Football enthusiast since Franz Beckenbauer and Uwe Seeler helped Germany to their 2nd WC final. FC Barcelona, admirer of Lionel Messi's art.
Jan 23, 2020 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
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Records never defined who is best or greatest in football. The goat debate always has been based on performance.
Almost noone knows J. Bican, the man with most official career goals (805).
Is Ali Daei, the man with most NT goals in a list of best 100 players ever?
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For about 40 years G. Müller held the record for most goals in a calendar year and for most WC goals. Did anybody say he is the goat?
Does Maradona have any record? Probably not. Yet when talking about goat, for many years he was one of only two players who came to mind.
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Nov 20, 2019 • 22 tweets • 4 min read
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"Maradona won WC 86 singlehandedly against allmighty Germany, and he had only bums in teame".
"Messi lost WC final although he had worldclass players helping him".
That's the narrative Maradona apologists and Messi haters repeat and repeat.
The truth:
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After Argentina's convincing WC 78 win with legendary Kempes, their 0:3 loss against Brazil in WC 82 was the biggest surprise of that WC.
The following qualifier for WC 86 Argentina again ended convincingly as first of their group.
They arrived at the WC as one of the big
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Aug 12, 2019 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Not only Messi has suffered big defeits. His problem is he played so many big games. (!!!)
Every great player suffers big defeits in his career. Pele broke in tears in Brasil's shameful WC 1966 elimination. He never won a Copa America.
Maradona left WC 82 with red card, ...
lost WC final 90 and got disqualified in WC 94 and never won Copa America.
Beckenbauer lost 2 international finals.
Puskas' legendary dream team lost the WC final.
Cruyff lost his WC final.
R9 lost WC final 98 0:3 to Zidane, while Zidane left WC final 2006 in shame with red card.
