Your favourite non SAFC XI

Not the best players of all time, just ones you enjoyed or would have liked to have seen more of. Mine is mainly based on early childhood fascinations with Serie A and starting to love the game as a kid:

Pagliuca
Cafu Ayala Maldini Lizerazu
Lombardo Redondo De Rossi Letchkov
Batistuta Mancini​

 

I'll have to cast my mind back a bit and have a think, but as another fan of Serie A as a boy I liked George Weah, Alen Boksic, Roberto Baggio and Mancini for starters. I had a poster of Baggio on my bedroom wall and used to try and play like him, him and Mancini were my idols.

Never copied the mullet though.

 

Sticks in my throat but I loved watching that keegan team the first time round.

 

I'm reporting this post, unless you're referring to the Liverpool 4-3 games.

 

Got to admit that was the highlight

 

Great thread.

GK: Schmeichel
RB: Cafu
LB: Lizarazu
CB: Baresi
CB: Montero

LW: M. Laudrup
MC: Boban
MC: Zidane
RW: Hagi

ST: Ronaldo (Brazilian)
ST: Vieri

Played a bit fast and loose with that midfield combo but **** it, they could work it out.

 

Nvm

 

GK - Oliver Khan
RB - Phillip Lahm
CB - Paulo Maldini
CB - Franz Beckenbauer
LB - Roberto Carlos
RW - David Beckham
CM - Patrick Viera
CM - Paul Scholes
LW - Eden Hazard
ST - Ronaldo (Portugal)
ST - Lional Messi

 

Any team that beat poocastle & the mutants

 

I said Non SAFC Hank, you can't have our players for smashing them all over 6 times in a row

 

I love that midfield. Hagi and Laudrup were incredible.

Nice strike force too, though Bobo wouldn't get in there for me, far too many good strikers in Serie A back then.

 

I'm not biased though

 

That's a strong team. A bit too efficient for my liking. Could never get away with Khan.

 

I hated that kraut

 

Ta, Michael Laudrup is my favourite player of all time so I was going to get him in. Probably one of the more underrated 'legends' but Ajax, Juve, Barca, Real... he had some career. I particularly like that Barca beat Real 5-0 in el classico with him in the team, then the following year he joined Real who won the same game 5-0 too. Some player.

Vieri is just in their for the craic. Again he was just a fun player and character, never the best (although he was a world transfer record holder when Atleti bought him before the 98 world cup, weirdly)

 

Going to come back to this obviously.

Keeper

RB Vidic Maldini Roberto Carlos

Roberto Baggio Davids Nedved

Mancini

Weah Boksic

 

Choosing my second striker was always going to be tough. Mancini was a favourite as I adored Sampdoria. Vialli beside him would have been the obvious choice but I could have easily gone for Ronaldo, Romario, Stoichkov, Baggio, Signori and not to mention another underrated legend Raul. And that's just from the 90's.

I honestly don't know if football was better back then or having limited games plus nostalgia just makes it feel that way, but there were so many magnificent players.

 

GK Ray Clemence

RB Javier Zanetti
LB Roberto Carlos
CB Allesandro Nesta
CB Allesandro Costacurta

RM Leo Messi
LM Pavel Nedved
CM Frank Rijkaard
CM Clarence Seerdorf

CF Gabriel Batistuta
CF Marco Van Basten

 

Seedorf!! He would have absolutely been in my team. I dropped a clanger there. Absolutely love Seedorf.

 

Legend was Seerdorf for me like, absolutely ran the show, loved seeing him play. And one of them players who does seem to get overlooked or forgotten about yet the only player to win the Champions League with three different teams, Ajax, Real Madrid and AC Milan.