As you know by now, I did neither. And in terms of the career he had, it is hardly conceivable how it could have gone any better. Good defending, for all its physicality and sometimes even brutality, often takes the precision of a surgeon and when he is on form no one is more precise in his defensive actions than Hummels. And his last decade was one of the best decades any player has ever played. Player of the Season:–XI of the Season:2014-15, Bench Season:2012-13, 2015-16, 2016-17, 2017-18, Player of the Tournament:–XI of the Tournament:World Cup 2014, Euro 2016Bench Tournament:–, Overall Score: 18 (4+(4×2)+(2×3))To tell you the truth, I thought Toni Kroos would become a different player than the one he actually did become. Player of the Season:2012-13, 2013-14, 2015-16XI of the Season:2011-12, 2012-13, 2013-14, 2015-16, 2017-18Bench Season:2010-11, 2014-15, 2016-17, 2018-19, Player of the Tournament:–XI of the Tournament:–Bench Tournament:World Cup 2010, Euro 2012, Overall Score: 42 ((3×8)+(2×4)+(4×2)+(2×1)). And there was one season where Lewandowski was fielded as more of a No.10. Ireland Women Team of the Decade. After reclaiming his first team spot following a period of poor performances, De Gea quickly became one of United's most valuable assets. Finally, Kevin de Bruyne. Dhoni was also named the skipper of the team. And his performance against Lyon on the 13th of March 2019 is well worth watching as well. 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. But Alves’ career was not as consistent as Lahm’s and certainly not as consistent within the period relevant for this selection. But if you think that the modern game makes it possible for a defender not to be among the very, very best in the “keep it safe, keep it simple” category but still be among the very, very best all things considered, than there is a strong case in Hummels’ favor. The more interesting criticism thus is that Messi did not perform as well for Argentina than he did for Barcelona. Hence my Team of the Season selections heavily support me in choosing a Team of the Decade – but they do not determine my selections in any straightforward way. Looking back, this could very well be an overreaction on my part. School Team of the Decade Part 7. Hence my lingering doubts. European players have a bit of an advantage because I compile a Team of the Tournament for the Euros but not for other continental trophies. The English Premier League has witnessed some incredible talents throughout its glittering history. Having said that, the effort involved took its toll. 2nd Team -- Troy Tulowitzki (COL, TOR): Tulo was a five-time All-Star this decade and, at his peak, was one of the best all-around shortstops of his generation. I don’t think there is a season this decade in which some of the very best performances by any defensive midfielder aren’t of his making. His passing game, too, became more adventurous. But Lewandowski was his team’s main goalscorer for most of the decade, while Suarez played with Messi. At the time of writing these words, players like ter Stegen and Ederson have arguably overtaken him in at least some of the ways goalkeeping is considered to be ‘modern’ (Bayern have also become a more conservative team, using his sweeper abilities less). Busquets won Player of the Season that year and he really was outstanding. Back then Busquets played in teams that pressed as far forward as any of the teams he was ever going to play in. As late as 2016 I thought he might even be on a trajectory to claim the top spot for himself without having to face too much contradiction. I’m not sure. He began inviting pressure, only to somehow evade his pursuers time and time again. Actively inviting pressure 30 meters from your own goal, when there are just two further teammates behind you, almost by definition means flirting with disaster. Had I done so, the Portuguese would have outclassed all other contenders. I just wanted to point out that a bias is there. Ten years is a long time in cricket, but you won’t know that looking at our IPL team of the decade. Check out the Bayern match for a particular highlight.Let me close the section on this decade’s midfielders with a word on a few players who missed out on the first eleven: Iniesta and Xavi, the latter in particular, belong to the highest echelon of midfield players. Deputy Features Editor. A Note on Best Team and Best ClubReal Madrid are the Best Club of the decade because their teams have remained competitive for the whole decade and they dominated the Champions League for many years. As you know by now, I ended up choosing Mats Hummels and Thiago Silva. else. He was also my first choice for the 2005-15 Team. The International Federation of Football History & Statistics