Having already embraced and benefited from concepts such as nutrition and individual training regimes in Serie A, Bergkamp was in the perfect position to spread that gospel to his Arsenal team-mates. George Weah, Didier Drogba and Samuel Eto’o may make their own cases, but Abedi Pele might just be the greatest African footballer of all time. Everything at one hundred percent. He was a warrior as much as an artist, but able to blend those two opposing ideals. And he was the least popular person on the pitch in the eyes of his own left-back, who was forced to do the defensive duties of two players.That's the sort of leeway a genius deserves, though.Newcastle and Spurs fans may not have any league titles to reminisce on during the wonderful 1990's, but they can sleep soundly at night, safe in the knowledge that they watched football as it should be played, depicted by one of the most gifted players to have ever graced our pitches.Read Max Cooper's full article on David Ginola here. The country’s most prolific penalty scorer, known most famously for missing one. “He creates space where there is none. That might frustrate coaches and team-mates alike, but it fails to erode any of Hagi’s majesty for the rest of us. He was a playmaker and playboy, a chain-smoking genius and a magician with a football. Nor does it make the stunning hat-trick he netted against Arsenal in 1994 any less astounding. READ: Roberto Baggio ruined Edwin van der Sar with the best first touch of all time. In fact, the overwhelming majority are way down at the bottom of the pyramid. Bergkamp was many things to Arsenal, but he should be remembered most as the player who ensured Arsene Wenger’s success. Yet arguably the lasting memory of him is in that effortlessly cool Croatia shirt during their wonderful World Cup in 1998. It is nonsense, of course. Despite playing only 62 league games for Real Madrid, in 2002 Laudrup was voted the 12th best player in the club’s history. By Robbie CopelandSteve McManaman epitomised the way Liverpool wanted to play. Even the likes of Steven Gerrard, John Terry, and Matt Le Tissier spent a year or so elsewhere.When it comes to true one-club men, there are seldom many better than Arsenal's Tony Adams.Adams ended his 19-year career as Arsenal's most successful captain, having won 13 trophies while making 672 appearances. In his autobiography, Baggio describes how he was only ever fully fit for two or three games per season. In addition to information on ex players we have also added statistics which include the top scorers, most appearances and also their final league position for each year that they have featured in the EPL. Few others ever will.Read Jamie Spencer's full article on Andy Cole here.

Having shone in the 1990 World Cup, Gazza joined Lazio in 1992 and never quite settled in Italy, putting on weight and regularly picking up injuries. It is no coincidence that Prosinecki was part of more than one cult team, for he had enough swagger to share around the rest of a squad. “Hagi could have been the best player in the world after Maradona,” Romania coach Mircea Lucescu said before that tournament. He has been the head of the Montenegrin FA for 16 years. Greece in 2004, Leicester in 2016, and plenty of zero-to-hero type tales.Not every footballer begins their career at the top, though. There is a theory called recency bias, which proposes that too much weight is placed on recent events, thus overestimating their importance in the context of history. First winning the African Cup of Nations in 1982, Pele would eventually captain Ghana until his international retirement in 1998. Ahhh, the 1990s - the greatest decade in the history of mankind. Past Players From iconic names like Kenny Dalglish, Ian Rush and Roger Hunt through to local heroes such as Steven Gerrard, Jamie Carragher and John Aldridge, the Anfield turf has been graced by some truly special players.
READ: ‘I won 10-0’: When Michael Laudrup ruled El Clasico for Barca and Real. That's right, the 90s is when football PEAKED because it's when, quite simply, more of the greatest footballers of all time played in the 1990s than in any other single decade. Perhaps in 20 years, we will truly give Zidane due deference. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Your Privacy Controls. Information about your device and internet connection, including your IP address, Browsing and search activity while using Verizon Media websites and apps.

Or maybe it is Laudrup who is most under-appreciated. Yahoo is part of Verizon Media. By Charlie StewartEric Cantona - what a life he's lived, eh?Booting a fan in the face, becoming a rather mediocre actor, posting strange videos on Instagram (don't go looking for them - trust me, you're better off not knowing). By Ross KennerleyIt's impossible not to love Ian Wright. His arrogance often crossed the line, yet he was as gifted with the ball at his feet as any player in his generation, and could gracefully drift past an opposing full-back without even shaking off his hangover.After exploding onto the scene in the early 90s under Souness, he was the Merseyside counterpart to Man Utd's Ryan Giggs.

