ITT:

Tiago not staying in Chelsea was an irrational crime

why teams were so more based than they are rn

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SAF with 8 defenders

How the fuck Holland didn't win a WC with that team

because based jari was finnnish

You still could replace him with a lad called Bergkamp

>this stacked team got eliminated in the first knockout round
Kinda sad

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It's honestly impressive how they didn't win jack shit with such a stacked team
Internal rivalries got the better of them I imagine

half of those players got exposed bad when they signed for Spanish teams

>stacked

overrated cunts

Mbappe and Pogba is more overrated than any of those players ever were

this

also based finidi was nigerian

yet they won :^)

N'pogba and the other n'gubus had little to do with it

Pogba was mediocre at best, Mbappe worse than Pogba
As I said, the English team was stacked, but they didn't win anything because they couldn't play with each other, for one reason or another

It was even more based a few years later

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lmao you are just making up excuses rn,
they didn’t win anything because they were just not good enough :)

yeahh noone had anything to do with it they just dominated the whole tournament because of magic

lol this guy

>they won
based
>le passive aggressive face
cringe

>this team lost to Djimi Traore, Vladimir Smicer and Steven Finnan
fucking mad stuff

Milan's gamechanging sub was Rui Costa and Liverpool's was Didi Hamann

>you know remember when the full backs were just another center half

Never forget

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>beckham captain over Campbell and neville

This one

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Make Liverpool pay reperations

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Oh shit, Mandzukic for Gomez. Didn't even notice that.

Dante sticks out like a sore thumb tho

Well Badstuber would've played had he not torn his ligament, and Dante was surprisingly good that season.

Before No ERA

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Diego Costa hasn't aged a day.

>*VAR magic

ftfy

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the blacks and whites hated each other

>The slayers of Old Trafford

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>Duff
Loved watching that little blonde guy play

Pleb choice

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Scholes, Lampard, and Gerrard all in their primes and then they played them all together at the same time, and if that wasn't bad enough, they played with 2 strikers.

>Mbappe worse than Pogba
What an idiotic thing to say

>Front three of Ronaldo, Romario, Ronaldinho

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They were my team on Fifa 11 xD

Half of them played in the same position

weird to think that some of these players are still active

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Should've sacrificed babby Rooney and played a 4-5-1

----Seaman---

Neville --- Rio --- Terry --- Cole

Beckham --- Scholes --- Lamps --- J. Cole

----------- Gerrard ----------------

------------- Owen --------------

Sub Rooney on for Owen or Gerrard in the 60th minute...but no...the British media wanted them to all play together and to play the boring unimaginative 4-4-2.

none of that madrid squad is active

casillas?

RIP

Should have won something.

Scholes, Gerrard and Lampard problem people kept moaning about, should have had em all rotating in the middle and either play 1 up front or leave Becks/Nev to annoy on the right and whoever needed on the left move over.

A good manager would have at least gotten a WC final appearance out of that group

I take it Gerrard being AMF due to partnership for Owen?

Would you allow all 2 CMF/1 AMF to rotate aswell and go with a 2 move forward one stay back?

It was Sven at the time i think, who was availible back then i cannt remember.

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>PK7 not on his toes
have a (sue) and fuck you

>I take it Gerrard being AMF due to partnership for Owen?
Yes.

Lampard and Joe Cole and Scholes and Beckham chemistry in midfield means they would be no need for them to clash. yet I don't think they ever lined up like this even once, not even as a test run. It was always 4-4-2 with Scholes of all people playing on the left and baby Rooney ineffectively running around like a headless chicken.

*Wins the Chapions League*

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>*build team around Lampard* tactics.
Based

Drogba carried this team hard

No they never did, Scholes always ended up on the left and most likely why he quit playing for England.

Rooney was supposed to be the next English footballing god because he ran about a bit scored some good goals and was built for a 17yr old.

how did this win the ucl?

Arsenal invincibles
Bolton with big sam
Villa with agbonlahor
Inter with Ibra and Adriano

Yes PES 2006 Inter were beast.

