The UEFA Euro Fantasy Draft

Theon's defence so far

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A scary team, really, if he'll finish like he started, he will just simply outmuscle everyone here.

A pair of Pomeranians kissing?

It's cute alright – but will it appeal to the largely butch voters?
 
Thanks. That's what I remembered but wanted to confirm
 
One of the greatest defensive midfielders to ever play in the CEIC, SVATOPLUK PLUSKAL

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(clearly trumps Hanappi when it comes to thighs as well :p)

Forming an irrepressible engine-room tandem alongside Josef Masopust, Pluskal was the unyielding lynchpin in midfield who allowed Masopust the liberty to express his creative talents and the freedom to go on his mesmerising slaloming runs. The midfield colossus played an integral role in Czechoslovakia's run to the WC 1962 final - the first time an European team made the final on South American soil- where they eventually succumbed to Garrincha's wizardry.

His status as one of the best centre-halves of his era was established by his appearance in the Rest of the World XI against England, in Wembley to commemorate the prestigious centenary year of English football. A quick look at the XI would be revealing (Yashin-Djalma Santos-Schnellinger-PLUSKAL-Popluhar-Masopust-Kopa-Denis Law-Di Stefano-Eusebio-Gento, with Puskas and Seeler on the bench); truly your cream of the crop bunch and not your average past it ceremonial XI. He once again figured in an Europe XI (featuring amongst the likes of Seeler and Eusebio) against Yugoslavia a year later, cementing his standing as a world class centre half.

His Central European International Cup exploits were incredible to say the least, for what is perhaps the best Czechoslovakian team of all time. Simply put, he did not lose a single game in the tournament; his individual record reads P8 W6 D2 L0. He played 7 games in Czechoslovakia's victorious campaign of the final version of the CEIC, whereby they pipped the legendary Mighty Magyars to the title by a single point. They only suffered a single defeat throughout the tournament, losing 1-3 to Hungary in their first encounter, a match in which, needless to say, Pluskal didn't feature. In the return fixture, Pluskal proved to be the difference as they inflicted the solitary defeat of Hungary's tournament, an encounter which would ultimately prove to be the match which determined the champions of the tournament.
 
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1. crappycraperson - 1. Platini 2. Figo 3. Tigana 4. Tardelli 5. Krol 6.
2. Edgar Allan Pillow & MJJ & coolredwine - 1. Puskás 2. Masopust 3. Gullit 4. Breitner 5. Deschamps 6.
3. Paolo Di Canio - 1. Cristiano Ronaldo 2. Blanc 3. Lev Yashin 4. van Nistelrooy 5. Gentile 6.
4. The Stain - 1. Zidane 2. Czibor 3. Amancio 4. Förster 5. Zagorakis 6.
5. Skizzo & Pat_Mustard - 1. van Basten 2. Netzer 3. Monti 4. Popluhár 5. Bonhof 6.
6. Stobzilla - 1. Beckenbauer 2. B.Charlton 3. Bican 4. Gascoigne 5. Brian Laudrup 6. Kuznetsov
7. Joga Bonito - 1. Maldini 2. B.Moore 3. Sindelar 4. Bergomi 5. Effenberg 6. Pluskal
8. harms - 1. Dragan Džajić 2. Sárosi 3. Schuster 4. Voronin 5. Brehme 6. Ondruš
9. Aldo - 1. Xavi 2. Iniesta 3. Nedved 4. Lahm 5. Albert 6. Carvalho
10. Raees & Gio - 1. Rijkaard 2. Facchetti 3. Kohler 4. Henry 5. Zebec 6. Hanappi
11. Theon & NM - 1. Matthäus 2. Bozsik 3. Davids 4. Desailly 5. Kocsis 6. Burgnich
12. The Red Viper - 1. Gerd Müller 2. Sammer 3. Vieira 4. Shesternyov 5. Cannavaro 6. Piola
13. big red123 - 1. Cruyff 2. Baresi 3. Stoichkov 4. Michael Laudrup 5. Koeman 6. Buzánszky
14. Šjor Bepo & Physiocrat - 1. Luis Suarez 2. Nesta 3. Hidegkuti 4. Ivanov 5. Giresse 6. Stam
15. ctp - 1. Rummenigge 2. Scirea 3. Ocwirk 4. Mazzola 5. Gerets 6. Lizarazu
16. PedroMendez - 1. Meazza 2. Thuram 3. Schmeichel 4. Netto 5. Bene 6. Schwarzenbeck

