Tifo's All-Time World XI
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Seb Stafford-Bloor, JJ Bull and Alex Stewart sit down to discuss their choices for their all-time world XI. No rules, just their favourite ever players
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#WorldXI - กีฬา
"I went with Cameroon's N'Kono" is an iconic statement
*immediate laughter*
Hipster team, absolutely shite
The lack of Maldini in these teams really has me scratching my head
Just posted this very comment. Seems like Maldini is the comments section's most wanted, with Lev Yashin a close 2nd.
@Lucas Ferraz atleast he has Messi, both Ronaldos, Cruyff and Maradona etc as competition and people won’t have watched him so much so most his stuff is numbers on a page
Van Dijk and Ramos the greatest CB partnership ever though😂😂😂😂😂. Disgusting stuff, atleast one of them had Baresi.
@@francescototti10 I excuse JJ atleast bc he was doing eye test kinda thing where it was only players he’d watched mostly - but yeah, I think for me the back 4 is - Roberto Carlos, Maldini, Nesta, Cafu - I think - I know Maldini played some time at left back but I just feel like he was/is the best out and out defender I’ve ever seen
@@callumpyrah5016 there’s no way he hasn’t watched Nesta?
You should recreate these teams in Football Manager and do another tournament
They should bring Joe back for it too
This was may exact thought. Go on get McIntosh involved
the legends database makes for some insane online seasons
@@DSMGP5000 Adam Leventhal warming up his vocal chords already
Thank god I’m not the only one to think this it was my first thought
Absolutely laughin with tears in my eyes when I clocked that JJ secretly searched (19:45) for Neeskens and actually got Neeskens Kebano of Fullham isntead of Johan Neeskens lmaoo
Named after Johan Neeskens I believe.
Loooool
Great spot! lol
Jj MUST address this
Ignoring 33:17 to day that I made a world XI like two weeks ago that was the same exact team as JJ except with Puyol over Van Dijk so I’m happy I’m not the only Barça shill
I love how the differences between each computers speaks alot of their personalities
Apple
JJ is a weirdo, alex is a hippie and seb is boring
lol ikr
@@gamergod3378 thanks for explaining to the thickies
@@gamergod3378 That's fairly accurate.
I'm surprised Alex didn't have Socrates in his team. With the vibe and feeling he went for, he'd slot in perfectly.
I’m so stupid I thought u meant the philosopher for a second
@@vishnujeganmogan1750 Tbf it is Alex..
@@vishnujeganmogan1750 Who says he didn't :p
Very left wing
Socrates, Derrida and Foucault as his midfield pivot?
JJ's team - most modern take
Alex's team - most nostalgic take
Seb's team - lemme google these names....
JJ was more like a eye-test football fan, Alex was the edgy statistician and Seb was splitting the difference. Definitely shows their personalities lol
Quiet the opposite..
More All-Time XI's would be great. Premier league, Serie A, World Cup, 90's, 2000's, etc.
and teams. Would love to see an all time XI of teams who have had either sustained success or 2 or more periods of dominance. Examples are Utd (Busby era v Ferguson era), Real (50s and 60s vs now), Barca (same), Liverpool (70s v 80s v now), France/Brazil etc etc
Definitely
Why limit England‘a top 11 to post 92?
The Danish Superliga
Was disappointed not to see Ibrahima Sangare in Alex's team 😅😔
Or james ward prowse
@Stephen Kelly Alex still embraces it tbf
Without Ibi we're nothing. He can't go. Not even for a fictional world XI.
lev yashin the only goalkeeper in history to win the balon d'or.
I personally haven't seen him play but my father did and he said yashin was insane, not only an unbeatable wall but also a fierce leader.
I wonder if your father lived in the USSR because that’s the only place you could see him play live.
Ballon d'Or was a different award, previously.
@@francescototti10 what about internationals?
@@bobofindlay yeah, back then it was awarded to the best player of the year
@@frankunodostres473 it was a European player of the year before it merged with world player of the year.
Seb: You're not taking this seriously _Alex_
Alex: Yeah?! Well here's my bibliography.
I also very much enjoy the idea that Alex Stewart's brain is so packed full of esoteric football trivia and left wing history that he's strated to forget things from primary school like what shapes are.
