The best Fifteen Football Players of the World: In a Single Team Line Up (Part 3)
Article Continued from Part 2.
The two players Pique and Puyol are actually a compliment to each other. Gerard Pique is fair, balletic and has better control on the ball, while Puyol is uncompromising and rugged.
Pique often goes to the forward attacking part of the field and has the gifted ability to set up attacks and create chances to score. He has a good physique, and is a solid player he has matured well in the Spanish league and is like a dream player for any
coach.
Honourable mentions for other great centre backs include players like Carles Puyol and Rio Ferdinand.
Ashley Cole: Left Back
Ashley Cole is a very gifted player and left back, he has recently been called a ‘mercenary’ as with issues over his transfer from the Gunners to the Blues and with the difference of pay wages. However, there is one thing that no one can deny or argue about
and that is that Cole knows how to play!
The twenty nine year old English footballer is thought to be one of the most agile left backs in the world. He has amazing pace, and outruns almost every attacker and stands like a wall in the defence. He and Flourant Malouda make up the Blues amazing defence
and they even cover the attackers and aid their own.
Ashley Cole was also one of the few English players that were praised for their efforts in the recent World Cup.
Honourable mentions for this position are Philipp Lahm and Patrice Evra.
Michael Essien: Defensive Midfield
Michael Essien is a Ghana International player who currently plays for the Blues and the Ghanaian National team. He is twenty seven years old, has been playing professional football since 2000 and made his national team debut in 2002.
Essien is actually compared to Claude Makelele and he is thought to be better as Essien is more of a complete player on the field, he shields the ball from going to the defence, he breaks the attacking formations, and bombs the opposing team’s defences.
Michael Essien is a gifted dribbler, has amazing passing abilities and can shoot point shots from great distances.
The player is blessed with amazing stamina and works hard to maintain it; he is an ideal physique for the football field and is a major reason why the Blues has such a strong defence and such dangerous attackers. He has the tendencies become one of Chelsea’s
greatest players and seems to be on the one way track to the top.
The honourable mention for defensive midfielders includes Mascherano, Samir Khedira and Xabi Alonso.
Xavi Hernandez: Central Midfield
Xavi Hernandez is a pure Barcelona player, he joined the clubs youth team in 1991 and then made the high rollers team in 1998, he also has been in the Spanish national team from the under seventeen team and made the first national team line up in 2000.
He is thirty years old and was also a part of the World Cup winning squad. His partnership with Andres Iniesta is another partnership that is centred at the heart of Barcelona. He makes the midfield play to the likes of what only other plays can dream off
and inspire to.
Xavi Hernandez looks kind of unassuming but his short passes to Iniesta, Villa or Messi is what makes the team what it is. He is the result of the Barcelona youth academy and it has been said that if Lionel Messi gives the inspiration to the team then Hernandez
orchestrates it.
Article Continued In Part 4.
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