He is, after all, referred to as 'God' by many on Merseyside.Read Ross Kennerley's full article on Robbie Fowler here. Volatile, outspoken, controversial and supremely talented, it is no wonder that Gheorghe Hagi is nicknamed the ‘Maradona of the Carpathians’. We and our partners will store and/or access information on your device through the use of cookies and similar technologies, to display personalised ads and content, for ad and content measurement, audience insights and product development. He was named African Footballer of the Year in three consecutive years at the start of the 1990s. In that time, only one player – Wayne Rooney – has actually managed to overtake his tally of 187 and go ahead in the standings. And by the time Pallister left Manchester United in 1998, he was actually the most decorated player in the club’s storied history after winning nine major trophies in nine seasons.Sir Alex Ferguson once said of his star man at the back, “He is a defensive Goliath, has electric pace and can pass the ball. Having won three league titles, the European Cup and been named the best young player at the 1990 World Cup at Red Star Belgrade, Prosinecki also finished fourth in World Player of the Year in 1991. With Zvonimir Boban doing a similar job from a wide position, Milan crushed Johan Cruyff’s Barcelona ‘Dream Team’, with Savicevic making it 3-0 shortly after half-time. “If this lad makes it as a professional footballer, I’ll eat my coaching certificate” – the now infamous words of Miroslav Blazevic, Prosinecki’s first coach at Dinamo Zagreb.
By Charlie StewartEveryone loves a good underdog story. We can enjoy watching back the moments of brilliance on film, but not without a nagging sense of collective regret. The line between second striker and playmaker has become increasingly blurred over the last 20-30 years, but I’m still having Bergkamp in my list of playmakers. Read Ross Kennerley's full article on Ian Wright here. And to prove just that, here's some of the very best writers 90min has to offer on the top 20 footballers to play in the Premier League in the 90s. Secondly, his career as a pundit tells you enough about just what type of player he was.Aggressive, combative, tunnel visioned, consistent, and no-nonsense (there's that word again). With Zvonimir Boban and Davor Suker around him, how could you not fall in love? Between 1989 and 1996, Denmark’s greatest ever player was Europe’s finest footballer. Playmakers win hearts. He was one of the most naturally gifted players English football has ever seen, and doesn't need a burgeoning trophy cabinet to prove it.Read Robbie Copeland's full article on Matt Le Tissier here. In that time he would cover his mantelpiece with just about every winner’s medal available to him, along with the occasional personal accolade along the way.Read Ross Jackson's full article on Ryan Giggs here. It is unfair to remember a player only for one great moment after a career of achievement, but to do so for their greatest mistake is infinitely harsher. A fair proportion of Zidane’s success came towards the end of 1990s and beyond, including the World Cup, Euro 2000 and his entire spell in Madrid, yet there is plenty to work with. Gascoigne scored 27 league goals in his first two seasons in Scotland, his ability masking a slide into disrepair and disrepute from which he would never recover. A genius, a maverick, and an entertainer - he's earned his place as 90min's best footballer of the 90s.Read Charlie Stewart's full article on Eric Cantona here. Playmakers? He then joined Real Madrid, where he stayed for three seasons, and Barcelona, where he managed only one. © 2020 Minute Media - All rights reserved. And, in and among all that nonsense, there was a pretty sensational footballer.In his prime, there were few who could match the class of Eric Cantona. You can forgive inconsistency in a player that possessed the most wonderful passing ability and vision. And so you have Rui Costa, never consistent but always capable of the sublime and therefore eminently watchable. Baggio was arguably Italy’s greatest ever player but one whose defining image is associated with failure. John Aldridge. His drive, will to win and limitless expectations of his teammates made him the ultimate professional.

By Robbie CopelandMatt Le Tissier was good at football.He was so good at football he scored more than 200 goals for a Southampton team who constantly battled against relegation.He was so good he was nicknamed 'Le God'.Southampton supporters can be forgiven for dying a little inside every time he tweets, but they will also tell you that his legacy remains untainted. Yet he enjoyed Indian summers both in Glasgow, at Rangers, and in an England shirt during 1996. In 1999 he was awarded the title of Spanish football’s best foreign player of the last 25 years.

Named as Man of the Match in the Champions League final in 1993 having been a losing finalist in 1991, Pele was the playmaker around some wonderful attacking players in those Marseille teams: Rudi Voller, Alen Boksic, Chris Waddle, Jean-Pierre Papin and Eric Cantona. To enable Verizon Media and our partners to process your personal data select 'I agree', or select 'Manage settings' for more information and to manage your choices.

We are hardwired to assume that the stars of the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, those pantheons of the game, are forever destined to stand above anything that follows. By Jamie SpencerIt is easy to get lost in the notion that David Beckham was a celebrity first and a footballer second. Their eventual trophy hauls may fail to suggest it, but the two were equal in both ability and influence throughout English football's transitional decade.Read Robbie Copeland's full article on Steve McManaman here. What more can you ask from a centre-half?”Read Jamie Spencer's full article on Gary Pallister here.

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