Name Your Best Ever World Cup XI and Win an England Press Pass!

We have teamed up with http://england2018bid.com/ to help promote England’s push to stage the World Cup after a near 50 year hiatus whilst simultaneously giving football fans a bit of fun thinking to do.  

OleOle.com has a fantastic World-Cup competition that I simply have to tell you about. We want you to give us your ultimate World – Cup eleven past and present. We want you to tell us about the players who have inspired you and illuminated many a summer with their silky skills, breath-taking defending and all-round greatness. The best entrant will win a press-pass for England’s forthcoming World- Cup qualifier with Croatia. To get you started I have given you mine all-time World Cup eleven, give us your thoughts on it below and remember to enter as quickly as possible as the deadline is Friday when OleOle will select the best eleven and enter it for consideration for the fantastic prize of a pair of tickets to the England v Croatia game in September as well as a coveted Press Pass for the big game. 

Good Luck 

Goalkeeper

 Gianluigi Buffon - the most expensive and the best goalkeeper in the business, the Italians have always had a masterful defence but Buffon when called upon (and he was called upon a lot in 2006) was magnificent. Italy won the World Cup in 2006 not through masterful attacking play but on a solid defence at which, Buffon was at the heart. 

Defence

Bobby Moore – England’s talisman in 1966, made defending look like an art, Moore was the prototype for the modern defender, who was equally adept with the ball at his feet and could comfortably link the defence with the midfield.

Paolo Maldini – quite simply one of the great players of all time his performances for Italy throughout the World Cup campaigns of 94, 98 and 2006 were a joy to behold the absolute epitomy of a footballing legend.

Frank Beckenbauer – another player who made defending into an art-form his performances for Germany in 1974 were breathtaking. He absolutely dominated goals from defence and is probably the greatest German player of all time which, when you consider the competition is no small feat. 

Midfield

Zinedine Zidane – bossed the world cup in 1998 and showed the world exactly what a modern midfielder was all about. Zidane did everything and was pivotal in France’s victory. In 2006 he rolled back the years to almost single-handily lead them to glory again. Only for the red-mist to descend and France to lose in the final…

Gazza – he was immense for England in 1990 as he brought the almost South-American craft of Maradonna to an excellent England side. He would have missed the final had England been able to beat West Germany and that would have been a tragedy of Zidane proportions. England have and probably never will have a player like Gazza and that is a crying shame.

Johan Cruyff – Holland in 74 played total football and Cruyff was their leader and talisman, he only graced one World Cup in his career but his performances for Holland were enough to convince the world he was a player like no-one else.

Hristo Stoichkov – 1994 was his World Cup he led a poor at best Bulgaria to a third-place finish with his goals from the left-hand side of midfield. 

Attack

Ronaldo – not since Pele have Brazil had a striker as prolific as Ronaldo. He dominated France 98 only for mysterious circumstances to cloud his appearance in a final where he looked completely out of sorts. He would return to his best form in 2002 when his goals led Brazil back to World Cup glory.

Pele – Mr World Cup, probably the greatest striker to ever grace a World Cup, his performances in 1970 were exemplary, the world will never see another Pele.

Diego Maradona – while Pele was a great player in a great team, Maradonna was a great player in an average team. He single-handedly led Argentina to World Cup glory in 78 and well “that” goal against England is worth a place in my team alone. 

Now it's your turn to pick your XI, place your selection in the comments box below and OleOle will pick the best choice and enter it into the competition for those fabulous tickets!    

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