TORRES

>No they never did
Which is a huge shame.

Bayern choking genetics and Drogba clutching it up in finals as usual

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felt like 2 hattricks every game in FM

I'd have Lampard be the primary AM and Scholes be box-to-box. Attack would primarily be from the left with Joe and Ashley Cole with Beckham dropping in central to create space for Neville overlapping runs. If Owen would get bullied for his size, then I'd bring on Rooney, or if I was really desperate, bring on Crouch and have Beckham whip crosses to him for fun. But that time is past and gone now. Too bad.

there's no holding midfielder though
every team needs a makelele

>ywn see Roberto Carlos and Cafu together again

I hate Brazil 99% of the time but that team was amazing

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>Romario

This team fucked in the ass Argentina 5-0

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>Lewandowski
>Błaszczykowski
>Piszczek
Based and Polakpilled

k I n o

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We were so young, full of dreams

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RIP Senna

Based

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If you can name more than 5 players on this team then you're officially not a casual

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Who's n°4?

Marchena

>no hargreaves

Media didn't want him to even be in the squad.

back in the day i follwed united so i remember pretty well when ferdinand and later alan smith moved there
kewell and viduka were pretty known too
dacourt i remember him from inter

Rooney was literally on fire at that tournament and there are many (outside of the English media) who say England would have been favourites to win the tournament if he was fit

Also Scholes - Lampard midfield would’ve got overrun all the time

Viduka, Mills?, Martyn, Rio, Harte?
Smith, Bowyer, Dacourt?, Matteo, Batty, Kewell

how did i do?

Viduka
Ferdinand
Smith
Bowyer
Kewell

Oh dacourt
I thought it was dion Dublin lmao

doesn't mean he wasn't your best defensive mid
4-5-1 with beckham, lampard, hargreaves, gerrard, cole and owen

So you'd bench Scholes and play Hargreaves? Bold move. Especially given how much Manure fans at the time loved Scholes.

should have gone christmas tree

Beckham---Hargreaves---Lampard
----------Scholes---Gerrard------------
-----------------Owen---------------------

You need beckham to stay wide tho otherwise there’s no point playing ahead of another more industrious midfielder

Fuck I remember Essien
It was so sad to see him get explodingkneeitis

scholes was too slow for a midfileder with that group of players, not saying he wasn't good, but becks was slow, j cole was a pure winger, gerrard (in this system) was an amc, so it was him or lampard; but lampard was better overall imo

Then you're stuck wasting Lampard on the left

they were so deadly that one of them died after the wc.

So Lampard's on the left but Beckham's too central
ok

If you're going to play Hargreaves then you need to drop Beckham.

I still like my team better: If you need to hold onto a lead you can sub out J. Cole and bring on Hargreaves. Push Gerrard back into midfield then bring on Rooney for Owen.

I feel like between Dante and Boateng, Boateng was the real liability around this time. Though Dante fell of fairly quickly in following seasons.

I didn’t say Lampard was on the left. That was that other cunt

well you'll have knock your heads together and make your fucking minds up won't you then chaps?

JOE COLE ON THE LEFT
BECKHAM ON THE RIGHT
GERRARD BEHIND OWEN

LAMPARD/SCHOLES IN THE MIDDLE OR LAMPARD/HARGREAVES OR LAMPARD/CARRICK

IT REALLY WASNT THAT HARD BUT NO MUH WAYNE AND HIS NUT STOMPING ANTICS COST YOU THE ENTIRE TOURNAMENT

The amount of cocaine in their dressing room must have been unreal.

Go fuck yourself you fucking twat

interesting counterpoint

I remember it like it was last year

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O TWAIN

I remember when Mario Gomez was the best striker in the world around this time and I used to really love watching him play. Dunno why I just did. Also his girlfriend at the time was hot as fuck.

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All of them did something, and Cech went god mode.

