Fantasy Tournament: World Cup All-Time All-Stars

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That's brilliant. Job already well done, Cutch.
 
Brilliant job, Cutch.

I'm looking forward to my game against rpitroda, after all I started as his manager and stole his favorite player from him ;).

/edit: I meant of course I started as his assistant, not manager.
 
Theon vs Antohan should be legendary. Agree with Pol and Crappy, both looked like the strongest teams in the draft.
 
This is Theon after the draw.



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rpitroda said:
Urgh it's going to be a good game! Don't shaft me with your crazy analysis =P
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Count on it :lol:. Also, your wall of death text tactic thingy was hardly less exhausting to read :cool:
 
Absolute Fruit Cake said:
Can the winners be separated and new picks included in OP?
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Like the following?

@Polaroid could you edit it in the op instead of the games/draft picks that are shown now? Maybe have a quick look over it, that I didn't make a mistake with all the copy & paste.

Teams out after the first round:

Games played in the first round:

Rpitroda vs Cutch
Balu vs TITO
Theon vs Gio
Jayvin vs Anto
Cal vs Desert
Crappy&Pippa vs Paceme
Fergus vs Annah
Pol vs Aldo

Aldo 1. Garrincha 2. Romário 3. Scirea 4. Gentile 5. Kempes 6. Ballack 7. Lizarazu 8. Burgnich 9. Hidegkuti 10. Danilo 11. Stiles 12. Escuti
Paceme 1. Platini 2. Rijkaard 3. Djalma Santos 4. Thuram 5. Tigana 6. Ademir 7. Cabrini 8. C. Maldini 9. Clodoaldo 10. Voronin 11. Jair 12. Taffarel
Jayvin 1. Ronaldo 2. Cannavaro 3. Rivaldo 4. Brehme 5. Vieira 6. Coluna 7. Schiaffino 8. Kahn 9. Julinho 10. Mauro Ramos 11. Buzánszky 12. Szymaniak
Desert 1.Moore 2. Meazza 3. Passarella 4. Busquets 5. Makélélé 6. Pirlo 7. Messi 8. Caniggia 9.Branco 10. Grosics 11. Novak 12. Altafini
Fergus 1. Matthäus 2. Falcao 3. Rivelino 4. Nilton Santos 5. Karlheinz Förster 6. Chumpitaz 7. Tostao 8. Manuel Amoros 9. Banks 10. Rummenigge 11. Klinsmann 12. Preud’homme
Gio. 1. Eusebio 2. Figueroa 3. Laudrup 4. Xavi 5. Keane 6. Da Guia 7. Briegel 8. Lato 9. Zagallo 10. Jorginho 11. Roma 12. Fillol
Cutch 1. Müller 2. Facchetti 3. Cafu 4. Santamaría 5. Cubillas 6. Bergomi 7. Monti 8. Nesta 9. F Albert 10. F Walter 11. Goycochea 12. Ayala
TITO 1. Charlton 2. Baresi 3. Schnellinger 4. Zanetti 5. Tardelli 6. Paolo Rossi 7. Perfumo 8. Vavá 9. Gascoigne 10. Cerezo 11. Carbajal 12. Asamoah

Teams left in the tournament:

Pol
1st round: 1. Maradona 2. P. Maldini 3. Breitner 4. Zizinho 5. Boniek 6. Ocwirk 7. Zito 8. Ferdinand 9. Cohen 10. Careca 11. Gregg 12. Maspoli
2nd round: 1. Bobby Moore 2. Eusebio 3. Santamaria 4. Rivaldo

Cal
1st round: 1. Pelé 2. Sándor Kocsis 3. Gérson 4. Blanc 5. Overath 6. Cristiano Ronaldo 7. Lev Yashin 8. Lúcio 9. Leandro 10. Grosso 11. Sneijder 12. Luis Cubilla
2nd round: 1. Xavi 2. Platini 3. Clodoaldo 4. Thuram

Theon/Snow
1st round: 1. Beckenbauer 2. Zico 3. Baggio 4. Kohler 5. R. Carlos 6. Socrates 7. Andrade 8. Van Hanegem 9. Maier 10. Piola 11. Rattin 12. Geoff Hurst
2nd round: 1. Falcao 2. Muller 3. Scirea 4. Da Guia