have compiled their best… Now, every defender makes mistakes but more conservative players like, for example, Diego Godin do make less of them than Hummels (which has its own price, of course). One thing I could have done is to simply deduce the Team of the Decade from the Team of the Season selections: ascribe points for being named Player of the Season, member of the first XI, and being placed on the bench and choose the eleven players with the highest total score (or the players with the highest score for each position). Luckily for him, and luckily for us, Busquets played in teams that fit this description for most of the decade. Tap to unmute. With that out of the way, let us turn to the team itself: inclusion in the team is based solely on quantity and quality of performance during the respective period of time. The first was the 2010-11 season in which he anounced himself as a player who is capable of being among the best in his position, without being truly outstanding. Classic moments alternated with niggling injuries and the feeling that he wasn’t fully fit.Messi and ArgentinaOne of the main criticisms directed at Messi is that he never won a major trophy with his national team. Follow me on Twitter: @SoccerWizdom. I, yet again, named him Player of the Season in 2015-16 and this is the one I’m standing by. The ICC Awards of the Decade is a one-off edition of the ICC Awards annual awards programme, aimed at celebrating the stand-out performers and moments from the past ten years of international cricket. Let us chronicle his evolution as a player throughout the decade: by 2010, at 22 years of age, he had become an established world class performer and a regular both in Guardiola’s all-conquering Barcelona and the Spanish national team that won the World Cup. Death by a thousand Querpässe. Seven All Blacks and three Springboks made the Team of the Decade. And you can perform brilliantly and go trophyless. everything. I compared that performance with Maradona’s greatest exploits (minus the cheating) in 1986. What stopped him were injuries and the lost time at Chelsea. He never registered too many assists (5 Liga assists were the highest he ever got, and that was in 2017-18), but he became much more adept at playing the penultimate pass or simply the key pass that initiated a dangerous dynamic. Hummels relies a bit too heavily on his anticipation and consequently makes decisions that are at least on the verge of being too risky. I only started compiling Teams of the Season in 2008-09, but there is little doubt that Cristiano would have won the 2007-08 edition, bringing his total ‘Footballarguments Ballon d’Ors’ to at least two. Player of the Season:–XI of the Season:2010-11, 2011-12, 2012-13, 2013-14, 2014-15, 2015-16, 2016-17, 2017-18, 2019-20Bench Season:2018-19, Player of the Tournament:–XI of the Tournament:Euro 2012Bench Tournament:Euro 2016, World Cup 2018. The decade will be remembered as the end of the Jarome Iginla era for the Flames, and then with the rise of Monahan and Gaudreau as the team's new standard-bearers in the ensuing seasons. He is a strong contender for a place in the next Team of Football History. He at least made the bench in every tournament he participated in between 2010 and 2016. He played quality seasons even after the middle of the decade. And doing so would be a wasted opportunity and, frankly, unfair. To my defense: I think there was a time when it looked like Neuer’s and de Gea’s respective trajectories were so different that a close race was on the table. 12:00 14/10/2019 . These are the players on the bench. Underrating worse-than-usual performances of special players compared to peak performances of lesser players seems a common bias in football, perhaps because ‘not as good as he used to be, but still the best’ doesn’t make for a very compelling story.2014-15 marked the beginning and in fact the highest point of Messi’s second plateau of greateness. Best of the 2010’s: Champions League Team of the Decade. Overall this team has a very interesting bias. Yes, Argentina has featured peak-Messi as well, in particular at the Copa America Centenario in 2016, but much more intermittently than Barcelona did. After many long hours poring through the numbers, CricViz Analyst Freddie Wilde picks the Wisden T20I Team of the Decade. The ICC on Sunday announced the men's and women's teams for the T20Is, ODIs and Tests from the last decade. In those years Busquets discovered more and more that he could actually be a decisive player with the ball at his feet. One or two of them might come close but I don’t think any of them has a good shout at having noticeably superior technique than Marcelo. You should definitely check out the highlights if you don’t