World Cup 2010: Worst players on each team?

[ElNono]

riq and messi are 2 diff players with the ball...

riq his always looking at the passing lanes

while messi he can take on the defense and force them to collapse on him to find the open man for a pass....

both are good

Plus Riquelme is in the twilight of his career, where Messi is just getting started.
Messi can also play a team game, and actually relies more on it than Riquelme.
Last, but not least, they both play different positions. Riquelme is more of a midfielder, where Messi is more of a forward.
Unfortunately, Riquelme doesn't think he has to do any marking, and neither does Messi. Now, for a forward, that's pretty common and not as much of a problem than for a midfielder.

[ElNono]

so now he didnt play well against germany, before it was that he sucked and never did in an argie shirt. whatever. I said that riquelme would add to this team, and you, manumaniac, elnono and chungoman immediately started scoffing without ever addressing the arguments I made in riquelme's favor. and to top it off you and manumaniac are butthurt about cambiasso and zanetti not being there, when if anyone had "an opportunity and now its time to move on", its them.

Let's get things straight, so we don't generalize:
- I have no problem with Cambiasso and Zanetti being out
- I have no problem with Diego coaching
- I do have a problem with Riquelme in the team for a number of reasons we've been discussing
- Riquelme never really did squat with the national team (that is, the grownups, not the U20 or U16).

I like the current team. I think it's a team we can build on. With a few exceptions, they're mostly young. The back is probably where we would need to rebuild a bit eventually, but overall, I think this is a good, solid team.
We'll see if it's championship worthy or not soon enough.

[ElNono]

dieguito, no te enojes. La próxima lo hacemos con una picada de por medio y listo.

[TDMVPDPOY]

Plus Riquelme is in the twilight of his career, where Messi is just getting started.
Messi can also play a team game, and actually relies more on it than Riquelme.
Last, but not least, they both play different positions. Riquelme is more of a midfielder, where Messi is more of a forward.
Unfortunately, Riquelme doesn't think he has to do any marking, and neither does Messi. Now, for a forward, that's pretty common and not as much of a problem than for a midfielder.

riq was never known to be a good defensive stopper, you can always subsidize his weakness with 3 other midfielders who can defend well plus ur back 4....

[ElNono]

riq was never known to be a good defensive stopper, you can always subsidize his weakness with 3 other midfielders who can defend well plus ur back 4....

Exactly. You always had to make up for it in some other way. Pekerman did by playing a midfield duo with Cambiasso and Mascherano.

[TDMVPDPOY]

i think the only downfall for riq career was he was a house when he was at barca, then again same can be said for saviola