@Skizzo @Pat_Mustard
 
Really rate that 88 soviet side. Kuznetsov was voted 11th in European player of the year off of the back of it. No doubt you know more.
Yeah, they were great, unlucky to lose in the final against that Holland. And who knows, if Kuznetsov were on the pitch...

UEFA's official report from the semis
With exactly half the two starting line-ups on one yellow card, there was a sweepstake as to who would be the first to miss the final, and Oleg Kouznetsov won it almost at once, booked for his second foul in the first two minutes. If that deflated him, he didn´t let it show, again looking the best centre-back in the competition and making the first goal by striding out from the back
 
1. crappycraperson - 1. Platini 2. Figo 3. Tigana 4. Tardelli 5. Krol 6.
2. Edgar Allan Pillow & MJJ & coolredwine - 1. Puskás 2. Masopust 3. Gullit 4. Breitner 5. Deschamps 6.
3. Paolo Di Canio - 1. Cristiano Ronaldo 2. Blanc 3. Lev Yashin 4. van Nistelrooy 5. Gentile 6.
4. The Stain - 1. Zidane 2. Czibor 3. Amancio 4. Förster 5. Zagorakis 6.
5. Skizzo & Pat_Mustard - 1. van Basten 2. Netzer 3. Monti 4. Popluhár 5. Bonhof 6. Suker
6. Stobzilla - 1. Beckenbauer 2. B.Charlton 3. Bican 4. Gascoigne 5. Brian Laudrup 6. Kuznetsov
7. Joga Bonito - 1. Maldini 2. B.Moore 3. Sindelar 4. Bergomi 5. Effenberg 6. Pluskal
8. harms - 1. Dragan Džajić 2. Sárosi 3. Schuster 4. Voronin 5. Brehme 6. Ondruš
9. Aldo - 1. Xavi 2. Iniesta 3. Nedved 4. Lahm 5. Albert 6. Carvalho
10. Raees & Gio - 1. Rijkaard 2. Facchetti 3. Kohler 4. Henry 5. Zebec 6. Hanappi
11. Theon & NM - 1. Matthäus 2. Bozsik 3. Davids 4. Desailly 5. Kocsis 6. Burgnich
12. The Red Viper - 1. Gerd Müller 2. Sammer 3. Vieira 4. Shesternyov 5. Cannavaro 6. Piola
13. big red123 - 1. Cruyff 2. Baresi 3. Stoichkov 4. Michael Laudrup 5. Koeman 6. Buzánszky
14. Šjor Bepo & Physiocrat - 1. Luis Suarez 2. Nesta 3. Hidegkuti 4. Ivanov 5. Giresse 6. Stam
15. ctp - 1. Rummenigge 2. Scirea 3. Ocwirk 4. Mazzola 5. Gerets 6. Lizarazu
16. PedroMendez - 1. Meazza 2. Thuram 3. Schmeichel 4. Netto 5. Bene 6. Schwarzenbeck
 
Just going to watch the rest of the french league cup, will make pick after.
 
feck it, I can't resist. Scorer of 3 goals in 4 appearances at Euro '96, and his performance vs Denmark was one of the best individual displays I can remember at the Euros.

Davor Suker

Judging by Euro performance alone, he's a better striker than Henry.
 
