The Decade’s Top Football Strikers – Part 3
Ole Gunnar Solskjaer soon became a key member of the Manchester United squad and early on got the title of ‘Super Sub’. His goal against Bayern Munich in the 1999 Champions League final made him world famous and one of the five most famous personalities
at Manchester United.
He remained a loyal United player and rejected offers from the lily whites even when the Red Devils were ready to send him away. The player sustained various injuries at the end of his career and finally retired in 2007.
Solskjaer was known as the player who provided the much needed thrust to the United's squad to take their game further. His love for the club made him stay there even after his retirement as currently he is the manager of one of the club's reserve teams.
-Zlatan Ibrahimovic:
Zlatan Ibrahimovic is a player from Sweden who currently plays for AC Milan. His list of former clubs includes Juventus, Ajax, Inter Milan, Malmo and Barcelona. Ibra is believed to be one of the most triumphant strikers in the world.
He is known for his finishes as well as overall skills in the game. The player started out with Malmo but moved to Ajax in 2001, making a major impact there. He then left for Juventus and had a decent time with the Dutch club but Ibra left that club again
two years later after it got relegated.
He was then signed by Inter Milan and was quite productive with them. His creativeness made him get transferred to Barcelona, who paid forty Million and even offered to trade off Samuel Etoo for him but Ibrahimovic did not get along with the manager, Pep
Guardilo and thus was loaned to AC Milan.
-Didier Drogba:
Didies Drogba is an Ivory Coast player and currently plays for the Blues while he has also ventured through Le Mans, Olympic Marseille and Guingamp.
The player is thought to be one of the best strikers in the world who literally terrorizes the opposite team's defenders with his movements, finishing, power as well as pace.
He is a prolific goal-scoring machine for the Blues and has won numerous awards and titles. His envious early start in football made him get signed by Olympic Marseille, where he played for only a year and then made his move to Chelsea in 2004.
He went on to make a close relationship with Jose Mourinho as it was reported that Drogba was in tears when Mourinho had left Chelsea. He was a key element of the matches that gave Chelsea their Premier League win.
Drogba has also made seventy one appearances and netted forty five goals for his National team .
-Fernando Torres:
Fernando Torres is a Spanish player who currently plays for Liverpool. He has an amazing pace along with some good finishing and aerial abilities.
Earlier, Torres was an influential player at Atletico Madrid and stayed there for almost six years while making two hundred and forty nine appearances with ninety one goals. He moved to Liverpool in 2007 for around twenty million Euros.
(To be continued in Part 4)
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