I was watching some all-time XI’s by former footballers and analysists and was asking to myself: “Did football start in the 90’s for these people?”
I understand that people will always be biased towards the players that they got to experience and have an attachment to, but do you think that players from the old era like Eusebio, Rivera, Meazza, Di Stefano, Etc… are underrated compared to modern legends?
Unless you have been alive and following football since it’s inception, or found video footage of every great player in history and watched it all, it is absolutely foolish to claim who you think is the greatest players of all time. You just don’t have the knowledge or the experience of watching those players play, nor the challenges they faced compared to modern players. It’s not recency bias, its bias to what you’ve actually seen vs what you haven’t. You can only truly pick the best player of your lifetime or more specifically, since you started watching football.