Football Special Report: The Top 10 Strikers in La Liga (Part 3)
Luis Fabiano
Luis Fabiano is the second Brazilian on the list and miraculously he is another player who had a devastating run in French football.
As with Fabiano it was moving to Rennes from Ponte Preta that resulted in a very difficult and drastic change for the athlete and then he returned to his home team, Sao Paulo.
In Sao Paulo, Fabiano scored sixty one goals in eighty seven games and made ten million Euros in his move to FC Porto.
This was a difficult time for Fabiano and a lot of football pundits doubted his skills but then a move to Sevilla the next season was all that this player needed to defy all odds and rise as one of the best strikers out there.
This twenty nine year old has played five very lucrative and fruitful seasons in Sevilla and has had a scoring rate of one goal in every two games. This rate comes from the last two hundred games played with the club.
Luis Fabiano has technical abilities, power, pace and is a very gifted finisher. He has also matured a lot as a player since his days when he joined Sevilla and has signed another contract with them even though a lot of Europe’s top rated clubs had their
eyes on him.
Fabiano plays with the tremendously talented Fredi Kanoute in the sun setting years of his career. Right now, it is believed that Negredo and Fabiano are Sevilla’s future.
Sergio Aguero
Sergio Aguero is a teenage genius he is the youngest player to have ever played in the Argentinean first division and he was only fifteen years and thirty five days old at the time of his first match.
He broke Diego Maradona’s record for the youngest player in the first division, his short height and the intensity of his technical abilities made him join a group of young Argentineans that were compared to El Diego, and the irony in this now is that he
is Aguero’s father in law.
Obviously Aguero is no Maradona but both were supreme strikers, they had dribbling skills and exemplary shooting and passing skills. These attributes made Atletico pay over twenty million Euros for this seventeen year old.
Aguero is twenty two years old right now and one of La Liga’s very best. He even scored over twenty goals in every single competition in the last three seasons.
One thing is sure that there is a lot more to Aguero than just netting goals, as he has an all round game and a great partner to the creative Deigo Forlan.
Forlan and Aguero’s partnership is one of the very best striker duos in the world and their goals single handed gave Atletico Madrid the Europa league win last year.
Aguero is also considered to be a regular face in the transfer group rumour columns as most people believe that it is only a matter of time before one of Europe’s best clubs will come and sweep this player off his feet.
Chelsea has been regularly linked to Aguero but till now, the player has been faithful to Atletico Madrid and is in the La Liga for at least another season.
Diego Forlan
This may be a bit difficult to believe that the player that won the World Cup’s Golden ball and is recognized as the competition’s best player had to struggle so long to score his first Manchester United’s goal.
Though Forlan had to struggle with the Red Devils but he has come a long way from there and has been the best striker in the English premier league for several years.
Diego Forlan’s record in Spain had been nothing short of amazing, as the goals scored by him go in the order: twenty five, thirteen, twenty one, thirty five and then twenty eight.
These are the statistics for Forlan in the last five seasons in the La Liga with both Villarreal and then Atletico.
This also makes people think what this player could have done if he was a part of Real Madrid or Barcelona.
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