Lemme guess you grew up in the 90s ?

I like how you included only two different options as 'golden era' while the game has been around for way more than a century.

 

LOL, indeed. Please close this thread before it becomes embarassing.

 

Messi and CR are better than any 90s star. Pep's Barca and Mou's RM are better than any 90's club.

 

That's hardly the question. Anyway, let's compare the list of stars the football world has seen between 90s and now...

 

EPL was shit, that may count as a plus to some.

As for competitiveness between different leagues, Serie A enjoyed a dominance never seen before or since (with the possible exception of English 1. Div. in late the '70s and early 80s).

 

EPL was shit, that may count as a plus to some.

As for competitiveness between different leagues, Serie A enjoyed a dominance never seen before or since (with the possible exception of English 1. Div. in late the '70s and early 80s).

how so? From 1997-1999 all the Uefa Champions league winners were from Germany, England and Spain. And throughout the span of the whole decade, 7 of the European Cup/Champions league winners were not Italian.

in 1999 Dynamo Kiev also made the semi-finals of the Champions league and were 1 goal away from reaching the final IIRC. We won't see such competitiveness again from another EE side for a long time, unless Anzhi starts buying more "star players".

 

I reject the premise so I can't vote.

 

IMHO, there should be a third option in the poll about both eras were simply top-flight football: both eras have/had their own top players, club and international sides/squads, etc.

 

I agree that romario,ronaldo,zidane and baggio were outstanding and as great as cristiano and messi(maybe messi would surpass all them on the future).the problem is that you are take in consideration a whole decade. in the early 90´s we had romario and baggio peaks. after 95 we saw ronaldo and zidane peaks. also, maybe zidane should be remember as a player of the 2000 decade. he was amazing from 2000 until 2004 and had a great moment in WC2006.so, we should compare the 90´s and the 2000´s. the 90´s had ronaldo,romario,baggio,laudrup,stoichkov,maldini, weah,etc. and the 2000´s had zidane, ronaldinho,henry,eto´o,kaka,cristiano,messi,buffon,etc. so, I believe football is not getting worse.

 

I prefer the 80's

and who lived the 60's, prefer the 60's to any other:thumbsup:

 

Green Beret, I think you are confusing or not seeing the 90's era for what it was. Yes a bunch of legends played during the 90s but they were mainly legendary because of their International play. The 1994 and 1998 WC's were legendary, most of the players you have named became legendary because of the Euro and World Cup competitions during the 1990s. In reality, these guys never lived up to the same World Class level of play at the club level. Most of them bounced around from relevant to irrelevant clubs. The EPL was garbage, the Seria A dominated UEFA because they had the most money at the time. World Wide, outside of Europe, the North American and South American leagues were crap. Argentina and Brasil had pretty bad leagues during the 90s mostly because every good player was going to Europe and a wide majority failed or took a long time to adjust.

While the 21st century, lets just take 2000-2010 was much more competitive on a global level. Boca Juniors and River Plate came back to prominence as well as various Brasilian teams, not to mention the rise of the MLS in America and the Arabian leagues taking off. It also saw a great generation of legends, most established at one or two clubs and quit moving around so much as in the 90s. Yes the international competitions haven't been as exciting but that's because there is so much parity now internationally. South Korea, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Chile and Colombia back on the rise. Just look at how good across the board most national teams in Europe are now... there's good players at every club.

Yet people are distracted by the teams that spend so much money these days like Chelsea, Man City, Juventus, Barca, Madrid....

but in reality you would struggle to find a 90s Man U team that could beat a Man U team of the last decade, same with Liverpool, Chelsea, Arsenal, Barca, Real Madrid, Bayern Munich... only the Italian teams of the 90s are arguably better than the Italian teams of the last decade

 

In regards to Brazil, club football in the 90's was much better than in the 00-10:thumbsup:

 

I didn't watch it back then, the only teams I knew about was the Sao Paolo 91-93 era

 

Liverpool in the 80's would kill any liverpool of the 90's or 00's

 

Livepool in the late 70s and 80s would kill a lot of teams but there's no comparison between 90s Liverpool and 2000s Liverpool

 

The team that came second was ok. and the one from 2001.... the rest were all poor teams, even the one that won the CL. (of course, in comparisong with the great teams of the period or of Liverpool)

 

Nostalgia is a mofo

 

and the irony is the OP might not even remember what happened in most part of 90s football as he is a 00's generation teen.

 

nostalgia is not what it used to be.

 

[The kids these days are ruining nostalgia!! :smileani:]

 

u guys are retarded, I'm not saying that maradona was crap, but that he was the only superstar player in the 80s - nobody else could challange him. Whereas if he played in the 90s, in his prime, his dominance would of been challanged by pre-injury R9, Romario, Zidane etc...

 

u guys are retarded, I'm not saying that maradona was crap, but that he was the only superstar player in the 80s - nobody else could challange him. Whereas if he played in the 90s, in his prime, his dominance would of been challanged by pre-injury R9, Romario, Zidane etc...

you are really retarded if you think people reacted your post for that. Really have you heard about Zico or Platini or Van Basten or Baresi etc etc...

 

Do you recognize any of them? If not then GTFO.

 

As for Scholes having an impact still. United are going through a down period (they have high standards), but it's hardly uncommon to see a formerly tenacious midfielder switch to a more subtle role as he gets older. For '90s examples see Mathias Sammer, Loddar, Mihajlovic, Hierro, etc.

 

you guys really got to stop making retarded assumptions. alm:

Of course I know about the likes of Van Bastan, Platini and Baresi in the 80s, but I'm not comparing the 90s with that decade, my main comparision is with the state of football in the present day.

Also, what I said before was that Maradona is seen as the undisputed king of football in the 80s, heck he was one of the best players ever. He was so good that he was held in much higher regard then the likes of Van Basten, despite Marco being a very great player - whereas in the 90s, the likes of Zidane and pre-injury R9 were more neck and neck in terms of "who is the best player today".

 

I don't think so.. mainlyu in XT and for people who din't see the 80's

In Brazil, millions consider Zico better.... me included

 

[Zico seems to be becoming more and more of a Sir Bobby Charlton, Johnny Haynes, or Fritz Walter of Brazilian/world football: fans/people who never saw them in action don't understand what dominant and phenomenal players that they were and then tend to under-apprectiate them as a result of IMHO.]

 

Yes indeed growing up in the 90's was very special for football,Baggio,Zola,MVB,Signori,Gullit,Giggs,Mancini,Matthaus,Romario,Ronaldo the list goes onroud:.

I can't really personally or don't want to compare era's but the 90's was indeed very sepcial just like other decades were for obvious reasons:thumbsup::smileani:.

 

i prefer the 80's roud:

 

90s for me.

 

90s was indeed great, but 80s had it's fair share of stars and moments - especially a lot of the biggies in 80s faded out in the early 90s.. That makes it a close contest..

 

70s had George Best...I rest my case. :stuckup:

 

Shit case then, best did **** all in the 70s

 

still reminisce about the 90`s. Weekends weren`t complete without the Gazzetta Football Italia round up with James Richardson on in the morning and the live game in the afternoon for us Brits. roud:

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Maldini, Matthaus, Romario, Laudrup, Sammer, Baresi, Schemichael, Zidane, Baggio, Desailly, Kohler, Batistuta, Hagi, Ronaldo, Bergkamp.... man, what an era!

 

Also, let me think.....60s: Pele, Garrincha, Eusebio, Best, Charlton, Beckenbauer, Yashin, Cruyff, Djalma Santos, Facchetti, Seeler, Moore.......not bad!