World Football

Finidi George and Kwankwo Kanu Please also see my   All-Time World Cup Team Index Ajax Amsterdam ,  PSV ,  Feyenoord . Surnamese-Dutch , North Holland ,  South Holand . The rest of Netherlands excluding North and South Holland Netherlands All-Time Team After Johan Cruyff Netherlands before Johan Cruyff (BC) Netherlands Euro 1984 with Cruyff,Van Basten, Gullit   AFC Ajax at the time of writing has won the European Cup/Champions' league 4 times, making them one of the greatest teams in Europe.  The club began its rise in the late 1960's.  It reached the Final in 1969, where it lost to  AC Milan .  Two years later, the club finally achieved the ultimate price, winning the cup and they would win the Cup three, straight times.  In 1995, they would win the Cup again with mainly, home grown players.  The 1995 team is considered among the best ever team in history.  This is my selection of a 25 member all-time team for A...

Diego Maradona and Daniel Bertoni Please also see my   All-Time World Cup Team Index . Argentina All-Time Team   Italy Southern Italy Napoli Boca Junior Angels with Dirty Faces with Di Stefano at the World Cup 1958  All "Diego's" All-Time Team Provincia de Córdoba, Argentina All-Time Team Provincia de Santa  Fe, Argentina All-Time Team The City of Buenos Aires Argentina All-Time Team without players from Santa Fe, Cordoba and Buenos Aires  Real Madrid Argentine Best XI Barcelona Dutch Best XI AC Milan Brazilian Best XI Arsenal French Best XI Liverpool African Best XI The city of Naples was often known as the armpit of Italy.  It was a city faced with poverty.  Raised in the slums of   Buenos Aires, Diego Maradona immediately identified himself with the city upon his arrival in 1984.  “I want to become the idol of the poor children of Naples because they are like I was when I lived in Buenos Aires,” he said upon his arrival.  Fr...

Fritz Walter and Horst Eckel Please also see my   All-Time World Cup Team Index . Germany All-Time Team North Rhine- Westphalia ,   Bavaria Northern Germany Baden-Württemberg East German Players after 1990 East Germany (GDR/DDR) German Americans/American Germans German Turks   German-born Players Capped by Other National Teams Germany All-Time Team After Beckenbauer Germany All-Time Team Without Bayern Munich Players This is my selection of a 23 member all-time team for the German states in the Western parts of Germany (Westdeutschland). This team is not about West Germany (Federal Republic of Germany).   It is about the German states located in Western parts of the country.  For this team, I am only including Hesse, Saarland and Rhineland-Palatinate.    North Rhine- Westphalia  is normally considered as a part of the area, but I created a separated blog team for   The  Saarland and Rhineland-Palatinate are sometimes consi...