As an austrian, i've got to say i'm quite moved by the recognition Konrad Laimer gets here :)
This is the type of conversation you don't want to end. I appreciate the more left-field picks, because the nostalgic, personal ones make it fun, and some players deserve recognition they wouldn't get usually. I wouldn't be able to resist putting Gary Speed alongside Thomas Muller and Thierry Henry in my XI.
But then it’s not a world best 11, it’s an 11 of players you like
I mean Gary speed come one
@@MB-vt7im like most of Tifo's videos - it's just a bit of fun! No need to get bent out of shape.
@@capadam1440 very calm over here fella, just discussing football in a comment section
@@MB-vt7im a discussion that ignores all the personal picks the Tifo guys made, and the part in the description that says they pick their favourites. It's all subjective (unless you dive into stats), and should be fun! Speed was an absolute monster of a player.
Lol exactly then it’s not the worlds best they’re picking a bunch of bums that no one even knows
My all time 11 (4-3-1-2): Neuer, Cafu, Beckenbauer, Maldini, Facchetti, Xavi, Neeskens, Zidane, Messi, Pele, Cr7. Substitutes(7): Yashin, Baresi, Matthaus, Maradona, Nazario Ronaldo, R. Carlos, Cruyff.
Notable exclusions(can easily walk into any world Xi): Pirlo, Iniesta, G. Best, Buffon, Gerd Muller, Dani Alves, Platini, Di Stefano, Rijkaard, Scirea, Garrincha, Breitner, Puskas, Dinho, Ramos, Henry, P. Lahm, Scholes, Iker Casillas, M. Desailly, L. Suarez, Modric, Cannavaro, P. Vieira.
Reasons behind selection: Cafu and Facchetti will be the key attacking fullbacks in this side who are adept at attack and defense to compensate the lack of pure wingers in the squad upfront. Messi takes a central 10 role, Pele and Cr7 are the wide forwards with Pele operating freely and Ronaldo in a more 4-4-2ish striker role getting support from the flanks with exceptional playmakers as Messi and Zizou behind. This side is loaded with technicians and masterminds who are phenomenal with the ball in keeping possession as well as distributing either horizontally with short passes or vertically and diagonally with ping passes and accurate long balls (here Beckenbauer and Neeskens come into play whereas Xavi dictates the tempo).
That Capello Scudetto winning Roma team was something else - Antonioli, Cafu, Samuel, Zago, Aldair, Candela, Tommasi, Emerson, Totti, Delvecchio and Batistuta
Ooft
Really happy to see a Garrincha shout-out. The dude's highlights and the way he was described at the time are just something else.
Vvd is a great defender but i just feel longevity goes against him in these all time lists
100% - he's as good as if not better than when Sergio Ramos was 29, but Ramos has kept it up in the 6 or 7 years that age has gone against him, so justifies a mention. VVD needs to stay at this level into his late 30s to be talked about in all time best XIs
He’s the best I’ve seen at central defender ever way better than Ramos. But his accolades are not up there yet
@@chocobomtom Ramos was part of a defensive Galacticos where he was the leader of 4 insane defenders, and ability wise Pepe matched him
VVD is levels and levels above Matip/Gomez/Konate, and TAA/Robertson are better known for their attacking qualities than their defending necessarily
Swap VVD for Ramos in that Real defense and they'd perform pretty much the same, but L'pool might not be so solid
@@aaronconway4435 yeah but VVD has been this good all his career, people just only know know because of him being at Liverpool, he was brilliant at Celtic and Southampton
@@eesafredericks2122 he was pretty good there but he was not world class there you know what i mean
Love this kind of fan conversation, so refreshing compared to the standard 'my club is better than yours' or 'this player was better than this player' kind of fan debate. Really interesting how everyone had different reasons for picking players based on nostalgia, impact, personality, etc. Also taught me a lot about certain players I barely knew
Lahm. What a full back. First time I watched him was Germany’s opener vs Costa Rica in 06 WC and scored that amazing rocket shot. Every now and then I think about it. Absolute class. Believe he went his entire career without a single red card too.
