On Monday night planet football will come to a standstill.
Fans from all corners of the globe will make sure to jilt their loved-ones, put off the Christmas shopping and ignore all work, family and other duties for a couple of hours as Barcelona host Real Madrid in the first El Clasico of the 2010/11 season.
The show-stopping battle between the two great Spanish rivals will be over-hyped for everything that it’s worth. Pep Guardiola versus Jose Mourinho. Lionel Messi versus Cristiano Ronaldo. Madridstas versus Catalans. Tiki Taka versus the Galacticos project. Etc and so on.
Johan Cruyff is very good but doesn't deserve the 1st spot
Its a huge match. I am not that old that I was borned when Cruyff played in Barca. But, I have heard he was amazing!
Capitan, there is only one that deserves numero uno and that is Alfredo Di Stéfano (1953-1964).
Cool thing is that Di Stéfano's move to Spain was controversia because Barcelona originally signed the player from River Plate but the then Spanish government of Francisco Franco did not like the Catalan nationalism associated with the club, and decided to block the move. Barcelona bought out Di Stéfano's contract from River Plate, who he was actually contracted to, while Real Madrid, helped by the government, negotiated with the Millonarios that he was playing for, the then president of Barcelona, was also reputedly threatened by the government, leading to Di Stéfano's "release".
Now he is a legend of Real. Considered the best ever!
LOL. You didnt play jokes with General Franco!
well under his regime Barca was not very successful politics should not be involved with sccer