nihilistjnr:
93/94 final?

How I wan take watch am? I was in Primary 2.

I didn't even send football back then. I was too busy watching He-man and Voltron.

That 94 final, I didnt watch till long holidays around July in my friend's house where he borrowed the VHS recording

The 1994 was hyped because Nigeria was going to the world cup and all ISR editions were talking about the stars coming to the world cup

Kimbeast:

3 champions league final in 4yrs says otherwise.

Despite the number of world class players they boasted, they hardly won many trophies. Of course they went to 3 Champions League finals in 4 years but their league trophies during that period diminish their status as a great side.

raumdeuter:


Boateng is okay with his world cup which he won on the field, Let VVD hold his polling booth award which he won from ballot box

Didn't VVD win his own UCL on the field? The same excuse you always use for Terry. Baba hold ur L

Lana1:
Didn't VVD win his own UCL on the field? The same excuse you always use for Terry. Baba hold ur L

Boateng already won his own CL on the field a long time ago

raumdeuter:


Boateng already won his own CL on the field a long time ago

And we didn't hear the end of it.

VVD has won his own UCL now, with UEFA's best as jara after back to back UCL finals. Something Boateng has never done in his life

Best midfielder in the world

raumdeuter:


He was only good to win the biggest trophy in the sport

A world cup

We are talking about individual awards, you are talking team trophy.

Boateng is the definition of useless.

Baba airmark carry go jor
Na you get here for this week
When we told them that football is not all about goals dem no hear
Una go hear am from me when Hazard win his own

spillo1:

Despite the number of world class players they boasted, they hardly won many trophies. Of course they went to 3 Champions League finals in 4 years but their league trophies during that period diminish their status as a great side.

Ancelotti's Milan tended to thrive in the big games and I don't think Milan cared much about the league back then it was all about catching Madrid record. If not for complacency against Liverpool and Deportivo, you'd probably be looking at a side that would have won four European Cups out of five.

Lana1:
And we didn't hear the end of it.

VVD has won his own UCL now, with UEFA's best as jara after back to back UCL finals. Something Boateng has never done in his life

Let VVD win a world cup like Boateng did before you start comparing him to his superiors

Leyqute:


Let sister Tabitha handle our luggage. The servant of the most high shall not be stressed

Sister Tabitha isn’t to be disturbed . I repeat, she is not to be disturbed.

larride:


We are talking about individual awards, you are talking team trophy.

Boateng is the definition of useless.

How will the best defender in a world cup final be useless, Unless useless has a different meaning

raumdeuter:


How will the best defender in a world cup final be useless, Unless useless has a different meaning

Best defender in a World Cup yet failed to be in the team of the tournament but his partner Matt’s Hummels was.

Even Boateng will curse you for thinking he is elite.

larride:


Best defender in a World Cup yet failed to be in the team of the tournament but his partner Matt’s Hummels was.

Even Boateng will curse you for thinking he is elite.

Boateng does his tuff on the field and does not depend on polling booths or votes to be acknowledged. Everyone with a functional eye who watched the world cup final will tell you Boateng was the best that night

raumdeuter:
érôme Boateng 9

Made a vital clearance after a surging run from Messi and was always quick to snuff out danger. Quick, calm and authoritative, his displays in Brazil have been a revelation and he was man of the match
Jérôme Boateng was man of the match, Lionel Messi menaced the German defence and Philipp Lahm ran riot
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2014/jul/13/germany-argentina-brazil-2014-worlds-cup-final-player-ratings

for Germany there was Jérôme Boateng and Philipp Lahm – as they thwarted attack after attack
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/world-cup/10964539/World-Cup-2014-Bastian-Schweinsteiger-drives-Germany-to-victory-in-enthralling-final.html

Jerome Boateng (Defender) - 9

Jerome Boateng
Got better as the match progressed. Made a number of important tackles and clearances after initially being troubled by the pace of the Argentine counter-attacks. The Bayern centre-back was dominant and was Germany's star performer. Man of the match.

Rio Ferdinand's view: "Boateng was immense today."
http://www.bbc.com.b.tldw.me/sport/football/28286068

This is how to boss a world cup final

afrodoc2:

Then on the Barca side Cruyff deciding not to field Michael Laudrup cos of the same 3 foreigner limit rule.

Cruyff and Laudrup also had dressing room problems which only came to light at the end of the season.

chic2pimp:


Cruyff and Laudrup also had dressing room problems which only came to light at the end of the season.

Yup but the main reason Laudrup left to join Real was the fact that Cruyff repeatedly chose Koeman, Stoitchkov, and Romario as his foreign 3.

Laudrup switched to Real and won the league the very next season with them

raumdeuter:


Let VVD win a world cup like Boateng did before you start comparing him to his superiors

He has already won a UCL as per your requirements.

raumdeuter:

Messi is a CL winner and world cup finalist. Van Dijk is 27 yet to win a CL nor world cup.

raumdeuter:

Outstanding world cup final and CL final performance by age 26 which VVD does not have because he was an average defender battling with Yoshida and co in Southampton

Lana1:
He has already won a UCL as per your requirements.

Show us the outstanding world cup final

raumdeuter:


Outstanding world cup final and CL final performance by age 26 which VVD does not have because he was an average defender battling with Yoshida and co in Southampton

Kimbeast:

It's a shame what Milan has turned to in recent years.

