What is your Serie A all-time xi?

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Serie A :

Buffon

Cafu, Baresi, Cannavaro, Maldini

Riijkaard, Gullit

Maradona, Zidane

Van Basten, R9
 
Malkovich said:
Serie A :

Buffon

Cafu, Baresi, Cannavaro, Maldini

Riijkaard, Gullit

Maradona, Zidane

Van Basten, R9
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Nesta in for Cannavaro and probably only one of Maradona/Zidane for more balance.

The all time Serie A and La Liga teams are scary good. So many possible combinations.
 
Fallon d'Floor said:
Nesta in for Cannavaro and probably only one of Maradona/Zidane for more balance.

The all time Serie A and La Liga teams are scary good. So many possible combinations.
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You don't need balance when you have Maradona, Zidane and Ronaldo in your team
 
Nani Nana said:
You don't need balance when you have Maradona, Zidane and Ronaldo in your team
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Every team needs balance! Look at Real Madrid when they sold Makélélé. From 1st in La Liga and CL semi-finalists to 4th and getting knocked out by Monaco the next season.

Guys like Rijkaard, Dunga, Deschamps, Redondo, etc. The unsung heroes of some great teams.
 
You somehow made a mistake here, OP. You need to start the thread with a series of unnecessarily complicated fancy words, while avoiding their fully functional well-known synonyms.
 
Ronaldo - Van Basten
Platini - Maradona
Rijkaard - Matthaus
Maldini - Baresi - Nesta - Cafu
Buffon​
 
Will only go with players I saw regularly.

Buffon
Zanetti Nesta Cannavaro Maldini
Pirlo
Nedved Zidane
Kaka
Ronaldo Batistuta

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FC GOAT

Dida
Cafu, Baresi, Nesta, Maldini
Rijkaard
Seedorf, Gullit
Zidane
Maradona, Ronaldo (real one, not that no7 twat)

Dida- yes, Buffon is better but i liked Dida's style very much
Cafu. RB Goat
Maldini. GOAT defender in general
Baresi. Second best DC of all time.
Nesta. Best DC in his generation
Rijkaard. GOAT dmc
Gullit. GOAT all-around player
Seedorf. World class complete midfielder
Zidane. Maybe best midfielder of all time.
Maradona. Second best player of all time
Ronaldo Luis Nazario de Lima. THE GOAT.

Ah, nostalgia.
 
Serie A seems less contentious than the Premier League, a lot of legends that it would be hard to argue against. Also nobody active from the past 10 years is really beating the 80s and 90s legends, can only think Pirlo, Ibra and Totti are in with a shout and even then they’re more 2000s legends than post 2010
 
KeanoMagicHat said:
Serie A seems less contentious than the Premier League, a lot of legends that it would be hard to argue against. Also nobody active from the past 10 years is really beating the 80s and 90s legends, can only think Pirlo, Ibra and Totti are in with a shout and even then they’re more 2000s legends than post 2010
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Mainly because Serie A teams have struggled in The CL since Inter's 09/10 treble. Juve had 2 good runs at it a few years ago.

Baresi, Maldini, Cannavaro and Nests seem to be untouchable in terms of defenders.
 
Taibi

Darmian
Smalling
Stam
Evra

McTominay
Veron
Beckham

Zirkzee
Rossi
Ibrahimovic
 
A lot of people including Ronaldo though, Haaland has played 8 more Premier League games for City than Ronaldo played Serie A games for Inter and pretty much everyone would agree it’s too early for Haaland for the PL. Can you be in an all time XI for a league playing only 68 games for Inter and a few well past it for Milan?
 
KeanoMagicHat said:
A lot of people including Ronaldo though, Haaland has played 8 more Premier League games for City than Ronaldo played Serie A games for Inter and pretty much everyone would agree it’s too early for Haaland for the PL. Can you be in an all time XI for a league playing only 68 games for Inter and a few well past it for Milan?
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When you are a goat, you can everything :)

His first two seasons in Inter were out of this world. And remember, he played there in golden era of Seria A and against best defenders in the world.
 
AndersB said:
You somehow made a mistake here, OP. You need to start the thread with a series of unnecessarily complicated fancy words, while avoiding their fully functional well-known synonyms.
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I didn't even make a thread, someone randomly made it for me :eek:
 
Buffon
Nesta, Baresi, Maldini
Zanetti, Rijkaard, Gullit, Nedved
Platini
Maradona, Ronaldo​
 
Gio said:
Ronaldo - Van Basten
Platini - Maradona
Rijkaard - Matthaus
Maldini - Baresi - Nesta - Cafu
Buffon​
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Literally this I think. It's tempting to try and to fit in someone like Zanetti, Scirea, Baggio or Gullit but in the end this would be my team as well.

KeanoMagicHat said:
A lot of people including Ronaldo though, Haaland has played 8 more Premier League games for City than Ronaldo played Serie A games for Inter and pretty much everyone would agree it’s too early for Haaland for the PL. Can you be in an all time XI for a league playing only 68 games for Inter and a few well past it for Milan?
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For many fans his early years are the pinnacle of their football experience. His games for Inter, alongside Maradona performances in the second half of the 80's and that of peak Messi, are as close as you can get to transcending the game itself. If Haaland would've played like that and not just scored a lot, he would've been routinely mentioned in PL's all-time XIs as well.
 
