40s Retro Football Fantasy Draft | Finished

Aldo 1. Best 2. Chumpitaz 3. Pirri 4. Israel 5. Ademir da Guia 6. Boninsegna 7. Furino 8. Prati 9. Stepney 10. Lawler 11. F. Cruz
Chesterlestreet 1. Pelé 2. Greaves 3. Bremner 4. Corso 5. E. Hughes 6. Lorimer 7. Muntyan 8. Smith 9. Cooper 10. Pivarnik 11. Clemence
RedTiger 1. Beckenbauer 2. Oblak 3. Maier 4. Fischer 5. McNeill 6. Dobiaš 7. Tony Dunne 8. Sparwasser 9. Mifflin 10. McFarland 11. van der Kuijlen
Skizzo/Pat_Mustard 1. Cruyff 2. Keizer 3. Olsen 4. Gemmell 5. Murdoch 6. Jardine 7. Rexach 8. Hellström 9. Flohe 10. Kolotov 11. Morini
Gol123 1. Van Hanegem 2. Overath 3. Johnstone 4. Hulshoff 5. Kindvall 6. Rubén Marcos 7. Matosas 8. Skoblar 9. Pavoni 10. Ubiña 11. Tomaszewski
Invictus 1. Eusébio 2. Mazzola 3. Haan 4. Suurbier 5. Perfumo 6. Weber 7. Bonev 8. Bransch 9. Carpegiani 10. Viktor 11. Rildo
Balu 1. G. Müller 2. Vogts 3. Rensenbrink 4. Dobrin 5. Benetti 6. Cuccureddu 7. Holcer 8. Jennings 9. Dinu 10. Magnusson 11. Frosio
ctp 1. Rivelino 2. Marzolini 3. Jansen 4. Heynckes 5. Höttges 6. Mészöly 7. Fichtel 8. Más 9. Iribar 10. Libuda 11.
crappycraperson 1. Moore 2. Tostão 3. Bene 4. Van Moer 5. Khurtsilava 6. Bell 7. Urbanczyk 8. Shilton 9. Domenghini 10. Asensi 11.
Gio/Theon 1. Figueroa 2. Cubillas 3. Deyna 4. Clodoaldo 5. Bulgarelli 6. Rocha 7. Ancheta 8. Mazurkiewicz 9. Asparuhov 10. Shalamanov 11.
NM/EAP 1. Facchetti 2. Riva 3. Jair 4. Stiles 5. Luis Pereira 6. Martin Peters 7. Bosquier 8. Yakimov 9. De Sisti 10. Anquilletti 11.
mazhar13 1. Jairzinho 2. Zoff 3. B Dietz 4. Giles 5. Buchan 6. Simões 7. Hurst 8. Hunter 9. Lodetti 10. Hansen 11.
harms 1. Krol 2. Florian Albert 3. Van Himst 4. Roth 5. Blankenburg 6. Lennox 7. Dzodzuashvili 8. G. Mühren 9. Bedin 10. Kaplychnyi 11.
Tuppet 1. Rivera 2. Džajić 3. Shesternyov 4. Causio 5. Lubański 6. Piazza 7. Bo Larsson 8. Lovchev 9. Fazlagic 10. Julio Meléndez Calderón 11.
Joga Bonito 1. Law 2. Netzer 3. A.Ball 4. Wimmer 5. Gadocha 6. Greig 7. Byshovets 8. Sieloff 9. Reaney 10. Kappellmann 11.
Marty1968 1. Gerson 2. Carlos Alberto 3. Rosato 4. Schwarzenbeck 5. Cubilla 6. Grabowski 7. Everaldo 8. Panenka 9. Croy 10. Capello 11.
 
harms said:
Do you think anybody gave a damn?
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Probably not, but unless you know for a fact that not a single scan voter (or a single voter who did not provide an explanation in the match thread) went for your team, you can't actually conclude that Yashin had no impact. That's the thing with scan voters - you never know precisely why they voted as they did. And Yashin would be among the very few keepers who might actually tip the scales for someone just looking at the team sheets.

You're preaching to the choir regarding keepers in general, though. I've given up on it - but, yeah, something should be done obviously. Part of the problem is that people are so eager to start new drafts - usually before the current one has finished - that there never seems to be any room for discussing changes to the format.
 
harms said:
They just don't matter. I once had Yashin, the greatest goalkeeper of all times, it doesn't get more voter-friendly than him, and my opponent had a keeper that conceded in every game against my forward (it was something like 5 or 6 goals in 5 games). Do you think anybody gave a damn? We really need to change the system somehow.
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How do you know that? It's such an odd complaint sometimes. You won that game against crappy's brilliant side in the Euro draft. It's a bit silly to make it sound as if you should have smashed him by some crazy score just because of the goalkeeper.
 
Manuel Velázquez Villaverde

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Intelligent football
Position: Midfielder
Games played: 402
Goals scored: 59
Spanish international: 22 caps

He was the brains of Real Madrid’s midfield during the sixties and seventies. Football with Velazquez became pure art. The Madrid-born player served as a bridge between the Real Madrid of Di Stefano, Puskas, Gento and Rialand a new crop of players that always looked up to him for maximum inspiration.

A Madrid fan at birth, he joined the club’s youth teams in 1958. After being loaned out to Malaga for two seasons to gain experience, Manolo Velázquez returned to the club in 1965, when the ‘Yeyé’ team was at its peak. In his first season he won the European Cup title. Despite arriving during the quarter final stage, his participation was decisive in winning the title.

The Madrid-born midfielder made every play look simple. Playmaking was his forte. His time at Real Madrid netted him an enviable list of titles: six La Liga titles in 12 years with the first team, three Copa del Rey titles, and the European Cup title. Velázquez also played for the Spanish national team.

In 1977 a serious injury forced him to retire from Spanish football. His last game with the Whites was his testimonial game against Eintracht. In said game he gave the number 10 shirt and playmaking duties in the midfield toVicente del Bosque, the changing of the guard. Thereafter he attempted to continue playing, with a six-month stint in Canada with the Toronto Metros Croatia. It would be the last hurrah of a magnificent career.

