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Dream Team |
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07/07/00 (136 review reads) |
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Advantages: Umm....... they'd be funny to watch
Disadvantages: How long have you got?
Nevermind the Dream Team, we all have opinions and they're all variations on a theme, but how about the Euro 2000 nightmare team! Here's my selection:
1. Filip De Wilde, Belgium - Would go in purely for that clanger against Sweden where he stepped on the ball to concede a goal.... but add that neck-high challenge against Turkey (which he'd have got sent off for in the 6 nations, nevermind Euro 2000) and De Wilde is the nightmare goalie.
2. Gary Neville, England - Same as Phil (below) I don't think he was THAT bad, but tended to have 'tunnel-Beckham Vision' he ALWAYS passed to him! I mean I know they're mates but.......
3. Phil Neville, England - I actually don't think he had THAT bad a tournament, but has to be in just for THAT tackle. Poor Pip, single-handedly ending a nations hopes.
4+8. Any of Norway's midfield! - were they even AT the tournament? Sure, with Solskjaer, Flo and Iversen up-front you can understand their haste to get it forward, but really, they could have saved the midfield the cost of the flight and left them at home!
5. Sinisa Mijhailovic, Yugoslavia - (as suggested by The Horse) had a proverbial "nightmare" against lowly Slovenia, conceeding 3 goals, one of which was a direct result of his woeful 'back-pass' and then got himself sent-off! Also conceeded 4 to Spain and SIX to Holland.... oh dear.
6. Frank De Boer, Holland - Yes, controversy again, but really....... the captain missing 2 penalties in the same game! I feel for him, but that nonchalent smile to the fans before miss number 2 tipped it for me.
7. That poor Yugoslavian lad - Sorry, his name escapes me, but bounding with youthful exuberance on his debut, leap onto the pitch and got sent off 14 seconds after coming on..... DOH! (Name = Maeteja Kezman, thanks to Travelnotes)
8. See 4 above.
9. Emile Heskey, England - I'm being a hypocrite here as I thi
nk he's still too young to face too much criticism. Didn't drop any real clangers, just dropped himself, on the floor, a LOT!
10. Alessandro Del Piero, Italy - If you watched the final, you'll know why he's in. If not, he had TWO gilt edged chances to put the game beyond France at 1-0 up. What is it with the Azzuri's favourites self-imploding? First the divine pony-tail in the 1994 World Cup Final and now Del Piero. Ooopppsss!
11. England's left winger - oh..... there wasn't one.
And the coach? Take your pick, Keegan? Or Zoff?
There you go. My Nightmare XI!
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- 07/07/00 Coach -- Dino Zoff. Half a minute away from getting his hands on the trophy as player and then coach. Didn't take care of the hole behind Cannavaro once he was on a yellow card. France had been getting to the same position all game. Evetually both goals came from similar moves down the left and behind a cautious Cannavaro.
The super sub who was sent back off in less tan a minute was Mateja Kezman; boy did he look sick. |
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- 07/07/00 Good point, well made...... please find Sinisa duly inserted in the team, in place of the long-suffering Danish defence. |
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- 07/07/00 Andy, you have blatantly left Sinisa Mihailovic of Yugoslavia out of your nightmare team. The man who was at the heart of the defence when Slovenia scored 3 (claiming an assist with the third to Zahovic) then conspired to get himself sent off. Subsequently, the Yugoslavs completed the most famous comeback since, well, Spain did the same to them!?! And when he was on the pitch, Yugoslavia conceded 4 against Spain and 6 against the Dutch! He must be a contender for 'Mad' Frankie de Boer's place in the starting line-up! Surely! |
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