Keeping up with our countdown, we're 16 days away from the World Cup, so let's have a look at some notorious #16's of the tournament.

Lots of places to start, so why not begin with the Mayor of Rome, Bruno Conti, world champion in 1982 and winner of that WC's Golden Ball, ahead of people such as Zico, Maradona, Platini, Boniek et al. An all-time great of Roma and Italy.

Then we may go to the Netherlands, mentioning Clockwork Orange member Johnny Rep, the Dutch's all time top goalscorer in World Cups, and Edgar Davids, who wore #8 in the three Euros he played, but was #16 in the only World Cup he was called up for (1998).

The players who wore it for most World Cups (three in total) were Uruguay's Maxi Pereira, South Korea's Ki Sung-yueng, Switzerland's Gelson Fernandes
(all from 2010 to 2018), Germany's Phillip Lahm (2006 to 2014), France's
Fabien Barthez (1998 to 2006) and Poland's Grzegorz Lato (1974 to 1982),
who is also the number's top goalscorer with 10 goals.

Other noteworthy carriers of the #16 standard: world cup winners Everaldo (Brasil 1970), Julio Olarticoechea (Argentina 1986) and Sergio Busquets
(Spain 2010); and the great Cameroonian goalkeeper Thomas N'Kono, Buffon's childhood hero, who wore it in 1990 in Cameroon's historic run to the quarterfinals.

As always, feel free to comment, add or correct anything you see fit in
the above. Next to come, #15!


Best regards,

Lléo

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Other kind of World Cup, but 16 was Adriano Gabiru's shirt number! ;-)

Tchau!
Jesus Petry

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On Friday, November 4, 2022 at 1:43:20 PM UTC-4, Lléo wrote:

Keeping up with our countdown, we're 16 days away from the World Cup, so let's
have a look at some notorious #16's of the tournament.

Lots of places to start, so why not begin with the Mayor of Rome, Bruno Conti,
world champion in 1982 and winner of that WC's Golden Ball, ahead of people such as Zico, Maradona, Platini, Boniek et al. An all-time great of Roma and Italy.

Indeed. I had many arguments as a kid trying to argue to my Roma fan friends that Conti wasn't really *that* great... but I was wrong.

Germany's Phillip Lahm (2006 to 2014), France's
Fabien Barthez (1998 to 2006) and Poland's Grzegorz Lato (1974 to 1982),
who is also the number's top goalscorer with 10 goals.

These three should be higher up in the standings of great Number 16s. A World Cup Champion captain, a two-time finalist, and the leading scorer of WC1974

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Futbolmetrix escreveu:

On Friday, November 4, 2022 at 1:43:20 PM UTC-4, Lléo wrote:

Keeping up with our countdown, we're 16 days away from the World Cup, so let's have a look at some notorious #16's of the tournament.

Lots of places to start, so why not begin with the Mayor of Rome, Bruno Conti, world champion in 1982 and winner of that WC's Golden Ball, ahead of people such as Zico, Maradona, Platini, Boniek et al. An all-time great of Roma and Italy.

Indeed. I had many arguments as a kid trying to argue to my Roma fan friends that Conti wasn't really *that* great... but I was wrong.

Heh, I hear you. I have done the same about Zico a few years later.

Germany's Phillip Lahm (2006 to 2014), France's
Fabien Barthez (1998 to 2006) and Poland's Grzegorz Lato (1974 to 1982), who is also the number's top goalscorer with 10 goals.

These three should be higher up in the standings of great Number 16s. A World Cup Champion captain, a two-time finalist, and the leading scorer of WC1974

Yeah. I see that in this paragraph I ended up listing them by reverse chronological
order, and that ended up putting the most important ones near the end.

But worse of it all, I just realized I missed Fritz Walter, who wore #16 for Germany in 1954. My apologies to all German fans out there!


Best regards,

Lléo

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On Saturday, November 5, 2022 at 1:02:26 a.m. UTC-4, Lléo wrote:

Futbolmetrix escreveu:

On Friday, November 4, 2022 at 1:43:20 PM UTC-4, Lléo wrote:

Keeping up with our countdown, we're 16 days away from the World Cup, so let's have a look at some notorious #16's of the tournament.

Lots of places to start, so why not begin with the Mayor of Rome, Bruno Conti, world champion in 1982 and winner of that WC's Golden Ball, ahead of people such as Zico, Maradona, Platini, Boniek et al. An all-time great
of Roma and Italy.

Indeed. I had many arguments as a kid trying to argue to my Roma fan friends
that Conti wasn't really *that* great... but I was wrong.

Heh, I hear you. I have done the same about Zico a few years later.

Germany's Phillip Lahm (2006 to 2014), France's
Fabien Barthez (1998 to 2006) and Poland's Grzegorz Lato (1974 to 1982), who is also the number's top goalscorer with 10 goals.

These three should be higher up in the standings of great Number 16s. A World
Cup Champion captain, a two-time finalist, and the leading scorer of WC1974

Yeah. I see that in this paragraph I ended up listing them by reverse chronological
order, and that ended up putting the most important ones near the end.

But worse of it all, I just realized I missed Fritz Walter, who wore #16 for Germany in 1954. My apologies to all German fans out there!

Best regards,

Lléo

I love this by the way, but you wont be able to come up with more than one interesting playerr for number 12

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