***Greatest Soccer team ever****
 

here is a list compiled by World Soccer magazine:

1 Brazil 1970
2 Hungary 1953
3 Holland 1970
4 Milan 1989-90
5 Brazil 1958
6 Real Madrid 1956-60
7 7 Brazil 1982
8 Barcelona 1991-94
9 Italy 1934-38
10 France 1998- 2000


11 River Plate late 1940s
12 Ajax 1971-73
13 Bayern Munich 1974-76
14 Celtic 1967
15 France 1984
16 Denmark 1986
17 Real Madrid 1998
18 Tottenham 1961
18 Liverpool 1977
20 Manchester United 1999


http://www.worldsoccer.com/greatest/teams.php

This should actually be in at number one... :winkwink:

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Scott McD
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really? LOL...that was a good team, it's my Favorite jersey in Football. I watch Celtic vs AC Milan and AC Milan vs Celtic in an Irish pub here in USA. Great fans great sportsmen!

Brazil features 3 times amoung top 10 temas.... Nice!!

yeah, they put Denmark 1986 on the list, but they forgot the 1986 World Champion Argentina, the 1974 world champion and 1972 european champion Germany, the 1990 world champion Germany...another bullshit biased list.

Nice list :)


I guess their site gets so much traffic right now that it's down?

yet they forgot Brasil 2002, which won dancing through the World Cup....

If Holland should be on that list it should be 1974 or maybe 1988, not 1970

I remember that team from Argentina, and frankly I don't think they should figure on the top 10 list.

:2 cents:

No Glasgow Rangers ???? :1orglaugh:1orglaugh

Denmark 1986? ...of course they shouldn't be on the list, they got beaten with 5-1 by Spain at that Cup:1orglaugh:1orglaugh

Simply because those teams were very solid but not with a bit of class, beside Beckenbauer, Germany 1990 was the worst team of Germany, they had way better teams.

Solid teams as Germany proves can win the World cup.

:thumbsup:thumbsup

maybe he meant Denmark 1992........

that list sucks....Where's the ajax team in 95/94 that won every single price
there was to win? What about Barcelona who won the same the year after
with ironically the 80% of the ajax team of the year before?

Holland squad of 74 losing WorldCup finalist against Argentina?

I agree with Holland 1974

maybe we should start a thread with our favorite 10's

they should have name the list "the most spectacular playing teams" because great in my vocabulary means the one that wins playing great. Germany was runner-up in WC 1966, 3rd in WC 1970, won the European Cup in 1972, won the World Cup in 1974 and was runner up in the European Cup in 1976 with the same coach and group of players. If that's not a great team, well...

..and, trust me, Germany 1994 and 1998 were far worse teams than germany 1990, ask anybody who knows a bit about this sport.:2 cents:

Great football means also team playing, tactics, strength and devotion, not only who scores from 40 meters because the goalkeeper is an idiot. Ask any football player or coach.

I'm a proud mofo :pimp

This is for you then:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=ZCaEDoB2oxc

Barcelona didn't win shit in 1996. Juventus won the Champions League.

Holland lost in 1974 against Germany and in 1978 against Argentina. They say that the 1974 team was the greatest dutch team ever.

I agree with Ajax 94-95

well could be that it was 97 when barca won all with Louis van Gaal as their
coach. Star players at that time: Kluivert, Reiziger, Overmars, Rijkaard, Bogarde,
Hesp and a few others which I can't recall right now :thumbsup

Borussia Dortmund won Champions League in 1997 after a final with Juventus. Barcelona won the Cup Winners Cup, the 3rd european competition. At the time, Real and Atletico in Spain and Juventus, Borussia Dortmund and Real in Europe were the shit. Sorry. That "Ajax reloaded" Barca did never reach the success of Ajax or 1991-1994 Stoicikov, Romario and Cruyff's Barca. It was a good team, though.:2 cents:

hell yeah! saw it 1000 times but always love to watch it again,thx!:thumbsup

Teams that impressed me the most were more or less on the top of champions league at their time:

Barcelona in their season when they lost to AC Milan - Stoichkov and Romario were the most exciting attacking team I can remind of

Ajax in 94 / 95 - all the players there became superstars in the 90's

Juventus 95 / 96 - Every player a strong personality, I believe I would still be able to put together the starting lineup

Manchester United in Cantona years - huge collection of personalities, Keane, Steve Bruce, Giggs, Schmeichel etc.

FC Valencia at the break of 90's / 00's - incredible pace, skill and counter strike football

Just to name a few. Of course I cannot comment what I haven't seen personally, but I believe those rankings are quite sensible from what I could see in TV documentaries.

That was some of the worst finals I saw, Ricken's goal was amazing but I can remember they tallied three goals from four attempts at goal! Of course I fancied Juventus, but Del Piero was not enough to beat them that evening.

damn you're right no idea how I thought they won all that year. I've visited
practically all of their home matches in Nou Camp.....I guess I wanted them to win
them all :1orglaugh

Yes, if it was the most extravagant teams then Rangers with Gazza could land a place over there, such a talented player with permanent black outs.

Never mind that, no Queens Park Rangers...














But then I know we are crap.

This year it will be Barca of course :winkwink:

Where the heck is norway on this list ?

This is about football not nordic walking :winkwink::helpme

Man i remember the final in 1994 in Athens i was there, Stoichkov and Romario didn't touch one ball against Filippo Galli and Costacurta.

That was one of the best final AC Milan has ever played , With Van Basten and Baresi out of injuries, that was Capello's Masterpiece.

Hmmm? World SOCCER magazine made that list?? I never pay much attention to news or articles from anyone who calls football SOCCER.

thanks for the info dude...:thumbsup

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No problem

how can they place Celtic (one time Euro cup winners) above Liverpool ( 5 times Euro cup winners) Celtics team of the day won it once, Liverpools team of that time won it 3/4 times around the same period

fuck me i just noticed Tottenham (1961) are above Liverpool too.. .

makes this list not worth the effort IMHO

what about Liverpool 2001 they won three cups that year..

I think the fact Celtic were the first British team to ever win it probably counts for something here.

Could be wrong though...

The league, the FA cup and the CL right?
oh no, that's right, they won the FA cup and 2 mickey mouse cups :1orglaugh

The amount of cups won doesn't matter according to the list, that's why Nottingham Forest isn't there for example. It's just the most exiting teams, which is why Liverpool isn't very high up the list

Finally an intelligent post ;)