It all starts and Ends with Berlu. Hate is such a strong word for the Figurehead in charge of our most succesful period ever however, I dislike Him for not having the guts to sell up much earlier. Any true Milan Fan will tell you that by the late noughties, Silvio had lost all interest in Milan due to various off the field problems. But alas my man decided to hold on for almost a decade. Unforgiveable in my books.

afrodoc2:

LTV 8 with Nwana Iwajoku and later Ayo Agbesanwa had a Saturday sports program. That’s were I watched the 1988 FA Cup between Liverpool and Fashanu’s Wimbledon on delayed transmission.

NTA 5 had Sports spectacular by Chuka Momoh where you might watch a Euro 84 or Euro 88 game on replay, or a grand slam tennis match (Chuka being a tennis guy), or a boxing bout between Hearns, Hagler Leonards etc.

Then there .

Oya Ibime come and confess how old were you in 1984?

raumdeuter:


Show us the outstanding world cup final

I have already shown you his UCL winners medal and UEFA's Best player.

raumdeuter:


Messi is a CL winner and world cup finalist. Van Dijk is 27 yet to win a CL nor world cup.

Lana1:
I have already shown you his UCL winners medal and UEFA's Best player.

Show us the world cup the biggest trophy in football like Boateng has shown us his

raumdeuter:
Outstanding world cup final and CL final performance by age 26 which VVD does not have because he was an average defender battling with Yoshida and co in Southampton

afrodoc2:


Yup but the main reason Laudrup left to join Real was the fact that Cruyff repeatedly chose Koeman, Stoitchkov, and Romario as his foreign 3.

Laudrup switched to Real and won the league the very next sea7son with them

Which player would you have left out had you been in Cruyff's shoes?

chic2pimp:


It all starts and Ends with Berlu. Hate is such a strong word for the Figurehead in charge of our most succesful period ever however, I dislike Him for not having the guts to sell up much earlier. Any true Milan Fan will tell you that by the late noughties, Silvio had lost all interest in Milan due to various off the field problems. But alas my man decided to hold on for almost a decade. Unforgiveable in my books.

Berlusconi always believed he's some of football genius when in reality he had the football brain of a 15 year old playing football manager. AC Milan could have easily been the biggest club in the world right now if they capitalized on their huge global popularity and success.

They were even more popular than Manchester United in the mid-2000's...

They never worked on their brand like other clubs did, because they never needed to thanks to Berlusconi's money. Hence why as soon as Berlusconi stopped spending, they declined massively.

raumdeuter:


In 1 match everything can go wrong. And we can have freak results, that result does not mean Milan was 4-0 better than Barcelona. Play the match the following day with the same players the result will definitely be closer.

That Milan was not 4-0 better than Barcelona. It was a freak result Like Everton once beat City 4-0, MK dons beat United 4-0, Alcorcon beat Madrid 4-0

Decades from now people will write about how Liverpool featuring Origi and Shaqiri in attack smashed a Barcelona with Messi, Suarez and Coutinho and some will argue that an attack of Shaq Origi was better than Suarez Messi

you are the first person that I know that will say such thing whenever it suits your narrative

nihilistjnr:
https://mobile.twitter.com/photosofootball/status/1167136270117683202?s=08

In their mind, i'm sure they were like "kuku kill us"

raumdeuter:


Show us the world cup the biggest trophy in football like Boateng has shown us his

No world cup for the next few years. So for now, his UCL medal, UEFA player of the year award, and this big fat L will suffice.

raumdeuter:


Messi is a CL winner and world cup finalist. Van Dijk is 27 yet to win a CL nor world cup.

raumdeuter:


Read this

https://twitter.com/genakhena/status/1054375870981390337?lang=en

Oh so that's he met Kenny Ogungbe.

I used to listen to Larry every morning on Raypower on the way to school those days.

I think his program was sponsored by Nestle sha.

Those days I dey follow CAF champions League because of the man - the way he used to say Zamaalek! of Egypt

Nice link there bro.

By the way, you don collect your L?

airmark:





Massive L o all those haters. This could have been a Chelsea defender, but those mumus at the helms of affairs preferred Rudiger.

Middle finger to the monikers below too.

Raumdeuter, a40, lordfalcao.

Ode. You're celebrating polling booth award. Van Dijk deserved this award as much as Modric deserved it last year.

You're a troglodyte if you think Van Dijk would have achieved any recognition with David Lulz at CB and Kepa Aribisala in goal.

Kimbeast:

I think A.c Milan once won the league scoring just 36goals lol.
It's truly Amazing how Milan once had a team with 5 all-time greats — Van Basten, Gullit (a bit of a stretch as his competitors in the all-time pool are literally the greatest, but he was such a unique player), Rijkaard, Baresi and Maldini.

Rank Rijkaard,Makelele and Vieira. I know my boy is top5 in his position of all time.

Leyqute:



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_3VB1bLjgU

Capello went into that game prepared to play pens at worst. Operation clean sheet no matter what. I dont think Barca had a shot on target. Milan were very hard to break down and they scored almost all of their goals via counters.

For those people who don't understand why de lima and others suffered niggling injuries then, have a look at the tackles on display here.

The tackles at 5:23, 6:40 and 8:33 in today's game na direct red card. In this game, na yellow. And you can see the ref at 7:26 telling the tackled player to stand up and "be a man". Barca committed more than 25 fouls, they got just 4 yellow cards. Tell m,e how all of them won't be sent off for the same tackles in 2019?

I did not see any straight red tackle there.
we see all these kind of tackles now, only that they are no longer much because teams no longer have many bakayokos and there are more pep guardiolas