know them already. The backs poll will run from Wednesday 3rd February until midnight on Tuesday 9th February 2021. Argentina had many fine attacking player other than Messi during the last decade. All the years in which Messi won, Messi was better. Okay, with that out of the way, here it goes.Three years ago I argued that Lionel Messi is the best player in the history of men’s football. He is adept both at playing high ball over the opponent’s defensive line and cutting the defense open with low passes between the defenders. Change ), his superhuman ability to throw (!) Premier League teams of the decade - Gary Neville and Jamie Carragher. Having said that, here is a short and incomplete list of special performances: the 2011 Champions League semi-final first leg against Madrid, both the first and the second leg of the 2011 Supercopa against Madrid, his goal fest against Leverkusen in 2012, the 2015 Copa del Rey final, the 2017 Liga Clasico at the Bernabeu, and the 2018 Champions League match at Tottenham. Has been at Barcelona the entire decade, winning 22 trophies in total. 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). This video shows you many of the defensive qualities just described.If Hummels had played at his peak level for all of his career, there would be no doubt that he belongs in this team and I would classify him as one of the all-time great central defenders. When he arguably surpassed his previous peak! Only in the last seasons of the decade did he come close to doing so again – for very different reasons. But if the team suits his needs, if they play out from the back and utilize a high and compact pressing and counter pressing game, his strengths come out and his weaknesses vanish. Comment below! All of that became far less important when his game (and Real Madrid’s) became much more about heading home one cross after another. February 8, 2021 10:38 am. Taking shots even a player with a Top 5 Right Foot in Football History should not take; showing his limitations as a playmaker. The poll is now closed for voting in The Front Row UnionIreland Women Team of the Decade We've split it in to forwards and backs. Sky Sports News have compiled a list of 36 players to choose from, including Premier League stars past and present. He started the 2010s with a five-year run for the Rockies where he hit .312, slugged .553 and posted a .940 OPS, helping him beat out Andrelton Simmons for the second-team shortstop spot. Busquets had to be at his very best to play this way. School Team of the Decade Part 9. I’d like to point out that the race down the right sideline is propably the one Bale looks best when compared to Messi =P. In order to improve his passing options he frequently pushes up into midfield, thereby cleverly forcing the opponent to break formation. He is the man behind his own goals to a much higher degree than the aforementioned Müller and C. Ronaldo are. He began making mistakes and given his way of playing “mistakes” were often bound to be “major mistakes”. And he is the closest thing we have to a worthy successor to the likes of Xavi and Pirlo. As I wrote at the time, that world cup contained exactly one aggregate performance that transcended the world class level and for once it wasn’t Messi’s. He is the closest thing we currently have to the van Basten archetype of the ideal modern striker. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. The years 2015-2018 saw the continuation of this phase of his career, albeit on a somewhat diminished level compared to his absolute peak in 2014-15. 2.0′. If Hummels and Ramos were an old-school sweeper-marker duo, Ramos would certainly be the man-marker. He is supernaturally good at creating by means of dribbling and supernaturally good at creating by means of passing.No other player this decade can claim to be supernaturally good at scoring and creating goals. It may have looked like he would go on to be a different player, but a better one? And Messi still produced strictly individual moments of utmost brilliance such as his solo goal against Madrid in the 2011 Champions League semi-final. Not style-wise, of course, but in relation to his role in the team: the world-class player that didn’t make you go ‘oh!’ and ‘ah!’ with every other touch. Then there are attacking fullbacks who resemble central midfielders. Once the shortlist is complete, it’ll be over to you to vote for your top English school 1 st XV of the last decade, the School Team of the Decade. But Thiago Silva made the bench for the 2012-13, 2014-15, 2015-16, 2017-18, and 2019-20 seasons, which is quite impressive on its own, but even the first eleven of the 2011-12 and the 2013-14 team plus the first eleven of the 2014 and 2018 World Cups. Now, why