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Napoleon55:
Ate u implying or saying that Zidan was once the greatest midfielders of all time but now KDB has dethroned hm?

I want to ask u a simple question, choose
Who is the greatest attacking midfielders of all time from these players below:
Maradona,
Zidan,
Ronaldinho,
Johan Cruyff,
KDB.
Just pick one name and nothing else.

Diego

TheGoodJoe:
At least now you know Zidane was not even the best player of his team. That is the main point.

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Update: Gift Orban And Victor Boniface Battle For Best African Player 🇳🇬💪🏿

Nigerian duo, Victor Boniface and Gift Orban are among the five players nominated for the Ebony Shoe (Best Player of African Origin) in the Belgian Pro League award.

Boniface, 22:
8 goals
7 assists in 33 league appearances for Union Saint Gilloise this season.💪🏿

Orban
11 goals
2 assists in 12 outings for the Buffalos.🥶

The two players will battle the Genk talisman...

Joseph Paintsil, who has
15 goals
11 assists in 32 appearances for KRC Genk this season.🏋️

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typicalgamer:
Typical African man mentality name calling.

It doesn’t matter your opinion and words doesn’t matter

pig

typicalgamer:
You’re a biased clown

what brought about the name calling? You must be a fool

Starboytwo:
Yea zizou is Great, but the way people here belittle Kevin de bryune is crazy. Some almost qualify him
As “above average”


If you are going to call any midfielder this era, Kevin must be number 1. See that cross he made in the first half while unbalanced. Haha. They play.

no one is saying that Kevin is average but in the same class as zizou


Anybody telling you Kevin is not good is a hater

Kevin with a hammer of a shot 🔥

TheGoodJoe:
Three games is not his whole career.

I can bet Emmanuel Petit played better than Zidane in the 98 finals. It was the corner kick headers that skyrocketed his stocks.

petit ko

TheGoodJoe:
Three games is not his whole career.

I can bet Emmanuel Petit played better than Zidane in the 98 finals. It was the corner kick headers that skyrocketed his stocks.

I said 3 I can remember he single handedly won for his nation in big tournaments

chuks404:
what do you even mean by effectiveness? Generally zizzou, modric, iniesta rank higher than kdb. No make me add yaya self.

I will pick yaya any day any time ahead of de bruyne

Toylove:
Bro, it's evident that your opinion is based on biase.
At this rate, foden is better than iniesta

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TheGoodJoe:

It takes a team effort to win a world cup. We are judging individual careers. If you compare Zidane and De Bruyne individually, you will see that de Bruyne is more effective.

I can show you a clip of games zizou single handedly won for France in big tournaments

The three I can remember is beating Brazil both in 98 finals and 2006 quarter finals Abi semi then semi finals of euro 2000 against Portugal

Vini doing the lord’s work 🤣

Odunayaw:
This days is a generation of mechanical players

Someone shone in the midst of brilliant players that till today are synonymous with the tag "the beautiful game"

He's here pulling stats. Zero clutch moments, Zero nostalgic references

Na Chess we de play abi football

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mostob:
When you're watching Zidane, you're watching Benardo Silva, Gundogan and KDB rolled into one.

KDB's popularity has a lot to do with Pep's brilliance than his own personal quality sef.

no player in this era can be compared to zizou

Baba as a midfielder was too complete

The only midfielder that is almost the same with zizou is he’s fellow country man Platini

Zizou was the second coming of Platini

chrisooblog:
Big disgrace all that golden generation and na only third place wey countries like Turkey and Croatia don get for World Cup they fit achieve. I love KDB but I can't ignore how he turned to John Cena in those tournaments.

De bruyne is good but no where the class of zizou

TheGoodJoe:
Simple, he was not the best player for France in the world cup in 98 and he was not even top 3. Zidane was not the best player of the year in1998. He was just gifted it.

I guess it was he’s father that gifted him the accolades he got after the tournament 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

chrisooblog:
Big disgrace all that golden generation and na only third place wey countries like Turkey and Croatia don get for World Cup they fit achieve. I love KDB but I can't ignore how he turned to John Cena in those tournaments.

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chrisooblog:
Are you sure you really followed that tournament?

Zidane was red carded against Saudi Arabia the second game in which he scored. He missed the game against Denmark and Paraguay in the second round. Yes 1998 wasn't his best tournament but he stood up to be counted for his country when they needed him the most. Same for Euro 2000 and the 2006 World Cup. I can say without any fear of contradiction if Zidane was on the pitch for the penalty shootout in the final against Italy they would definitely have won.

I supported Italy in that finals but if zidane finished that game France would hv won no doubt

TheGoodJoe:
1996.

yea u re right against Czech Abi?

caprikon:
European football has evolved to over-emphasize efficiency over flair ...giving us some of the boring functional teams we see today.

Zizou helped France achieve what their star studded counterparts in the 80's couldn't achieve with Platini.

De Bruyne is an exceptional player but comparing him to Zizou is football blasphemy.
This golden generation of Belgian players have largely underachieved.

that Belgian team na disgrace 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

TheGoodJoe:


I wonder how it was a fluke. They had made semi finals in the Euros before that.

which year?

TheGoodJoe:
When you say who is better, to me it is effectiveness. Effectiveness is having the ability to help your team won.

De Bruyne rules in this.

hahahahahahahahahahahaha

TheGoodJoe:

I said one of the favorites. Not the favorite. Read what you quoted.

they were never among the favourites rather emerged as surprise of the tournament with Croatia that finished 3rd

Many tagged the French triumph in that world cup as fluke but only start taking them serious when they won euro 2000

TheGoodJoe:
That Zidane ballon d'or in 98 was the joke of the century.

Ronaldo De Lima was already amazing before the world cup. Was by far better than Zidane. During the world cup, Ronaldo De Lima was brilliant and scored five goals.

Ronaldo De Lima played all games, seven. Zidane missed threw games.

So at what point did Zidane become world best. Zidane was not even better than Del Piero that year. Del Piero just failed to score in the world cup, if not he was the man for Juventus.

It is a mystery how Zidane confused everyone but me.

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How u take know when na ludo you Dey play then?

TheGoodJoe:
Better is reference. What is the yardstick. What makes better?

My talk has hinged on effectiveness and See Bruyne rules.

Give your parameters for better.

in general who is a better player between iniesta and de bruyne

TheGoodJoe:
Please, France were one of the favorites. France had already made the Euros semi final in 1996, two years before that and had a mean squad.

Michel Platini who was local organizing committee chairman already predicted France will win it due to their preparation. It was even televised on one of Nta National shows in preparation.

you lie. The favourite em route to that World Cup was Brazil

France wasn’t even top 5 in ranking of likely winners of that competition

Then Italy,Netherlands,Argentina and Brazil were stacked with world class players

For instance Netherlands had players like cocu,kluivert,davids,de boer brothers,stam,bergkamp, overmas just to mention a few I can remeber

elyte89:
U wan confuse baba head with iniesta

He no sabi who to pick… a product of la masia academy wey don soak up guardiola tactics😂😂😂😂

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The question shock am for throat

Kog45:
Dem don settled that one for sports section and Modric won

the bruyne is nothing but a better version of frank lampard 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

ChrisKels:
Ovie Ejaria has been relegated from the championship with Reading FC

that shekeleke wey I think say go even go far🤣