Goes under the radar a lot sadly. Won so, so much in his career, led Bayern to a treble, led Germany to a WC and still under the radar.
Incredible player. Can't think of many players who understood the game as well as he did
@Jonontoast yet he dominated every opponent in the champions league. Lahm was incredible in attacking and defending, his skill on the ball was something else. He never left the Bundesliga, because he never wanted to. He is a down to earth guy and lives a family live, he was rooted in Munich and didn't want to put his family through moving across the continent.
Maradona himself said that lahm was his successor, he was a fan of Lahm. It's a real shame how many people are sleeping on him.
@Jonontoast Imagine describing a Top3 League as a "poor". How arrogant could one be.
@Jonontoast It's totally ok if you think it's not entertaining and I definitely agree that the title race, with Bayern winning every season, is not entertaining at all, but that doesn't change the fact that it is the current third best league in the world.
JJ's team was by far the best! Picking nostalgic obscure players is fine for one or two positions but not for a whole team. Honestly, if these teams played everyone in their prime it would be a slaughtering.
Alex (and probably the whole team) should do a short video on TifoIRL covering soccer books you've enjoyed. Would be really interested to see what books and authors you've found to either be entertaining or help increase your understanding of the game.
football*
*soccer
@@ldalle who cares
Particularly if they could release it in about mid November, would really help with the Christmas shopping
@weez89 books by Michael Cox and ‘inverting the pyramid’ pretty much sum them up mate.
GK-Karius
LB-Benjamin Mendy
CB-Phil Jones
CB-Maguire
RB-Mustafi
CDM-David Luiz
CM-Dele Alli
CAM-Lingard
LW-Werner
ST-Higuain
RW-Morata
Ur the type of friend I want😂😂
Replace Werner for Adam Johnson and you have a team!
GOAT
Hahahaba
@@ashikodimaduka3539 swap the positions of the defenders with the strikers and hey presto! this team starts winning every game 10-0
Pat Jennings might be the only player who is a legend for Spurs and Arsenal. 710 games for both teams combined.
Love the wide range of legends of this beautiful game being mentioned here.
I'm with JJ - you should only be allowed to pick players you have seen play in full matches. It's impossible to gauge how good Garrincha was based on TH-cam clips alone.
There are full games of Garrincha available though.
Yeah it should really be like that. No one who is under 70 years old saw how beckenbauer was in his Prime lol.
And those 10 matches or so that are aviable are nowhere near enough to make a viable Argumentation for him, instead of putting someone like maldini or ramos there, who most people actually saw playing
Right so basically football only counts when you’re watching it? Give over
What is the website they reference as hosting classic football player clips?
@Renewed RS
Footballia has full matches of older games
GK: Buffon
RB: Djalma Santos
CB: Baresi
CB: Beckenbauer
LB: Maldini
CM: Platini
CAM: Cruyff
CAM: Maradona
RW: Messi
LW: C. Ronaldo
ST: Pelé
Bench: Casillas, Cafu, Nesta, Cannavaro, Facchetti, Zidane, Iniesta, Kaka, Van Basten, R9
'Please don't send us your teams, we do not care'- Seb
I'd have expected that brutal savageness from Alex lol
As an Irishman, love the Paul McGrath selection. His game against Italy in the 94 World Cup was outstanding.......not sure how much of it he can remember, due to some of those personal difficulties. What a player though.
Video idea: best 11 based on individual performances. Could end up with some unexpected players in that.
Example:
Gk Tim Krul vs Spurs
CAM Arshavin vs Liverpool
Etc
I love watching Zidane.
For some reason he always looked like he was just a hair away from getting picked for the ball, but always managed to get by
Ronaldinho needs a mention. The best footballing ability ever !
One thing I love about tifo is you can tell how much the guys truly love the game. Obviously like they have an organization dedicated to covering the sport but they do so in a way that feels so genuine.
here's mine.
goalkeeper - jamie carragher
defenders - carragher, carragher, carragher, carragher
midfielders - carragher, carragher, carragher, carragher
strikers - carra, carra
managers - jamie
Mine is the same, but with Gerrard
Players who should have got mentions- Pele, Maradona, Maldini, Nesta, Djalma Santos, Jairzinho, Best, Yashin, Ronaldinho, Facchetti, Di Stefano and Zico
Glen Hoddle
Tifo: we think there is a lot of eurocentrism when it comes to these kinds of lists, so we tried to go a litle bit against that.
