The UEFA Euro Fantasy Draft

1. crappycraperson - 1. Platini 2. Figo 3. Tigana 4. Tardelli 5. Krol 6. Antonin Puc 7. Planicka
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

@coolredwine @MJJ @Edgar Allan Pillow
 
Antonin Puc - 6 goals in old Euros cup (3 in inaugural one when Czech finished join runner's up)

A crucial member of Czechoslovakia's 1934 World Cup final team, Antonín Puč enjoyed a prolific club career throughout the 1930s and scored more goals for the unified Czechoslovakian team than any other player. Usually playing on the left wing, he was known for his skilful dribbling and his ability to shoot early and with great accuracy, giving goalkeepers little chance to make a save.



Puč was born in the Jinonice district of Prague on 16 May 1907, and spent much of his childhood learning to play football in the streets of Prague. As a teenager, he played for the youth teams of SK Smíchov for several years before attracting the attention of Slavia Prague. When he was 18, Puč was offered the chance to move to Slavia and although his father did not want him to sign, he made the move in October 1925.



He was immediately brought into the first team. Having initially played as an inside left, it was in his early years at Slavia that Puč became a regular on the left wing. His first season of 1925-26 brought success in the Bohemian Cup, although the Slavia narrowly missed out on the league title as they finished one point behind rivals Sparta. In the summer of 1926, Puč was called into the national team for the first time at the age of just 19. He made his debut in a match against Yugoslavia in Zagreb, and managed to get on the scoresheet in a 6-2 Czechoslovakian win.



In the short 1927 league season, which was just seven games long, Puč scored 13 league goals to finish as the league's joint top scorer. Slavia however had to settle for second place again, just as they did in the following season of 1927-28, however Puč claimed two more cup winner's medals in those seasons. Title success finally came in 1928-29, with Slavia claiming the title by three clear points and Puč leading the league in goalscoring again.



Throughout the late 1920s, Puč found the net at international level with great regularity. He scored in six of his first eight international matches, and by the end of the decade he had managed 18 goals in 22 games. That total included three in the inaugural Central European International Cup where Czechoslovakia finished joint second, just a point behind champions Italy. Like many European players of his generation, he was denied the chance to play in the first World Cup in 1930 when his country chose not to travel to Uruguay.



At domestic level, success continued to come. Slavia retained their league title in 1930 with a 100% record, and completed a domestic double with a cup final victory over SK Kladno. Further titles followed in 1931, 1933 and 1934, and the disappointment of runners-up spot in 1932 was eased with yet another cup success. Later in 1934, Puč would finally get the opportunity to play on the greatest stage in the game as Czechoslovakia qualified for the World Cup finals in Italy.



The competition was a straight knockout, and in their first match it looked as though Czechoslovakia's involvement was going to be brief. They trailed 1-0 to Romania at half-time, but Puč found a crucial equalising goal shortly after half-time to drag his team back into contention. They went on to win 2-1, and gradually found their feet in the tournament. Edging past Switzerland 3-2 in the quarter-finals, they then eased through a semi-final against Germany to set up a final against the host nation.



In the final, Czechoslovakia and Italy both played positive, attacking football with Puč at the heart of most of his team's good work. With 20 minutes to go, the game was still goalless when Czechoslovakia won a corner. Puč took the kick himself, and when it was only half cleared he found himself with the ball again. With a characteristically powerful and accurate shot from a narrow angle, he beat Italian goalkeeper Gianpiero Combi to give his team the lead. Unfortunately for Puč, his team-mates missed some excellent chances to put the result beyond doubt and a late Italian equaliser forced extra-time. Italy went on to score again in the extra period, ending Czechoslovakia's hopes of becoming champions.



The disappointment of missing out on the world title was quickly overcome as Slavia won another league and cup double in 1934-35, and two years later another title gave Puč a seventh league title in just nine seasons. Entering his early 30s, Puč was still an important member of the national team and in 1938 got a chance to make up for the defeat of four years earlier when he travelled with the national team to France for his second World Cup.



The Czechoslovakian team of 1938 however was not comparable with that which had come so close to glory in 1934. After needing extra-time to get past the Netherlands in their first match, they drew with Brazil in the quarter-finals and the game went to a replay. Puč had played in each of the first two games but did not appear in the replay against Brazil, which his team lost. That would prove to be the end of his career with the Czechoslovakian team, although he did appear (and score) in one match for the 'Bohemia and Moravia' late in 1939. In all, he scored 35 goals in 61 international games - a record for Czechoslovakia and its successor states which stood until the early years of the 21st century when Jan Koller surpassed it playing for the Czech Republic.



