Capitano 1960 2026

Buffa Racconta Marco Van Basten 1988

Youri Djorkaeff Inter Bomber

Denis Law Made In Aberdeen

Kuningas Litmanen

 

Kevin Trapp "Die Stars der Bundesliga"

Alfredo Di Stefano La Leyenda

En 1947, il remporte le titre de meilleur buteur du championnat sous les couleurs de River Plate et gagne son second titre national. Les supporters s'enthousiasment pour ce virevoltant attaquant surnomme «La Fleche blonde », en raison de ses cheveux couleur ble et de sa Vitesse incroyable. II fait ses debuts sous le maillot de I'equipe nationale d'Argentine et remporte la Copa America 1947, en marquant 6 buts en 6 rencontres. En 1948, une greve des footballeurs paralyse le championnat d'Argentine et Di Stefano decide de quitter son pays pour rejoindre la Colombie et Millenaries, un club de Bogota avec lequel il remporte bon nombre de trophees. Au debut des annees 1950, cette equipe fait une grande tournee en Europe et Alfredo Di Stefano devient la cible numero un des plus grandes equipes du Vieux Continent.  Le Barca et le Real Madrid sont sur les rangs et vont se disputer l'idole devant les tribunaux. La lutte est feroce et symbolise la rivalite entre les deux clubs. On dit meme que c'est Franco, le dictateur espagnol, qui a fait pencher la decision des tribunaux en faveur du Real car il etait un fervent supporter des Merengues. 

Gaetano Scirea "Amore Bianconero"

 It should not be surprising that the greatest defender in the world, comes from the land of the greatest defense, Italy. And thus, the greatest defender naturally would come from the dominant team, our beloved Vecchia Signora. Like many of Juventus Legends, Gaetano Scirea was plucked from his youth side, Atalanta at the young age of 21. He made an immediate impact on the side, and alongside one of the meanest stoppers of all time, Claudio Gentile, the duo would form one of the world’s greatest defenses in front of Dino Zoff. With the other defenders, Cabrini, Cuccureddu, and Brio, the group dominated Italy for much of the 1970s. It was in this time that the Bianconeri added the first star to the Juventus jersey, and accumulated Scudetto after Scudetto under the management of il Trap. The team would also form the backbone of the 1982 World Cup winning side.

Die Gerd Muller Story "Ein Idol und Seine Tore"

Avec ses jambes courtes et trapues, son torse qui n'en finissait pas et son léger embonpoint, Gerd Muller ne payait vraiment pas de mine. À côté de son élégant coéquipier Franz Beckenbauer, il semblait tout droit sorti d'une équipe du dimanche. Et pourtant, «Der Bomber», le bombardier, était un buteur comme il en a très peu existé dans l'histoire du football. Véritable «renard des surfaces», capable de marquer dans toutes les positions, il était toujours décisif.   Bien sûr, ce n'était pas le spécialiste des grandes chevauchées balle au pied, mais dans-la surface de décision, il est sans aucun doute le meilleur finisseur de tous les temps. Gerd Muller a commencé sa carrière dès 1963, à l'âge de 18 ans, dans le club deTSV 1861 Noôrdlingen. Il se fait très vite repérer par un club qui joue alors en division régionale Sud, le Bayern Munich, qu'il rejoint en 1964. Avec Franz Beckenbauer et le gardien de but Sepp Maier, it va faire gravir tous les échelons à l'équipe bavaroise. À la fin de sa première saison, en 1965, il aura inscrit 33 buts en 26 matchs. Un buteur est né... Le 10 octobre 1966, il est sélectionné pour la première fois en équipe nationale de RFA et va très vite devenir un titulaire indiscutable de la Mannschaft. 

Andrea Pirlo Greatests Football Players Series

David Ginola Legend of Newcastle

Roberto Baggio

In 1989 Napoli Italian champions were playing Fiorentina at home. A young, thin, tiny looking player called Roberto Baggio with a shock of long curly black hair picked up the ball in his own half. He then seemed to move with it in a strange diagonal direction. As one defender came towards him, he shifted straight towards goal, and with a little skip over another defender's leg, breached the entire defence. Almu.i without needing to dribble, thanks to a remarkable sense of the space of the pitch, he was through on goal. There, as usual, he was cool enough to dribble past the goalie, get the ball caught up in his legs and still have time to slide it into an empty net. In his career, Baggio scored dozens of goals as good as this one, some of them just as good as Maradona's second goal against England in the 1986 World Cup. Baggio has also been the most prolific penalty taker in Italian football history, converting 86 per cent of his kicks. How odd, then, that he should be remembered above all for a penalty he missed, in the searing heat of the Pasadena stadium: the miss that decided the 1994 World Cup final.

Paolo Rossi "Il Ragazzo del Gol"

Diego Milito I Signori del Calcio

Paul Gascoigne: "Waiting For Gascoigne"

 When Rangers signed "Gazza" in the summer of 1995 from Lazio for a fee of £4.3 million, it was probably the biggest coup ever seen in Scottish football. Here was the English hero of Italia 90 and the midfielder acknowledged by English fans as the most talented player of his generation coming to Scotland - and he wasn't even at the veteran stage yet! Rangers knew they were getting a world class performer to join their other one, Laudrup, but manager Smith also knew that the two players were chalk and cheese when it came to their personality. Gascoigne brought genius and madness with him as well as a lot of baggage for the media to latch on to whereas Laudrup was the model professional with the stable and happy homelife. In Italy, injury and the alien football culture had caused Gascoigne's career to stall somewhat so he was ready for returning home. Few could have suspected that "home" would turn out to be Govan! From his arrival at the stadium, Gazza captured the hearts of the Gers fans and fired their imagination. Before a ball had been kicked, young fans were copying his hairstyle and getting their hair dyed blond like his, much to the despair of their mothers, no doubt. His cheeky, happy-go-lucky persona made him an attractive new hero for the fans to worship but it was on the field that his talent generated most admiration. 

