How high do you rank Riquelme in the pantheon of greatness?

How high do you rank Riquelme in the pantheon of greatness?

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Mago Valdivia was miles better and underrated as fuck.

173rd

No1 in Football Manager essential buys

Free Kicks 20

>El chileno es un animal sucio

trash argentine faggot dumb nigger

top 20 all-time

He isn't in it

/thread

Ah yes, the Argentinian Landon Donovan.

he isnt even as good as berbatov

this

Cesc Fabregas is unironically a much better player than he ever was.

1. DIEGO ARMANDO MARADONA

2. EL NEGRO PELE

3. JUAN ROMAN RIQUELME

4. LIONEL MESSI

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Veron??????

>made boca the greatest club in the world
>literally dominated one of the greatest real madrid's of all time
>made villareal, a literally who club to reach semi finals in CL, over benfica, MU, Inter.
>greatest player in boca history
>greatest player in the last 30 years of Argy league
im not even boca fan, but he is for sure top 10

I rate "le alto caño" man

beron? british scum
shit and scum player
"mala leche" in spanish

t. colocolino

he could've been so much better but had a shit attitude and was lazy

very highly

Better than Messi

Riquelme is literally the only player to score 2 free kicks for Argentina to win 2-0 in the qualifiers and have the press saying 'DID HE PLAY WELL OR DID HE JUST SCORE 2 GOALS?' the day after.

>emiratos arabes

Patrician's favourite. I rate him.

one of the best traditional midfielders I saw playing, I still remember him completely destroying gremio in the 2007 libertadores finals

but he was an asshole, lazy and a diva so his career went nowhere

proofs? like articles and shit

independent.co.uk/sport/football/juan-rom-n-riquelme-retires-a-rare-mercurial-talent-whose-career-was-tinged-with-pathos-10002200.html

fourfourtwo.com/features/idle-idol-divinely-divisive-combative-conundrum-juan-roman-riquelme-ends-era

bleacherreport.com/articles/2344703-juan-roman-riquelmes-career-was-a-beautiful-journey-yet-an-uncomfortable-ride

there can only be one Valdivia.

Didnt he miss the penalty against arselel in semi final
>choker

>choker

m8 he won Boca 3 Libertadores and shone in all the most important matches IIRC

stats for 2007's Libertadores:
11 games
8 goals (Boca's top scorer and 3 in the finals)
7 assists

I thought you were cool vietnam, stop disrespecting JRR.

>tfw you'll never see such a gracious 10 anymore

Why even live lads?

Here's him BOSSING ALL OVER THE PITCH against the likes of Cafu, Kaka, Ronaldinho, Roberto Carlos etc

youtube.com/watch?v=3klgDKAFS1s

Somewhere between Robinho and Deco

doping/10

first
then there's everyone else

>one good season with Villareal
>can't cut it in Europe
>back to Argentina
>retire at something like 26 from the NT

Probably the most spoiled player ever, literally has the mentality of a 12 year old

this, the name was bigger than the actual man. Total meme player.

>made boca the greatest club in the world
back then European teams didn't treat the tournament seriously
>>literally dominated one of the greatest real madrid's of all time
see above
>>made villareal, a literally who club to reach semi finals in CL, over benfica, MU, Inter.
lets forget about Forlan, Sorin and Senna coached by Pellegrini
>>greatest player in boca history
Only because he couldn't make it in Europe, if every good Boca player stayed in Argentina, he probably wouldn't even be in the top 50
>>greatest player in the last 30 years of Argy league
Because good argentinan players leave the league when they're 20, sometimes even younger

thanks for the football lesson ital- oh wait
>that flag

He was good

but how would he do on a rainy Monday night in Stoke?

>all these mexicans in this thread

Riquelme is better than every player from your country lmao

shhhhhhh stop being this party pooper m8. riquelme is da goat. better than messi la'

Only true patricians rate Roman. Motherfucker was class and he should have won the world cup in 06.

Delet this

>that 2007 Boca Jrs
Man, those are memories.

He would easily and unironically be in our all time top 10, probably even top 3

But we're Mexico, literally the most pathetic country when it comes to football.