Judging by Euro performance alone, he's a better striker than Henry.

suker "only" gives you goals while Henry added much more to the france team....not sure why would you pick Suker when you have Van Basten but okay, we all have different ideas and visions :)
 
suker "only" gives you goals while Henry added much more to the france team....not sure why would you pick Suker when you have Van Basten but okay, we all have different ideas and visions :)

Suker was far more than just a poacher. I'll post the video later but his vision and creativity vs Denmark was top class.
 
Judging by Euro performance alone, he's a better striker than Henry.
Henry was excellent at Euro 2000. Three man-of-the-match performances including a too-hot-to-handle show in the final. Mind you, Suker was class in '96 as well - the main reason I got a Croatia shirt that glorious summer.
 
Suker was far more than just a poacher. I'll post the video later but his vision and creativity vs Denmark was top class.

im from croatia so i know anything you can know about Suker....would have to watch again performance against Denmark as all i can remember was that lob vs Schmeichel:drool:
But he was as big poacher as you can be, offered little in general play but you could always rely on his goals. Maybe in that particular game he had a good all-round play i dont really remember now.
 
1. crappycraperson - 1. Platini 2. Figo 3. Tigana 4. Tardelli 5. Krol 6.
2. Edgar Allan Pillow & MJJ & coolredwine - 1. Puskás 2. Masopust 3. Gullit 4. Breitner 5. Deschamps 6.
3. Paolo Di Canio - 1. Cristiano Ronaldo 2. Blanc 3. Lev Yashin 4. van Nistelrooy 5. Gentile 6.
4. The Stain - 1. Zidane 2. Czibor 3. Amancio 4. Förster 5. Zagorakis 6. Shearer
5. Skizzo & Pat_Mustard - 1. van Basten 2. Netzer 3. Monti 4. Popluhár 5. Bonhof 6. Suker
6. Stobzilla - 1. Beckenbauer 2. B.Charlton 3. Bican 4. Gascoigne 5. Brian Laudrup 6. Kuznetsov
7. Joga Bonito - 1. Maldini 2. B.Moore 3. Sindelar 4. Bergomi 5. Effenberg 6. Pluskal
8. harms - 1. Dragan Džajić 2. Sárosi 3. Schuster 4. Voronin 5. Brehme 6. Ondruš
9. Aldo - 1. Xavi 2. Iniesta 3. Nedved 4. Lahm 5. Albert 6. Carvalho
10. Raees & Gio - 1. Rijkaard 2. Facchetti 3. Kohler 4. Henry 5. Zebec 6. Hanappi
11. Theon & NM - 1. Matthäus 2. Bozsik 3. Davids 4. Desailly 5. Kocsis 6. Burgnich
12. The Red Viper - 1. Gerd Müller 2. Sammer 3. Vieira 4. Shesternyov 5. Cannavaro 6. Piola
13. big red123 - 1. Cruyff 2. Baresi 3. Stoichkov 4. Michael Laudrup 5. Koeman 6. Buzánszky
14. Šjor Bepo & Physiocrat - 1. Luis Suarez 2. Nesta 3. Hidegkuti 4. Ivanov 5. Giresse 6. Stam
15. ctp - 1. Rummenigge 2. Scirea 3. Ocwirk 4. Mazzola 5. Gerets 6. Lizarazu
16. PedroMendez - 1. Meazza 2. Thuram 3. Schmeichel 4. Netto 5. Bene 6. Schwarzenbeck

@Paolo Di Canio
 
Henry was excellent at Euro 2000. Three man-of-the-match performances including a too-hot-to-handle show in the final. Mind you, Suker was class in '96 as well - the main reason I got a Croatia shirt that glorious summer.

Suker is one of my favourite strikers.. I like him more than Henry but watching those Euro 2000 vids.. that is hands down the best I have seen Henry play under pressure against elite opposition.. he ran Maldini, Cannavaro and especially Nesta ragged.

Only the brazillian Ronaldo could offer something so similar in terms of pace, power and technique. He simply ate up ground and looked a threat every time he drove at them.
 
A beast in his prime and unlike some CB's picked before, he was a TotT defender in Euro 2004.


