaldinho, incredibly hard for me to choose who was the best I have ever seen when they were all at their best.

Rikand

Surprised this hasnt happened yet

GK - Given
RB - Irwin
CB - McGrath
CB - Dunne
LB - Coleman
RM - Duff
CM - Brady
CM - Keane, Roy
LM - Kilbane
CF - Keane, Robbie
CF - Aldridge


Duff on the right because no Irish team would be complete without Zinedine Kilbane

This team could compete with any of the teams listed imo!

Kerrydude1981

doncarlos wrote: »

Apart from my own , this is my favorite so far. Plenty of steel in midfield but footballers too. Anybody that doesn't have Matthaus is their side must be under 30. Amazing player.

One player I wanted to include but Van Basten just got ahead of him was Careca that man was some finisher back in the day.

The Floyd p

Kahn

Cafu
Baresi
Maldini
Zanetti

Xavi
Redondo
Zidane

Messi
Ronaldo
Cristiano Ronaldo

Charlie19

Has to be;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2G5O17csVo8

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Peter S

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Baresi-- Maldini--- Hansen

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Keane

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Ronaldo---Gerrard---Bale

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Suarez----Best----Messi

Brazilians are over rated

irishmover

Gary Breen
Gary Breen
Gary Breen
Gary Breen
Gary Breen
Gary Breen
Gary Breen
Gary Breen
Gary Breen
Gary Breen
Gary Breen

eagle eye

Rikand wrote: »

Surprised this hasnt happened yet

GK - Given
RB - Irwin
CB - McGrath
CB - Dunne
LB - Coleman
RM - Duff
CM - Brady
CM - Keane, Roy
LM - Kilbane
CF - Keane, Robbie
CF - Aldridge


Duff on the right because no Irish team would be complete without Zinedine Kilbane

This team could compete with any of the teams listed imo!

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Given
Irwin----McGrath----Moran----Staunton

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Giles

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Keane
Houghton

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Brady

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Duff

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Keane

Will I Amnt

GTR63 wrote: »

No still think Maradona is better than Messi & the two forwards I picked are the best no.9's in the last 25 years imo. Easier to judge a player when they have retired too.
Are you going to bother doing one or just moan about others?

Ah don't be so serious man, it wasn't meant as a moan or a dig. I've already said I can't pick one, I'm far too indecisive for these threads, I'd be only wrecking my own head.