Also Tifo: chooses THREE all time world elvens without ever picking Pele, Maradona o Di Stéfano.
That was the worst world XI I've ever seen
I appreciate how genuine those teams are but it doesn’t sound like a good all-time side when you never seen full games even with some guys from the 80’s, let alone 60-70’s. Especially in a time where a lot of those games are available.
JJ’s team: a mix of modern and old
Alex’s team: Quirky
Seb’s team: who? Ohh
Maldini walks into any defensive line with capability to play in cb and lb to best we've seen. His captaincy and longevity is amazing too
Their laptop decorations speak volumes. Seb’s is just ordinary. Alex has a bunch of obscure stickers. JJ? Googly Eyes.
17:54 Hahaha... cameraman burns Seb. (For context Alex said he forgot what Oval looks like when describing his midfield and the camera split seconded zoomed on Seb)
Ancelotti would actually be great for Alex's team. Suited for making huge egos get along.
The fact Messi is only in JJ's team I'd astounding to me. Surely the best player ever should be in an all time XI
plenty of missing greats - Greaves, Ibra, Maradona, Pele, Henry, Makalele, Maldini, Best, Etoo, Raul.
Best player ever is very subjective. There's more to football than Messi and Ronaldo. You could make an argument for at least 20 players to be the greatest ever. Messi is outstanding at a lot of things but so are a litany of others. Pele, CR7, R9, Puskas, Di Stefano, Maradona and Eusebio are/were all comparable talents and that's just the forwards.
He's a statistical phenomenon, but I wouldn't miss him if I already picked Maradona.
@@stephenpalmer9375 Nobody in their right mind would have Ibrahimovich in their all time 11 for the striker position
@@brynknight2745 is you objectively best 11. then greats of the modern era at their prime are better than the older generations because development in training diet exercise etc.
Some of my favs that i watched... Koeman, Seedorf, Chilavert, Peter Schmeichel, Costacurta, Romario, Del Piero, Roberto Baggio, David Villa, Batistuta, Maradona, Pirlo, Totti, Thuram, Buffon, Casillas, Bergkamp, Muller, Sammer, Scholes, Shearer, Henry, Ronaldinho, Rivaldo, Shevchenko, Ruud Gullit, Vialli, Desailly, Roy Keane, Vieira,
If i had to choose 11 from those....
Romario David Villa
Ronaldinho Seedorf
Pirlo
Vieira
Koeman Costacurta Thuram
Sammer
Casillas
A 90's inspired Bielsa style 1-3-3-3/3-1-3-3. Costacurta can step out and Sammer slot into central defence. Seedorf tucks in alongside Vieira narrow and Ronaldinho pushes up and has license to roam anywhere.
Nice. Grew up watching these players. So many of them are overlooked when people talk about greatest of all time, for a period of a few years in all their careers they were amongst or the best in the world in their position
I hate to be that guy, but how can you not include Messi.
@@blackmage567 No world cup win as of yet. The strikers i chose both did. Dominating one league as Messi did, for as long as he did is special no doubt!! He is still one of the greatest ever. I probably should have chosen original Ronaldo + Zidane too, not to mention Pele and Maradona. And Cafu + Dani Alves. But David Villa + Romario tend to be over looked for the obvious guys.
@@sebblackmore3697 …
@@Aisatsana1971 He can swap for either striker now lol. Fully deserved!
Puyol was my inspiration and hero growing up. I wasn’t technically skilled but he would get to the ball like a truck and work 90 minutes straight. That’s who I wanted to be when I grew up.
Got to be the toughest thing to do from a footballing perspective. So many great players to pick from.
Agreed. Too many greats get overlooked when choosing 11 players from 100 years of football
Seb’s squad was so pro-Anglo. My guy, people play football in other parts of the world.
Funny how he commented about this when talking about GKs... His team was so biased
No Maldini?! Harsh...