Paul Gascoigne: "Italia 90" Gascoigne Glory"

 A entendre Bobby Robson célébrer les vertus mentales de son équipe, on aurait eu tendance à la prendre pour une gagneuse. Une de ces créatures sans beaucoup de cervelle, qui se déchire les tripes pour gagner sa croûte. Et quand Robson en rajoute en disant que sa troupe est arrivée jusqu'à Turin grâce, surtout, «à son esprit de combat, sa volonté et ses jambes », on se dit que l'Angleterre n'a donc pas eu à jouer au football pour se payer une tranche de demi-finale (ce qu'elle n'avait pas fait depuis 1966). Et c'est vrai que depuis que Robson - non, pas Bobby : l'autre, Brian, le joueur - est absent, l'Angleterre a du mal à ordonner son jeu. Elle a des jambes, c'est sûr, elle a du cœur, elle a du souffle mais elle n'a pas de tête. Alors, forcément, on tremble un peu pour elle face à l'Allemagne et à son empire du milieu. Car, à l'inverse, les Allemands sont des aigles à deux, voire trois têtes. Quand Pierre Littbarski répond « nein » à l'appel du soir, le Kaiser peut se permettre le luxe d'aligner Olaf Thon et Thomas Hassler pour jouer les grosses têtes à côté de la îête pensante de Lothar Matthàus...

Michael Owen The Scoring Sensation

Michael Owen is a football legend. On his debut for Liverpool against Wimbledon in 1997, Owen scored the first of his first-team goals, by the end of 2001 he had raised his tally to 100. In 1998 he became the youngest player of the 20th century to represent England, and by September 2001 his heart-stopping hat-trick against Germany propelled England's World Cup qualification bid. On top of the goals, Owen's accolades include the Young Player Of The Year.BBC Sports Personality Of The Year and European Footballer of the Year. Including all of his first 100 Liverpool goals, his hat-trick for England against Germany, plus interviews with his team-mates, and with Owen himself, this is the Official Liverpool FC Tribute to a genuine scoring sensation.

Roy Keane As i see it

  It's hard to think of a weakness in Roy Keane, unless you count his allergy to prawns. In the dozen years he was at Old Traffoid the Irishman developed into the perfect central midfield player and one of the most inspirational captains ever to wear the red shirt. United fans know a player who shares their passion for their club when they see one and Keane came in that bracket. His commitment to his club was total. Of course, there was a downside to the boy from Cork. He was no Corinthian. Keane could be nasty and he was no stranger to referees' notebooks or the august members of the FA's disciplinary committee. But his uncompromising approach to his trade just made the fans love him all the more. He may at times have been a hard-nosed, crude-tackling, ref-baiting felon - but he was their hard-nosed, crude-tackling, refbaiting felon. Keane was vital to United's cause for so long, because the team gained so many different players wrapped up in the one jersey. He was a midfield scrapper without equal, a man who went into challenges with such fierce determination that a 50:50 ball was more like 80:20 in his favour. His reputation saw to that. 

Rivelino "Suas Glorias"

 L'enfance et l'adolescence laissent des traces indélébiles sur l'existence adulte, les psychanalistes nous l'ont appris. Plus particulièrement peut-être lorsqu'il s'agitd'une personnalité différente, d'une vedette, en quelque sorte. On pouvait se demander en conséquence s'il n'était pas à craindre que Rivelino ne reste toute sa vie un enfant gâté ? Pour l'heure, contentons-nous d'affirmer que Roberto Rivelino semble né sous une bonne étoile. Incontestablement, les fées du football se penchèrent généreusement sur son berceau. A peine sorti des langes, ou plus exactement, avant qu'il ne soit junior, l'immense « torcida » des Corinthians parlait déjà en long et en large du petit génie qui s'annonçait. Napoléon pointait sous Bonaparte. Une vague énorme l'amenait vers les rivages de la popularité avec l'aisance de rêve des meilleurs surf istes. Il n'avait qu'à se laisser glisser. On voyait déjà partout ce petit rejeton d'Italien reléguer au second plan le jeune Noir qui brillait à Santos et au firmament de la sélection brésilienne : Pelé. Rivelino se devait de supplanter cet attaquant de génie qui semblait prendre un malin plaisir à poignarder de buts fulgurants les Corintians : le Derby entre les deux clubs se jouait au couteau. Il faut dire à ce propos, que le club le plus populaire de l'Etat de Sao Paulo ne gagnait plus, à l'époque, le championnat local depuis une dizaine d'années (aujourd'hui, les Corinthians en sont à 21 saisons sans victoire) : le club cherchait déjà désespérément un messie.

Peter Shilton Born To Save

Peter Shilton could have appeared in the Great Players list for at least half a dozen clubs, such is the longevity of his career and the precocious nature of his early career at Leicester City. Even as a teenager Peter was insisting that he shouldn't be playing second fiddle to the great Gordon Banks. His positional sense and penalty-box awareness served Filbert Street well after Banks had gone to Stoke City.  Later, Peter followed Gordon to the Potteries, but by 1977 still hadn't been rewarded with any major honours. Brian Clough persuaded Shilton that this would all change at the City Ground, and that prediction proved to be amazingly accurate. Clough believed Shilton was worth at least 18 points a season and indeed it was Peter who would ensure at least a draw in many matches during that set of incredible unbeaten runs. His reliability and confidence inspired Larry Lloyd and Kenny Burns to provide the bedrock of success in those fantastic Forest years.