As well as his last game for Czechoslovakia, 1938 also saw Puč leave Slavia after 13 years. In all, he scored 112 goals in 164 league games for the club, winning six Bohemian Cups and seven league titles. He spent a couple of years with Viktoria Žižkov and made a brief return to SK Smíchov before retiring from playing in 1941. After the Second World War, he had a brief managerial career with SK Nusle and Čechie Karlín before retiring from active involvement in football. Antonín Puč died in April 1988, a month before his 81st birthday.
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Frantisek Planicka - Regarded as the best keeper about during 1930's

Few players in the history of football have made more appearances for a single club than Czech goalkeeping legend František Plánička. In a sixteen year career, he made nearly 1,000 appearances for Slavia Prague as well as amassing a then-world record number of international appearances. Renowned for his excellent reflexes and shot-stopping ability, he is considered one of the finest goalkeepers of the pre-Second World War era.

Plánička was born in Prague, at the time part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, on 2 June 1904. He would spend the majority of his career, and indeed of his life, in the city. At just 5'8" tall, Plánička was relatively short for a goalkeeper but his acrobatic displays on the pitch led to him being nicknamed 'The Cat of Prague'. As a teenager, he appeared for Slovan Praha VII, Union VII, Staroměstský SK Olympia and SK Bubeneč.

In the early 1920s Plánička attracted the attention of the leading clubs in Czechoslovakia, and was linked with both Sparta and Slavia Prague. Turning down Sparta, he eventually moved to Slavia in 1923 where he initially had to compete for the position of first choice goalkeeper with the older, more experienced Josef Štaplík. Gradually it was Plánička who became the regular starter in goal, a position which he would hold virtually unchallenged for the remainder of his career.

In 1925, Czechoslovakia's first professional league began and Plánička earned the first title of his career when Slavia claimed the championship by the narrowest of margins ahead of Sparta. He was developing a reputation as the country's leading goalkeeper, and made his debut for the national team in January 1926, in a 3-1 defeat to Italy. Slavia lost their league title in 1926, finishing a close second to Sparta, and would also finish as runners-up in each of the next two seasons, but the cup would bring more success.

From 1926 to 1928, the club enjoyed three consecutive cup wins with Plánička keeping a crucial clean sheet in the 1-0 win over Sparta in 1927. The 1928-29 season brought a second league title, and marked the beginning of the most successful period of Plánička's career. In 1929-30 they won all 14 league matches, and with Plánička in goal conceded just 13 goals in those games, a remarkably low ratio for that era. That season also saw him gain a fourth cup winner's medal after a 4-2 final victory over SK Kladno.

Moving into the 1930s, Plánička and Slavia continued to dominate football in Czechoslovakia, picking up at least on trophy every year up to 1935. They completed a hat-trick of league titles in 1931, won the cup again in 1932 and then added three more league titles from 1933 to 1935, the last of those forming part of another league and cup double. In the space of a just a decade, Plánička had won seven league titles and six domestic cups. At international level, he played in seven of Czechoslovakia's eight games in the first Central European International Cup, but the team fell just short of the title. Plánička was denied the chance to play in the first World Cup as like many European countries, Czechoslovakia declined to enter the tournament in Uruguay in 1930 but his opportunity would come four years later.

At the 1934 World Cup in Italy, Plánička was firmly established as the captain of Czechoslovakia and led his team through tough matches against Romania and Switzerland to reach the semi-finals, coming from behind each time. In the semi-final a hat-trick fromOldřich Nejedlý took Czechoslovakia through and gave Plánička the opportunity to lead his team out in the final. That match pitted him against another of the world's finest goalkeepers, Gianpiero Combi of Italy. For a long time, both men kept their goals in tact and when Czechoslovakia took the lead with 19 minutes to go it appeared that Plánička was about to get his hands on the Jules Rimet Trophy. Nine minutes from time, however, he was finally beaten and with the match going into extra-time, Italy scored again to deny Plánička and Czechoslovakia the world title.

Plánička remained a regular in the national team for the next four years, and further domestic success came with an eighth league title in 1937. In 1938, Slavia reached the final of the international club competition the Mitropa Cup, where they faced Hungarian side Ferencváros. After a 2-2 draw in the first leg, Plánička kept the Hungarians at bay in the second match where a 2-0 win gave him yet another major trophy.

1938 would also bring another opportunity for World Cup success, with a crushing 6-0 win over Bulgaria earning Czechoslovakia a place in the finals in France. Plánička was again the captain of his country, and kept his first World Cup clean sheet in the first round game against the Netherlands, which Czechoslovakia won 3-0 after extra-time. That win took them through to a quarter-final against Brazil in Bordeaux, a match which would turn out to be highly controversial and eventually prove to be the last of Plánička's international career.

The match descended into violence, with two Brazilians and one Czech being sent off and several more being injured. Plánička was one of those to suffer, ending up with a broken arm. Remarkably, he played on through the pain to earn his team a replay but was not able to play in that match and without him, Czechoslovakia lost 2-1. He would never play another international, and played on for just one more year at club level before ending his playing career in 1939 at the age of 35.

