Football in sun and shadow 6

A group of clips of Number 10s. Playmakers. Inside-Forwards. Whatever.


Zico destroys Liverpool, 1981:




Berlusconi's favourite player, the greatest Montenegran player of all time, and one of the best in the world on his day, Dejan Savicevic, Il Genio:



Enzo Francescoli, who will be the subject of a long piece here some day:



Gunter Netzer, the great German playmaker, and Der Bomber. Plus a lovely German song:



Enzo Scifo, little Italian-born Belgian with great feet and a beautiful range of passing:



The greatest hairstyle ever seen on a football pitch, and one of the greatest passers of the ball, too. Watch for a couple of sublime assists from Colombia's 5-0 defeat of Argentina in Buenos Aires in 1993, where "El Pibe" utterly dominated the game:

Football in sun and shadow

Sometimes I just want to put some beautiful clips of football up, without having to write a long post about some Uruguayan or Bulgarian player from the 80s to accompany them. They speak for themselves, anyway, unless I say they don't, in which case I'll add a witless comment.

Anyway, the beautiful game:

Almost the best part of this is that he misses:


He doesn't miss:


Matias Fernandez:


Dejan Savicevic, a little genius:


Hugo Sanchez, making that Ronaldinho effort look easy:


Diego Maradona, playing for Spurs. No, seriously: