Forgotten Great Footballers

[hallamblue]

Ivan Zamarano, cracking number 9 (well 1+8, if you know you know).

 

[Lapeno77]

Roy Makaay

 

[Daveysgingerlovechild]

Gareth Farrelly

 

[LouReedwalkonthewildside]

David Villa, scored goals for fun wherever he played.

 

[Bohemian Toffee]

Valencia had a great team back then. Didn’t they have Kily Gonzalez and Claudio Lopez too?

That was the era I lived in Valencia. Thing about them, the opposition knew what they were trying to do but couldn't stop them.

Claudio Lopez knifing through teams on the counter is still the greatest thrill of live football I ever experienced.

For me, a lot of these shouts represent an era where you didn't get saturated TV coverage, players could be full internationals and still be unknown here.

World Cup 1994, when the Romanians rocked up, bleached their hair and went on a mad run.

I'm going to finish by mentioning a Czech, Marek Jankulovski, beast of a wing back, absolutely doesn't get the recognition he deserves.

 

[Exeter_Gently]

Ivan Zamarano, cracking number 9 (well 1+8, if you know you know).

Bagsman

 

[Exeter_Gently]

Roberto Baggio doesn’t get spoken about enough

Tremendous player at his best

Even when washed up and playing for Brescia he could still turn it up

Covered on the 3rd page.

 

[Exeter_Gently]

 

[Exeter_Gently]

 

[Walken]

La Coruna got promoted back up to the second division this year, speaking of once great forgotten things

 

[NathDogg]

Juan Roman Riquelme.

 

[kev]

 

[Lapeno77]

Raul. And not forgetting the Dutch maestro Ronald Koeman.

 

[EFCINLONDON]

Up there with the absolute best.

One of the very few bits of ITK info I ever got was that we bid for him when Royle was in charge. It was immediately rejected, but we did ask.

 

[Hinchcliffe's Corner]