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Originally Posted by AriseForLife
Being considered World Class has NOTHING to do with winning World Cups or performing well in them. If that were the case then the entire English National team would be excluded from ever being considered World Class. Players like Just Fontaine who never won a World Cup but has 30 international goals in 21 games, 13 of which came in 1 single World Cup are World Class because they were top performers.
To me performing in the Champions Leagues holds more bearing than how a players performs in the World Cup. Example, many people would say that David Villa is a World Class performer, but he hasn't achieved anything with the Spanish National team that woudl merit mention. Alfredo di Stefano's legend is based SOLELY on his career with Real Madrid and it is UNDEBATABLE that he is a legent and WORLD CLASS despite never playing in a World Cup final and scoring all his goals in qualifiers.
Anyone that thinks being considered World Class has to do with playing with your National Team is mistaken, but then again I guess I am wrong and players like di Stefano aren't world class after-all.
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great write-up.
@Foreverblue - oh please do shut up, Ronaldo is world class, muther has almost brought Portugal to a point that we're actually great in tournaments. Not only have we finished second in the last Euro, and 4th in the World Cup, but majority of it being upto players like Ronaldo who were key. I'm not saying he was the only influential player, but he was key in both tournaments for us. You're a fool if you think he hasn't done much for Portugal. As for club, well, Ronaldo's been on some good form the past 3 years, this one being the peak of it. If players like Kaka, Drogba, Messi (
) were considered world class last season, than they are all in Ronaldo's shadow this season for what he's accomplished.