Greatest Sportsman Of All-Time?

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Originally Posted by El Capitano Gatisto Romario won the World Cup for a very, very medicore Brazil side in 1994. Hristo Stoichkov got an average Bulgaria side to the semis of the same competition. Just saying.

On top of that, I'd have said Roberto Baggio was the player of the tournament, as he was carrying an Italian team the wrong side of mediocre single handidly. When it came down to it, Brazil other than Romario were better than Italy other than Baggio (true, their match went to penalties, but Brazil were the better team on the day and the two teams tournament results reflect that also).

Come to think of it, international football was VERY average in 1994 for the World Cup. Brazil were in between the Carera/Zico years and the Ronaldo years, Holland were suffering the same symptoms without guys like Van Basten or Gullit anymore, Germanys side was starting to show signs of age and were all falling out with each other (Klinsmann was outstading, though), Italy were being held together by Baggio (and to a lesser extent Baresi), Argentina fell apart after the Maradona scandal, Colombia were widely tipped to win it until everyone realised they were crap, England and France were collective shambles and didn't even bloody qualify and Romania were very good but at the end of the day it's only Romania. In the end, Brazil won simply because a mediocre Brazilian side is usually still good enough to beat most opposition (guys like Dunga and Bebeto never set the world on fire but were consistent and hard working enough to pull their weight along just fine).

That's quite a tangent.

[Dazz]

Originally Posted by El Capitano Gatisto Hristo Stoichkov got an average Bulgaria side to the semis of the same competition.

That free kick Vs Germany was great. Somewhere I have a poster of it

[El Capitano Gatisto]

Originally Posted by 91 On top of that, I'd have said Roberto Baggio was the player of the tournament, as he was carrying an Italian team the wrong side of mediocre single handidly. When it came down to it, Brazil other than Romario were better than Italy other than Baggio (true, their match went to penalties, but Brazil were the better team on the day and the two teams tournament results reflect that also).

Yeah, Baggio was brilliant, one of the best players I've seen in my football watching time. People often forget about the likes of Baggio and Stoichkov when talking about the greatest of all time.

Although Paul McGrath did mark Baggio out of the first game completely.