It was mostly Drogba

Alex Ferguson was a fucking wizard

>That midfield
Mostly just defenders and he somehow made it work and even won the league

John O'Shea used to be alright in midfield until he got incredibly slow from constant injuries.

fuck off stop ruining this thread

Cant not play 442 though was the english mental state

Quads but need a DMF or at least have scholes and gerrard rotate between them for some defence.

Viduka, Mills, Martyn, Ferdinand, Harte i think, Smith, Bowyer, Batty and Kewell.

Hargreaves played out of his skin against portugal after rooney fucked up.

I think if it is going to be a 5man mid, Hargreaves needs to be in for some defence, Scholes/Lamps and Gerrard are all too attacking unless you want to play a Diamond and drop Beckham and Cole and have no wingers and 2 upfront or just 1 with one on the wing.

before he got injured in the 2010 CL between the first and second legs vs Bayern Munich Rooney was unironically the best player in the world. Never ever recovered after that.

Ideally:

-------------- Hargreaves ------------

Beckham ---- Lampard ------ Joe Cole

----------- Gerrard -------------------

------ Owen ----------

would have been the most sensible choice. Dropping Beckham at the time was unthinkable.

If you want to play with 2 strikers then you have to drop either Lampard or Gerrard, you can't play both. Lampard at Chelsea was used to playing with only Drogba at front cause Chelsea was all about 4-3-3 he never looked comfortable playing a 4-4-2.

gerrard over scholes is just retarded. most overrated player in the history of the game.

It was excruciatingly sad to see him struggling against Berlin farmers in the Bundesliga relegation playoff a few days ago.

to be fair he always looked like he was struggling, there was just a time where he'd struggle to almost a goal a game.

Gerrard behind Owen makes more sense than Scholes.

no Scholes actually played very well in that position for United in the early 2000s
personally I'd rather have Gerrard running end to end, rather than Scholes giving up yellow cards pretending to defend

Dropping anyone was unthinkable at the time in the end.
I think i would have had Scholes in the mid and not Lamps
It has to be Gerrard Owen due to club partnership and playing week in and week out

TOO WH*TE

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>Owen and Scholes up front
>The manlet duo
Nah Scholes was way too old and too slow to be that high up the pitch. Gerrard is way too error prone to be trusted as a DM or box-to-box and he gifted Henry a free chance on goal in 04 and Suarez a free goal in 2014. That's why in my ideal team I would never ever play him in midfield, I'd rather drop him completely from the team or have him as a second striker.

>Dropping Lampard when he was a 20 goals a season midfielder
Realistically if anyone was to be dropped it was Beckham but he was the captain and a national hero and Sven was too much of a coward to stand his ground.

>the most boring CL final in 20 years

>1-11

Based LVG and his Autism

>choked a CL final in their own ground to 6th placed Chelsea

>Park the bus
>Hoof it to Nigbappe
>He outruns everyone and scores

>Makelele
BASED

Embarrassing post

But Lamps was better suited to AMF, Scholes picked up yellows too much and if you want Owen then Gerrard is the pick unless you say Scholes middle and Lamps AMF and Gerrard dropped.

>This team lost to a Chelsea team who had thrown in the towel on their season and were out of European Competition had they lost this.
>At Home

Bayern could have been the first team to win Back to Back Champions Leagues since it was reformed god damn it.

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>wasting Lampard’s goal threat

boomers wet dream

Czech was the true man of the match. Saved Robben’s penalty and saved two in the shootout. Went the right way on all 6 penalties he faced too.

what could have been

God tier tbqh

>Dropping Gerrard
>The guy who had just won the CL with a lackluster Liverpool

I don't want Owen but he was England's best striker at the time. If Mourinho was managing he'd have dropped Beckham and have it been:

Gerrard---- Hargreaves ---- Carrick

----Lampard ----

--- Rooney ---- J.Cole ---

At the very least this team would have made it to a major final winning 1-0 on the way there.

>Olivier dá cu
lmao

>chokers

Anyone have the starting line up when >MOUYES played Eto'o as a defender?

>Romario
You mean Rivaldo?

Not this one, but you look at this team and only Sneijder, Eto'o and Milito are attack minded, everyone else can play as a defender.

