The Most Experienced CL XI Ever!

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Today, Thierry Henry made his 100th appearance in the Champions League, which happily means that 11 players have made that milestone. Even happier for blogging purposes, you can make a team out of them. If you accept that they have to play in a 3-5-2 formation. So what follows is all the players who have [...]

Category: Champions League, Great European Cup Players

Tags: 100, Beckham, Carlos, Champions League, Dream Team, Figo, Giggs, Great European Cup Players, Henry, Kahn, Maldini, Most experience, Neville, Raul, Scholes, Seedorf

Great European Cup Players #2 Poalo Maldini

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Yesterday, news came through that Poalo Maldini has a thigh injury that will keep him out for the rest of the season. Although he has said he’s reconsidering his retirement, if he sticks to his guns, we may, sadly, have seen the last of Maldini playing football. Only fitting then that I should mark the [...]

Category: Great European Cup Players

Tags: AC Milan, Champions League, Great European Cup Players, Great Players, Paolo Maldini

Great European Cup Players #1 Johan Cruyff

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As a series to keep everyone reading between Champions League games, I’ll now and then profile a great player who has played in the Champions League, or its former incarnation as The European Cup. So fittingly, I’m starting with perhaps the greatest of them all. Hendrik Johannes Cruijff (Johan Cruyff to you and me)

“I don’t [...]

Category: Great European Cup Players

Tags: Ajax, Barcelona, Great European Cup Players, Great Players, Holland, Johan Cruyff