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Post by Deleted on Nov 16, 2017 23:26:02 GMT
Who do you think it is
I say Michael Laudrup ( Denmark )
Who do you say ?
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Post by sdm3 on Nov 16, 2017 23:28:38 GMT
A host of options here.
Peter Schmeichel?
Freddie Ljungberg?
Laudrup?
Zlatan?
Henrik Larsson?
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Post by weststigersbob on Nov 16, 2017 23:33:33 GMT
Laudrup was a very good player (both of them were actually). But Peter Schmeichel is only Scandinavian player I’ve heard in the reckoning for greatest of all time in their position. I think he was the best keeper in the world in the late 80’s early 90’s - and therefore the best Scandinavian player of all time.
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Post by Carl LaFong on Nov 16, 2017 23:36:50 GMT
Probably Zlatan Ibrahimović.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 16, 2017 23:43:17 GMT
Laudrup was a very good player (both of them were actually). But Peter Schmeichel is only Scandinavian player I’ve heard in the reckoning for greatest of all time in their position. I think he was the best keeper in the world in the late 80’s early 90’s - and therefore the best Scandinavian player of all time. I don`t really think you can compear a goal keeper with a outfield player |
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Post by weststigersbob on Nov 16, 2017 23:48:52 GMT
Laudrup was a very good player (both of them were actually). But Peter Schmeichel is only Scandinavian player I’ve heard in the reckoning for greatest of all time in their position. I think he was the best keeper in the world in the late 80’s early 90’s - and therefore the best Scandinavian player of all time. I don`t really think you can compear a goal keeper with a outfield player Why ? Ever played a game without one ? Top level football isn’t like U/10’s where the last one picked has to be the keeper. It’s a specialist position that requires a lot of skill. On a similar vein, If you asked me the Greatest Russian player of all time, without hesitation I’d nominate Lev Yashin. Goalkeepers are players too..... |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 17, 2017 0:01:04 GMT
Zlatan or Laudrup.
Difficult to compare Schmeichel with outfield players because their job is so fundamentally different. Almost like trying to compare two guys from different sports. So I will give Schmeichel his own category, and I'm going to call that category "goalkeepers". And Schmeichel wins that category as he's the best I've seen.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 17, 2017 0:16:40 GMT
Goalkeepers are worthless. When we were kids we used to play "goalie-when" (I suspect other variations of this name exist in other parts of the country). This basically consisted of everyone on the pitch technically being allowed to be the keeper depending who was closest to the goal. (something I think we should introduce into the game). You're closest? Then you're keeper for this portion of the play.
That all said... Schmeichel is the only truly, truly great player from Scandinavia (and a euro winner).
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Post by Deleted on Nov 17, 2017 0:35:50 GMT
Goalkeepers are worthless. When we were kids we used to play "goalie-when" (I suspect other variations of this name exist in other parts of the country). This basically consisted of everyone on the pitch technically being allowed to be the keeper depending who was closest to the goal. (something I think we should introduce into the game). You're closest? Then you're keeper for this portion of the play. That all said... Schmeichel is the only truly, truly great player from Scandinavia (and a euro winner). Oh man, that's gonna bug me now for the rest of the night. Forgot what we used to call that... 'scrambles' or 'screwballs' but it wasn't either of those words, but I think it was something like that. Used to do it if the game was going to be a bit lopsided, like 3 v 4. 'Stick goalie' was when the keeper couldn't leave his goal, 'rush goalie' was when they could come out. Then there would be a negotiation before the game like "okay, you're having stick goalie and we're having scrambles". "No, fuck off, you're not fucking having scrambles, you can have rush goalie and we'll have stick". But obviously the word isn't 'scrambles' coz I can't think what the bloody word was. |
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Post by weststigersbob on Nov 17, 2017 0:46:28 GMT
Small games - no keeper. But the goals where excruciatingly small. Like the width of two balls small.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 17, 2017 1:08:59 GMT
Used to play two-touch football with a cone as the goal on our street. But I feel that game was deliberately designed to hamper me so that I couldn't hog the ball.
And I actually invented the Cruyff Turn when I was around 6 years old. Admittedly that was in 1988, some 14 years after WC74, but I swear I had never seen Cruyff play in my life.
I mean if civilisation is wiped out one day, and some dude in 50m years time invents the telescope independently of Galileo, they're not gonna give Galileo the credit because they never would have heard of him, they're gonna give this new dude the credit. So that is basically the situation I find myself in with the Cruyff turn.
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