They were much more technical. Players today are much bigger stronger and faster but cant hit the ball as hard as these guys because of technique

And also now tactics are very different

They used a lot more outside the foot shots!!! Way more power! Very difficult to do but done correctly well you can see!!

Now they don't even mark you lol. That's why you see Mbappe and Håland scoring like nothing.

@@PetarMilanZijic year's ago, I played in a game and the opposition had a couple of rowers, they couldn't play football, no skills but they were fit and strong, those diicks ruined the game

even post injury he was better than anyone today.

@@anab0liche would be best striker in the world today

stop clowning

@Goat Goat No one can beat Ronaldo Phenomenon dribbling at high speed using signature skills...Show me one player doing a double elasticso and nutmeg at high speed and I will retract my statement.

@@liongordel9088 prime Ronaldinho was even faster with ball. He was lazy, but in his early years (PSG) he was fast. I hope some new players will come to play the game the right way...

Literally every sport. Music too.

i think there is just too many distractions for the modern player... wasn't like that back in the day... more focus on perfecting your craft.

Entertainment value I agree, but I don't think they're worse today in skills and ability, it's just a different game. Back then there's more space and freedom, the players are less physical overall. Today you have to follow tactics more strictly, both in attack and defence, there're different expectations so overall improvements in tactics and sports science means there's less chance that you can just abuse the opposition defence.

@@lzl4226 Yup, it is also because of that we don't see much players like them anymore😔

nonsense since today is overall way more skillful your stars of yesterday have the skillset of the average low star today get real dude

Can’t agree. The 70’s in my opinion was. I wasn’t alive for it either, it’s retrospectively watching those games from those times. I do think the 90s was the second best era though.

@@johnthompson457 The difference between the 70s and the 90s is that the game was a lot slower back then. In the nineties the game was about as fast as it was now. There were just more quality teams at the time because the star players were more spread out among them. I can't name 5 strikers of today's game that were as strong, deadly and technical as they were back then. I mean look at all these wonder goals...

Early 80s up to early 00s imo. The best defenders and the best attackers the game had to offer.

@@darksiders2002how dare you!!! They get paid a lot more money now so surely they are better today 😂

@@Johnnythefirst absolutely, I've been saying this many times.

Marco Van Basten wasn't bad either 😉

Eusebio

Messi is the best finisher

If we talk just about the best finishing striker we need mention Inzaghi and Alan shearer and Fenomeno those players was specialists finishing.

Also have to appreciate cristiano who turned from Right Midfielder into a deadly Finisher

Romario is known all over the world.......

He really was one of the best finishers And one of my favorites 🤪

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@mab m I’d say he’s still underrated. Romario is in the conversation of top 20 players of all time. And people nowadays who didn’t watch him think Lewandowski or Suarez are better than him

Romario asked Cryuff if he could miss two days of training to return to Brazil for the carnival in Rio de Janeiro. Cryuff said If you score two goals tomorrow, I’ll give you two extra days rest compared to the other players.’ Romario scores 2 in 20 mins and he is off to the party !!! what a fucking legend !! 😄😄

This is only in England, but in Germany there is Lewandowski

@@Giuseppesaeed90 stfu Braithwaite and lingard are clear

And umtiti

Braithwaite is good, he's not the lingardinho

You made my day bro 😅😅😅🙏

Wow why tho? Is it kicking the ball too powerful?

@@ironvalorantplayer6492 more like running sooooo much

So agreed 👍🏽

Dennis the menace. Mr I don't fly. One of my favorite players of all time.

Absolute genius.

Yes he was incredible, but he was a forward, not a striker

@@michaeltrumph121 he was a striker for a while when he played at ajax, and temporarily in arsenal, brush up on ur facts. A forward in the old sense could play in every of these five roles comfortably, that is lw rw ss tm(target man) and st, Bergkamp could only play in two of those comfortably, so he definitely wasn't a forward, he was a striker for a while and an ss for the remainder of his career. Come to think of it there aren't too many forwards currently in modern football, am going old school here of course. The last player in recent memory who could play in all those roles comfortably was cristiano.

@@bob_eeee Most of his career (his peak years) he played as the man behind the striker, he wasn't the most advanced man in the team.