HONOURS
1 European Cup
6 La Liga
3 Spanish Cup
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Aldo 1. Best 2. Chumpitaz 3. Pirri 4. Israel 5. Ademir da Guia 6. Boninsegna 7. Furino 8. Prati 9. Stepney 10. Lawler 11. F. Cruz
Chesterlestreet 1. Pelé 2. Greaves 3. Bremner 4. Corso 5. E. Hughes 6. Lorimer 7. Muntyan 8. Smith 9. Cooper 10. Pivarnik 11. Clemence
RedTiger 1. Beckenbauer 2. Oblak 3. Maier 4. Fischer 5. McNeill 6. Dobiaš 7. Tony Dunne 8. Sparwasser 9. Mifflin 10. McFarland 11. van der Kuijlen
Skizzo/Pat_Mustard 1. Cruyff 2. Keizer 3. Olsen 4. Gemmell 5. Murdoch 6. Jardine 7. Rexach 8. Hellström 9. Flohe 10. Kolotov 11. Morini
Gol123 1. Van Hanegem 2. Overath 3. Johnstone 4. Hulshoff 5. Kindvall 6. Rubén Marcos 7. Matosas 8. Skoblar 9. Pavoni 10. Ubiña 11. Tomaszewski
Invictus 1. Eusébio 2. Mazzola 3. Haan 4. Suurbier 5. Perfumo 6. Weber 7. Bonev 8. Bransch 9. Carpegiani 10. Viktor 11. Rildo
Balu 1. G. Müller 2. Vogts 3. Rensenbrink 4. Dobrin 5. Benetti 6. Cuccureddu 7. Holcer 8. Jennings 9. Dinu 10. Magnusson 11. Frosio
ctp 1. Rivelino 2. Marzolini 3. Jansen 4. Heynckes 5. Höttges 6. Mészöly 7. Fichtel 8. Más 9. Iribar 10. Libuda 11. Velázquez
crappycraperson 1. Moore 2. Tostão 3. Bene 4. Van Moer 5. Khurtsilava 6. Bell 7. Urbanczyk 8. Shilton 9. Domenghini 10. Asensi 11.
Gio/Theon 1. Figueroa 2. Cubillas 3. Deyna 4. Clodoaldo 5. Bulgarelli 6. Rocha 7. Ancheta 8. Mazurkiewicz 9. Asparuhov 10. Shalamanov 11.
NM/EAP 1. Facchetti 2. Riva 3. Jair 4. Stiles 5. Luis Pereira 6. Martin Peters 7. Bosquier 8. Yakimov 9. De Sisti 10. Anquilletti 11.
mazhar13 1. Jairzinho 2. Zoff 3. B Dietz 4. Giles 5. Buchan 6. Simões 7. Hurst 8. Hunter 9. Lodetti 10. Hansen 11.
harms 1. Krol 2. Florian Albert 3. Van Himst 4. Roth 5. Blankenburg 6. Lennox 7. Dzodzuashvili 8. G. Mühren 9. Bedin 10. Kaplychnyi 11.
Tuppet 1. Rivera 2. Džajić 3. Shesternyov 4. Causio 5. Lubański 6. Piazza 7. Bo Larsson 8. Lovchev 9. Fazlagic 10. Julio Meléndez Calderón 11.
Joga Bonito 1. Law 2. Netzer 3. A.Ball 4. Wimmer 5. Gadocha 6. Greig 7. Byshovets 8. Sieloff 9. Reaney 10. Kapellmann 11.
Marty1968 1. Gerson 2. Carlos Alberto 3. Rosato 4. Schwarzenbeck 5. Cubilla 6. Grabowski 7. Everaldo 8. Panenka 9. Croy 10. Capello 11.

@crappycraperson
 
who says keepers don't matter. i have voted/not voted a few times on the basis of the keeper, as some of the regulars here would know
 
Zygmunt Anczok
  • Inspired by Giacinto Facchetti - "It was the beginning of TV broadcasts. I watched him when I was 17-18 - I always wanted to play just like him."
  • "Extremely fast and agile, fit perfectly into the 4-2-4 system. He was two-footed, but usually played on the left side." Przeglad Sportowy (Polish Sports Daily)
  • Played superbly on his debut for the national team, a World Cup qualifier win against Scotland in front of a 107,000 crowd in Glasgow
  • In 1966 he was elected as Player of the Year
  • Produced some fine performances against Brazil and Argentina during a tour of South America
  • "Amazing" performance against England in July 1966: "I was 21 - the English were preparing for the World Cup. I played a sensational match, winning the ball all the time, running around Alan Ball in front of me. I played very quickly, indulged in a lot of shots in goal"
  • Played in the 1971 world all-star team for Lev Yashin's final match
  • Only player who played in all of the matches in qualifying for and winning the 1972 Olympics.
  • Time at the top ultimately curtailed by injuries in his mid-to-late 20s.
@NM
@Edgar Allan Pillow
 
Aldo 1. Best 2. Chumpitaz 3. Pirri 4. Israel 5. Ademir da Guia 6. Boninsegna 7. Furino 8. Prati 9. Stepney 10. Lawler 11. F. Cruz
Chesterlestreet 1. Pelé 2. Greaves 3. Bremner 4. Corso 5. E. Hughes 6. Lorimer 7. Muntyan 8. Smith 9. Cooper 10. Pivarnik 11. Clemence
RedTiger 1. Beckenbauer 2. Oblak 3. Maier 4. Fischer 5. McNeill 6. Dobiaš 7. Tony Dunne 8. Sparwasser 9. Mifflin 10. McFarland 11. van der Kuijlen
Skizzo/Pat_Mustard 1. Cruyff 2. Keizer 3. Olsen 4. Gemmell 5. Murdoch 6. Jardine 7. Rexach 8. Hellström 9. Flohe 10. Kolotov 11. Morini
Gol123 1. Van Hanegem 2. Overath 3. Johnstone 4. Hulshoff 5. Kindvall 6. Rubén Marcos 7. Matosas 8. Skoblar 9. Pavoni 10. Ubiña 11. Tomaszewski
Invictus 1. Eusébio 2. Mazzola 3. Haan 4. Suurbier 5. Perfumo 6. Weber 7. Bonev 8. Bransch 9. Carpegiani 10. Viktor 11. Rildo
Balu 1. G. Müller 2. Vogts 3. Rensenbrink 4. Dobrin 5. Benetti 6. Cuccureddu 7. Holcer 8. Jennings 9. Dinu 10. Magnusson 11. Frosio
ctp 1. Rivelino 2. Marzolini 3. Jansen 4. Heynckes 5. Höttges 6. Mészöly 7. Fichtel 8. Más 9. Iribar 10. Libuda 11. Velázquez
crappycraperson 1. Moore 2. Tostão 3. Bene 4. Van Moer 5. Khurtsilava 6. Bell 7. Urbanczyk 8. Shilton 9. Domenghini 10. Asensi 11. Carrascosa
Gio/Theon 1. Figueroa 2. Cubillas 3. Deyna 4. Clodoaldo 5. Bulgarelli 6. Rocha 7. Ancheta 8. Mazurkiewicz 9. Asparuhov 10. Shalamanov 11. Anczok
NM/EAP 1. Facchetti 2. Riva 3. Jair 4. Stiles 5. Luis Pereira 6. Martin Peters 7. Bosquier 8. Yakimov 9. De Sisti 10. Anquilletti 11.
mazhar13 1. Jairzinho 2. Zoff 3. B Dietz 4. Giles 5. Buchan 6. Simões 7. Hurst 8. Hunter 9. Lodetti 10. Hansen 11.
harms 1. Krol 2. Florian Albert 3. Van Himst 4. Roth 5. Blankenburg 6. Lennox 7. Dzodzuashvili 8. G. Mühren 9. Bedin 10. Kaplychnyi 11.
Tuppet 1. Rivera 2. Džajić 3. Shesternyov 4. Causio 5. Lubański 6. Piazza 7. Bo Larsson 8. Lovchev 9. Fazlagic 10. Julio Meléndez Calderón 11.
Joga Bonito 1. Law 2. Netzer 3. A.Ball 4. Wimmer 5. Gadocha 6. Greig 7. Byshovets 8. Sieloff 9. Reaney 10. Kapellmann 11.
Marty1968 1. Gerson 2. Carlos Alberto 3. Rosato 4. Schwarzenbeck 5. Cubilla 6. Grabowski 7. Everaldo 8. Panenka 9. Croy 10. Capello 11.
 
