abstract:In sport, a golden generation or golden team is an exceptionally gifted group of players of similar age, whose achievements reach or are expected to reach a level of success beyond that which their team had previously achieved. Below is a list of teams who have been referred to by the media as golden generations.
Figo, along with Costa and defender Fernando Couto, was part of the so-called "Golden Generation" of players who won the world youth championship in 1989.
Queiroz made his name as the guiding hand behind Portugal's so-called "golden generation" of youngsters including Rui Costa, Joao Pinto and the man he will rejoin at Real, Luis Figo.