It's absolutely not true... Players nowadays are actually faster fitter and stronger are faster technically.. What you seen in the 90s were talented individuals against mostly tripe players... But yes individualism is being replaced by team dynamics, and its becoming boring because of it... But players overall are definitely technically better than they were in the 90s

@@abcdefg3214 'mostly tripe players'..what a complete and utter crock of sh*t that statement is. The early 90s English Prem was a bit crap technically and tactically but after summer 95 and the arrival of the likes of Bergkamp, Gullit, Zola, Ginola, Juninho and Ravanelli, English football went from strength to strength. Whereas Serie A was packed with a litany of stars throughout the 90s and there were great players throughout the football world during the 90s. Even the likes of Southampton and Forest had Le Tissier and Van Hooijdonk in their team.

@@abcdefg3214 wrong, football rules got changed in favor of attacker since end of 90s. In order to see more goals and attract more Fans which bring more money in the System. Today u see way more cards and interuptions than u saw in the 80s or 90s. Defender nowadays r helpless against attacker thats why they try to compensate this handicap by Athletics. Attacker always had been fit and fast as today. Even bican had a pace as fast as mbappe today in the 30s on much worse pitches. Today it only seem faster because defender cant defend anymore and got to let the attacker run past them otherwise its a card. Results as the 8:2 bayern-barca were unthinkable among top teams in a ucl semi final. Today its way more easier to score goals than its been in the 80s or 90s

@@Dacio1202 lol u are so dumb Man city today would dominate man utd under sir alex best team 5-0 or more easy And possession would be 80-20% Football are shit back then even Francis Jeffers can become a prime striker No tactic no speed no talent Even Paul Gascoigne admitted that he drink before match and still can perform because football back then are shit

@@abcdefg3214 Can you actually prove anything you're saying? From what I see, the standard of football has dropped massively and the defending statistically is much worse overall. As for players being faster, fitter and stronger, I'd like you to prove that one as well. Who is faster with the ball today at full speed with total control than prime R9 Ronaldo? Who's fitter than prime Edgar Davids or Cafu? Or are you just pulling shit out of your arse?

but the defensive setup was tactically poor , I would prefer average defenders in well organized system than good defenders in system were top players get this much space like you see in the video.

@@vik24oct1991 I presume you never watched Italian or German football in the 90's 😂😂

@@vik24oct1991 Nonsense. Defenders were much better and defences were tighter units. Players had to work so much harder to score back then, hence why there are so many "worldies" is this video. Back fours were allowed to defend and were much tougher - the challenge from behind was allowed up until 2005. Also, far fewer goals were scored during those times. One only has to compare the goal averages between now and then to see this, especially in Serie A and the Bundesliga.

@@dangiambrone7350 " the challenge from behind was allowed up until 2005" What are you talking about?

@@Thehawkdown99 The challenge from behind was outlawed back in 2005, meaning that players, especially defenders could no longer do that which in turn has made things that bit easier for forwards ever since. Actually I was wrong as apparently it came into effect in 1998. Here's a quote from an article on the subject: "Zero tolerance for the tackle from behind Prior to the 1998 World Cup, FIFA made the tackle from behind a red card offence. The wording emphasised that it was a tackle "which endangers the safety of an opponent". Indeed, what the aforementioned Van Basten had to endure during his career is said to have contributed to the introduction of zero tolerance for tackles from behind the player with the ball. The Dutch great's playing career ended prematurely at the age of just 28 in 1993 with the effect of dangerous tackles on him believed to be one of the reasons." link to the article: www.otbsports.com/soccer/three-football-rule-changes-that-ultimately-benefited-the-sport-255353

Tiki taka is just way too effective. Better train passing, way less risky and almost as rewarding.

@@Wellshem but it dosent work that well against high press

@@indronilganguly9715 it still works perfectly, the problem is not so many teams nowadays are capable of playing this type of game. Probably, it's only Manchester City, but even them (with all due respect) have less skillful players than Barça had during Pep's era. If you don't have prime Messi, Xavi, Iniesta, Henry, Eto'o etc. of course you will be way less effective.

