My all time favourite would be Marco Van Basten.Can anyone name
another player who scored three consecutive hat tricks in top level
competitive matches?The likes of Henry and Owen still have a long
way to go before they can go into the Football World's Strikers'
Hall of Fame.
Anyway,I also like "hard" and physical players such as Edgar
Davids,Roy Keane,Patrick Viera and Christian Vieri.Another type of
player I like is the "defensive playmaker"(as opposed to the
"offensive playmaker" read Zinedine Zidane,Pavel Nedved etc etc).In
this category would be Gaikza Mendieta,Xavi,Josep
Guardiola,Fernando Redondo,Edgar Davids,Demetrio Albertini and
recently Becks.Their position is defensive midfield but they
possess great playmaking skills on top of their defensive
qualities.
It's a shame that Mendieta,who I think is the most complete player
in the football fraternity,is rotting away in a third rate team
somewhere...Only 3 years ago,he had the world at his
feet...
