There is a thread on this on another forum I post on. What's HFB's opinion?
EverythingAre we talking about national team performances or club football and all?
Christian PulisicCould be fun to do polls like this for all the big countries...
It's a tie between Umitit and Abidal
It's a tie between Umitit and Abidal
No tie, Umtiti all day long.
The problem with players of the 70s and 80s is that they really look lazy by today's standards. But the playing style was totally different compared to today. Forwards or OMs didn't backcheck like today. It wasn't their business.Platini certainly had better hair.
I don't know Platini enough to say. I guess he can be excused for being lazy considering when he played. He certainly would have had to change his style if he had played today, but couldn't say he wouldn't have had.
I prefer both Zidane and Henry, but I won't vote as I'm not really "qualified" to really appreciate Platini (maybe if I had seen him live in his prime I would have understood better how good he really was). I saw how the uninformed almost ruined Messi vs. Ronaldo - I shouldn't do the same here.