In total, Plánička played 969 matches for Slavia Prague, with the club winning more than three quarters of those games. He appeared 73 times for Czechoslovakia, more internationals than anyone else had previously managed and a national record which stood until 1966. He played 1253 games in all across his career, conceding an average of 0.86 goals per game. In his retirement, he remained fit and active and even appeared for a senior team of former internationals in 1970, at the age of 66.

Much to his sadness, Slavia struggled to recapture their glory days in the post-war era and by 1994 were approaching half a century without a title. As he turned 90, Plánička's dearest wish was to see the club win one more title before he died. In 1996, his wish came true as Slavia won their first league title since 1947. Plánička died just two months later at the age of 92. By the time of his death, he was the last survivor of the 1934 World Cup final.
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@Balu - I will need some help. I am travelling to US today (close to 24 hour ordeal) starting 00.00 GMT tonight . I might leave a group of 10-12 players with you in order of preference to pick if and when my turn comes.
 
crappycraperson said:
@Balu - I will need some help. I am travelling to US today (close to 24 hour ordeal) starting 00.00 GMT tonight . I might leave a group of 10-12 players with you in order of preference to pick if and when my turn comes.
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No problem, just send it to me.
 
Šjor Bepo said:
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:
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Impressive stuff, tore Cannavaro a new one there several times.
 
crappycraperson said:
Frantisek Planicka - Regarded as the best keeper about during 1930's
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Sarosi says hi! hi hi hi hi hi hi. Very good player, but I figured that it would be hard for me to continue to bang on about that Sarosi performance and at the same time say that Planicka will stop most of the shots.
 
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1. crappycraperson - 1. Platini 2. Figo 3. Tigana 4. Tardelli 5. Krol 6. Antonin Puc 7. Planicka
2. Edgar Allan Pillow & MJJ & coolredwine - 1. Puskás 2. Masopust 3. Gullit 4. Breitner 5. Deschamps 6. Sol Campbell 7. Schweinsteiger
3. Paolo Di Canio - 1. Cristiano Ronaldo 2. Blanc 3. Lev Yashin 4. van Nistelrooy 5. Gentile 6. Domenghini 7. Ballack
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

@The Stain
 
Did all the defensive work for Netzer and scored in the final

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Herbert Wimmer​
 
1. crappycraperson - 1. Platini 2. Figo 3. Tigana 4. Tardelli 5. Krol 6. Antonin Puc 7. Planicka
2. Edgar Allan Pillow & MJJ & coolredwine - 1. Puskás 2. Masopust 3. Gullit 4. Breitner 5. Deschamps 6. Sol Campbell 7. Schweinsteiger
3. Paolo Di Canio - 1. Cristiano Ronaldo 2. Blanc 3. Lev Yashin 4. van Nistelrooy 5. Gentile 6. Domenghini 7. Ballack
4. The Stain - 1. Zidane 2. Czibor 3. Amancio 4. Förster 5. Zagorakis 6. Shearer 7. Wimmer
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

@Skizzo & @Pat_Mustard
 
1. crappycraperson - 1. Platini 2. Figo 3. Tigana 4. Tardelli 5. Krol 6. Antonin Puc 7. Planicka
2. Edgar Allan Pillow & MJJ & coolredwine - 1. Puskás 2. Masopust 3. Gullit 4. Breitner 5. Deschamps 6. Sol Campbell 7. Schweinsteiger
3. Paolo Di Canio - 1. Cristiano Ronaldo 2. Blanc 3. Lev Yashin 4. van Nistelrooy 5. Gentile 6. Domenghini 7. Ballack
4. The Stain - 1. Zidane 2. Czibor 3. Amancio 4. Förster 5. Zagorakis 6. Shearer 7. Wimmer
5. Skizzo & Pat_Mustard - 1. van Basten 2. Netzer 3. Monti 4. Popluhár 5. Bonhof 6. Suker 7. Sergio Ramos
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

We pick Sergio Ramos. Conceded a miserly 3 goals in 11 appearances en route to two winner's medals in 2008 and 2012 and gives us flexibility as he played as an attacking right back in 2008 and at centre back in 2012. He has one of the strongest Euros résumés of all the defenders in the draft.

@Stobzilla
 
Stobzilla said:
Rome wasn't built in a day, but it was a shite side quicker than Joga's picks.
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I could post the pick he sent me, but I'm not sure if he still wants him after his 'give me a minute' post :nervous:.
 
Sorry guys, need to mull over it for a while and will post it after the match.
 
Stobzilla said:
You absolute waste of skin.

I'm out lads. feck it.
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Wait, what? No, you're not. Just ignore him instead of teasing him and he won't annoy you anymore (and vice versa). How difficult can that be?
 
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