posted Jun 23, 2008

i'm 40 years old and i've followed football since i was a child so i know how good Platini was ,believe me.
BUT Zidane was just something else.
Zidane was a player you would see perhas only once in 50 years,let alone in a generation.
For example,i'm not sure we have ever seen a player as good with both feets as Zidane.

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posted Jun 23, 2008

itachi22,
we're sure you are not English ("feets"), you are not French ("Zidane better than Platini"), you are not Italian (we remember very well how great Platini was) you must be Spanish or North-African.
In any case, this wow factor you chat about simply doesn't count in football. The greatest players made simple things for their teams, not tricks. Many simple things per game, many games per year, many years in their career.
When I was a child I used to follow the space launches on TV, but I don't pretend to be a rocket engineer.

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posted Jun 23, 2008

"The greatest players made simple things for their teams, not tricks. "

Yeah i guess that for example, everything Maradona used to do were really simple things.....

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posted Jun 23, 2008

"you are not French ("Zidane better than Platini"), "

Well,following your reasoning ,i'm not sure there are a lot of french remaining in this world then!
Listen,technically,Zidanewas light years ahead Platini: he could do things with the balls that Platini would never be able to do AND that were very useful to his teams.
Only some hardcore Juventus fans and some old guys who think everythink was better before would dare saying that Platini was a better player than Zidane.

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posted Jun 23, 2008

itachi22 you are not French, true ? So don't speak in the name of the others.
The way you keep on underlining the things of Zidane was able to do shows everybody you deeply misunderstand football. Platini and Beckembauer were stronger than Zidane. Zidane, Cassano, Figo, Zola, Robinho, Gascoigne are top players for the TV highlights. Not for a season made by sixty games of 90 minutes.

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posted Jun 23, 2008

"itachi22 you are not French, true ?"

I'm french and almost all my friends who like football think that Zidane was better than Platini.

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posted Jun 24, 2008

Ok, I buy your opinion poll, but this way my theory is supported by facts.

You French don't win so much in football, simply because you don't understand it.

Can I ask you where did you be born ? Paris, Nantes, Bordeaux, Lille... or Marseille ?

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posted Jun 24, 2008

"You French don't win so much in football, simply because you don't understand it."

What an arrogant statement!

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posted Jun 24, 2008

No, what a simple truth.

Here in Italy we think Platini has been much greater than Zidane.

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posted Jun 27, 2008

Brazil are not the same team anymore?? If you bothered to look at the team which they put out for the last world cup qualifiers you would see that they are fielding their second team!! Every four years its the same old story 'Brazil arent as good as they used to be' Just think about their first 20 players in Europe. Brazil intentionally play all these guys in the qualifiers so they can get permits to play in europe...

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