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Not sure what you’re getting at but when Inter went a man down vs Barca, Sneijder was the player furthest forward. Not sure if that counts.

>that time Real Madrid fielded a 2-5-3 vs Juventus in the Champions League
Any other examples of managers going for broke and using completely bogus formations?

When Guardiola went to Barca with his Bayern team in 2015, he used outrageous tactics. Can’t remember the formation but the defensive line was so high, basically sat on the half way line, in the Camp Nou of all places. Barca got through on goal with the half practically to themselves a number of times.

I know his Barca side played a 3-3-4 at least one time

He used to push everyone forward and only leave Boateng at the half way line.

>you know remember Patrick Kluivert killing his career by going to Newcastle when he was 28.

van der wiel was too young
heitinga, mathijsen and stekelenburg were all average at best
gio was past his prime

apart from the 5 in the back, this was an amazing team

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I can't name one.

Heitinga was decent, Stekelenburg too, Mathijsen and Van der Wiel were crap.
Gio made the best goal of the tournament
And yeah, midfield and forwards were on point.
Still my most heartbreaking sports moment. Fucking boring as fuck 1-0 every match spain winning, fuck.

He was beyond downhill by the time he reached Newcastle. Nice try though.

He was making bets with the Medellin Cartel and fucking up everyone for his own interest.

>scored double digits in each of the previous 6 years including his last year in which he was injured and Rijkaard was a cunt to him by playing saviola and luis fucking garcia instead

>Gomez

>Mauricio Pochettino wants to break with convention on Saturday night at the Champions League final and insist that the pre-match team photo includes all his substitutes.

>The Tottenham manager hates the fact that the starting XI alone usually appear in the iconic photo, when so often substitutes play the crucial role in games.

>'I say: "F*** off!" What I want is all the players before the start of the game — 22 or 23 — in the picture on the pitch. That is the team that won or lost.

>'I understand that after, the starting XI is going to be there. But I want to tell the club: "Don't use the [photo of the] starting XI, use the whole squad."'
thoughts?

Fenerbahce 2008

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Wow very progressive!

god that was a fucking lazer, amazing hit

literally who cares

>featuring dante from the devil may cry series

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literally one of the best club teams ever assembled (if not the best, OPs XI could edge them out)

What went wrong?

Milito was so underrated

pretty based desu

more based south american XIs in recent memory?

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still can’t believe Bertrand started and won a CL final at winger

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peak dante was a GOD, but I think he was at his best before he went to buyern

heckin decent

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>he doesn't like patrician 0-0

Now that was a team...

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>you now remember Ross Turnbull

fuck off stop ruining france mohammad

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My Great gramps would never shut the fuck up about this team. I remember when he was senile he would unironically think he would be watching the matches and be cheering the names of the azurri.

Rosseta’s power gap was so fucking high at the time hed make Van dijk look like a west brom defender with how good at reading this guy was at that time for football

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>spend shit tons for a player banned for biting and having a legendary choke in liverpool
>banned from transfers
>Behind Real madrid who went on a 20 game unbeaten spree which started after losing 3-1
>lose to a team managed by david moyes
>january transfer window filled with rumors that messi wanted enrique out, or he would go to city/bayern
And yet
>Win the treble
>beat the previous champions of the top 5 leagues in the process
>neymar scores in every QF,SF and final game
>Messi Balon Dor
>ratking dabs on haters with a goal in the final

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>Pancaro, Mihajlovic, Nesta, N*gro, Peruzzi, Veron
>Lopez, Simeone, Stankovic, Nedved, Crespo,
Holy fucking based vintage Nazio

>5-3 classic with Guardiola’s Man city
>comes back to win 3-0 in the next game
>attempts to blow up dortmund’s defense both metaphorically and literally
>Dethrones P$Gs reign and runs the farm
>reaches UCL semi final
Chad team indeed

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>hleb

How the fuck did they not win anythi-
>James
Oh

You now remember that 4 year period where Deportivo won la liga, reached the semis of the UCL and were within a goal of the finals before losing to winners porto, cucked Milan by overtuning a 4-1 lead and winning 4-0, cucking Halal madrid on their 100th birthday by beating them at home in their own stadium to take the copa del rey before becoming randomly lower midtier for the rest of existence

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So full of Dr Fuentes magic potion more like.

