Puskas 54, Baggio 94 and Zidane 06 didn't win the WC
The greatest individual performance remains Maradona @ WC 86.
Zidane 98 or 06? Ronaldo 02? Baggio 94? Maradonna 86? Pele 70? Puskás 54?
Its widely recognised by analysts that no player ever made THAT much of an impact at clublevel, as platini on juve in 82-85 and at national level with france in 1984.
It was not even close.
you talk of zidane, ronaldo, baggio pele and puskas. Players with a massive team, that were the best of their team (altho garrincha>pele in '70).
Platini played in a great french team, but was SO much better then the rest it was ludicrous. In a time where SO much talent was in the world of football, he stood out so immensely much more then anyone else.
Only maradonna's peformance comes to mind, but not even maradonna was as good as pele was that day.
Lets just look at this : 9 goals, in 5 games, as a midfielder.
decided all 3 groupgames, by scoring the opener, and one of them turning into a hattrick, as a midfielder
scored the deciding goal against portugal, and opened versus spain in the final.
No player, has ever had such brilliant tournament, no one.