And ins 24 years you'll write something like this:
Yep, very possible if some of these guys develop. Still think that period was an incredible time in football for depth of talent, the best I have seen, but perfectly fine to disagree.
20+ of those guys are probably 100m+ players today
The reality is that they care about the result and eventually having a chance to go through, not about the neutrals. Any smaller team knows that if you try to play toe to toe with the likes of Brazil you will get crushed. Also, Swiss players do not have the energy levels of S Korea or Japan ones to run nonstop.
This whole thread is something you see every 2-4 years. Like they forgot their exact same feelings four years prior.
Almost all of the players mentioned on Bobski's list scored at least 1 or more goals at WC 98
Truly the Golden age of strikers, we sure have some catching up to do, hopefully we'll see a revitalization of the position.
That's uncalled for i do like the quality of the ongoing tournament but to claim the striker list is anything comparable is misleading, half of the players listed are geriatric anyway and not all world cups are equal.
So far only France looks the most impressive. Spain and Brazil get the job done. Joga Bonito has been dead for so long.
I still find the current competition format and number of teams competing to be the best compromise between an exclusive and an expanded World Cup but a less Uefa-centric tournament could well be the way forward. The likes of Poland and Switzerland and Wales, with all due respect second-rate European teams, bring precious little excitement to the tournament.
For real. The first world cup I remember is 94 and for me every one of them have been enjoyable for their own reasons and games. This list of past strikers, all of them weren't great nor consistent. Nostalgia really plays a lot in how things are perceived
Strikers have been in smaller demand in recent years, of course there’s a dearth of talent there.UEFA is the best confederation in terms of achievements, they deserve to have more spots than the rest, and in terms of % they do get even less than Conmebol.
How many on each list are actually strikers and how many are 'forwards'?
That list is mostly past it former stars, average at best strikers or attacking midfielders - doesn't compare to the striker list for '98, not even close
I worry about anyone that thinks the above list of forwards (not strikers) is remotely comparable to those at the 1998 World Cup.Its a nice list but well over half of those players didn't scratch 20 goals in their domestic league in the season leading up to France 98. Some players were well past their peak and others were very young and not established at the time.
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UEFA also had more participants than the rest since always (bar the first tournament that they actively boycotted), particularly 3 and sometimes 4 times more participants than Conmebol. Nevertheless, the animators are always the same 5-6 teams that represent around 10% of UEFA's federations (to Conmebol's 30%) and about 50% of its population (about the same as Brazil alone in Conmebol).
This is spot on. I was talking with a friend about his, where this world cup just happens to be in between generations. All the great players you mention are well off their best and the next big group of stars either haven't hit their best yet (like Spain and Brazil's young stars) ). The age group that should be in their prime are either not here at all or injured (Benzema, Salah, Neymar, Mane, Haaland). Neymar never quite achieved the level we originally expected and some of the others like Salah and Haaland don't play for the greatest national teams.
I don't know about that, my national broadcaster is showing Netherlands Qatar and it's been terrible.
Two teams who have nothing to play for, so understandable it's going to be terrible. The Ecuador Senegal game is fantastic, back and forth affair.
Who cares. You just go through the tournament and list every name you remember, who kinda played that role at some point during his career.
Not a good example of a game to use.
Ok but are we only allowed to talk about the good games now?
Err , the game I'm currently watching isn't a good example to use?