Preud'homme
P. Lahm
Baresi
Puyol
Maldini
Makelele
R. Baggio
Zidane
Messi
Ronaldo Nazario
C. Ronaldo
4-4-2 diamond with Messi as a false 9 or 10
Manager has to be the 04/05 Mourinho
Where's the midfield? No one defends other than Makelele
@@moe2366 with that defensive line plus Makelele who needs any more defensively minded midfielders? 😃 I suppose you could swap Zidane for Eric "The King" Djemba-Djemba 😆
19:40 Probably the greatest central defensive midfielder but also underrated as well was Lothar Matthaus. He could play any position and was an incredible reader of the game. Had a rocket of a shot and could man-mark any of the opposition best players.
Iker Casillas
Phlipp Lahm - Bobby Moore - Franz Beckenbauer - Paulo Maldini
Xavi - Duncan Edwards
George Best - Lionel Messi - Cristiano Ronaldo
Pele
They don't care and neither do I 👍
Tried to do this with players of different nationalities:
GK Yashin
DF Alves
DF Beckenbauer
DF Moore
DF Maldini
MF Busquets
MF Gullit
MF Zidane
FW Messi
FW Puskas
FW C. Ronaldo
Edit: I’ll go with SAF as my manager. Michels is a good shout but to continue the trend of different nationalities I’ll pick the Scotsman.
alves not even top 3 brazilian right backs ever.
djalma santos, carlos alberto torres and cafu were all better than him.
I disagree
Maldini baresi beckenbauer lahm.
@@TheDavydan I don’t care
@@ldalle I grew up watching Alves so there’s a romanticism about him. I personally think even Lahm is better but alr have Beckenbauer
24:58 it was against Compostela in the Copa Del Rey in the 96/97 where he scored 47 goals in 49 matches, a record which stood until the 2009/10 season.
It was in the league.
Schwarzer
Atkinson - Neill - Popovic - Zullo
Milligan - Cahill
Bresciano - Rogic - Kewell
Viduka
Fight me
🐑🐑🐑🐑
It seems like feeling clever was far more important than the qualities of the players selected at times. You could have titled the video “three teams we think are neat” and it would have been fine but intentionally avoiding players like Messi proves the experiment wasn’t explored in good faith
No Paolo Maldini, no party
"I'll get up and jog around a bit" absolutely killed me
My team 5-3-2
Neuer
Nesta Baresi Maldini
Cafu Carlos
Redondo
Scholes Keane
Ronaldo R9
Van Basten
Zlatan(23)
Zlatan(27)-Zlatan(36)-Zlatan(19)-Zlatan (21)
Zlatan (37)-Zlatan(33)-Zlatan (36)
Zlatan(39)-Zlatan(40)-Zlatan(28)
Zlatan👌
I feel like you should swap zlatan around with zlatan so they can help zlatan do zlatan things
would anyone ever pass?
@@YourService977 Zlatan doesn't pass tests, tests have to pass Zlatan
Bottled every big UCL match 👍🏻
Bixente Lizarazu is one of the players I remember watching at a young age & clearly thinking he was a world class player. Also remember Juan Pablo Sorin being a class left-back for Villareal and Argentina too.
4-3-3
GK: Peter Schmeichel
RB: Carlos Alberto
RCB: Franco Baresi
LCB: Franz Beckenbauer
LB: Giancinto Fachetti
CDM: Claude Makelele
RCM: Michel Platini
LCM: Johan Cruyff
RW: Georgie Best
ST: Pele
LW: Diego Maradonna
Points for having Best in there. Sadly despite being the greatest player the British Isles ever produced, he had too short a career at the top level.
Very good defense.
Makelele! yes! good choice
Fachetti is a great, great shout. What a player
If Ashley Cole had been Brazilian, Spanish, Italian etc. then people would have no issue calling him one of the very best left-backs of all time. I’d have him in my all-time 11 every time
He was in the era of Roberto Carlos and Maldini. Ashley Cole is world class but 'just' behind the two mentioned above.
@@ameenr9129 depends what kind of lb you're looking for tbf. He was better defensively than Roberto Carlos and better offensively than Maldini
@@michal8351 true
No chance.