Chris Lawler

In many ways during more than a decade of stellar service for Liverpool, Chris Lawler created a footballing archetype of his own - the quiet, straightforward, goalscoring full-back.

A truly local player made good, the defender progressed through the junior ranks at Anfield before signing professional forms and eventually making his debut for the Reds against West Brom in March 1963.

Lawler was a highly accomplished centre-back but settled on the right of the Liverpool defence to make room for Ron Yeats and became a genuine fixture throughout the 1960s; in eight seasons from 1965 to 1973, he missed just three league fixtures.

Chris preferred to read the game than dive into tackles but his true quality, despite his defensive starting position, seemed to be finding the back of the net after supporting attacks with a stealthy foray. He scored an incredible 61 goals for the Reds in total.

The right-back was a member of Bill Shankly's starting XI when the Reds broke their FA Cup hoodoo by beating Leeds in the 1965 final and added a championship medal the following year as Liverpool claimed the title.

Trophies may have dried up in the years that followed but the unassuming Lawler was ever dependable and survived the reshaping conducted by Shankly as the club entered a new decade.

Chris played every single one of Liverpool's 66 competitive matches during the action-packed 1972-73 campaign and was rewarded handsomely with a second league winner's medal and UEFA Cup success over Borussia Monchengladbach.

A debilitating injury picked up in November 1973 cost Lawler his previously guaranteed berth in Shankly's line-up but the Scot showed a touch of sentiment by selecting the Scouser as substitute for the victorious FA Cup final meeting with Newcastle in 1974.

Having assured his place in a small group of players to have represented Liverpool more than 500 times, the right-back featured for the last time in September 1975 before departing to Portsmouth.

Appearances: 549
Goals: 61
Honours with LFC: 2 First Division titles (1965-66, 1972-73), 2 FA Cups (1964-65, 1973-74), 1 UEFA Cup (1972-73)
Did you know? Lawler's nickname at Anfield was 'The Silent Knight' due to his quiet demeanour and no-nonsense approach on the pitch
Where is he now? Chris still lives locally and is involved in football coaching



http://www.thisisanfield.com/2007/04/forgotten-heroes-chris-lawler/
 
(The translation is shitty af.)

Fernando da Conceição Cruz was born in Lisbon on 12 October 1940. Represented the Sport Lisboa e Benfica as Defense for 11 seasons (1959/1970), having aligned in 346 games, scoring 1 goal. He was 8 times National Championship, won 3 Cups of Portugal and two European Cup. It was 11 times international.

It was more than aspire to the sky as the limit, was get there. Was it like Cruz, the unforgettable May 61, enraptured was the first final of the European Champions Clubs' Cup. For those who had been born in the neighborhood of Liberdade, in the popular and Galata Lisbon it was like wearing aristocratic skin, which made the assumed retumbância forums.

Was not yet a man made when he arrived at Benfica. He had 16 years of illusion, with the scent of freedom of the neighborhood and the street gaming experience capital or vacant for juvenile imposition and challenge to the authorities. At 20, Cruz had certain name in the official records of the apetecidos clashes. Soon to celebrate the first national title, as Bella Guttmann, just come das Antas, in the season 59/60.

He toured all over Europe, over the years, holding competently red cloak Benfica diaspora. He played five finals of the Champions privilege only shared by Coluna and José Augusto. And for a few, very few representatives of other formations along the fantastic history of the race. It reached its zenith in the first two attempts, felt the disappointment in the last three.

The household level, Cruz won eight National on 11 Benfica seasons.Three more Cups of Portugal. It was the left-of unrepeatable decade of 60. In the shadow of Hilary Sporting, still dressed 11 times the shirt Select, entitled to entry into the World 66.

A technically nimble team, Fernando Cruz was not to be underestimated. Defense was not synonymous with immaturity. "The Cross, in technical terms, was an advanced player," Eusebius sentences. Evolved and firm, but also brain. He did antechamber of the modern side, which emerged in a new and bolder tactical device in the early 70s.

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Text: Memorial Benfica, 100 Glories
 
Balu said:
How do you know that? It's such an odd complaint sometimes. You won that game against crappy's brilliant side in the Euro draft. It's a bit silly to make it sound as if you should have smashed him by some crazy score just because of the goalkeeper.
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I'm talking about the game vs Joga when everybody just ignored the gap between our goalkeepers. I'm not saying that I should've won, Joga deserved the win, but in retrospect it was a bad decision to go for Yashin, he literally did nothing for me. It's a complaint about the system, not about the result.
 
harms said:
I'm talking about the game vs Joga when everybody just ignored the gap between our goalkeepers. I'm not saying that I should've won, Joga deserved the win, but in retrospect it was a bad decision to go for Yashin, he literally did nothing for me. It's a complaint about the system, not about the result.
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Wait, you came up twice against a goalkeeper who got destroyed by Sarosi? I remember the 7 goals in one game vs crappy's goalkeeper argument. Sarosi was some player.

Anyway, once you came up against Joga, your theme caught up with you and I don't think you can blame it on voters ignoring the goalkeeper. There wasn't a chance that your lesser known players could overcome the superstar filled side Joga had put together. I agree that goalkeepers are often ignored and it's a shame, but you can't just go striker vs goalkeeper and ignore the defensive unit in front of the keeper either.
 
