Great competition back then

Roberto Baggio, Cristian Vieri, Alessandro Del Piero, Filippo Inzaghi, Gabriel Batistuta, Ronaldo, Denis Bergkamp, Patrik Kluivert, Jurgen Klinsman, Thiery Henry, Zinedine Zidane, Raul....

One of the best world cups ever

why 98?why not 94 or 2002

Sure 1994 was a great tournament but back then i didnt manage to folow all that games, i mostly watched highlights of that tournament. 98 world cup was the first i watched entirely.

2002 is way below 98 in terms of competition and quality.

98 or 02 were easily some of the better world cups in recent years

And please don't start with the 60's and 70's, football back then was dire

70, 82 and 86 are the best world cups ever.

98 and 2002 were good as well IMO.

2010 world cup ftw

2010 is one of the worst

2010 was awesome imo except every single Spain game.Very entertaining.Loved watching Uruguay and Germany

If you watched 98 and 94 you would realise why 2010 was average tournament.

Germany and Uruguay were worth watching in 2010. They carried that tournament entertainment wise. Ghana as well in a "home team" sense.

AttacanteBG wrote:If you watched 98 and 94 you would realise why 2010 was average tournament.

If you watched 82 and 86 you would realise why 98 and especially 94 were average tournaments.

2010 without the annoying as f**k Vuvuzela's was an attrocious tournament with big teams flopping and little teams putting everyone behind the ball.

Add in the Vuvuzela and there were times I considered not watching it.

P.S Let's not get into the old is gold theme and say that the first world cups were the best and it declined from then on in.

2010 was the worst WC I have watched and I have been watching since 1982.

Zealous wrote:

AttacanteBG wrote:If you watched 98 and 94 you would realise why 2010 was average tournament.

If you watched 82 and 86 you would realise why 98 and especially 94 were average tournaments.

I didn't said 98 was the better of them, i think especially 82 with Paolo Rossi's Italy and was a great world cup.

I just said that 98 is the first i watched in full, and i doubt you watched live 82 and 86

2010 was just...

Excluding the boring final 06' wasn't that bad.

02' could have been better. > Brasil won.. but still

98' turned me on.

AttacanteBG wrote:

Zealous wrote:

AttacanteBG wrote:If you watched 98 and 94 you would realise why 2010 was average tournament.

If you watched 82 and 86 you would realise why 98 and especially 94 were average tournaments.

I didn't said 98 was the better of them, i think especially 82 with Paolo Rossi's Italy and was a great world cup.

I just said that 98 is the first i watched in full, and i doubt you watched live 82 and 86

Not live but I watched it in full. My dad had tapes and as a kid I didn't know who won or what the scores where so it as close to the real thing as it could get.

I watched 70 in full much later when I already knew what the scores were but it was still great to watch.

2006 was very exciting. Zidane's last hurrah beating the Brazilians and Italy beating Germany in Germany were the icing on the cake.

Zealous wrote:

AttacanteBG wrote:

Zealous wrote:

AttacanteBG wrote:If you watched 98 and 94 you would realise why 2010 was average tournament.

If you watched 82 and 86 you would realise why 98 and especially 94 were average tournaments.

I didn't said 98 was the better of them, i think especially 82 with Paolo Rossi's Italy and was a great world cup.

I just said that 98 is the first i watched in full, and i doubt you watched live 82 and 86

Not live but I watched it in full. My dad had tapes and as a kid I didn't know who won or what the scores where so it as close to the real thing as it could get.

I watched 70 in full much later when I already knew what the scores were but it was still great to watch.

Those tapes are pricelless.

It always seems that in past times football was better, but go and watch Brasil-Italy 2:3 in 1982...it is really hard to find something like that these days.

Tape wise, Germany-Italy 1970 WC 3-4 semifinal is probably the best game ever World Cup wise. The video is poor but it is the most exciting game in my opinion.

Yeah kudos to my dad. He really scored with those. :dance:

The mentality towards football was different back then, games were much more open then they are now and as a result more fun to watch.

Blame it on lack of real defensive strategies or quality of defenders or whatever. Bottom line is that it was entertaining.

I am not sure about that, i think that in 80's and 90's defenders and defending in generaly have been class above then today.

It is however almost imposible to compare if football was better then or now.

Good teams defend and attack together these days. It's a bit different than before where there were more specialists playing.

Football is at the very least different now. Arguing whether is was better or worse than before is too subjective IMO. It's still fun to watch overall.

Hahaha I was just turning 2 years old when 98' rolled around XD don't have tapes either cause nobody really cared for football in my family yet.

2002 I was 6 and just recently started playing. Heard about it and we watched it a little, but I didn't give an F about pro football yet. Just dominating the weekend games

2006 I had watched a lot of, and was a great tournament, except for the finals. Had to watch Zidane (my hero, despite being a Barca supporter at the time) get a red and see France lose to Italy who I hated at the time. Ragequit and didn't even watch the celebration after the PK's.

Watched almost every single game of 2010, but due to various things, missed maybe 3 or so. Decent tournament IMO. Didn't hate it as much as many other people, perhaps that's cause I didn't mind the vuvuzelas haha.

Yeaahhh. That's my story

I prefer '54, '74 and '90 myself.

Not a big fan of '98