B20 said:
Baggio not even mentioned yet.
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Despite him being the best Italian attacker (or even player — depends on how highly you rate defenders) at least since Meazza...
For the number 9 spot he competes with 2 out of 3 greatest strikers of all-time at their absolute peak; and for the number 10 he's up against the most naturally gifted player of all-time in Maradona and, if you're willing to adjust your formation, the greatest European number 10 of all-time in Platini. Again, at the absolute peak of their respective powers. That has to be the textbook definition of the embarrassment of riches.
 
GK - Buffon
RB - Cafu
LB - Maldini
CB - Nesta
CB - Cannavaro
CM - Gattuso
CM - Zidane
AMC - Maradona
CF - Ronaldo (R9)
CF - Ronaldo (CR7)
CF - Batistuta

Quite a bit of work for Gattuso to get through I feel...
 
Gattuso doesn't hold a candle to the likes of Matthaus, Rijkaard. I'd have players like Simeone, Desailly, De Rossi and Conte ahead of him too.

He's more iconic than an actual great, imo.
 
Andycoleno9 said:
When you are a goat, you can everything :)

His first two seasons in Inter were out of this world. And remember, he played there in golden era of Seria A and against best defenders in the world.
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True, he only played 19 games that second season though and I was too young to remember it well but have vague memories of him not being that good in the CL against United that season.
harms said:
Literally this I think. It's tempting to try and to fit in someone like Zanetti, Scirea, Baggio or Gullit but in the end this would be my team as well.

For many fans his early years are the pinnacle of their football experience. His games for Inter, alongside Maradona performances in the second half of the 80's and that of peak Messi, are as close as you can get to transcending the game itself. If Haaland would've played like that and not just scored a lot, he would've been routinely mentioned in PL's all-time XIs as well.
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Closer comparison is probably Suarez in terms of best ever PL seasons, he is top 3 but hardly anyone puts him in their team either and he played more than Ronaldo. If you think of the impact of Ibrahimovic, Baggio, Batistuta, Totti, Nordahl etc, it's high competition, then you wonder if his games which is less than 2 seasons worth, is enough.
B20 said:
Gattuso doesn't hold a candle to the likes of Matthaus, Rijkaard. I'd have players like Simeone, Desailly, De Rossi and Conte ahead of him too.

He's more iconic than an actual great, imo.
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Yeah I'd have Vidal as well over Gattuso, Davids too. Gattuso was a pretty limited player
 
................van Basten...........
.....................Maradona.............
Boniek....Deschamps...L.Suarez...Gullit
Maldini...Scriea....Nesta.....Cafu.....
.....................Buffon....................

Are there any top quality DMs in Serie A? Rijkaard never really played there for Milan.
 
guilhermebastile said:
Buffon
Nesta, Baresi, Maldini
Zanetti, Rijkaard, Gullit, Nedved
Platini
Maradona, Ronaldo​
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You could make a second and third team almost as powerful(not really, but still insanely good). Serie A had a comically large number of legends.

Zoff
Thuram, Scirea, Chiellini
Cafu, Mattaus, Pirlo, Nohrdal
Rivera
Van Basten, Baggio

Taffarel
Zambrotta, Cannavaro, Costacurta
Davids, Deschamps, Tardelli
Zidane, Totti
Riva, Meazza​
 
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KeanoMagicHat said:
Closer comparison is probably Suarez in terms of best ever PL seasons, he is top 3 but hardly anyone puts him in their team either and he played more than Ronaldo. If you think of the impact of Ibrahimovic, Baggio, Batistuta, Totti, Nordahl etc, it's high competition, then you wonder if his games which is less than 2 seasons worth, is enough.
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That's the thing though, you keep comparing him to mortals. Suárez was world-class and you can make the case for his peak to be the highest out of all of the Premier League strikers. Ronaldo was not though, he was ethereal, there really wasn't anyone like him before or since, it seemed predestined that he would become the greatest of all-time... before the injuries happened. Even Messi (undoubtedly a better and a greater player overall) had a more grounded career trajectory during his formative years.

Basically, if peak Messi or peak Maradona had spent 2 seasons in the Premier League, you would've seen them in most Premier League XIs regardless of how great the likes of Salah, Rooney, De Bruyne or even Henry are. And Ronaldo was on their level — sadly, not for long.
 
I only included players from the 80s onwards

Buffon
Zanetti, Nesta, Scirea, Maldini
Pirlo, Gullit
Maradona… …. …. …. …. Paltini
Van Basten ….. Ronaldo​
 
Zoff

Maldini
Berasi
Canavoro
Cafu

Matthaus

zidane
Platini
Gullit

Maradona
Van Bastan

R9 wasn't at his best in Seria A so that's why not included.
 
Vidyoyo said:
I'm surprised you're the only person who included Kaka. His reputation died when he went to Madrid but he was absolutely supreme in that FC Milano team from 2005-2009.
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You have Maradona, Platini, Baggio, Zidane, Rivera, Sívori... that's just the Ballon d'Or winning trequartistas that peaked in Serie A, all competing for a single (or two if you're generous) spots. I haven't even included Gullit and Nedvěd who both played there as well. Kaká's peak was magical but it's hard to compete against the best of the best.
 
harms said:
You have Maradona, Platini, Baggio, Zidane, Rivera, Sívori... that's just the Ballon d'Or winning trequartistas that peaked in Serie A, all competing for a single (or two if you're generous) spots. I haven't even included Gullit and Nedvěd who both played there as well. Kaká's peak was magical but it's hard to compete against the best of the best.
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Fair point as it's a jam-packed position with plenty of talent to pick from. I do like Kaka and he'd get my vote but maybe that's just because his peak coincided with my own peak of watching football.
 
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