@NM picks Yevhen Rudakov


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A very defensive minded keeper who excelled in 1-on-1 situations, Rudakov was six-time domestic champion of the USSR. Rudakov also helped Dynamo win the USSR Cup twice, the Cup Winners' Cup and the UEFA Super Cup. He also represented the USSR national football team and helped them reach the Euro 1972 finals. At the Olympic Games 1972 he earned four wins and two shutouts.

He also won 21 games with the regular senior squad and finished 22 games without allowing any goals. Internationally, Rudakov earned 48 caps with the Soviet national team between 1968 and 1976, recording 35 shutouts. :eek:

He was nominated twice for the Ballon d'Or, in 1971 when he came 12th and 1972 when he came 18th.

Yevhen Rudakov club - Yevhen Rudakov club is an unofficial list of Soviet and Ukrainian football goalkeepers that have achieved 100 or more clean sheets during their professional career in top Soviet and Ukrainian league, cup, European cups, national team and foreign league and cup. This club is named after the first Soviet (Ukrainian) goalkeeper to achieve 100 clean sheets - Yevhen Rudakov.

Honours:

1969, 1971, and 1972 Best Goalkeeper of the USSR
1971 Soviet Footballer of the Year
1972 UEFA Euro Team of the Tournament
 

Aldo 1. Best 2. Chumpitaz 3. Pirri 4. Israel 5. Ademir da Guia 6. Boninsegna 7. Furino 8. Prati 9. Stepney 10. Lawler 11. F. Cruz
Chesterlestreet 1. Pelé 2. Greaves 3. Bremner 4. Corso 5. E. Hughes 6. Lorimer 7. Muntyan 8. Smith 9. Cooper 10. Pivarnik 11. Clemence
RedTiger 1. Beckenbauer 2. Oblak 3. Maier 4. Fischer 5. McNeill 6. Dobiaš 7. Tony Dunne 8. Sparwasser 9. Mifflin 10. McFarland 11. van der Kuijlen
Skizzo/Pat_Mustard 1. Cruyff 2. Keizer 3. Olsen 4. Gemmell 5. Murdoch 6. Jardine 7. Rexach 8. Hellström 9. Flohe 10. Kolotov 11. Morini
Gol123 1. Van Hanegem 2. Overath 3. Johnstone 4. Hulshoff 5. Kindvall 6. Rubén Marcos 7. Matosas 8. Skoblar 9. Pavoni 10. Ubiña 11. Tomaszewski
Invictus 1. Eusébio 2. Mazzola 3. Haan 4. Suurbier 5. Perfumo 6. Weber 7. Bonev 8. Bransch 9. Carpegiani 10. Viktor 11. Rildo
Balu 1. G. Müller 2. Vogts 3. Rensenbrink 4. Dobrin 5. Benetti 6. Cuccureddu 7. Holcer 8. Jennings 9. Dinu 10. Magnusson 11. Frosio
ctp 1. Rivelino 2. Marzolini 3. Jansen 4. Heynckes 5. Höttges 6. Mészöly 7. Fichtel 8. Más 9. Iribar 10. Libuda 11. Velázquez
crappycraperson 1. Moore 2. Tostão 3. Bene 4. Van Moer 5. Khurtsilava 6. Bell 7. Urbanczyk 8. Shilton 9. Domenghini 10. Asensi 11. Carrascosa
Gio/Theon 1. Figueroa 2. Cubillas 3. Deyna 4. Clodoaldo 5. Bulgarelli 6. Rocha 7. Ancheta 8. Mazurkiewicz 9. Asparuhov 10. Shalamanov 11. Anczok
NM/EAP 1. Facchetti 2. Riva 3. Jair 4. Stiles 5. Luis Pereira 6. Martin Peters 7. Bosquier 8. Yakimov 9. De Sisti 10. Anquilletti 11. Rudakov
mazhar13 1. Jairzinho 2. Zoff 3. B Dietz 4. Giles 5. Buchan 6. Simões 7. Hurst 8. Hunter 9. Lodetti 10. Hansen 11.
harms 1. Krol 2. Florian Albert 3. Van Himst 4. Roth 5. Blankenburg 6. Lennox 7. Dzodzuashvili 8. G. Mühren 9. Bedin 10. Kaplychnyi 11.
Tuppet 1. Rivera 2. Džajić 3. Shesternyov 4. Causio 5. Lubański 6. Piazza 7. Bo Larsson 8. Lovchev 9. Fazlagic 10. Julio Meléndez Calderón 11.
Joga Bonito 1. Law 2. Netzer 3. A.Ball 4. Wimmer 5. Gadocha 6. Greig 7. Byshovets 8. Sieloff 9. Reaney 10. Kapellmann 11.
Marty1968 1. Gerson 2. Carlos Alberto 3. Rosato 4. Schwarzenbeck 5. Cubilla 6. Grabowski 7. Everaldo 8. Panenka 9. Croy 10. Capello 11.

@mazhar13
 
Balu said:
Wait, you came up twice against a goalkeeper who got destroyed by Sarosi? I remember the 7 goals in one game vs crappy's goalkeeper argument. Sarosi was some player.

Anyway, once you came up against Joga, your theme caught up with you and I don't think you can blame it on voters ignoring the goalkeeper. There wasn't a chance that your lesser known players could overcome the superstar filled side Joga had put together. I agree that goalkeepers are often ignored and it's a shame, but you can't just go striker vs goalkeeper and ignore the defensive unit in front of the keeper either.
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Yep, it was 7 goals vs Planicka and a great statistic, like 5 or 6 in 5 games against Joga's keeper :lol: He is unbelievable, I hope that someone else will pick him if he's available in the next drafts.
 
Edgar Allan Pillow said:
@NM picks Yevhen Rudakov


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A very defensive minded keeper who excelled in 1-on-1 situations, Rudakov was six-time domestic champion of the USSR. Rudakov also helped Dynamo win the USSR Cup twice, the Cup Winners' Cup and the UEFA Super Cup. He also represented the USSR national football team and helped them reach the Euro 1972 finals. At the Olympic Games 1972 he earned four wins and two shutouts.

He also won 21 games with the regular senior squad and finished 22 games without allowing any goals. Internationally, Rudakov earned 48 caps with the Soviet national team between 1968 and 1976, recording 35 shutouts. :eek:

He was nominated twice for the Ballon d'Or, in 1971 when he came 12th and 1972 when he came 18th.

Yevhen Rudakov club - Yevhen Rudakov club is an unofficial list of Soviet and Ukrainian football goalkeepers that have achieved 100 or more clean sheets during their professional career in top Soviet and Ukrainian league, cup, European cups, national team and foreign league and cup. This club is named after the first Soviet (Ukrainian) goalkeeper to achieve 100 clean sheets - Yevhen Rudakov.

