That one player..

No, Sporting.

Didn't know how to word the title so it was short enough, but if you could go back and watch one player play, who would it be?
Despite him still playing up until 2006, would be Zidane for me. Only memories I have of him are the WC final and when he scored 2 late goals to beat England. Failing Zidane, I think I'd go for an in his prime Ronaldo or maybe a 2005 Kaka, my favourite player.

Don't contradict you. In terms of individual skills combined with the ones as a team player, he was the best footballer who I have ever seen playing football. Don't get me wrong, guys. There are a lot of football players with great team player skills (Iniesta to name an example) and there are also ones with great individual skills (Messi and Ronaldo), but Zidane has the best mix between these skills and that is why he was just the best in my view.

You can hardly say messi isn't a team player. It seems like you're basically just saying Zidane was good at passing and dribbling

Lol at people trying to compare Zidane to Messi.

Nostalgia does weird things to people.

You are comparing different positions so its not easy.

Zidane was head and shoulders the best midfielder of the past 30 years at least so he's hardly unworthy to be compared with Messi. Messi's never really done anything for Argentina worth remembering whereas Zidane excelled for some average French sides.

Zidane is the hipster's choice of footballer. When someone says him you know they are just trying too hard. He was piss poor for a lot of his time at Real Madrid.

Not better than Iniesta or even Laudrup.

Comparing him with Messi is an insult to Messi.

Great player. Doesn't change the fact he was massively overrated.

The same applies to Ronaldo and Messi to certain seasons too. Sometimes I thought that they were not good enough in a year to become world player of the year, but awarded by the FIFA nevertheless. I guess great players are/were always a bit overrated, no matter what the name is.

The same applies to Ronaldo and Messi to certain seasons too. Sometimes I thought that they were not good enough in a year to become world player of the year, but awarded by the FIFA nevertheless. I guess great players are/were always a bit overrated, no matter what the name is.

In what year since 2008 have Messi or Ronaldo not been the best?

lol no they aren't. If you think that then you've been spoiled by them and you will realise how good they were when they retire.

I do think Cristiano is a tad overrated. No denying his goal scoring but when he isn't good, he's awful. Plus, he's extremely selfish.

So his play is between two extremes, or what did you want to say? in terms of Ronaldo I would say that he needs his players around him to be excellent. That is the reason why Ronaldo is not so good in the Portuguese squad by far.