Zinedine Zidane (23 Viewers)

[JCK]

Just because you're Romanian doesn't mean Hagi is the best player. He can't be on par with Zidane or Baggio.

That being said, Baggio is way below Zidane's level as well.

 

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[Fred]

True that.

 

[blondu]

That being said, Baggio is way below Zidane's level as well.

Hagi, Zidane, Cruyff, Baggio the best players ever. These players will show their class under any circumstances. Unlike the so called two best Messi and C. Ronaldo who were nothing good but wiping the floor in world cup.

true..hagi showed his skills in the major tournaments he played. The best romanian player, i'm sure he's in that league of extraordinary players..

Just because you're Romanian doesn't mean Hagi is the best player. He can't be on par with Zidane or Baggio.

yes he can

 

[GordoDeCentral]

You are one of a few I do read carefully, and I find you are wrong. In a world without the TV blanket coverage we accept for the norm today, the Italian league was followed by those watching there home trams playing in Europe. To say that one player raised it's profile is possible, to say they created that interst in plainly wrong.

Again I write, maybe that is the case in America, but it was not in Europe.

appreciated but i am not convinced you read what i wrote carefully, as for the bolded you re splitting hairs, once again reread what i said

I can honestly say I never have seen Maradona play in a Napoli shirt (apart maybe from highlights) and yet I have been a Juve fan since the eighties
and I don't think I'm the only one
it's really stupid to say that one man generates such an interest in a league
Diego was a great player but so was Platini before him
Romario and Ronaldo both played for PSV, did that turn them into the most popular European team? not even in Holland
it takes a lot more to make a league the most popular
serie A was the league were all the best players wanted to go to and now this is England or Spain
Diego was just one of them

thanks for proving my point a juve fan in the eighties who didnt even watch the best team of the day, some kinda profile that league must have had. As for the ronaldo and romario comparison 1 holland was where they started no one knew them before that 2 they re not diego. As for platini,

Got to say I disagree. Perhaps more people watched it, but it was already quite popular.

research the matter

 

[Alen]

research the matter

I kinda agree with you. Maradona did make the interest in calcio grow.

What you failed to mention (or maybe you did and I missed it?) is that until the early 90's, there wasn't a strong TV coverage of foreign leagues. I talked about this matter with people from many countries actually. In Yugoslavia we were getting the Champions Cup and the big NT competitions, but the domestic league was quite strong so no-one was broadcasting foreign leagues. I realized that it was exactly the same in the other countries.

Sometimes around 1990, I believe it happened even a year or two later, the TV stations started buying the rights for foreign leagues so Europe could see week in week out Bundesliga, serie A, EPL and La Liga.
By that time Berlusconi made Milan a super power and forced the other Italians to start investing heavily. That's how the league became popular. It was the strongest when the broadcasting started.

So Maradona did make the league more popular, but it was mostly by people looking for articles in the papers to see how did Napoli do and if Maradona scored.

 

[Azzurri7]

That being said, Baggio is way below Zidane's level as well.

Below? Yes. Way below? No.

yes he can

I love Hagi. I grew up loving this player but no way to put him on par with the names he mentioned. Hagi is one of the best 100 players I can say but not top 20-30.

 

[GordoDeCentral]

I kinda agree with you. Maradona did make the interest in calcio grow.

What you failed to mention (or maybe you did and I missed it?) is that until the early 90's, there wasn't a strong TV coverage of foreign leagues. I talked about this matter with people from many countries actually. In Yugoslavia we were getting the Champions Cup and the big NT competitions, but the domestic league was quite strong so no-one was broadcasting foreign leagues. I realized that it was exactly the same in the other countries.

Sometimes around 1990, I believe it happened even a year or two later, the TV stations started buying the rights for foreign leagues so Europe could see week in week out Bundesliga, serie A, EPL and La Liga.
By that time Berlusconi made Milan a super power and forced the other Italians to start investing heavily. That's how the league became popular. It was the strongest when the broadcasting started.

So Maradona did make the league more popular, but it was mostly by people looking for articles in the papers to see how did Napoli do and if Maradona scored.

i did and i even specified that the leagues that were getting broadcasted( and they werent live games) were german and english. And i also specified that english league lost a lotta ground because of the heysel ban, and i wonder how many of these people who argue started watched juve and following serie A because of Alex...

 

[Azzurri7]

i did and i even specified that the leagues that were getting broadcasted( and they werent live games) were german and english. And i also specified that english league lost a lotta ground because of the heysel ban, and i wonder how many of these people who argue started watched juve and following serie A because of Alex...

I admit I'm one of them. Alex and Azzurri NT in WC 94 are my reasons. So you're spot on.

 

[Salvatore]

Below? Yes. Way below? No.

 

[bianconero]

Remind me again what was the argument?

 

[Azzurri7]

Remind me again what was the argument?

When was the last time Makelele had an orgasm.

 

[Ahmed]

December 5th 2005.

 

[GordoDeCentral]

actually maradona not only made napoli a big club he also put serie A in the top league map imo

no one watched serie A outside italy before that, you can fault that to the limited tv coverage, but english and german were always the ones people watched most. When the best player in the world plays people obviously want to watch and he did that for serie A: exposure.

diego's arrival along with the ban of english teams from euro competitions helped serie A become the leader by the early 90s

synopsis bianco

 

[bianconero]

When was the last time Makelele had an orgasm.

With tge new rule changes in Scrabble, can I use his name: It could cone in very useful.

 

[Ahmed]

With tge new rule changes in Scrabble, can I use his name: It could cone in very useful.

I don't think Scrabble is the game for you, mate.

 

[bianconero]

synopsis bianco

Then I was right.

 

[GordoDeCentral]

no way

 

[bianconero]

I don't think Scrabble is the game for you, mate.

I always make those two typos.

Glad you haven't yet surcumed to the usage of m8.

Do you like y8s?

 

[bianconero]

no way

Wos 2!

 

[blondu]

I love Hagi. I grew up loving this player but no way to put him on par with the names he mentioned. Hagi is one of the best 100 players I can say but not top 20-30.

Well the sun, and pele's top 100 named hagi there (1st one in the 35th position and the 2nd one in the 25th position). I believe he is in the best 30 for sure. France had cantona, platini and zidane, brazil had ronaldo, romario and zico, italy had baresi and baggio even cameroon had roger milla....romania has hagi.