Honours:

1969, 1971, and 1972 Best Goalkeeper of the USSR
1971 Soviet Footballer of the Year
1972 UEFA Euro Team of the Tournament
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sajeev said:
who says keepers don't matter. i have voted/not voted a few times on the basis of the keeper, as some of the regulars here would know
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It's a fair way of separating two teams that are otherwise broadly even. I'm sure I voted against Anto once because he had Barthez clowning around in his sticks.
 
To complete my team, I'm picking a player who was very successful in Germany, Spain, and the Netherlands. He'll be ideal for my team, and I'm quite happy that he's lasted up to this point.

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Henning Jensen

Aldo 1. Best 2. Chumpitaz 3. Pirri 4. Israel 5. Ademir da Guia 6. Boninsegna 7. Furino 8. Prati 9. Stepney 10. Lawler 11. F. Cruz
Chesterlestreet 1. Pelé 2. Greaves 3. Bremner 4. Corso 5. E. Hughes 6. Lorimer 7. Muntyan 8. Smith 9. Cooper 10. Pivarnik 11. Clemence
RedTiger 1. Beckenbauer 2. Oblak 3. Maier 4. Fischer 5. McNeill 6. Dobiaš 7. Tony Dunne 8. Sparwasser 9. Mifflin 10. McFarland 11. van der Kuijlen
Skizzo/Pat_Mustard 1. Cruyff 2. Keizer 3. Olsen 4. Gemmell 5. Murdoch 6. Jardine 7. Rexach 8. Hellström 9. Flohe 10. Kolotov 11. Morini
Gol123 1. Van Hanegem 2. Overath 3. Johnstone 4. Hulshoff 5. Kindvall 6. Rubén Marcos 7. Matosas 8. Skoblar 9. Pavoni 10. Ubiña 11. Tomaszewski
Invictus 1. Eusébio 2. Mazzola 3. Haan 4. Suurbier 5. Perfumo 6. Weber 7. Bonev 8. Bransch 9. Carpegiani 10. Viktor 11. Rildo
Balu 1. G. Müller 2. Vogts 3. Rensenbrink 4. Dobrin 5. Benetti 6. Cuccureddu 7. Holcer 8. Jennings 9. Dinu 10. Magnusson 11. Frosio
ctp 1. Rivelino 2. Marzolini 3. Jansen 4. Heynckes 5. Höttges 6. Mészöly 7. Fichtel 8. Más 9. Iribar 10. Libuda 11. Velázquez
crappycraperson 1. Moore 2. Tostão 3. Bene 4. Van Moer 5. Khurtsilava 6. Bell 7. Urbanczyk 8. Shilton 9. Domenghini 10. Asensi 11. Carrascosa
Gio/Theon 1. Figueroa 2. Cubillas 3. Deyna 4. Clodoaldo 5. Bulgarelli 6. Rocha 7. Ancheta 8. Mazurkiewicz 9. Asparuhov 10. Shalamanov 11. Anczok
NM/EAP 1. Facchetti 2. Riva 3. Jair 4. Stiles 5. Luis Pereira 6. Martin Peters 7. Bosquier 8. Yakimov 9. De Sisti 10. Anquilletti 11. Rudakov
mazhar13 1. Jairzinho 2. Zoff 3. B Dietz 4. Giles 5. Buchan 6. Simões 7. Hurst 8. Hunter 9. Lodetti 10. Hansen 11. Jensen
harms 1. Krol 2. Florian Albert 3. Van Himst 4. Roth 5. Blankenburg 6. Lennox 7. Dzodzuashvili 8. G. Mühren 9. Bedin 10. Kaplychnyi 11.
Tuppet 1. Rivera 2. Džajić 3. Shesternyov 4. Causio 5. Lubański 6. Piazza 7. Bo Larsson 8. Lovchev 9. Fazlagic 10. Julio Meléndez Calderón 11.
Joga Bonito 1. Law 2. Netzer 3. A.Ball 4. Wimmer 5. Gadocha 6. Greig 7. Byshovets 8. Sieloff 9. Reaney 10. Kapellmann 11.
Marty1968 1. Gerson 2. Carlos Alberto 3. Rosato 4. Schwarzenbeck 5. Cubilla 6. Grabowski 7. Everaldo 8. Panenka 9. Croy 10. Capello 11.

@Aldo @Balu @crappycraperson @Gio
 
My pick is Jan van Beveren, by far the best Dutch keeper of the ’70s and probably the most naturally gifted keeper of his country. There was not a spot in goal that Jan could not reach with his athletic jump. It's a shame that because of the injuries and a long and infamous feud with Cruyff (he stood up to his superstar snobbish money-grabbing behavior) he only have 32 caps for Netherlands.



Trophies with PSV Eindhoven
  • Eredivisie (3): 1974–75, 1975–76, 1977–78
  • KNVB Beker (2): 1973–74, 1975–76
  • UEFA Cup (1): 1977–78
 
Ladislao Mazurkiewicz
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Ladislao Mazurkiewicz, star of three consecutive World Cups for Uruguay, was considered by many of his peers, including the Soviet Union's Lev Yashin and England's Gordon Banks, as one of the finest goalkeepers of his era. It gave him great pride to hear Lev Yashin, one of the greatest goalkeeper of all times, saying, when he retired in 1971, that Mazurkiewicz was his successor".

With Banks at the other end in the opening match of the 1966 World Cup at Wembley, Mazurkiewicz kept England, including the strike force of Jimmy Greaves and Roger Hunt, at bay for a goalless draw. It was the only match the host nation failed to win on their way to the trophy and it helped Uruguay get through to the quarter-finals.

Mazurka, as his compatriots found it simpler to call him, was only 21 when he was introduced to the Queen that day as she walked down a red carpet laid out on the Wembley turf. But he became a legend in Uruguay when he kissed the monarch's white-gloved hand, and it later emerged that he had said in Spanish something along the lines of: "You're like something out of a painting, ma'am. But we are going to win today!" His team-mates said his remarks sent them into stitches, eased their nerves and helped them contain the hosts for the 90 minutes.

Mazurkiewicz – his father was a Polish immigrant, his mother of Spanish origin – was probably best known for helping his nation to the semi-finals of the next World Cup, in Mexico in 1970. Even if you don't remember his name – and even the great BBC commentator Kenneth Wolstenholme had trouble pronouncing it – you will probably have seen footage of the moment he was fooled by Pele's outrageous dummy in the 1970 semi-final in Guadalajara. From a glorious through-pass from Tostao, with Mazurkiewicz racing to the edge of his area to intercept, Pele feinted to the left, dummied and ran round the Uruguayan 'keeper for what looked like an easy tap-in.