One of my favourite so underrated

Alongside him were Alan Shearer and the great Brazilian 🇧🇷 striker that sadly 😔 nobody talks about Mario Jardel❗️ All I can say any ball that was crossed to him or that reached him used to always get in the back of the net❗️

Gabriel Batistuts was a straight up assassin.

kzfaq.info/get/bejne/rZiboc9hmdetd6M.html&ab_channel=FutebolNacional 72 goals de janeiro a dezembro

HE IS BEST SCORER FINISHER IN HISTORY DONT EVER ALLOW ANYONE TO TELL U DIFFERENT. HE PLAY LIKE CPU PROGRAM WHO CANT MISS. SCORE WITH SUCH A RELAX EASY WAY.

He's the best ever no.9

@beta male 2 wc and 2 copa america.suck it

@@johnnysins7361 Two world cups and Three world player of the year awards but yeah no serie a

If only he was injuries free... he came to the 2002 w/c without a playing a single game in a season and won golden Boot with 8 goals. He was a combination of Messi, cr7 and Mbape. Technic/skill, power and frightening speed. Many strikers will see 3-4 defenders and turn back but the phenomenon breezes through them...

@@johnnysins7361 he's also the centre forward in the ballon d'or dream team 👍

That’s what made it easier though, if they were to hit the ball as hard as they did back then it would fly into the top tier

Did they played with heavier balls? Wow I didn't know that.

That's total BS.. size, shape and weight hasn't changed in over 100 years

@@djfunkychicken they played in muddy pitches with leather balls back in the day even the difference between the last decade can be noticeable of ur experienced enough

@@HA-ug4qu Last decade?? All synthetic balls have been used for the past 30+ years! FIFA have strict requirements for ball weight and size. I’ve personally kicked around WC and UEFA official match balls from the past 20 years. Apart from the Jabuani.. there’s very little difference if any from today’s performing match balls. As for playing on muddy pitches.. that was 40 years ago when Maradona was playing. Again FIFA has rules as to pitch conditions and whether or not matches can continue.

But before his injuries Ronaldo was the best. Both in stats and performances that where never seen in will not be seen on such a young age. His level is till this they unmatched, he remains the youngest best talent/player of all time.

@giovanni gio Yes he was absolutely unplayable in his time. Some amazing talent.

@@giovannigio3764 Even after the infamous injury he was still great. I wonder why the universe hated the guy that much, gifting him almost perfect football physique but forgot to tweak the knee. He was born with knee defect that was bound to severely injured from aggresive explosive playing style.

@@iganpparamarta8813 In his era they aloud much more fouls. And since he could not be stopped they made a lot of fouls on him. After his move to Italy he was in the worst place since it had the best/hardest defences. And after his first major injury they did let him start play to soon so he did go out with the same injury. Ronaldo was very strong but nobody can't be saved from to many fouls. But these days there is less aloud so players are more safe.

@IGANP Paramarta correct. I was a striker with a lot of pace that my game was built around. I ended up with 12 knee operations X2 ACL reconstructions on the same knee as on failed, 10 MCL operations. Its not an easy rehabilitation form each.

and also Recobba

Football has been too perfected its no more fun

True So sad😔🙁

Watch more football bruh🤦🏽‍♂️

Exactly! But i believe firstly its the way ball has changed and secondly that stupid guardiolas football reform🤦🏼‍♂️

@@tulitulko3973 imagine calling the best playing style and the most dominant stupid bro go watch smth else frfr

Thanks ☺️👍👍😍

Nice.. from these clips I’d say almost all of them are better than Haaland.

@@patinho5589 Haaland has better numbers than any of them

@@kikoelargento9905 FOR SURE , XCEPT HALLAND PLAY IN SOFT ERA NO DEFENSE NO HARD FOULS AND ONLY MONEY. XCEPT ALAN SHEARER SCORE 40 GOALS IN SOLID NEW CASTLE HALLAND PLATY WITH 15 SUPERSTARS WIDE OPEN NOBODY DOUBLE TEAM HIM. SHEARER IS GOD IN SOLID TEAMS HALLAND DID WHAT IN NORWAY VS SERBIA ?? MISSED WORLD CUP

Y el mejor de todos el jovencito Ronaldo el fenómeno el más grande jugador k han visto mis ojitos bellos color cafe

R9 is honestly like a different species Imagine he never got that injury

And defence was brutal. Not tough, BRUTAL. Best players was on the ground after any ball contact. Kids don't understand that these days...

it was known.. you leave 1 occasion, they scored. Quality was extremely high at those times, both forward and defense. In general the football was more qualitative than now. Now is more spectaucular, though.

