Working my way back in time, I reached the 1950s which is the first decade for which enough footage of classic football matches exist in order for me to form my own opinion on the top players of the period in question. Seven All Blacks and three Springboks made the Team of the Decade. Lahm retired in 2017. By narrowing the focus of his game, Ronaldo made himself a better player than he was in the early years of the decade. That I placed Jack Wilshere ahead of him for the 2010-11 Team of the Season is not one of my prouder moments. At the time of writing this, Messi’s 2019-20 was closer to his 2013-14 than his 2014-15. And I think he has a good shout of being the best ever in his position. Thank you for the great comment! Frenkie de Jong was Modric’s direct opponent. That decision certainly was a tough one because Neuer only really hit the heights after 2010, but in the end I found choosing him to be justified and stand by that decision. His short sprints to reach the ball are so forceful, so well-timed that hardly any defender is able to keep up. Furthermore, the Team of the Season selections that I made during the last ten years come in handy now. Future-me will take over right after the break.———————————————————————————————————Hi there. The things he does well he does so well that he, in my opinion, has earned the place in the first eleven. If I knew that it takes something special to stop an attack and had to find a player to perform an extremely difficult to pull off tackle or a very hard to time interceptive movement, Hummels would be my pick. That, however, wasn’t the case. Hence even if primarily physical players are as good as the Modric’s, Kroos’ and Busquets’ of this world, they tend to fade earlier and therefore lose out on quantity of performance. Hence we are talking about a player who in my opinion comes close to being within the all-time-legends category for his chosen position.What makes Marcelo stand out are his qualities with the ball. The 2014-15 season was, in my opinion, when we hit peak-Messi. He basically played the same upper-edge-of-world-class-category season time and time again. Perfect, simply perfect. It showed in the decisions he made in high pressing and counter pressing scenarios: in the numerous times he won the ball back high up the field, when everybody else would have opted for a more conservative approach. His performances in the later stages of that year’s Champions League in particular exhibited everything that is good about the player they call ‘Mozart’. Was this one of the more difficult decisions? Still, they are both modern greats. ), this Eagles team was historically awesome. The last couple of seasons were a bit too shaky to remain on that course, but he still has a couple of years left for a golden autumn to his career (the greatest goalkeepers have often performed at the highest level well into their late 30s). The decision between them gets even tougher because Klopp’s teams were build with less money and only the last two years of Guardiola’s best team fall within the decade in question. Of course, most professional football players show a high level of ambition that makes them do the things one needs to do to succeed in this business. It might be true that this state of affairs is a necessary precondition of his offensive longevity, but I wonder if there wasn’t a slightly less tilted compromise that could have worked even better. Pep’s Barcelona did not win as much (especially in this decade) but they reached a much higher peak. What made me decide in the Catalan’s favor was his overall impact on the game (including Klopp) which arguably surpasses even Klopp’s. If Hummels and Ramos were an old-school sweeper-marker duo, Ramos would certainly be the man-marker. Sometimes when I describe what makes a player great, I feel I need to go into the subtleties of that player’s style. The same goes for his performance in tournaments. Suarez played in leagues that had 38 matchdays while Lewandowski’s Bundesliga has only 34. I’m waiting for the Champions League 19-20 to finish in order to better decide between the two candidates I have in mind. In the women’s T20I team of the decade, India’s Harmanpreet Kaur and Poonam Yadav have been picked and Australia’s Meg Lanning has been named the captain of that side. His playing style, both with and without the ball, was already marked by the exquisite blend of technique and intelligence that marks his whole career. Tap to unmute. And the new kids on the block were simply too new to rival Lahm for quantity of performance. The centres alone were a task, but in the end we made difficult choices. For the first half of the decade Manuel Neuer was the uncontested incumbent for the title ‘most progressive world class keeper’. Ireland Women Team of the Decade. Especially given the fact that the opponents he faced, many of them world class players of their own, very soon knew what was coming. Still, he remained among the very best right-backs in the world right until he retired, winning a starting spot in 2015-16 (against weak competition) and a place on the bench for his final season. The fact that he is the more modern, more hardworking striker didn’t hurt him either. So if you value basic reliability above all in a defender, Hummels is unlikely to be your choice. Hummels has acceleration issues and turns like a small oiltanker (no joke, you know I love the guy). When it came to scoring goals, he did more and more of the heavy lifting. Its pretty weird to read this Team of the Decade for a time that I watch edalmost in its entirety. Given the career he had and his age, this is nothing to be ashamed of. What stopped him were injuries and the lost time at Chelsea. The argument for Messi being the best player of all time does not solely rest on what he did during the decade that is the topic of this blogpost. Now don’t get me wrong. Hence there are at least four physically imposing field players in the team. Looking back I wonder whether he shouldn’t have won it at least once. But with the ball he was more of a very accomplished wheel in a machine that as a whole produced feats of genius, rather than a genius himself. Hummels frequently performs the best interceptions and the best tackles you are likely to find in modern football. When he made my Team of the Season selections, as he almost always did, I mostly placed him on the left wing but with one or even multiple arrows pointing to the penalty box. But in the pressure-cooker that is top level football, it can also be a blessing for