Amazingly, instead of scoring the goal of the tournament, the great Brazilian No 10 dragged it wide of the far post. An embarrassed Mazurkiewicz later claimed, with a wink, that he had "done enough to put Pele off." But although Uruguay had taken the lead, he could not stop Brazil from winning 3-1 that day and going on to beat Italy in the final. The world sports media voted the Uruguayan the best goalkeeper of the tournament and, despite their nations' traditional football rivalry, Pele and Mazurkiewicz became great friends. England's 1966 captain Bobby Moore also considered the South American with the hard-to-pronounce name one of the greatest 'keepers he had played against.

Standing just over 5ft 10in, Mazurkiewicz was nicknamed "el Chiquito" [the Little One] by players and fans of the national team known as La Celeste (the Sky Blue) from their strip. In contrast to the giant goalkeepers of today, he had to spring to tip the ball over the bar. Like the great Russian Yashin, "the Black Spider," and the 1950s Hungarian keeper Gyula Grosics – "the Black Panther" – Mazurkiewicz usually wore all-black, or occasionally all-grey. He reckoned the black outfit made him "more invisible" to opposing forwards.

Ladislao Mazurkiewicz Iglesias was born in the small Uruguayan coastal resort town of Piriapolis. His grandmother had fled with her children, including his father, as Hitler threatened Poland in 1939. He was 16 when he signed for Racing Club Montevideo in the capital as an outfield player but ended up between the sticks at the age of 18 when the regular goalkeeper had to be rushed to the dentist.

Most of his career, however, was spent across the city with FC Peñarol in the district of that name. With them he won three first division titles, the South American Copa Libertadores in 1966 and, later that year, the Intercontinental Cup, beating Real Madrid 2-0 at home and by the same score in Madrid's famous Bernabeu stadium.

He also won the Brazilian league title in 1971 with Atlético Mineiro, had spells with América Cali in Colombia and Granada in Spain and went on to manage Peñarol in the late 1980s. He died in hospital after kidney and breathing problems.

Honours:
Team:
5 time Uruguay championship
1 Copa libertadoras
1 Intercontinental championship
1967 Copa America

Individual:
1970 FIFA world cup best goalkeeper
IFFHS Uruguay goalkeeper of the century
5th South American goalkeeper of all time (IFFHS poll)
12th greatest goalkeeper of the century (IFFHS poll)

@Joga Bonito
 
I'm sure Gio loves that pick.

Ffs guys, check the damn list before you make your pick. @Tuppet
 
da feck, sorry guys I thought I checked, must be spelling mistake or something.

give me a minute.
 
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Rated by kicker as the best goalie in the Bundesliga for three separate seasons, and widely regarded as one of the best goalkeepers in the Bundesliga during the 70s.

Aldo 1. Best 2. Chumpitaz 3. Pirri 4. Israel 5. Ademir da Guia 6. Boninsegna 7. Furino 8. Prati 9. Stepney 10. Lawler 11. F. Cruz
Chesterlestreet 1. Pelé 2. Greaves 3. Bremner 4. Corso 5. E. Hughes 6. Lorimer 7. Muntyan 8. Smith 9. Cooper 10. Pivarnik 11. Clemence
RedTiger 1. Beckenbauer 2. Oblak 3. Maier 4. Fischer 5. McNeill 6. Dobiaš 7. Tony Dunne 8. Sparwasser 9. Mifflin 10. McFarland 11. van der Kuijlen
Skizzo/Pat_Mustard 1. Cruyff 2. Keizer 3. Olsen 4. Gemmell 5. Murdoch 6. Jardine 7. Rexach 8. Hellström 9. Flohe 10. Kolotov 11. Morini
Gol123 1. Van Hanegem 2. Overath 3. Johnstone 4. Hulshoff 5. Kindvall 6. Rubén Marcos 7. Matosas 8. Skoblar 9. Pavoni 10. Ubiña 11. Tomaszewski
Invictus 1. Eusébio 2. Mazzola 3. Haan 4. Suurbier 5. Perfumo 6. Weber 7. Bonev 8. Bransch 9. Carpegiani 10. Viktor 11. Rildo
Balu 1. G. Müller 2. Vogts 3. Rensenbrink 4. Dobrin 5. Benetti 6. Cuccureddu 7. Holcer 8. Jennings 9. Dinu 10. Magnusson 11. Frosio
ctp 1. Rivelino 2. Marzolini 3. Jansen 4. Heynckes 5. Höttges 6. Mészöly 7. Fichtel 8. Más 9. Iribar 10. Libuda 11. Velázquez
crappycraperson 1. Moore 2. Tostão 3. Bene 4. Van Moer 5. Khurtsilava 6. Bell 7. Urbanczyk 8. Shilton 9. Domenghini 10. Asensi 11. Carrascosa
Gio/Theon 1. Figueroa 2. Cubillas 3. Deyna 4. Clodoaldo 5. Bulgarelli 6. Rocha 7. Ancheta 8. Mazurkiewicz 9. Asparuhov 10. Shalamanov 11. Anczok
NM/EAP 1. Facchetti 2. Riva 3. Jair 4. Stiles 5. Luis Pereira 6. Martin Peters 7. Bosquier 8. Yakimov 9. De Sisti 10. Anquilletti 11. Rudakov
mazhar13 1. Jairzinho 2. Zoff 3. B Dietz 4. Giles 5. Buchan 6. Simões 7. Hurst 8. Hunter 9. Lodetti 10. Hansen 11. Jensen
harms 1. Krol 2. Florian Albert 3. Van Himst 4. Roth 5. Blankenburg 6. Lennox 7. Dzodzuashvili 8. G. Mühren 9. Bedin 10. Kaplychnyi 11. van Beveren
Tuppet 1. Rivera 2. Džajić 3. Shesternyov 4. Causio 5. Lubański 6. Piazza 7. Bo Larsson 8. Lovchev 9. Fazlagic 10. Julio Meléndez Calderón 11. Leao
Joga Bonito 1. Law 2. Netzer 3. A.Ball 4. Wimmer 5. Gadocha 6. Greig 7. Byshovets 8. Sieloff 9. Reaney 10. Kapellmann 11. Nigbur
Marty1968 1. Gerson 2. Carlos Alberto 3. Rosato 4. Schwarzenbeck 5. Cubilla 6. Grabowski 7. Everaldo 8. Panenka 9. Croy 10. Capello 11.

@Marty1968
 
Final picks for me.......Ruud Geels and Antonio Wilson Vieira Honorio a.k.a Coutinho.

Time to get writing my war and peace write up!