@@gixeco Lol that's oxymoronic. How is an objectively inferior product going to be more spectacular? I really want to know because the current generation has been putting me to sleep for more than a decade.

@@JorgeChavez-du5vm lack of defensive or tactical quality aims to far more spaces and occasions to score, hence the spectacularity

@@gixeco Lol dumbing the game down for hypejobs isn't more spectacular unless the intellect of the viewers is dumbed down as well; and fortunately for me I got to watch the legends of the 90s and 2000s and I remember them well.

Bergkamp : the magician Klinsmann : the machine Romario : the most clinical striker ever Baggio : the pure talent Ronaldo : el fenomino..

Batistuta opportunistic? Are you talking about Inzaghi?

Batigoal is not as opportunistic as Inzaghi but ye he is opportunistic..

Batigoal was not opportunistic, go and watch some goals against Barcelona, arsenal or Man U for example. *It's IL fenomeno not El fenomeno. Ronaldo gained his nickname in Italy not in Spain and the article is IL not el

@@mistahabdu2651 Ok 🙂

Im a big fan for Ronaldo 9 Brazil. But someone must remember he has drugs case during his career as a football best striker 🙏 so that's why I prefer Batigol as the comparison in Calcio serie A in that time. Batistuta and Ronaldo 9 are the real monsters in the front of goal keepers. They can kill you in every where and every position 😁

ROBERTO CARLOS HOLD MY BEER

roberto Carlos had rocket in his foot. Much powerfull

​@@trueyarn2381 but he is not a striker....

There were many ball strikers there always has been in every era Liverpool had quite a few Rinse, Gerrad comes to mind, then people like Scholes, Lampard, Hasslebank, Roberto Carlos, Adriano the list goes on

@@proudtobeadisliker9374 then it should be specified it was just said nobody could strike a ball like Shearer but in truth there was many but Shearer was probably the best number 9 in England not the best player to be clear

I totally agree. I miss the football I grew up to

Also, footballers have become robots.

Thank god for Messi who is a joy to watch but after him there's gonna be a big hole in terms of mavericks with real talent. I don't include neymar as he wasn't at the level of a lot of these from the 90s

"the game is so boring now in comparison" How is the game boring now? Absolutely ridiculous

@@Thehawkdown99 I genuinely find football boring at the minute! At the top level anyway, I’ve started following lower level teams, local teams from tier 7/8 of English football and it’s much more entertaining!

I agree 100%.

yep, there is way less individual flair and creativity, its like the players are no longer free to develop and express their individuality.

Because they ask too much of players, you’ve got strikers defending, defenders attacking... they’re exhausted by half time 😂

When you are best striker in 90s you are best striker ever

There were plenty of ridiculous celebrations back then too. I remember a player from Italy took off their shorts and got sent off lol. Don't be fooled by this video.

Kids these days...

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Tf wrong with celebrating a goals swear y'all old heads criticize anything ffs

Yessssss back in 90s You celebrate a goal with passion like a Man. Now they do stupid tiktok or fornite dance. The era of stupid people

Henry, Rooney, Etoo, Raul, Van Persie, Ibrahimovic, Forlan, Michael Owen, David Villa, Berbatov, Tevez. List goes on

@@PetarMilanZijic football has really died down

@@PetarMilanZijic those strikers don't even come close to shearer's tally, so they are not close.

Hristo Stoichkov

@@hereinbrasil What a player

That's because the focus has shifted from technical ability to speed & athleticism.

@@jamesh8862 and tactical rigidity, even though they call guardiolas football beautiful, it offers very little individual flair

That's categorically not true. There are more technically gifted players now, than ever before. Academies world wide, now focus on technique. Before, it used to be Holland, Spain and France for Europe, with England and Germany more physical, and Italy more tactical. The technical players came from South America. These days, they are everywhere, so, it doesn't stand out as much. There's a saturation of technique, that makes it seem like there is less, as it's just an expected trait now.