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1. crappycraperson - 1. Platini 2. Figo 3. Tigana 4. Tardelli 5. Krol 6.
2. Edgar Allan Pillow & MJJ & coolredwine - 1. Puskás 2. Masopust 3. Gullit 4. Breitner 5. Deschamps 6. Sol Campbell
3. Paolo Di Canio - 1. Cristiano Ronaldo 2. Blanc 3. Lev Yashin 4. van Nistelrooy 5. Gentile 6. Domenghini
4. The Stain - 1. Zidane 2. Czibor 3. Amancio 4. Förster 5. Zagorakis 6. Shearer
5. Skizzo & Pat_Mustard - 1. van Basten 2. Netzer 3. Monti 4. Popluhár 5. Bonhof 6. Suker
6. Stobzilla - 1. Beckenbauer 2. B.Charlton 3. Bican 4. Gascoigne 5. Brian Laudrup 6. Kuznetsov
7. Joga Bonito - 1. Maldini 2. B.Moore 3. Sindelar 4. Bergomi 5. Effenberg 6. Pluskal
8. harms - 1. Dragan Džajić 2. Sárosi 3. Schuster 4. Voronin 5. Brehme 6. Ondruš
9. Aldo - 1. Xavi 2. Iniesta 3. Nedved 4. Lahm 5. Albert 6. Carvalho
10. Raees & Gio - 1. Rijkaard 2. Facchetti 3. Kohler 4. Henry 5. Zebec 6. Hanappi
11. Theon & NM - 1. Matthäus 2. Bozsik 3. Davids 4. Desailly 5. Kocsis 6. Burgnich
12. The Red Viper - 1. Gerd Müller 2. Sammer 3. Vieira 4. Shesternyov 5. Cannavaro 6. Piola
13. big red123 - 1. Cruyff 2. Baresi 3. Stoichkov 4. Michael Laudrup 5. Koeman 6. Buzánszky
14. Šjor Bepo & Physiocrat - 1. Luis Suarez 2. Nesta 3. Hidegkuti 4. Ivanov 5. Giresse 6. Stam
15. ctp - 1. Rummenigge 2. Scirea 3. Ocwirk 4. Mazzola 5. Gerets 6. Lizarazu
16. PedroMendez - 1. Meazza 2. Thuram 3. Schmeichel 4. Netto 5. Bene 6. Schwarzenbeck

@crappycraperson
 
Who you talking about here?

probably Stam.....luckily i remember how good he was at Euro 04' so i really didnt care if he was in team of the tournament or not. Advantages of tournaments that we all watched :)
 
probably Stam.....luckily i remember how good he was at Euro 04' so i really didnt care if he was in team of the tournament or not. Advantages of tournaments that we all watched :)

Yea, was just wondering as I don't see any centre backs that didn't preform well.
 
That's the thing with defenders. You have a small % of those who made obvious goofup's. Then you have another small % who were brillant. And all the bulk of them all under the same class.

Tbh, I did not follow the WC draft and may go back to read the comments, but it's quite difficult to see how the biggest bucket of defenders are compared?
 
Henry was excellent at Euro 2000. Three man-of-the-match performances including a too-hot-to-handle show in the final. Mind you, Suker was class in '96 as well - the main reason I got a Croatia shirt that glorious summer.
suker "only" gives you goals while Henry added much more to the france team....not sure why would you pick Suker when you have Van Basten but okay, we all have different ideas and visions :)
He wasn't even 'half' the player peak Arsenal's Henry was. Yes, Henry had a good tournament, although not giving as big impression as Suker was.

Edit: I don't know whether van Basten and Suker are the right pair, thus didn't make a comment about that.
 
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Henry was a left wing on Euro 2000, with Dugarry as the main striker. He wasn't even 'half' the player peak Arsenal's Henry was.

he was not by any means a classic winger, he spend a lot of time in the central area. Its difficult to say what position he plays as he always liked to pull himself on the left even when he played as a pure striker for Arsenal...this is him in the final against Italy: