Is the current Spain team the best international team of the last 20 years?

Spain World Cup 2010 winning team

Probably if you go by cups won but I bet the Brazil World Cup winning team of 2002 would give them quite a game.

Brazil World Cup winning team 2002

Just a little reminder how good Rivaldo was - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3bHpUMdXlo

Update: Seeing as Spain just won the Euros that seems to answer that then! What do you think?

Update 2: Thanks for all your commments and reminding me about the World Cup '98 and Euro 2000 winners, France. It's a hard one to call. Here's the Euro 2000 winning team:

France Euro 2000 winning team

Greatest African Players of the Last 20 years

6. Roger Milla
5. Michael Essien
4. Abedi Pele
3. Didier Drogba 
2. Samuel Eto
1. George Weah

Not sure about Essien at number 5. I went for influence over skill from the likes of Jay-Jay Okacha and Kanu. Eygptians probably wouldn't agree with leaving out Hossam Hassan who scored 69 goals in 169 appearances for the Pharaohs making them such as sucess at the African Cup of Nations but that's just my list.

Special mention for being a Liverpool legend goes to Zimbabwe's Bruce Grobbelaar.

Update: Good call Laughlin, Roger Milla sneaks in at number 6 now. He deserves it just for his dance moves - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwM4z8xD_cU

Premierships Best Penality Takers


8. David Unsworth (nearly always smashed it into the top corner)
7. Julian Dicks (not that many scored but when he did they were belters)
6. Christiano Ronaldo
5. Steven Gerrard
4. Alan Shearer
3. Eric Cantona
2. Frank Lampard
1. Matthew LeTissier (Missing only one from 49)

Premierships Most Technically Gifted



Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/football_focus/6968715.stm(in no particular order)
Berkamp
Zola
Henry
Gazza
Le Tissier
Cantona
DiCanio

Who did I leave out?

Top 6 Teams of the 90s

6 Man Utd ‘98/99
5 Real Madrid ‘99/00
4 Barcelona ‘93/94
3 Ajax ‘95/96
2 Juventus ‘96/97
1 AC Milan ‘92/93

AC Milan won the European Cup in 93/94 season but I've gone for the '92/93 because Milan stretched their unbeaten run to 58 matches over two seasons. Also because Marco Van Basten was playing then, being voted the European player of the year, becoming the third player after Johan Cruyff and Michel Platini to win the award three times.

AC '92/93 Full Squad:

Goalkeepers

Francesco Antonioli

Carlo Cudicini

Sebastiano Rossi

Defenders

Franco Baresi

Alessandro Costacurta

Filippo Galli

Enzo Gambaro

Paolo Maldini

Stefano Nava

Frank Rijkaard

Mirco Sadotti

Mauro Tassotti

Martino Traversa

Midfielders

Demetrio Albertini
Zvonimir Boban
Fernando De Napoli
Roberto Donadoni
Stefano Eranio
Alberigo Evani
Ruud Gullit
Cristian Pallanch
Dejan Savićević

Forwards

Davide Dionigi
Gianluigi Lentini
Daniele Massaro
Jean-Pierre Papin
Aldo Serena
Marco Simone
Marco Van Basten

Manager

Fabio Capello
Source : http://www.worldfootball.net/teams/ac-milan/1993/2/

Fantastic perm and Ronnies. Macro looking the part in classy crown. 

Is that squad as good as Barcelona's current team?

 

More Terrible Signings Outside the Premiership

10. Dmytro Chygrynskiy - Barcelona €25 million- Played 14 games and was sold back to Shakhtar  Donetsk at a €10m loss.
  9. Alberto Aquilani - Liverpool - €20m approx – Back at Liverpool after a loan spell at Juventus.   Whether he’ll play or not is anyone’s guess.
  8. Alex Hleb – Barcelona - €17 – Loaned out after one season
  7. Elvir Baljic - Real Madrid from Fenerbache - 2009, €26 million - Loaned back to Fenerbache a year later
  6. Adrian Mutu  -  Chelsea - €22.5 million - Failed a drugs test in his second season, and Chelsea sacked him soon afterwards. They were later awarded 17 million in compensation but it’s under appeal so they are yet to receive anything.
 5. Gianluigi Lentini - Milan £13m, a world record in 1992. A serious car crash didn’t help.
 4. Denilson - Real Betis – £21.5, a lot of money in 1998
 3. Kaka – Real Madrid - €65 – Isn’t playing bad but crazy price
 2. Gaizka Mendieta  - Lazio €48 million. Loaned out after one season
 1. Zlatan ibrahimovic – Barcelona - €46 million plus Samuel Eto'o (who is actually better than the lazy lump). Loaned to AC Milan after one season then sold them at a reported €24m.

Worst Premier League Signing

23. Per Krøldrup Udinese > Everton – £5m – 2005
22. Massimo Taibi 4.5
21. Bosko Balaban - Aston Villa - £5.8m
20. Francis Jeffers - Aresnal - £6.8m
19. Khalid Boulahrouz 8.5
18. Kevin Davies - Blackburn - £7.5m - 23 appearances, 1 goal
17. Jean Alain Boumsong £8m
16. El Hadji Diouf - Liverpool - £10m - if only he was as good as football as he was at spitting at people
15. Afonso Alves - Middlesbrough - £12.7m

14. Bebe £7.4m

13. Sergei Rebrov - Tottenham - £11.5 million
12. Albert Luque £9.5
11. Steve Marlet - Fulham £11.1 - so bad Mohammed Al Fayed took Tigana to court accusing him of paying such a high price becuase Tigana took a sneaky cut from it. Was loaned to Marseille after two seasons and then Fulham cancelled his contract and paid him the final year of it to just go away. Reported that the entire deal cost close to £20million in total.
10. Zoran Tosic - Man Utd - £10.5m - 2 Appearances

  9. Thomas Brolin - Leeds - £4.5million - the fact he's also in my list of Biggest Porkers says it all
  8. Adrian Mutu - Chelsea, 2003 - £15.8 million
  7. Jo - Manchester City - £18m

 6. Roque Santa Cruz - Manchester City - of £17.5m
  5. Shaun Wright-Philips - Chelsea – £21m
  4. Juan Sebastián VerónLazio - Man United - £28.1m, 2001, Chelsea – £15m, 2003
  3. Andriy Shevchenko - Chelsea - £30.8 - what happens when owners buy the players
  2. Robinho - Manchester City, £32.5 million
  1. Ali Dia - Great con man, terrible footballer, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyI-OfT7zYM