@@patogames5099 that really isn't true... show me players that have the technique of a Ronaldo , Zidane , Ronaldinho, Bergkamp, Batistuta and so many others from this era...

@@anab0lic Ronaldo (assuming Brazilian Ronaldo) - Suarez, Zidane - De Bruyne, Ronaldinho - Cristiano Ronaldo, Bergkamp - Suarez, Batistuta - Lewandowski. Just because players don't Flip Flap for example, as much as Ronaldo/Ronaldinho did, doesn't mean they don't have technical talent. Haaland is as clinical as Batigol was. MBappe is a exciting to watch as Ronaldo was. Where guys like Camavinga, Tonali, Vincius, Felix, etc will all end up, who knows. The technical quality of a full team, is now better than it used to be. Defenders are much better footballers, goal keepers are better with their feet, midfielders are better at ball retention/tight space possession.

Shevchenko started playing at top level clubs starting from 99 so i didn't really consider him as a 90's striker same as henry & van nistelrooy .. they all shined in the 2000's

@@rom7ooo Yes, but before moving to Milan, he was the top scorer of the Champions League, and even earlier he scored 6 goals in 10 Champions League matches, and this is for Dynamo, which was essentially an underdog.I do not underestimate the merits of Crespo, but he showed the top level at the same time as Shevchenko

@@rom7ooo make 2000s striker compilation plz

@@rom7ooo Shevchenko was arguably at his peak in 98-99 with Dynamo Kiev

Vieri, Del piero, Van nestlerooy, Raul, and Adriano before his breakdown.

best one was over Schmeichel😃

Lucky Luc!!!!!!

@@MrLuccatoni Unlucky Luc, sadly. Broke his leg in a career ending injury right after he made his first wonder goal in the Premier League.

Based on what metric?

@@Thehawkdown99 based on your grandfather, trust me, ask him and you will know

more like 100 times

@@Thehawkdown99 based just on our eyes😀

Tactics have always existed. All the way footballers can kick, pass, shoot, cross amd dribble the ball has remained the same in the last 2 decades and no new way of doing things have been invented. Even tactics have all been known. Football is a very simple sport, which ultimately is about putting the ball in the back of the net. So when players with enough talent play the beautiful game in a free way, no tactic is enough to stop them.

@@Ganstaz003 straight facts

@@Ganstaz003 it's why it's the beautiful game. This almost made me cry

Players back then were very hard working and diciplined as well so coaches/ managers also use to have confidence in them that they will do something on the field without guidance players these days don't want to work they just want to spend too much time on social media and other stuff so managers also have less confidence in them klose statement regarding young players says it all

It's not just nostalgia you are seeing in these comments, it is a REAL sense that something has been lost. We are not what we used to be but we still crave it because we love to see extraordinary feats performed by heroic figures. Unfortunately, our "stars" are now mass produced in highly scientific Football Academy laboratories. Everything sucks now Lol

Agree!

Fowler too

King Eric would be a video on his own

Papin, van basten, vialli, mccoist, wright, riedle, chapuizat.

What about Gueseppe Signori

Nobody says “ever” lmao, you’re just making that up. But yes, he’s very, very good

@@Usario321 I’m not making it up..I’ve literally heard people say that VVD is the greatest ever 😂

@@miz5138 The deluded fans of the red shite think that! No one else does lol

@@miz5138 who could say he's the best ever with a straight face 😂

@@mattthompson3714 Yup you guessed it absolutely right! It’s those deluded LiVARpool fans.

Please apoligize my grammar 🙏😁

they play 352 a lot too

True

Same with R9

super crazy control lol

i think there is too many distractions for the modern day player... back in 90s less so, you focused entirely on becoming a master of your craft... Seems like modern day managers dont allow players as much freedom to play with true creativity either... everything has to be by the numbers following a set formula.

also the boots and ofcourse the rules

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Benzema definitely not a traditional number 9

Benzema more of a hybrid 10/9

We already had that discussion a few years ago. In the early/mid 2010s, people were saying number 9 died, and now we had the false 9 or wingers who go to the area... but for the past few years, the number 9 role came back with a bang.

DCL is pretty young