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Recognition: Puskás' forward line ranked ahead of Messi's and Cristiano Ronaldo's
05 May. 2018.
The France Football magazine have selected the Real Madrid 1960's trio of Alfredo Di Stéfano, Ferenc Puskás and Francisco Gento ahead of Lionel Messi and his colleagues or Cristiano Ronaldo and his teammates in their top three forward lines of all time.
Who do you think is the best attacking trio in the history of the European Cup and Champions League's winning teams?
This was the question posed by popular Hungarian internet portal Nemzeti Sport Online. It's a difficult one to answer because in the past there wasn't the chance to watch these great players play in every match because they were rarely televised, as well as the obvious fact that the pace of the game has changed over the proceeding decades.
France Football then tried the impossible and came up with what for us is a very welcome result; the French publication which founded the Golden Ball award for the European Footballer of the Year selected the Di Stéfano-Puskás-Gento trio from the 1960 European Cup final as the best victorious forward line of any European Cup or Champions League-winning team.
As is already known, that legendary trio were part of the Real Madrid team which won perhaps the best final of all time 7-3 against Eintracht Frankfurt at Hampden Park, Di Stéfano scoring three and Puskás a record-breaking and still-unmatched four goals. Two years later, Puskás scored all of Real's goals in a 5-3 loss to Benfica in the final of the same competition.
A második és harmadik helyen Lionel Messi, Luis Suárez, Neymar (Barcelona 2015) és Cristiano Ronaldo, Wayne Rooney, Carlos Tévez (Manchester United 2008)It's therefore no surprise that the unrivalled stars of the 1960 Real Madrid team appear at the top of the list, even though it means they are ahead of the MSN trio of Messi, Suarez and Neymar at Barcelona and the Manchester United triumphvirate of Cristiano Ronaldo, Wayne Rooney and Carlos Teves.
The list of the top ten European Cup or Champions League-winning forward lines can be found here: http://www.nemzetisport.hu/bajnokok_ligaja/elismeres-puskasek-az-msn-es-cristiano-ronaldoek-elott-2618951