Rpitroda
1st round: 1. Zidane 2. Masopust 3. Varela 4. Desailly 5. Batistuta 6. Nasazzi 7. Figo 8. Zoff 9. Eyzaguirre 10. Hagi 11. Marinho Chagas 12. František Plánička
2nd round: 1. Ronaldo 2. Djalma Santos 3. Nilton Santos 4. Lato

Annah
1st round: 1. Didi 2. Iniesta 3. Ronaldinho 4. Stoichkov 5. Leonidas 6. Lahm 7. Vicente Lucas 8. Bellini 9. Stam 10. Zambrotta 11. Carrizo 12. Gerets
2nd round: 1. Matthaus 2. Charlton 3. Facchetti 4. Cafu

Crappy/Pippa
1st round: 1. Fontaine 2. Krol 3. Kopa 4. Vogts 5. Dunga 6. Ruggeri 7. Tarantini 8. Leonel Sanchez 9. Mauro Silva 10. Ricardo Zamora 11. Hamrin 12. Buffon
2nd round: 1. Garrincha 2. Rivelino 3. Passarella 4. Karlheinz Förster

Balu
1st round: 1. Cruyff 2. Jairzinho 3. Carlos Alberto 4. Davids 5. Silvio Marzolini 6. Frank de Boer 7. Forlan 8. Gilmar 9. Ceulemans 10. Haan 11. Schwarzenbeck 12. Willi Schulz
2nd round: 1. Baresi 2. Schnellinger 3. Kempes 4. Meazza

Antohan
1st round: 1. Puskas 2. Neeskens 3. Bozsik 4. Czibor 5. Ghiggia 6. Junior 7. Mazurkiewicz 8. Gamarra 9. Seeler 10. Chilavert 11. Carvalho 12. Rodríguez Andrade
2nd round: 1. Figueroa 2. Romario 3. Cannavaro 4. Laudrup

Match schedule quarterfinals:

Jan 22nd
Pol vs Crappy/Pippa
Rpitroda vs Balu

Jan 23rd
Cal vs Annah
Theon/Snow vs Antohan
 
Nice work Balu, your initiative has been outstanding this tourney, really appreciate it, will update OP in a min
 
Great match ups, the gifs on Theon vs Anto had me in stitches :lol: Two fabulous teams, two fantastic managers, instant classic of epic proportions...
 
Polaroid said:
Nice work Balu, your initiative has been outstanding this tourney, really appreciate it, will update OP in a min
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Took less than 5 minues, so really not a big deal and I'm bored at work all the time at the moment, so I don't mind.
 
antohan said:
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With Romario there's a case as well, albeit different. Even with Ronaldo and Rivaldo in their pomp, the player Brazilians felt strongly about starting was Romario. He was the people's striker, massive uproar every time he got dropped, etc. It was the ongoing soap opera with various managers, and particularly pre-1998. To this day some believe he wasn't injured and it was an elegant way for Zagallo to break up Ro-Ro. If so, he is a cnut, because he would have been handy to have around in that final instead of Ronaldo.
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I remember that well. Romario got injured a couple of weeks before the tournament, was ruled out for 3-4 weeks. I was surprised they didn't take him because he'd surely have been back for the business end of the tournament and would've undoubtedly started in the final given Ronaldo's problems. And he was in fine form then for Brazil with strong performances in Le Tournoi, the Copa and the Confederations Cup during the previous 12 months.

antohan said:
Reason I wailed over having picked two keepers is my sub option otherwsie was Elkjaer :drool:
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Yeah, I was keen to partner Michael with Preben and Brian. But that was a bit too romantic. Would've taken Brian had I not run out of Europeans come the 12th pick, given his brilliance in '98 and telepathic understanding with Michael.
 
Balu said:
It's beautiful how you twist the story of each player around until it suits your theme, anto, that alone is worth the whole thing :lol:. I'm sure you would have found a reason to call Matthäus an underdog as well (probably because he had to play a final without his favorite shoes or something like that).
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Nope, that's why I said it felt dirty to pick him. There's not even the tiniest element of underdog in him.
 
Polaroid said:
Great match ups, the gifs on Theon vs Anto had me in stitches :lol: Two fabulous teams, two fantastic managers, instant classic of epic proportions...
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Theon need not worry as his bigger names will drive it home, but it would indeed be a classic and certainly look forward to it.

This is exactly what I signed up for!

Shame, there was a pick I considered instead of Cannavaro who would have been better for this game but I thought "that only works if I get Theon" :(
 
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