Agreed. Cole would be in contention for the left-back spot in my all time 11.
Also (whisper it) but Carlos wasn't actually as good as people remember him. There were better left-backs around at the time. Lizarazu, Candela, Ziege to name a few. Carlos was a good attacker and would smash in an outrageous free-kick every 100 games or so. But positionally and defensively he wasn't that great.
Genuine lols at JJ breaking the 4th wall to deliver THE Aberdeen fact, again.
About 17:40 - "you'd be a good player, if you could think with your mind"... sounds like a Neil Warnock quote
Loved the video, but how nobody even mentioned Maldini is atrocious. Maybe the best LB ever and was a world class CB as well.
He was mentioned - as a possible leftback.
IMO he was better at CB. Or at least how the positions are now played. He wasn't fast or athletic so he could never play like Cafú, Roberto Carlos or Alves.
But he was so incredibly elegant and his reading of the game was so prescient, he didn't even need to tackle. He just hoovered up any balls getting within a 5 m circle near him.
Why is it atrocious lmao. You do know this is a video about their all time teams not yours. Everyone has their opinion mate. Its not atrocious just because u dont like it
Dam, I just posted this very comment :p
Best 11, 4-3-3, only players I’ve watched whole 90 minute matches of:
Buffon
Cafu
Puyol
Terry
Cole
Seedorf
Viera
Zidane
Messi
Shearer
C.Ronaldo
Great team
My best 11 would be(3-4-2-1):
Cech
T.Silva Terry. Carvalho
Lahm Kante. Essien Cole
Lampard Hazard
Drogba
With Robben, Ballack, Makelele, Diego costa, and Desailly on the bench.
@@michal8351 I’m going to guess you are a Chelsea fan.
@@masterwesty what gave you that idea🤔😅
@@michal8351 looking at the team really
@@soul3074 *sarcastic question*
Glad to see Alex back!
GK: Neville Southall
DR: Cafu
DC: Franz Beckenbaur
DC: Franco Baresi
DL: Leighton Baines
DM: Roy Keane
MC: Xavi
MC: Paul Scholes
AMR: Lionel Messi
AML: Tom Finney
STC: Eric Cantona
Tom Finney?
@@CJVP99 yes. Tom Finney. One of England's most naturally talented forwards ever, lost 6 years of his career to the war and was denied a transfer to Juve in 51. Pele rated him as one of the best ever.
@@philipmalcolm4550 I mean, I respect his legacy and all but come on mate you put Finney on the XI but omitted Ronaldo Nazario De Lima (R9)? Arguably the greatest talent we have ever seen on the pitch pre knee injury, that’s just blasphemous. I don’t even think Finney would put himself over R9 lol RIP
@@CJVP99 my list my rules. Your mileage may vary: I mean, I'd struggle to tell you why Baines is the best left back of all time rather than just my favourite, also. Its all opinions at the end of the day, Clive.
NB Finney could play anywhere across the front 4 and also drive a tank. Your move, Ronaldo.
@@philipmalcolm4550 if it’s just your favorite players I can accept that, we all have our favorite players who may not be the best but still hold a place in our hearts for whatever reason but aside form a few outliers (Southall, Baines, Finney) the rest of your XI all have a case for their but the outliers don’t unless they’re just your favorite because there are so many better options lol
GK: Khan, Buffon, Casillas, Neuer
Lb: Maldini, Robert Carlos, Marcelo
Att: R9, Maradona, CR7, Henry, Eusebio
We need more fun videos like this on the channel, this is still by far my favourite video you’ve released and there’s not many like it at all on your channel. A lot of videos on TH-cam with serious boring XIs but the interesting personal picks and actual knowledge made this more entertaining, more please
JJ and Stewart perfect combo for this !!
Seb is definitely my favourite because of Paul McGrath
Goal: V. d. Saar
Defense (dense chain of four IV, left to right) : Maldini, Stam, Vidic, Canavarro
Diamond: Viera - Scholes, Laudrup - Bergkamp
Left Wing/Atacker: Giggs*
Right Attacker: Gullit
* = my only reminisence to classic wing-playing and in an universe without his presumed offences.
