Football features - Part 2: Top 12 Strikers at the moment
With Robin Van Persie being the number 12 best striker of this era, we move on to the next part to get to know about other players that have made it to the bettor.com “best strikers at the moment” list.
11. Diego Forlan:
A player who is now known to almost all the fans around the world; Diego Forlan has made his way through to the top. After a disappointing run at the English club Manchester United, the player was transferred to the Spanish side
Atletico Madrid, who were struggling in the Spanish La Liga back in the time when Forlan came.
In the beginning, he did not really manage to find the net very often as he was not really given a chance in the first team but once he started to get the hang of things in the Spanish League, there was no stopping the Uruguayan
striker. He managed to score 68 goals for the club throughout his run in Atletico Madrid. Right before joining Atletico Madrid, the Uruguayan joined Villareal and enjoyed a “little” success as he struggled to find a first team spot.
However, with Atletico Madrid he was played as a first team player more often and soon he became an important part of the team. With players like Simao and Sergio Aguero alongside him, Diego Forlan is a killer when it comes down
to finishing the ball into the net.
In the previous season, it was Diego Forlan who singlehandedly took the Spanish team to the Europa Cup’s final match. Diego Forlan saw his side struggling in the Spanish League as teams like Real Madrid, Valencia, Sevilla, Mallorca
and the Spanish champions Barcelona, were becoming a threat to his club. Moreover, the team was also struggling with the coach as they had to face a new coach during the season. The new coach and the former Valencia manager had good plans for the Spanish team;
even though he did not really manage to help the team in qualifying for the Champions League and totally failed to deliver in the same tournament, it was Atletico Madrid who still managed to make their name in the second graded European competition, the Europa
Cup.
Diego Forlan helped the Spanish team to perform amazingly well in the Europa cup and with him in the squad, no one else could share the spotlight. He managed to help the team defeat Liverpool in the semi final match of the tournament
and later on they had to face another English team, Fulham, in the final match of the Europa Cup. The final match was a total thriller as Roy Hodgson’s men were simply fabulous and it was the Fulham side who took first blood. Later on, Forlan showed the world
that he is a player who can just not be counted out. With the match gone down to extra time, it was Atletico Madrid who came out as winners and it was Diego Forlan, again who managed to help the team get out of the crucial stage by scoring a vital goal.
With Forlan being a success at club level, he was nothing less in FIFA World Cup 2010. With him being the captain of the Uruguayan team, no one thought what the South American team was capable of. They were paired up in an extraordinary
group but they managed to top the group as Forlan scored 2 goals against South Africa to help the team qualify for the pre quarter final stage. They faced Korea in the pre quarter finals and Luis Suarez was the man who proved to be the hero of the team, as
he managed to score 2 goals in the same match to help them qualify for the quarter final round. In the quarter final match, even though it was Suarez’s “hand of fraud” that helped them qualify for the next round, it was Diego Forlan who managed to equalize
the score line and it was the captain of the team who took a fabulous first penalty to help them go through to the semi finals.
Even though the semi final match came out to be a disappointment for the Uruguayans, they still managed to pull off an extraordinary performance with the help of Diego Forlan who later was found hitting the cross bar in the last
second of the 3rd and 4th place match against the Germans.
Diego Forlan is definitely a fabulous striker and players like him cannot be counted out of such a list. His amazing performances also helped him win the golden ball award in the FIFA World Cup 2010. Forlan is all in all, a complete
striker.
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