@Joga Bonito
 
Come on, guys, let's pick up the pace! The end is near
 
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"Eleven Pauls"

Aldo 1. Best 2. Chumpitaz 3. Pirri 4. Israel 5. Ademir da Guia 6. Boninsegna 7. Furino 8. Prati 9. Stepney 10. Lawler 11. F. Cruz 12.
Chesterlestreet 1. Pelé 2. Greaves 3. Bremner 4. Corso 5. E. Hughes 6. Lorimer 7. Muntyan 8. Smith 9. Cooper 10. Pivarnik 11. Clemence 12.
RedTiger 1. Beckenbauer 2. Oblak 3. Maier 4. Fischer 5. McNeill 6. Dobiaš 7. Tony Dunne 8. Sparwasser 9. Mifflin 10. McFarland 11. van der Kuijlen 12.
Skizzo/Pat_Mustard 1. Cruyff 2. Keizer 3. Olsen 4. Gemmell 5. Murdoch 6. Jardine 7. Rexach 8. Hellström 9. Flohe 10. Kolotov 11. Morini 12.
Gol123 1. Van Hanegem 2. Overath 3. Johnstone 4. Hulshoff 5. Kindvall 6. Rubén Marcos 7. Matosas 8. Skoblar 9. Pavoni 10. Ubiña 11. Tomaszewski 12.
Invictus 1. Eusébio 2. Mazzola 3. Haan 4. Suurbier 5. Perfumo 6. Weber 7. Bonev 8. Bransch 9. Carpegiani 10. Viktor 11. Rildo 12.
Balu 1. G. Müller 2. Vogts 3. Rensenbrink 4. Dobrin 5. Benetti 6. Cuccureddu 7. Holcer 8. Jennings 9. Dinu 10. Magnusson 11. Frosio 12.
ctp 1. Rivelino 2. Marzolini 3. Jansen 4. Heynckes 5. Höttges 6. Mészöly 7. Fichtel 8. Más 9. Iribar 10. Libuda 11. Velázquez 12.
crappycraperson 1. Moore 2. Tostão 3. Bene 4. Van Moer 5. Khurtsilava 6. Bell 7. Urbanczyk 8. Shilton 9. Domenghini 10. Asensi 11. Carrascosa 12.
Gio/Theon 1. Figueroa 2. Cubillas 3. Deyna 4. Clodoaldo 5. Bulgarelli 6. Rocha 7. Ancheta 8. Mazurkiewicz 9. Asparuhov 10. Shalamanov 11. Anczok 12.
NM/EAP 1. Facchetti 2. Riva 3. Jair 4. Stiles 5. Luis Pereira 6. Martin Peters 7. Bosquier 8. Yakimov 9. De Sisti 10. Anquilletti 11. Rudakov 12.
mazhar13 1. Jairzinho 2. Zoff 3. B Dietz 4. Giles 5. Buchan 6. Simões 7. Hurst 8. Hunter 9. Lodetti 10. Hansen 11. Jensen 12.
harms 1. Krol 2. Florian Albert 3. Van Himst 4. Roth 5. Blankenburg 6. Lennox 7. Dzodzuashvili 8. G. Mühren 9. Bedin 10. Kaplychnyi 11. van Beveren 12.
Tuppet 1. Rivera 2. Džajić 3. Shesternyov 4. Causio 5. Lubański 6. Piazza 7. Bo Larsson 8. Lovchev 9. Fazlagic 10. Julio Meléndez Calderón 11. Leao 12.
Joga Bonito 1. Law 2. Netzer 3. A.Ball 4. Wimmer 5. Gadocha 6. Greig 7. Byshovets 8. Sieloff 9. Reaney 10. Kapellmann 11. Nigbur 12. Madeley
Marty1968 1. Gerson 2. Carlos Alberto 3. Rosato 4. Schwarzenbeck 5. Cubilla 6. Grabowski 7. Everaldo 8. Panenka 9. Croy 10. Capello 11. Geels 12. Coutinho

@Tuppet
 
Joga Bonito said:
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"Eleven Pauls"

Aldo 1. Best 2. Chumpitaz 3. Pirri 4. Israel 5. Ademir da Guia 6. Boninsegna 7. Furino 8. Prati 9. Stepney 10. Lawler 11. F. Cruz 12.
Chesterlestreet 1. Pelé 2. Greaves 3. Bremner 4. Corso 5. E. Hughes 6. Lorimer 7. Muntyan 8. Smith 9. Cooper 10. Pivarnik 11. Clemence 12.
RedTiger 1. Beckenbauer 2. Oblak 3. Maier 4. Fischer 5. McNeill 6. Dobiaš 7. Tony Dunne 8. Sparwasser 9. Mifflin 10. McFarland 11. van der Kuijlen 12.
Skizzo/Pat_Mustard 1. Cruyff 2. Keizer 3. Olsen 4. Gemmell 5. Murdoch 6. Jardine 7. Rexach 8. Hellström 9. Flohe 10. Kolotov 11. Morini 12.
Gol123 1. Van Hanegem 2. Overath 3. Johnstone 4. Hulshoff 5. Kindvall 6. Rubén Marcos 7. Matosas 8. Skoblar 9. Pavoni 10. Ubiña 11. Tomaszewski 12.
Invictus 1. Eusébio 2. Mazzola 3. Haan 4. Suurbier 5. Perfumo 6. Weber 7. Bonev 8. Bransch 9. Carpegiani 10. Viktor 11. Rildo 12.
Balu 1. G. Müller 2. Vogts 3. Rensenbrink 4. Dobrin 5. Benetti 6. Cuccureddu 7. Holcer 8. Jennings 9. Dinu 10. Magnusson 11. Frosio 12.
ctp 1. Rivelino 2. Marzolini 3. Jansen 4. Heynckes 5. Höttges 6. Mészöly 7. Fichtel 8. Más 9. Iribar 10. Libuda 11. Velázquez 12.
crappycraperson 1. Moore 2. Tostão 3. Bene 4. Van Moer 5. Khurtsilava 6. Bell 7. Urbanczyk 8. Shilton 9. Domenghini 10. Asensi 11. Carrascosa 12.
Gio/Theon 1. Figueroa 2. Cubillas 3. Deyna 4. Clodoaldo 5. Bulgarelli 6. Rocha 7. Ancheta 8. Mazurkiewicz 9. Asparuhov 10. Shalamanov 11. Anczok 12.
NM/EAP 1. Facchetti 2. Riva 3. Jair 4. Stiles 5. Luis Pereira 6. Martin Peters 7. Bosquier 8. Yakimov 9. De Sisti 10. Anquilletti 11. Rudakov 12.
mazhar13 1. Jairzinho 2. Zoff 3. B Dietz 4. Giles 5. Buchan 6. Simões 7. Hurst 8. Hunter 9. Lodetti 10. Hansen 11. Jensen 12.
harms 1. Krol 2. Florian Albert 3. Van Himst 4. Roth 5. Blankenburg 6. Lennox 7. Dzodzuashvili 8. G. Mühren 9. Bedin 10. Kaplychnyi 11. van Beveren 12.
Tuppet 1. Rivera 2. Džajić 3. Shesternyov 4. Causio 5. Lubański 6. Piazza 7. Bo Larsson 8. Lovchev 9. Fazlagic 10. Julio Meléndez Calderón 11. Leao 12.
Joga Bonito 1. Law 2. Netzer 3. A.Ball 4. Wimmer 5. Gadocha 6. Greig 7. Byshovets 8. Sieloff 9. Reaney 10. Kapellmann 11. Nigbur 12. Madeley
Marty1968 1. Gerson 2. Carlos Alberto 3. Rosato 4. Schwarzenbeck 5. Cubilla 6. Grabowski 7. Everaldo 8. Panenka 9. Croy 10. Capello 11. Geels 12. Coutinho

