Lewandowski... Poland used to be Eastern bloc... One of the best strikers in the world for the last while

Savicevic and Boban were both top players in their time at Milan too

Loved watching those two at World Cup 94. With no England, I sort of latched onto Romania and Bulgaria during the group stages as sort of "second teams".

Before my time, but Lev Yashin is often talked about as one of the great keepers. Shevchenko was a major star. Then there are those from the former Yugoslavia - Savicevic, Prosinecki, Suker, Modric etc.

United greats from Eastern Europe would include Kanchelskis and Vidic.

Yugoslavia had some great players, and you cannot rule Modric out of the discussion.

comment by Shugs (U14253)
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Lewandowski... Poland used to be Eastern bloc... One of the best strikers in the world for the last while
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Forgot about Poland. Didn't they have a really good World Cup in 82, with Zbigniew Boniek starring?

Loved watching those two at World Cup 94
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Probably my favourite World Cup. Shame it ended with the final it had.

comment by Clockwork Red (U4892)
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comment by Shugs (U14253)
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Lewandowski... Poland used to be Eastern bloc... One of the best strikers in the world for the last while
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Forgot about Poland. Didn't they have a really good World Cup in 82, with Zbigniew Boniek starring?
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Yeah and thats a good shout too... Boniek was superb

comment by D'Jeezus Mackaroni (U1137)
posted 18 seconds ago
Loved watching those two at World Cup 94
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Probably my favourite World Cup. Shame it ended with the final it had.
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Agree on both counts.

Davor Suker had a period of 3-4 years when he was world class. The Euro 96 game against Denmark standing out.

Hagi

The Red Star team of 1991 had some great players. Darko Pancev I remember being an excellent striker.

The Czechs have had some great players down the years too such as Nedved and they also gave us the Panenka!

Puskas?

Bit before my time!

comment by Barefoot (U19770)
posted 1 minute ago
Puskas?

Bit before my time!
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Would probably get the football historians vote, but I think we are all in the same boat of not being alove when he was playing.

Pavel Nedved wasn't a bad player also

If Yugoslavia had remained as one country they’d have had some very strong squads to pick from

Arguably underachieved as a united nation in the 70s and 80s.

Yugoslavia in the 80's from memory had lots of very good, technical players but no great one who stood out. Lacked a goalscorer as well, again from memory.

Nedved for me.

Those two were before my time. Modric is the best I've seen.

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Zlatan would have challenged Stoickov but chose Sweden

Andrei Kanchelskis?

We know who Harry Redknapp thinks it is.

it's obviously puskas.

after that stoichkov.