Greatest Footballers of each country from AFC and Oceania.

This blogger Artur Yanturin of Russia copied many of my blog teams.  This blog was one of them.  It was my Russia All-Time Team here.  His team was written in 2020, but mine was uploaded in 2014.   His Spartak Moscow All-Time team entry of was published in October 2020, but mine was uploaded in 2017.  His entry of the Dutch-German rivalry between Real Madrid and Barcelona was written in 2020, but mine was uploaded in 2014.  He also copied many many of my blog entries.

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Greatest Footballers of each country from AFC and Oceania.
Please also see my All-Time World Cup Team Index.
Australia, Saudi Arabia, Iran,
China, Japan, South Korea.
Hong Kong
East Asia, West Asia(without Iran and Saudi Arabia),
Central Asia, South East Asia(ASEAN).
Oceania  

AFC

Australia: Tim Cahill, Harry Kewell, Johnny Warren

Bahrain: Hamood Sultan

China(PRC): Gu Guangming, Rong Zhixing, Fan Zhiyi
China(ROC): Lee Wei Tong

India: Baichung Bhutia, Mohammed Salim, Sailen Manna, Pradip Kumar Banerjee

Iran:  Ali Parvi,  Ali Daei

Iraq: Ahmed Radhi, Hussein Saeed, Adnan Dirjal.

Indonesia: Maulwi Saelan, Bambang Pamugkas, Kurniawan Dwi Yulianto.

Hong Kong: Wu Kwok Hung

Wu Kwong Hung

Japan: Shunsuke Nakamura, Hidetoshi Nakata,Yasuhiko Okudera 

Korea(North): Pak Doo-ik

Korea(South): Cha Bum Kun, Park Ji-Sung, Hong Myung-bo

Kuwait: Jassem Yacoub, Faisal Al-Dakhil

Malaysia: Chow Chee Keong, Mokhtar Dahari
Qatar: Mansour Muftah, Sami Mohamed Wafa

Oman: Ali Al-Habsi

Pakistan: Zesh Rehman

The Philippines: Paulino Alcántara

Saudi Arabia: Mohamed Al Deaye, Abdullah Majed

Singapore: Fandi Ahmad 

Thailand: Kiatisuk Senamuang, Piyapong Piew-on, Tawan Sripan, Witthaya Hloagune.

UAE: Ismail Matar, Adnan Al Talyani, Zuhair Bakheet

Uzbekistan: Maksim Shatskikh

Oceania
New Zeland: Wynton Rufer

Some of the unpublished posts from this blog have been turned into a two-volume book: The Multiverse of the Beautiful Game: National Teams of Pure Fantasy.

Volume 1 takes you back in time and asks the questions every football fan has dreamed about. What if Brazil had a more beautiful team in 1982 — would they have cruised to the title? What if the United Kingdom could send its team to the 1970 World Cup? I believe they would have been the strongest side on earth. What if Argentina had fielded both Omar Sivori and Alfredo Di Stéfano together in 1958? What if Johan Cruyff had lined up alongside Marco van Basten, Ruud Gullit, and Frank Rijkaard? What if Eusébio had played for Brazil? And that's only scratching the surface — Volume 1 is packed with legendary "what ifs" that will keep you turning pages.

Volume 2 brings the fantasy closer to home. What if England had Michael Olise, Erling Haaland and others in 2026 — could they go all the way? What if Yugoslavia had gone to the World Cup in 2018? What if the United States could select more players in 2010? It would be the greatest American side ever. And what if Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi had actually played for the same national team in 2006? It could have happened — if the soccer gods had smiled on us.

*** Both Volume One and Volume Two are available now on Amazon. ***

Please also see my All-Time World Cup Team Index.