No Current Midfielder is Close to Deco 

I mean i liked the video, but how the fck do you upload 3 times a week when it takes you 300 hours to make a single one lol. I hope you meant maybe 30 hours

What's the first song in the video?

F*ck yeah, you deserve all praise,, there´s hardly any video compilations of him but you outdid yourself, excellent work mate, an honest thank you and I will share this as much as I can! 💙💙💙

hard working but with tittle like this for what? Making your work and your video by low down rating to other players? Or you really think bernardo silva, de bruyne, modric, oezil, iniesta, xavi... cant come closed to deco? If they arent as good

Give 1 dislike from me

I mean only thing is he fell off pretty quickly around the time Dinhi fell off and he was not so effective made many miatakes when not at his best. He was a baller but from the previous era so when football started changing to more effective and maybe "boring" he list his place as he declined.

In Porto he is in our top3 best players of all time. He played well in Barcelona, but in Porto years he was a classic number 10. Just watch his performance in Uefa Cup final 2003 against Celtic, that was his normal level in Porto, he had the tactical freedom to shine like never in his career. Magico Deco.

Og s know

Better than Modric, Xavi ?

that’s what gonna happen to busquets when he retire

he's brazilian though... doesn't matter, dude was a legend

@@Luckymag-if4dw I know he is Brazilian, but he is one of greatest players ever to play for Portugal, what was their golden era 2004-08.

@@faraazkhan90 i know... just feels weird to see people calling him and Pepe portuguese, it ain't like they were born in Brazil to portuguese parents aand came to portugal as babies, both are literally brazilian only came to europe at like 18 and so, this is one of the few things I dislike about football, the way they don't stablish limits in those types of stuff. But crazier thing is that I believe Barcelona at one point had like Xavi, Deco, Iniesta, Ronaldinho, Eto'o, Hnery and Messi

@@Luckymag-if4dw they both have portuguese nationality and played for portugal at an international level, so they're considered portuguese regardless of where they were born

@@comicbookguy2326 Yeah, the thing is the criterias for obtaining the nationality nowadays are completely wrong in my opinion and hurt the pure principle of representing your nation, not saying they can't live there and function as a member of the society but to represent the nation onw in my opinion should have some kind of bond to it or at least have been brough to that country as a child and having grown up there...I mean, not that it kills me or anything, it's just not my ideal way of thing working out and it has been done in hundreds of cases already, we got brazilians that have played in WCs for Tunisia, Germany, Spain, Japan, Italy that literally only did so coz they were living in those countries for like 4 or 5 years, in my opinion to represent the national team this should not be enough, obviously they must have all the rights of anyone living there and everything, but they ain't spanish or japanense to represent the national team, the thing is for those nations it is an advantage so they don't care but I'm talking from a moral standpoint for me ti's wrong in principle

Tbf Iniesta was only 21 or something but yeah Deco was World Class

Tbh Iniesta is overall better 😅

​@@Vipul6190you ptobably to young to have seen Deco during Porto Time when they won the champions league. Dude was unstoppable. Sure Iniesta is a beast but Deco had better attacking features.

@@iamturok2294 Most people can only talk about football based on narratives. Iniesta being "better" is "logical". But people didn't actually watch Deco. Iniesta isn't necessarilly a better player. He just is associated with that Barça and that Spain. He is, one of the great midfielders, but so is Deco.

Should've won the Ballon D'or in 2004

You can also add Messi there

Hello, in your opinion, is he better than Rui Costa? I saw him playing for Barcelona but not playing in Portugal.

@@edofonte76 they where very different, so can’t compared them since they both had different roles, but if i could i would fit both into my midfield

@@Shortss771 thanks for your comment. They were both outstanding players. Was Deco perhaps more offensive than Rui Costa? I mean, more involved in assisting or even scoring?

@@edofonte76 Rui Costa was an attacking midfielder while Deco was ur classic number 10, although they both scored similar amount of goals, Rui Costa would be the guy you wanted behind your striker while Deco would be that midfielder that would dictate the pace

@@edofonte76 Closest thing to a Deco in today’s age would probably be Modric

Sad times for football indeed

so true, nowadays its all about pace n power

He is far better than the movies show... at that times there is two barca players when they was on their days they ar unplayable, him and etoo.

@@TheLam98Ronaldinho too

Later he went back to Brazil and won a title there.

@@jeanjacqueslundi3502 yes I know it. He was formed from my team Corinthians and later ended his career in Fluminense.

He didn't just play well in Barca, he was of their best and most important players in his first two years there but his peformances quickly dropped after that and many people forgit how good he was after Xavi and Iniesta started dominating their midfield. In his first two seasons there he was just as good as them in their prime, and could do things they couldn't.

@@siberianTiger639 ​I dont' say the opposite ;) He player very well at Barça but he was many times more an "8" than a classic "10" with other duties, in Porto he played another level, he was our main star for years...you can ask every Porto fan who is the best player in the last 30 years and the answer will be 100% of the time it's him. He was 2nd Balon d'OR in 2004...unfair, he was top5 in the world that years.

@@siberianTiger639 he was amazing in barcelona but in porto he was what ronaldinho was for barcelona in those times

can you tell me the names of those 2 other players?

@@lamyza7101 F. Gomes and Rabah Madjer. Deco is by many of our generation the best ever for what he did in Porto.

And final euro 2004

It still is.

​@@sebfox2194no its not

@@stephencooke450 still is

​ @Stephen Cooke yes it is! The problem is that collective defending became better.... most of this video is shoking defending and huge holes in midfield and defense! Today tactics are 10x better! Just watch Cr7 dribbling in 2000s and then in 2010s... how harder it is to dribble now!

​@@Nooraksi Messi dribbled past players

sure? ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-rxuvhff-fh0.html

There's always room for players like Deco, Xavi, Iniesta, and Modric. They are only rare because there's not many players who are actually at that level.

Look at Felix. When he finally plays under someone that sees him for what he is you'll see a player of this ilk.

@@jeanlundi2141 lol ...🤣🤣🤣felix whould have to be born again 100 times to be deco s right feet.

Felix LOOOOL don't make me laugh..

Me too, he's the reason why I became a Barca fan.

Thanks for the comment bro, it motivates me a lot

How many goals with brazil ?

nah not rakitic don't put stain on this list. sub his name with michael laudrup.

@@AMIRULASYRAF-gm4vo rakitic was amazing u on sumn. I do agree laudrup should be lksted tho

No problem mate, tomorrow I release another one 😁

True, though Scolari himself said one of his biggest mistakes as Brazil coach was not bringing Deco to play for the squad and let him escape to Portugal

Davids? Scholes probably

Modrid is still playing and he is way better.

​@@javierduroreal1667 No. Deco is doing exactly what Modric is doing

Como é que sabes que sou do Porto? 😂

@@AJcompsHD Conceição como foto de perfil

Hh

Oko... Who? You crazy??

There are not that many videos of him but this guy was legit, he was second on ballon d'or in 2004, and he was the best champions league player of 2003/2004! When he went to Barcelona he had to take a more defensive role because of Ronaldinho but he was skillfull as hell, and his trademark move was the nutmeg, any chance he got he would do it. Played with Figo, Ronaldo, Ronaldinho, Messi, Eto'o, Lampard, Drogba and many other great player!

@@UserNameOculto I mean, if you watched football around that time, you wouldn't even need videos to know that. But yeah, I guess to some people (and younger folk) more videos would be helpful.