There's some lovely footage of an attacking midfielder who takes down a ball with his right foot instep, swivels on it elegently almost a pirouette and then pings it outwards with the outside of his left foot. I know who you're all thinking, it's Zidane right? Pretty much a textbook example of how he played. Wrong- it's Bobby Charlton. This is someone who was playing in the 50s and 60s and it took my breath away watching that because honestly, the technique and poise was exactly the same as someone playing with a modern ball and boots.
I am surprised how no one mentioned Lev Yashin as the goalkeeper.
cmon, its tifo, you knew some quirky picks were going to be there
some of the picks are quite questionable but who cares
@@vandal_dk schmeichel is not good enough to tie his shoe laces
Yashin is the father of modern day GK
@@c.augustedupin8860 like anyone has watch him play ಠ ͜ʖ ಠ
@@Dante12466 i think its because they are trying to be different
Not having Paulo Maldini on any of these lists is a real surprise. Obviously Pele and CR7 not making it on any list is sort of weird as well but I understand they were trying to be not as "obvious" with their picks, so I get that.
Some interesting choices.. And I do think a) it's very difficult to settle on an all time 11 in general, because there simply have been too many greats at several positions many of whom would easily be equally deserving.. b) because it also really depends on the system, so technically you would almost have to do an all time 11 for every formation.. Next consideration is, do you just go with a random squad based on percepted best talent - or would you try and put a squad together that could actually work well..? Personally, I am always learning towards the latter (which is why I think the Barcelona midfield trio is a perfectly reasonable choice).
Would love to see anymore videos similar to this!
I came back to read the comments sections and everyone has picked out some great, great players. There's some amazing teams.
Some players who haven't got much of a mention and ought to be in the mix -
Javier Zanetti. What a player. Longevity, adapting his game, just will go under everyone's radar.
Alan Hansen. He was unbeatable in his prime. You'd be hard pressed to find a finer ball-playing Central Defender.
Sinisa Mihailovic. Not only for his incredible set pieces, but for his aggressive and determined play, he was a winner through and through.
Clarence Seedorf. Could do it all. Slotted into any role in midfield and did it as good as anyone else could.
George Best - Britain's finest ever player.
Miroslav Klose. He is the World Cup top scorer for a reason. His timing, never wasting motion, is unrivalled in football.
Hugo Sanchez. What a player.
Roy Keane/Patrick Viera/Steven Gerrard - defined their teams. Made them tick. Got you a goal right when you needed it.
Best wasn’t British, he was Irish
8:10 for some reason I knew he was going Virgil when he acted like that, but yeah that’s a good pick
OG Ronaldo was something out of this world. The single season he played for Barcelona was absolutely magical. One really has to wonder how his career would have panned out without the crippling injuries and the weird epileptic attack previous to the '98 WC final.
Btw, his crazy one man against a whole team goal was against Compostela. ;)
As someone from Newry, it makes me really happy that Pat Jennings was put in one of these sides, and very sad that JJ doesn’t know him
You know these are excellent choices; when you don't hate *all* of the choices...but only *most* of them
I’m just starting the video and I’m sure Alex will pick the most niche team you can think of
The first time I watched this video I was wondering why JJ's comment about playing midfielders at RB elicited so much emotion from Alex. Now, having just watched "Tifo's All-Time Premier League XI" video: I understand the call-back and I am now apart of this inside joke and honestly I think my year has been made already.
I had a football magazine back in the day that had a picture of OG ronaldo. The left page was a defender sprinting as hard as they can. The right page was ronaldo running through. They were both near the middle of the magazine so looked close - but it was a fold out picture that when you pulled the right page showed there was two pages of empty grass between them. Don’t know if I described it well, but it’s an image I’ll never forget. He’d make my team just for that
Fun segment, learned a lot, but don't forget Maldini!
No one picked Ramsdale as keeper? Smh
Everyone was wrong about ramsdale. Know they must atone for their sins
Interesting teams lads, I wouldn't pick the same players but thats what makes football so interesting how you can pick so many amazing dream teams and leave so many epic players out.
