International peak draft

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@Pat_Mustard

Good luck!

You have great players I know very well and some I don't know: so it would be an interesting game for me whatever the outcome!

Next week is of paramount importance at the professional level so I won't have the time and energy to follow a game.

Could we launch the game on Friday evening or Saturday evening?
 
Downcast said:
@Pat_Mustard

Good luck!

You have great players I know very well and some I don't know: so it would be an interesting game for me whatever the outcome!

Next week is of paramount importance at the professional level so I won't have the time and energy to follow a game.

Could we launch the game on Friday evening or Saturday evening?
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Good luck to you too mate! Platini vs Kopa :drool:. Sure mate, Friday would suit me very well actually.
 
Pat_Mustard said:
Good luck to you too mate! Platini vs Kopa :drool:. Sure mate, Friday would suit me very well actually.
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Thanks! I consider Platini as the greatest French player. Then, you have Kopa and Zidane.

Perfect for Friday then :)
 
Edgar Allan Pillow said:
This fast? :lol:
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I have to travel on Monday so I needed the game up now so he was nice and let it happen. After that I am not sure how much I can participate for a while. Enough as an admin bar Monday when GS takes over and after that we will do it together.
 
Just finished man-marking one of the players of the tournaments in Florian Albert and playing against the likes of Beckenbauer-Overath-Seeler-Haller? Well up you go against freaking Eusebio, in his 1966 WC form, next then.




(Video quality at the start is poor but I just used those excerpts for the English commentary by Wolstenholme, iirc.

'Voronin playing an extraordinarily good game against Eusebio'

'Eusebio perhaps having the quietest game he's had in the competition'

'Think he'll have a nightmare about Voronin.

'Man of the match has been Voronin who's shadowed Eusebio out of it'.
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The actual compilation quality is much better, so stick with it.)

We've seen man-marking displays from the likes of Bergomi, Gentile, Stiles and other more 'rugged' players but it's hard to think of more pure and 'clean' man-marking displays than those displayed by Voronin against Albert and Eusebio. Quite something, being the most creative talisman of your side and also simultaneously being the most formidable man-marking presence. If one really wants to appreciate those displays, it'd be better if they watch those matches in full as there were a lot of positional plays (putting pressure in the right areas, preventing Albert/Eusebio from turning and forcing them into simple back passes etc) that I couldn't put inside the video. Far too often we've had the debate about who'd be the ideal holding midfielder (not named Rijkaard) who would be ideally suited to upgrade Busquets in the tiki-taka system or any other system which demands a ball-playing yet defensive resolute and positionally disciplined DM, Voronin has to be amongst the top of the pile imo


Naturally, Voronin would end up being voted into the Best XI of the 1966 WC by the Associated Press (strangely not in the official TOTM, although he made it in the 1962 WC)

Banks; D. Santos, Schulz, Moore, Marzolini; Beckenbauer, Charlton, Voronin; Bene, Eusebio, Simoes

whilst the British pundit team with Don Revie and Billy Wright had this as all star team for this WC:

Banks; Sanchis, Schulz, Moore, Marzolini; Beckenbauer, Charlton; Voronin, Bene, Pelé, Eusebio

A referendum organized by L'Equipe and France Football regarding the best player of the tournament gave the following result:

1- Bobby Charlton ----- 17 votes
2- Franz Beckenbauer - 8 votes
3- Eusébio -------------- 7 votes
4- Valery Voronin ----- 4 votes


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Joga Bonito said:
Far too often we've had the debate about who'd be the ideal holding midfielder (not named Rijkaard) who would be ideally suited to upgrade Busquets in the tiki-taka system or any other system which demands a ball-playing yet defensive resolute DM, Voronin has to be amongst the top of the pile imo.
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Is that question based only on International performances? Because otherwise...
 
Tuppet vs. 2mufc0: 10 Apr (Mon)
Isotope vs. Raees
Enigma vs. Skizzo: 12 Apr (Wed)
Sjor vs. Annah: 8 Apr (Sat)
EAP vs. onenil: 12 Apr (Wed)
Pat vs. Downcast: 14 Apr (Fri)
Moby vs. mazhar
Gio vs. Joga Bonito: 13 Apr (Thu)

All matches start at 2pm BST unless specified otherwise
 
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Edgar Allan Pillow said:
10AM my time would be around 2pm GMT. That ok?
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I'd have to do Wed for that time slot then, can't do for Tues

Sjor vs. Annah: 8 Apr (Sat)

EAP vs. onenil: 12 Apr (Wed)

Pat vs. Downcast: 14 Apr (Fri)


Tuppet vs. 2mufc0
Isotope vs. Raees
Enigma vs. Skizzo
Moby vs. mazhar
Gio vs. Joga Bonito
 
I'll send my writeup in tonight. Can start the game whenever @Tuppet is free.
 
2mufc0 said:
I'll send my writeup in tonight. Can start the game whenever @Tuppet is free.
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Sounds good, I'll send my write up tonight as well. Lets play tomorrow (Monday) then.

Sjor vs. Annah: 8 Apr (Sat)

Tuppet vs. 2mufc0: 10 Apr (Mon)

EAP vs. onenil: 12 Apr (Wed)

Pat vs. Downcast: 14 Apr (Fri)

Isotope vs. Raees
Enigma vs. Skizzo
Moby vs. mazhar
Gio vs. Joga Bonito
 
The Undrafted

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Miroslav Klose - World Cup's all-time leading scorer


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Toto Schillaci - Golden Boot WC 1990


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James Rodriguez- 2014 WC Golden Boot
 
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