the team that has Ronaldo on its roster. Back in 2007-2008, when Kroos was the hottest youth player in Germany (although some nerds talked about a certain teenager named Götze), me and many other people who followed German football thought Kroos would go on to be a mixture of, say, Steven Gerrard and Kevin de Bruyne. He only really rose to prominence around 2010 and, as good as he was even back then, I now think that his breakthrough came too late to justify his inclusion in the first team. But I feel confident in saying that I watched enough to form an educated opinion. Busquets is a special player for this reason. I’m sure attackers curse him in the foulest imaginable terms after they had to endure him for 90 minutes and this is an important part of what makes him great. He made the first eleven of my Team of the Season in 2014-15 and sat on the bench in the three seasons that followed. You already mentioned my initial reason for doing things this way. This seems about right. He came mightily close to winning Player of the Tournament in the latter. Perhaps with the big statement: I think Manuel Neuer is at least on the outer edges of the greatest goalkeeper of all time debate. So in the end, Manuel Neuer makes the Team of the Decade for a second consecutive time. One might think that this would result in Messi scoring less but the opposite was the case. Change ), You are commenting using your Google account. Opponents despair when facing the likes of Kroos not because of any individual action of his but because of the relentless stream of flawless quality contributions coming from him. By. He wants the responsibility, he needs the responsibility – thus making it the case that others need not bear it themselves. So, career wise Kroos is a 10/10 and he lived up to at least 90% of his potential. But enough with the historical comparisons. For that he made my Team of the Season in 2011-12 and was even named Player of the Season in 2012-13 and 2013-14. Lahm was about to retire, Dani Alves’ golden autumn came too late ( and wasn’t that golden), other contenders were far behind. This is an interesting though. Ten years is a long time in cricket, but you won’t know that looking at our IPL team of the decade. With Luis Suarez, you don’t know what you are getting. Everything else comes second. I don’t think it is far fetched to say that Barcelona – no, that Messi fell only one goal short of winning the treble. Pep Guardiola and Jürgen Klopp were clearly the two best managers of the decade. 2019-20 was the first time in this decade that he failed to make it into my selection. He is dynamic enough to stay very close to attackers, physically intimidating enough not to get bullied by them, and tough enough to bully them himself. We take a look at the players who have done that more recently, specifically in the last decade, between 2010 and 2020. And this time Real Madrid learnt from their past mistakes and recognized the value of such a player. Rivelino in particular is a player I’m drawn to thinking about when watching Marcelo play. He is one of the three truly outstanding players of the 2010s and perhaps the second best of them overall. In this case their superior quality of performance beats Real’s superior quantity of performance.A Note on Best MatchI take it that “Best Match” can mean multiple things. But even before doing so (with a backup quarterback! His finest seasons came around the middle of the decade. There is no better creator in the final third than Messi? GK – Keylor Navas (Costa Rica)LB – Marcelo Vieira da Silva Júnior (Brazil)CB – Giorgio Chiellini (Italy)CB – Sergio Ramos (Spain)RB – Dani Alves (Spain)CDM – N’Golo Kanté (France)CM – Toni Kroos (Germany)CAM – Andrés Iniesta (Spain)LW – Cristiano Ronaldo (Portugal)ST – Robert Lewandowski (Poland)RW – Lionel Messi (Argentina), Manager: Jürgen Klopp (Germany)Assistant Manager – Pep Guardiola (Spain)Assistant Manager – Antonio Conte (Italy), GK – Manuel Neuer (Germany)LB – David Alaba (Austria)CB – Virgil van Dijk (Netherlands)CB – Gerard Piqué (Spain)RB – Joshua Kimmich (Germany)CDM – Yaya ToureCM – Kevin De Bruyne (Belgium)CAM – David Silva (Spain)LW – Neymar (Brazil)ST – Kylian Mbappé (France)RW – Eden Hazard (Belgium). Dani Carvajal is, in my opinion, the best right-back of the decade who actually ended the decade as an active player. As soon as a ball – be it in the form of a cross, a pass, or some random action – enters the area, Ronaldo seems to be almost magnetically attracted to it. Philipp Lahm is one of the best full-backs of all time. Barcelona as a whole, managed by Tata Martino at the time, where playing far worse than in previous seasons. He isn’t exactly the second incarnation of Usain Bolt, either. As part of Wisden’s decade in review, four of our writers locked themselves in a room and didn’t leave till they’d sorted out a County Championship team of the decade. Neither Hummels nor Ramos are in my opinion among the very best central defenders of all time. Barcelona grew less and less of a total team, but Messi remained a total player. Yes, but an advantage that will immediately be nullified by the fact that Suarez’s lows were quite a bit lower than Lewandowski’s. He is ‘the Playstation player’, as Arsene Wenger has called him. I have in fact just declared goalkeeper to be one of the harder positions on Twitter before writing these lines, only for Bayern-Blogger Justin Kraft to object that it really shouldn’t be. He controls his actions like an all-knowing third-person observer who has the cool head of someone sitting on his couch at home; not like a sweating, heavy-breathing, emotionally-charged, first-person human deep in the fog of contest. The Pole hasn’t played a bad season all decade, while Suarez’s 2019-20 must be counted as decidedly sub-par. But so was Ronaldo. And then there are Neuer’s tournament exploits. Dhoni was also named the skipper of the team. Aside from a couple of no-brainers, choosing the All-Decade Team for the 1990s proved tough. School Team of the Decade Part 6. I’m not sure there has been a goalkeeper since Yashin for which this was true for an extended period of time (which further strengthens the case for Neuer belonging to the historical elite). The more interesting criticism thus is that Messi did not perform as well for Argentina than he did for Barcelona. Trial and error is the name of the game. He is the man behind his own goals to a much higher degree than the aforementioned Müller and C. Ronaldo are.
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