My team- GK- Neuer
LB- Evra CB- Ferdinand CB- Beckenbauer RB-Lahm
LCM- Keane. RCM- Modric
CAM- Maradona
LW- Ronaldinho CF- Pele RW- Cruyff
Nice team
Mine would be: 3-4-2-1
Cech
Thiago Silva. Terry. Maldini
Lahm. Kante. Xavi. Cole
Lampard. Hazard
Drogba
I am extremely surprised Diego Maradona and Pele were not in any of the lists. I think Maradona will be selected by most managers ahead of Messi for the same position in a fantasy team. Sad to see players like Maradona not getting the referee’s protection like presently.
Two of these guys are English. That’s probably why they didn’t pick Maradona lol. I’d be the same, I still have a bias against the guy despite his greatness
Don't forgot also the 2 winningest players in history Ferenc Puskas and Alfredo di Stefano
I feel philip lahm gets put aside for right back but he was such a good solid player at right back for bayern for years
But for me
GK - Neuer.
RB - lahm
CB - rio ferdinand
CB - Beresi
LB - Carlos
CDM - Paul Scholes
Cm - Xavi
Cm - Iniesta
Lw - Ronaldo
ST - Ronaldo
Rw - Ronaldinho
Cmon man you have to put Messi in
@@SnowsCali3.5pack oh I would but also I really wanted to confuse any commentator who watches the match
Gk: Yashin
Lb: Maldini
Cb: Nesta, cannavaro
Rb: Cafu
Cm: Rijkaard, Gullit
Cam: Ronaldinho
Lw: Cruijff
Rw: Messi
Cf: Ronaldo 🇧🇷
Lots of talk about the merits of different right backs. Alves, Cafu, Lahm. No-one mentions Zanetti. He was an absolutely phenomenal right-back who could also play defensive midfield or even at a push left-back.
334:
Casillas
Maldini
Nesta
Ramos
Modric
Kante
Xabi Alonso
Ronaldo
Ronaldo
Adriano
Messi
Adriano!!!
JJ's team is quality for sure. I don't blame him for picking the Barcelona Triumvirate!!! Quality midfield
My team was identical to JJs, with the exception of Marcelo instead of Carlos!
Great video, chaps.
GK: Gianluigi Buffon
RB: Cafu
CB: Sergio Ramos
CB: Franco Baresi
LB: Paolo Maldini
DM: Sergio Busquets
CM: Andres Iniesta
CM: Xavi Hernandez
AM: Lionel Messi
ST: Ronaldo Nazario
ST: Cristiano Ronaldo
Super solid team, you definitely know football
TBH if it wasn't for Tifo, I'd stop following football. Or take an indefinite hiatus.
Best season's greeting to you guys and everyone watching this vid!
Some of these picks are so suprising to me, like how is VVD and Neuer getting spots while Maldini, Yashin n all got overlooked...plus even though I love the guy and he's probably the best Midfeilder of his generation But Kante over the likes of Viera, Scholes, Keane, Makelele, Pirlo, StevieG and the list could go on forever....it's just mind-blowing to me
Neuer should not be controversial and can be argued as the greatest. He’s won every achievable trophy possible and finished third in Balon d’Or in the Messi/Ronaldo era.
@@nooblover23 he is missing the euros but otherwise he has every important trophy
Wht? Neuer is the greatest goalkeeper of all time. Stop this yashin nonsense.
Well there seems to be a lot of Neuer fans out there tbh even tho he's World Class I'd even prefer Kahn over Neuer cause the impact Der Titan had on his German side and at club level were far superior to Neuers imo that is
@@philipthomas8928 Kahn had a shorter career at the top and played in a bad Germany side but they were both the best players of their sides at the world cup Kahn just faced more shots
Btw Lizarazu is the colour commentator for France's national team games and he's really good at it. Him and Margotton with the world cup and euro 2016 became classic, untouchable on french tv. He's also hot af
27:32 This is a bit similar to when people say music was way better in the 70's och 80's or whatever point in time, compared to today. A lot of times they mostly say that because decades later it's just the best of the best music of those times that is remembered today. The bad stuff is forgotten. Meanwhile you hear all the bad stuff of today and dont realise that will mostly be forgotten in a few decades and the masterpieces will be what we think about when we talk about 2010's music