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).
Iniesta was fantastic. Someone once asked him what it was like to be the best midfield player in the World and he said........... "Ask Paul Scholes".
I can imagine why you think that and agree on that particular occasion but other than that blemish. I still cannot stop myself saying "you fat little cheating bastard" when I hear the name Maracunt
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.
My first non-QPR hero. England's greatest goalscorer - 44 goals in 57 games. He played for Milan too, but not for long. http://inbedwithmaradona.com/milan-1/2016/10/26/hell-on-earth-jimmy-greaves-in-milan
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) please log in to view this image
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!"
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.
And just 12 short years later, another much lauded Brazil side came up against one of the most inspired striking performances of all time...
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.
