Battle of the World Cup stars

[Jarquis]

That a nom then?

Yeah, will second Uppercut's buck-toothed warrior as well.

 

[BoyBrumby]

Yeah, will second Uppercut's buck-toothed warrior as well.

Duffer's beaten you to it.

I'll second Archie Gemmill, Paolo Rossi & Nobby Stiles

& nominate David Platt, for that goal in 1990 & Gerry Armstrong, whose goals took wee Norn Iron to the 2nd round in 1982, noteably his winner versus the Spanish hosts.

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58 now confirmed:

Romania: Georgi Hagi

Italy: Roberto Baggio, Salvatore Schillaci, Fabio Grosso, Paolo Rossi, Marco Tardelli, Paolo Maldini

(West) Germany: Franz Beckenbaur, Oliver Kahn, Gerd Muller, Jurgen Klinsmann, Lothar Matthaus

Australia: Lucas Neill, Tim Cahill, Mark Schwarzer

The Netherlands: Dennis Bergkamp, Phillip Cocu, Johan Cryuff, Mark van Bommel, Johan Neeskens

Cameroon: Roger Milla

France: Zinedine Zidane, Just Fontaine, Michel Platini, Lillian Thuram

Portugal: Eusebio

Argentina: Diego Maradona, Gabriel Batistuta

England: Gary Lineker, Bobby Moore, Geoff Hurst, Jack Charlton, Bobby Charlton, John Barnes, Gordon Banks, Nobby Stiles, Paul Gascoigne, David Platt, Alf Ramsey

Brazil: Cafu, Pele, Ronaldo, Romario, Roberto Carlos, Zico, Garrincha, Jairzinho, Carlos Alberto, Rivelino, Ronaldinho

Paraguay: Jose Luis Chilavert

Columbia: Andres Escobar

Hungary: Ferenc Puskas*

Republic of Ireland: John Aldridge

Bulgaria: Hritso Stoichkov

Croatia: Davor Suker

Scotland: Archie Gemmill

Poland: Zbigniew Boniek

*Also played for Spain in 1962

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Nominated & needing a second:

Al-Owairan
Armstrong
Ardiles
Ball
Baptista
Boniek
Cohen
Cubillas
Didi
Elkjaer
Goycochea
Hunt
Kempes
Kezman
Klose
Kluivert
Kocsis
Kopa
Krol
Lato
Leonardo
Leonidas
Messi
Nasazzi
Peters
Petit
Rijkaard
Robben
Sanon
Schmeichel
Scifo
Seaman
Valderrama
Voller

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Proposals left:

marc - 4
Simon - 2
grecian - 6
Pothas - 4
cpr - 8
fred - 0
HDS - 1
Burgey - 6
NUFAN - 0
ripper - 6
vic - 11
Steulen - 4
Vimes - 2
GIMH - 0
Sean - 6
Marcuss - 2
Brumby - 1
TBY - 7
Uppercut - 10
duffer - 10
12 bar

 

[marc71178]

Second Gascoigne, Platt.

Nominate Graham Poll

 

[grecian]

second tardelli

nom, mario kempes, boniek, can't be arsed with his first name or capitals, worse day ever

 

[Pothas]

Distinct lack of this great man, nomiate Valderrama

 

[Jarquis]

Nominate : Lilian Thuram, Paolo Maldini,

 

[Pothas]

Nominate : Lilian Thuram, Paolo Maldini,

Second both of these.

 

[The Sean]

Nominate Sandor Kocsis and Leonidas.

 

[fredfertang]

For my final contribution nominate Sir Alf Ramsey

 

[GIMH]

I was sure you said I had no contributions left Brumby

Nominate:

Emmanuel Petit, Rudi Voller, Frank Rijkaard, Leonardo

 

[BoyBrumby]

I was sure you said I had no contributions left Brumby

Nominate:

Emmanuel Petit, Rudi Voller, Frank Rijkaard, Leonardo

I moved the goalposts, tbf:

Right, want to get this going soon-ish, so will second Just Fontaine & Garrincha and raise the proposal limit to 12.

 

[PhoenixFire]

Surprised you allowed Maradona in this Brumbers.

 

[Magrat Garlick]

Second Zbigniew Boniek, SAO

nominate Teofilo Cubillas

 

[marc71178]

Second Sir Alf

 

[BoyBrumby]

Gah, we're so close. Only six more needed for a quorum; fingers out, chaps.

 

[fatt]

Canavaro
Henry
Owen

 

[grecian]

Second Henry, just to annoy Scaly and the Irish. Oh and second Ball, because he's the only one I've been next to at a urinal.

Nom Karl-Heinz Rumenigge

 

[BoyBrumby]

Thanks chaps, spirit of the blitz and all that.

We now have our runners, 68 in total; meaning 4 first round battles will have 3 contenders.

Final list:

Romania: Georgi Hagi

Italy: Roberto Baggio, Salvatore Schillaci, Fabio Grosso, Paolo Rossi, Marco Tardelli, Paolo Maldini, Fabio Cannavaro

(West) Germany: Franz Beckenbaur, Oliver Kahn, Gerd Muller, Jurgen Klinsmann, Lothar Matthaus, Miroslav Klose, Rudi Voller

Australia: Lucas Neill, Tim Cahill, Mark Schwarzer

The Netherlands: Dennis Bergkamp, Phillip Cocu, Johan Cryuff, Mark van Bommel, Johan Neeskens, Frank Rijkaard

Cameroon: Roger Milla

France: Zinedine Zidane, Just Fontaine, Michel Platini, Lilian Thuram, Thierry Henry

Portugal: Eusebio

Argentina: Diego Maradona, Gabriel Batistuta

England: Gary Lineker, Bobby Moore, Geoff Hurst, Jack Charlton, Bobby Charlton, John Barnes, Gordon Banks, Nobby Stiles, Paul Gascoigne, David Platt, Alf Ramsey, Alan Ball, Michael Owen

Brazil: Cafu, Pele, Ronaldo, Romario, Roberto Carlos, Zico, Garrincha, Jairzinho, Carlos Alberto, Rivelino, Ronaldinho, Leonardo

Paraguay: Jose Luis Chilavert

Columbia: Andres Escobar, Carlos Valderrama

Hungary: Ferenc Puskas*

Republic of Ireland: John Aldridge

Bulgaria: Hritso Stoichkov

Croatia: Davor Suker

Scotland: Archie Gemmill

Poland: Zbigniew Boniek

Peru: Teofilo Cubillas

*Also played for Spain in 1962

 

[Magrat Garlick]

Cannavaro & Rijkaard then

 

[marc71178]

Second Valderrama for the hair, Leonardo for the elbow, Owen for the goal and Cubillas for some diversity