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Two best ever XIs against each other!

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Just read about Luis Ronaldo's best ever football team and thought it would be interesting to bring up two XIs of probable best ever players against each other. My two best teams are as below:

The first one I name as Passarella XI, as Pasarella was a magnificent captain.

----------------------Lev Yashin---------------------------

Philipp Lahm----Baresi-----Passarella------Roberto Carlos

---------------Mathäus-------------Xavi------------------

-------Garrincha---------Zidane-----------Best----------

--------------------------Eusebio-------------------------


The second one I named as Di Stefano XI, as he was the brains of great Real Madrid side

---Cruyff------------------Pele--------------------Messi--

------------Maradona----------------Di Stefano----------

------------------------Ronald Koeman-------------------

Maldini-------Beckenbauer-------John Charles-------Cafu

----------------------Peter Schmeichel--------------------

Of course going forward, Di Stefano XI is probably just about better than Passarella XI, but Pasarella XI has probably a better defense. Of course it's always a controversial matter to select best ever players. But from what I have read, and all the analysis I have done and all the videos I've seen, I've come up with these players.

So what do you reckon? What's your collection of two XIs, that you'd like to put against each other?
 
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You haven't - in my opinion - read enough reports or watched enough videos. Going in to the '66 World Cup, the greatest GK in the world (according to the media) was the chap from Uruguay - Mazurkewicz (sp?) How any of the hacks could know that is beyond me.
 

He was also regarded as the best goalkeeper on the planet.......by pretty well everyone.......

No he wasn't. Sorry but the completely ill informed opinion by sports writers who probably had never watched either of them was that Mazurkeiwich was the dog's b's. Nobody actually knew because nobody, in those days, flew to various Russian or Uruguayan matches. The question was eventually made moot by Gordon Banks who, very quietly, assumed the title of Best in the World.
 

Okey dokey.

So just got out the scrap book.

Every clipping that bothers to talk about GK's (not many, I grant you) talks about Yashin in the same way they would later talk about George Best. ALL of them quote Mazurkeiwicz as the best in the world. And again, I doubt any of them actually knew: it was far before the time when global travel was common so comment was, frankly, pointless.

As it is now.
 
No he wasn't. Sorry but the completely ill informed opinion by sports writers who probably had never watched either of them was that Mazurkeiwich was the dog's b's. Nobody actually knew because nobody, in those days, flew to various Russian or Uruguayan matches. The question was eventually made moot by Gordon Banks who, very quietly, assumed the title of Best in the World.

Ok mate.......

Yashin appeared in four World Cups from 1958 to 1970, and in 2002 was chosen on the FIFA Dream Team of the history of World Cups. In 1994 he was chosen for the FIFA World Cup All-Time Team, and in 1998 was chosen a member of the World Team of the 20th Century. He made over 150 penalty saves and kept over 270 clean sheets in his career, winning a Gold medal at the 1956 Olympic football tournament, and won the 1960 European Championships. In 1963, Yashin was named the European Footballer of the Year, the only goalkeeper ever to receive the award. He was voted the best goalkeeper of the 20th century......

.....someone probably made all that stuff up.......I was just going on what I heard and saw and read when I was growing up in the 50's........
 

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