zinedine zidane and david beckham

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diego maradona was good volleyball player
zidane was def better than beckham but beckham was a worldclass player.
in a team sport even an excellent player can not carry the weight of the team on his own shoulder
there are plenty of beckham detractors but England’s qualification would not be on track had it not benefitted from contributions from beckham, and even in their failings in previous worldcup, if there was one player that had an impact it was beckham.

all someone has to do is look at stats on assists and goals and not give in to anti beckham media stories when they and mcclaren needed to find a bogeyman, later mcclaren showed himself to be useless, and fabio brought in beckham to help with the england teams qualifiers.

what zidane and beckham have in common aside from being great players was that both were booted out of important matches in worldcup and increasing the odds that their teams would lose. beckham kicked a dude and zidane headbutted a dude.

You probably never watched Maradona in his prime

I know the english cannot stop moaning about that ‘hand of god’ goal in the 1986 WC conveniently forgetting the fact that Maradona scored a quite sensational second goal in the same game within 5 minutes of that first goal. Argentina beat England 2-0 (not 1-0). so handball or no handball Argentina would have still won that game.

And I could not care less if Man U are Premiership champions or it is Chelsea or Arsenal etc. Surely performance on the world or international stage should count more. I am not that into club football myself (although I do follow champions league etc.) just like I have no interest in who is winning county championship, Surrey, Essex etc.

And it is funny how some of you are defending Rooney’s (he might still go on to become one of the stars of this WC) below-par performance against USA by saying that he was not fed well by the other english players. True football is a team sport but great players also create chances themselves and do not necessarily wait to be fed at the mouth of the goal Diego Maradona scored many spectacular goals all by his own sheer brilliance. One of the goals he scored against Germancy in the 1986 WC final was a gem and it is still fresh in my memory. Infact he had a hand in all three goals scored by Argentina (won 3-2). And as good as Zidane was as a footballer, he was not even close to Maradona’s brilliance. Maradona was a unique and special talent, a phenomenal player

And better this anyone..