>huge country
>crazy for football
>has been almost in every world cup
>has hosted two world cups
>never got past the quarter finals and only managed to get to the quarters while hosting

also if >we didn't play in Concashit qualifiers >we wouldn't go to the WorldCup that often

Fact

At our best we might be 3rd/4th best team in conmebol

in our current meme status we're Venezuela or Peru tier

orchestrator/10

>rainy Monday night in Stoke
This made my day, i dont know why this always make me lose my sides

not even a boca fan but they defeated Real Madrid and Milan at their peak and they sent their A teams

I seriously doubt they "didn't care" about it

He's literally Argie's Paulo Henrique Ganso.
These sopaposting huechimps sucking his dick in this thread are only faggots from the south, more specifically Rio Grande do Sul.

This choker wasn't even that good. Here in Brazil we had dozens of players on the same level. If you guys really think that this choking autistic-looking argenegro is decent, just google for Djalminha. Ten times better than him.

brazil still seething over that time he wrecked them single-handedly

Not at all. We used to thrash him and his meme friends everytime. Even your NT with Goku and Pikachu in it would win 1 or 2 games against us by sheer luck. Nothing to seeth about.

We used to BTFO Maradona's Argie NT, this guy was nothing.

*********this guy********** literally fucked every brazilian team he played against

Except for the 2007 copa america final where brazil played with their D team.

Never played in England.

Completely irrelevant player.

in 2007 he completly destroyed CBF in the Libertadores finals mate

I think he would not be a top 10 in argentinian history alone.
Maradona, Messi, Batistuta, Kempes, Di Steffano, Bochini, zanettti, pasarella, simeone, valdano, sanfilippo, stabile, artime, ardiles, redondo, houseman, veron, labruna, burruchaga, ruggeri, perfumo, carrizo, pumpido, gati...etc. etc.

2012 Corinthians begs to differ.

It's one of my top 500 favourite players

lmao Osorio would wreck everyone on Conmebol.

Is that autism?

are you rating GK's too? wtf lol

Lol what a shitty list. Riquelme is top10 for sure.

Why do divegrass fans never talk about defense? Is it the ultimate pleb sport?

He won that Libertadores by himself. His first Boca era and middle to last Villarreal era were great, but that 2007 he was in his absolute prime.

>memechini

he wasn't even good enough to be a regular with Argentina, dejate de joder

nah, riquelme is better than most of these

>veron
>fucking gati

toca de aca gallego boludo y la desempleada concha de tu madre

-Maradona
-Messi
-Bochini
-Kempes
-Luque
-Batistuta
-Pasarella
-Sanfillippo
-Riquelme
the rest

t. Bocafags

He and Palermo are perfect examples of big fishes in small ponds. At Boca, they looked great. Outside of that, not so much. Riquelme proved to be good in Europe. Maybe REALLY good, but not great.

>180+ minutes vs Arsenal
>couldn't score or even make one good play against them
>not even when Arsenal put benchwarmers against Villarreal

and as for Palermo's time outside of Boca, the less said, the better.

Zvjezdan Misimović tier of player.

Great vision/fks/passing/dribbles but too fucking lazy and pain-in-the-ass character to actually leave a significant mark on the highest level of football.

for fuck's sakes, he was so fucking beautiful to watch

He never had the "redemption story" that Valdivia had.

Riquelme
>Retire without winning with the NT
>Was spoiled

Valdivia
>"Retiring" from the NT after 2006, not winning
>Comes back and in 2015 he wins the Copa America
>Redemption story between Pizarro, Pinilla and him.

Copa Libertadores > Copa Memerica

>Boca
>Small pond

Even Bianchi failed in Europe with Roma and Palermo wasn't loved exactly for being good, it's the type of player that worked hard despite being awful.

How good was Bochini?

insanely good

Maradona's role model and idol
Need I say more?

i am glad you know you fucking betas

maradona thinks rivelino is better than Pele so

Idk but my brother is named after him.
My mother doesn't know, tho. I just told her Román was a badass name and she agreed.

Pele didn't even play in 1962

You now remember Claudio Borghi

Riquelme > Quaresma

>Muh European success

All of you latinos know that Riquelme could cuck any team in the world back then.

also
>not shitting your pants in fear when your team drew Boca in Libertadores

That just means CONMEBOL teams were mostly shit

also, any team in the world back then, huh?

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Yes, it is a small pond when the rest of the competition is mostly mediocre

free kick's from Riquelme were 96% goals

Around top 30 MF players.
Top 15 free kickers.

Di Steffano, Artime, Ardiles?