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A poor man's Cuccureddu :D
 
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:p More versatile than him. Know that was tongue in cheek but hey, I'm not going to miss this opportunity to highlight his credentials. He is a well-renowned utility player but he wasn't a O'Shea but rather, a pretty significant individual for that Leeds vintage. Good enough to make 3 PFA Team of the Year appearances and win the Player Of The Year for Leeds in 1976. When Leeds United compiled a list of 100 of their greatest players ever, he was ranked at 12th. He doesn't make the official Greatest ever Leeds XI but in the XI compiled by the fans he is in it ahead of Terry Cooper (although I myself would rate Cooper as a LB ahead of him). No mere utility player makes 711 appearance for an excellent Leeds vintage and wins 24 caps for England (ok perhaps I can give you the latter :D).

A pretty excellent profile on him.

Paul Madeley(born September 20, 1944 in Leeds, England) was a footballer during Leeds United's glory era of the 1960s and 1970s and the last high-profile 'utility' player.

Madeley was a 'player without portfolio' in that he didn't have a specialist position on the pitch - he had ten of them.

In his long career with Leeds, which began with his debut in January 1964, he played in every position on the pitch except goalkeeper and wore every shirt from No.2 to No.11 (and occasionally No.12) as a result.

Nobody, including Madeley, could pin down what position he preferred - as the oft-heard footballing cliche says: "I don't mind where I play as long as I'm on the pitch", although this is usually uttered by players being asked to play out of their natural position.

Madeley was never asked to play out of position because every position was natural to him. It's not known whether Madeley ever used this answer in an interview.

Madeley's natural ability to adapt to a different role on a frequent basis meant that he was often in the side chosen by manager Don Revie at the expense of a 'specialist' in that position, though the majority of the time there was a player either injured or suspended whom Madeley would replace, mainly in defence although, having become a regular in the team from 1966, Madeley was in attacking positions when Leeds won their first major honours under Revie.

He became a regular in the team from 1966 onwards. In 1968 he scored the crucial away goal against Juventus which helped Leeds win the Fairs Cup - in the two legs he wore the No.8 shirt (striker, in Leeds' shirt allocation system - ace goalscorer ******* would later make it his own) and the No.10 shirt (attacking midfield player) respectively.

Leeds won the League Cup in the same year, and Madeley was the No.9 (a striker again) in the 1-0 win over Arsenal at Wembley.

Madeley played 31 League matches in various positions in 1969 as Leeds won the League championship and in 1970 flitted around the side again until Paul Reaney broke his leg shortly before the season came to a finale, with Leeds seeking to win three trophies.

Madeley duly played in Reaney's right back position and No.2 shirt as Leeds missed out on the League to Everton, the European Cup in the semi-finals to Celtic and the FA Cup in the final to Chelsea, who won after a replay.

Having deputised so well for Reaney at club level, Madeley was asked by Alf Ramsey to take Reaney's place in the England squad for that summer's World Cup in Mexico, but Madeley politely refused, saying he wanted to rest and, as a stand-in, was unlikely to kick a ball.

At this stage he had not played for his country since winning youth level caps as a teenager. In 1971, Madeley was in the side in one position for all bar one of Leeds' matches in the League, which Leeds again missed out on in the last game of the season.

He played in the No.11 shirt (left winger) as Leeds took their second Fairs Cup that summer. He made his England debut the same year. As the next season got underway, Madeley again found himself moving round the side as injuries and suspensions took hold on his team-mates and in the end he never missed a League match, though for a third year in a row Leeds failed to clinch the title on the last day.

In April 1972, left back Terry Cooper suffered an horrific broken leg so Madeley was in the No.3 shirt for the season's end and the FA Cup final, which Leeds finally won with a 1-0 win over Arsenal, duplicating their League Cup success four seasons previously.

Revie sorted the left back issue by signing ****** in the summer of 1972 and Madeley moved across to the centre of defence for much of the next season as Jack Charlton's distinguished career at Leeds wound down.

He was in that No.5 shirt as Leeds surrendered the FA Cup to Sunderland in the final; and then switched back to the left wing and the No.11 shirt for the European Cup Winners Cup final a few days later in Greece, which Leeds lost to A.C. Milan.

Leeds won the League in 1974 - Madeley missing just three matches - and even after Revie's departure that summer to take over the England job, got to their first and only European Cup final a year later, with Madeley in the No.5 shirt again.

This was his last Cup final (and Leeds' last for 21 years) - in the eight finals (nine matches) he played in, he wore seven different shirts. In these days of "player power"/agents/squabbling over image rights, etc, Jimmy Armfield in his autobiography "Right Back To The Beginning",relates a great story about Paul Madeley negotiating a new contract - "He once actually signed a new contract on what was virtually a blank piece of paper. I called him in to discuss terms and opened discussions by saying, 'OK, Paul, we'll give you so much'.

He replied that he had no intention of leaving Leeds so he might as well sign the contract and let me fill in the details. I said, 'What do you want, then, two years or three years?' He answered, 'Either way, I'll leave it to you. I just want to play for Leeds,' and that was that".

A decline in fortunes for Leeds followed, with the ageing side breaking up. Madeley stayed until 1980, enjoying a testimonial season in 1977. After retiring with 711 appearances to his name, he set up a shop in Leeds selling sports goods and worked for his family's home furnishings business.

No true 'utility' player has emerged in English football since; indeed, Madeley was arguably one of a kind for all footballing generations. Madeley won 24 England caps in total between 1971 and 1977.
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