> We will never be this good again

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I think there's like 4 Croats in that picture

If you want the feels for reals then remember that you were even better again and won the league not too long before that team.
Also hurry up and get promoted again. We'd all like to see Leeds back in the PL.

Based retard

There's Martinez in there

This is it right here

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American that remembers this? I'm not from Galicia but based. No Valeron in the photo though.

> Ferreira
> left back william gallas
yikes

How come Chelsea could never get a decent right back?

t. never watched a single France game

> ONE (1) player from before the 2000s
ultimate zoomer XI

> Ferdinand
> Alan Smith
> Lee Bowyer
> Mark Viduka
Fuck that's only four. NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

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>Villa
the GOAT desu

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Numan was my alterego surname when I was an autistic kid.

*scores 5 goals a game*
*concedes 4 goals a game*

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>Turkish humor

>turkish comebacks

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Based and pespilled

>Marchegiani
That's a name I haven't heard in a decade at least, Italy had so many based keepers

ynr based valderrama

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i''ll be forever mad about this
>at home
>choke away chance after chance
>miss the pen in extra time
>concede a goal from a refball corner
>lose it in pen shootout

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>6 Germans, 3 Poles, 1 Serb, 1 Turk
>not a single Ngubu
Those were the days.

>Guillermo "el Guille" Franco, mexican legend

For me, it's Ivarov

Dodo was a fucking beast

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>The Sun
Based and ABLiverpoopilled

And Fabregas.

>Not posting CL 2004 runner-up team

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Napoli, Benfica, Barcelona, Gayern all choking like madmen

Viduka, Martyn, Kewell, Ferdinand, Harte, Bowyer.

Based 2001 Leeds run at champions league was kino

Veron was a beast on Lazio same with Salas shame about his injury at juve

at that time teams had to use the 1-11 numbers for the starting eleven it didnt matter if you used different players in different games

Its Favalli at the start and it isnt N*gro its Pancaro

The Thai prostitute connoisseurs choice.

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dont you dare dab on my boi garcia you disgusting spic

I didnt like Koeman tactics but this squad was great, that 2nd leg game against Milan was heart stopping

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Guess who won

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oh that pleases my autism

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Grafite was so fucking based. Destroyed the Bundes

The Bundes 2001-2002 was the most based Bundes season i watched also the cup was great as Leverkusen lost both chances to be champion alongside the champions league

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based af

most of them played in the 90s m8

Based.
I shall add the Red Bugs almost beating Juventus. AAA were as big here as Utrecht is in Holland.
youtube.com/watch?v=6PB5ysJ4bSs

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Marchigiani and Peruzzi... Lazio had some great keepers.

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Italy 2006

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jesus fucking christ

only if they could play 4-3-3

Absolutely FIFA based

>sweaty wing play
>Robbery
>Gomez header

5000/1 based

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And they still lost

Was shaking my head at all the plebs who kept complaining about France's "African" team last year, must have been in diapers when Euro 2000 and WC '98 was happening

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Someone post that ManU lineup from the UCL where their lineup is absolute aids
Fletcher as CB and Valencia at RB and the like, think Amos might even have been in goal
>they won that game

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seething

my fifa 2012 team, absolute GOAT

raktic looks like ashtar sheran

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>you now remember Kyrgiakos

>The chad sumo stance
God I miss R. Carlos

they had Ivanovic

the only fully Greek team to do well in Europe
picture from the final against Ajax (Wembley Stadium)

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Panathinaikos FC in 1971

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the seen lineup

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offended ngubu detected

>Perrotta won a WC but Maldini didn't

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youtube.com/watch?v=X_qGlg0E8f0

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yeah, fucking plebs right haha

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based asymmetry 2bh