Inter won the old school UEFA cup with Ronaldo did they not ?Pretty sure Inter had Ronaldo, Vieri, Recoba and Baggio as striking options all at one time. And won nothing.
Inter won the old school UEFA cup with Ronaldo did they not ?
Over the past 30 years, Italy and Spain are the only two leagues to have a genuine claim on being the best in the world.
When you look at that above list, the EPL has just never had that depth of pure quality. It's had some great players, sure. And is considered one of the best leagues, but it has never made that step to be the definitive best. Same with Germany. Great players, but it never had a roster of outstanding talent like that seen in Italy 90s or Spain 2000s onwards.
Yeah, that was a year or two before Vieri joined. Pumped Lazio. Probably Ronaldo's best performance in an Inter shirt.Inter won the old school UEFA cup with Ronaldo did they not ?
Mentioned it many times myself mate.I've mentioned this previously,but Italy produced an insane amount of talented number 10's [if that's how you'd describe them] during a period of 10/15 years. Baggio, Del Piero, Zola, Totti, Mancini. Without wishing to derail the thread you could have a good FF thread picking the best of that outstanding bunch.
My memory of this game was Ronaldo being denied a stonewaller and Juve going up the other end and getting a soft penalty.That was a mental season in serie A with Juve and Inter going head to head.
They had what was pretty much a title decider and it was live on C4.
Crazy game, but my clearest memory was Inter attacking and the linesman was not running along the touch line - he was running along the 18 yard box! I have never found footage to confirm this and none of my friends remember this. Am I making it up?
Oh and by the way, the answer to your question, or suggestion of the thread, is Baggio.I've mentioned this previously,but Italy produced an insane amount of talented number 10's [if that's how you'd describe them] during a period of 10/15 years. Baggio, Del Piero, Zola, Totti, Mancini. Without wishing to derail the thread you could have a good FF thread picking the best of that outstanding bunch.
Surprised that Hagi never played for one of the big Italian clubsMentioned it many times myself mate.
Loads of Italians, but every team played with one.
In the same era, you had different styles of number 10 too, but just as a glimpse of some of the foreign names...
Gullit
Maradona
Matthaus
Rui Costa
Hagi
Savicevic
Boban
Pirlo (Italian I know)
Bergkamp
Ronaldo
It really was the greatest period of football there’s ever been!
All the more remarkable for Bierhoff is he played for Udinese that season.
Correct. The greatest period of football there ever was in my eyes, certainly in terms of the best players congregating in the one league. It was amazing, and for confirmation of Italy being way ahead of Spain at the time, Inter just decided they were taking Ronaldo from Barcelona and did. Imagine Inter going to Barca in the last 10 years and saying we're taking Messi? Or going to Real and saying we're taking Ronaldo?I’d say Italy was even quite a bit ahead of Spain, obviously Real and Barca had unbelievable sides and you had Valencia from the late 90s to about the mid 2000s and Sevilla in the mid 2000s and then Atlético and Sevilla again.
For Italy you had Juve, AC, Roma and Lazio all win the league, Inter lost out twice on the last day but won the UEFA Cup and had a squad littered with players, Parma winning trophies and Fiorentina also threatening, including imploding one season in the title race, and if you go back earlier you’ve Sampdoria in the early 90s winning the league and getting to the European Cup final and just before that Maradona’s Napoli.
Late 80s to mid 2000s Serie A was untouchable in my opinion.
The Italians actually have a name for it, they call it a Trequartista. Comes from the word/s for three quarters apparently but it's someone who plays that attacking mid role just off the strikerI've mentioned this previously,but Italy produced an insane amount of talented number 10's [if that's how you'd describe them] during a period of 10/15 years. Baggio, Del Piero, Zola, Totti, Mancini. Without wishing to derail the thread you could have a good FF thread picking the best of that outstanding bunch.
Not sure if he's still here, but we had a poster, I think his name was Wilso 10, and underneath his name was always "Trequartista"The Italians actually have a name for it, they call it a Trequartista. Comes from the word/s for three quarters apparently but it's someone who plays that attacking mid role just off the striker
Is Bierhoff still on the go?Bierhoff used to run about Glasgow between scoring goals in Serie A
Haven't seen him for a few years.Is Bierhoff still on the go?