Having selected 10 coolest shirts of the 1990s, here are 10 classic teams from the same decade I just can’t help but reminisce about.
This list was originally intended to include international teams and club sides, with Croatia 1998, Cameroon 1990 and Bulgaria 1994 all likely certs.
Then I started thinking about club teams and had a long list. And then I asked Twitter for its suggestions, and I had a list as long as four or five arms. Here are the results…
Parma – 1998-99
Quite honestly the inspiration for the list. Whenever one of the banter accounts tries to manufacture interest or knowledge in football from a time before they were even walking, this is the team that gets referenced. And with good reason.
Parma would come oh-so-close to lifting the Scudetto, finishing second under Carlo Ancelotti in 1996-97, but it is the team that lifted the UEFA Cup in 1999 under Alberto Malesani that truly makes you tingle, before the financial and sporting decline came.
Their matchday squad for the final against Marseille contained Gianluigi Buffon, Lilian Thuram, Roberto Sensini, Fabio Cannavaro, Dino Baggio, Juan Sebastian Veron, Hernan Crespo, Enrico Chiesa, Faustino Asprilla and Abel Balbo.
It was like somebody had collected all the best bits of Football Italia and condensed them into one team to mark the end of the decade.
Newcastle United – 1995-96
There are cases to be made for Wimbledon’s Crazy Gang, Chelsea’s league of nations under Gianluca Vialli, Sheffield Wednesday 1991-93 and others too, but the only English team in the 90s that truly earned our hearts – well, mine anyway – was Newcastle United under Kevin Keegan, English football’s tragicomic king.
There is something hugely endearing about a likeable team that falls just short of glory. We think of Les Ferdinand’s leaps, we think of David Ginola’s hair, we think of Keggy slumped over the advertising hoardings, and we think of Tino Asprilla’s incredible legs.
But most of all we…
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