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sb_73 said:
Maldini and Roberto Donadoni. I’ll do Baresi now

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Apparently, when he first took over at Milan the mad genius Arrigo Sacchi was struggling to win over the dressing room to his methods. He took the Defence aside for some concentrated training and then played a practice match, 6 offensive players v 4 defenders plus the keeper. Every time the offensive players lost the ball the game was restarted 5 metres further away from the defenders’ goal. Not only did the offensive players not score, they spent most of the time in their own half. They listened to him after that. Sacchi never credited wins to individuals, or even the team, but to the ‘system’. But he also said that he ran the team like directing an opera - he allocated the roles, but it was up to the players how to interpret them.
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Holloway should try that.

If I had to choose one defender for this thread it would've been Baresi.
 
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QPR999 said:
Holloway should try that.

If I had to choose one defender for this thread it would've been Baresi.
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It requires some coaching of the defence and some sort of plan. Plus players intelligent enough to understand it. Big ask for Ollie.

Cannevaro and Nesta were pretty good defenders too.
 
Here's one of my all time favourites. Skill and vision in abundance. Keeping a bit of a theme, it is a Milan compilation (purely because I couldn't find a video that covered internationals and Fiorentina too).

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A personal favourite rather than a great player, Pietro Paolo Virdis, who scored 17 goals in the Milan team containing Wilkins and Hately, but was only a bit part player in the great team which followed it, when they replaced the Brits with the Dutch, Berlusconi took over and provided cash and Sacchi arrived with brains. He still scored some important goals and the tifosi loved him.

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My first two favourite players: Cliff Jones and Terry Medwin of the great 1960s spurs team.
Both wingers....they seemed to score at will.
(it is honestly an accident that they were both Welsh)

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qprbeth said:
My first two favourite players: Cliff Jones and Terry Medwin of the great 1960s spurs team.
Both wingers....they seemed to score at will.
(it is honestly an accident that they were both Welsh)

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Cliff Jones tells the story of how, when they came home after the 1958 World Cup, some people wondered where they'd been....

There were four of us who arrived back at Swansea Station, Ivor Allchurch, Mel Charles, Terry Medwynn and me. One of Mel’s mates was there and said, "Haven’t seen you for a while, you been on holiday?" Mel said, "We’ve been at the World Cup! Quarter-finals knocked out by Brazil, who went on and won it!"
 
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Stefan Effenberg for me. Mad. Pure winner, never have I seen someone with a stronger winning mentality. Even in the toughest of circumstances and hardest of adversities he stood out and more often than not came out on top. Only rivaled by Graeme Souness and Roy Keane imo, my other candidate. Fighters, warriors, captains and winners. But they did it with skill, unlike many others in the same role/position.

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Mehmet Scholl, 15 year servant at Bayern. He had it all. A maverick in the words truest sense. Imagine having an Adel Taarabt turning up and performing for your club for 15 years straight and not the one or two years. That is what Scholl brought to Munich. Had almost forgot just how brilliant he was, great way to refresh ones memory these legend clips.

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