did I include Thiago Silva at the latest possible moment, only days before this blogpost goes online? He has an assured first touch, can do little dribbles even under heavy pressure, and has a very, very precise passing game. Compiling this selection has been fundamentally different from choosing the players for all other Teams. At the time of writing these lines, he stands at 725 professional career goals. The Dodgers had nearly a whole decade of having terrific teams that never went all the way, and this was the best of them. He claimed the Golden Glove in 2017/18, scooped the Manchester United Player of the Year award three times between 2014 and 2018, produced Match of the Day's 'Save of the Season' five times across the decade and made the PFA Team of the Year five times … The second big project that makes up a significant part of the content posted on this blog is the Teams of the Decade project. Ramos is arguably too physical and certainly at times too aggressive for his own good. One came against Juventus in a Champions League group match on the 22nd of November 2017. Messi was playing like someone who saw it as his personal responsibility to carry his team all the way to winning major trophies. Modric isnt weak for a player his size. You're signed out. He is one of the three truly outstanding players of the 2010s and perhaps the second best of them overall. It is high quality, relying on speed of thought and a sure touch more than sprints across the field or athletic heroics (apart from doing one’s share of long distance running every game). And then there were positions where the thing that brought me headaches was the very fact that there were too many deserving players. Some were left questioning why the fan-selected player of the decade… Even though he did so in a slightly different fashion than I anticipated.There are players whose main strength lies in their ability to put the cherry on the cake. Barcelona as a whole, managed by Tata Martino at the time, where playing far worse than in previous seasons. “Highest quality of football from both sides”, “most memorable match”, “match that encapsulates the most about the football played this decade”, “most aesthetically pleasing match” and “includes best performance by one side” are some possible interpretations. . Fitting to this focus on high-quality actions is the fact that he often steps out of defense to confront opposing strikers or even midfielders just when they receive the ball. This is not what happened. One can’t help but wonder whether a transfer to, say, Manchester City somewhere around 2017 or 2018 would have meant even more years of Busquets-excellence for us to witness.I hadn’t yet begun writing match notes when Busquets played his best seasons and I, too, am guilty of not remembering the standout performances of defensive midfielers as well as those of players further forward. The 'World's Men's Team of the Decade' has been announced by the IFFHS and only one Premier League player makes the final XI. 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. The end of his international career came even earlier, right after the victorious 2014 World Cup. Team of the decade Fullback Ronaldo’s impact on European football’s biggest stage has been well documented, with a look at his list of his personal accolades and achievements all that is needed to gain a concept of his legacy. Chelsea’s Centre-Back of the Decade (one out of two) – John Terry. Doesn’t make him a worse player, does it?One thing about Messi’s playing style that is at the centre of some of my earlier writings on him is the rationality that permeates his game. Not everyone is Gianluigi Buffon and remains world class way into his 30s.To experience Marcelo at his best, I can recommend this masterclass performance against Bayern. And finally there are some offensive-minded fullbacks who share some characteristics of box-to-box midfielders. On the left it produced players like Nilton Santos and Roberto Carlos; on the right legends such as Djalma Santos, Carlos Alberto, Cafu, and Dani Alves. Still, he was the best defensive midfielder in the world by the time the decade began. As I said in the beginning of the blogpost, my selection is about performance only. He still got that speed, that strength, that jump and that determination to reach every ball. School Team of the Decade Part 7. So what I want to say is that Sergio Ramos and Thiago Silva, although quite different in playing style, both played decades at almost the same level. The years from 2016 to 2020 mark the autumn of his career. There can be no doubt that Messi belongs in the first eleven of this Team of the Decade. I’m writing these words at the end of July 2020 and there still isn’t a decision. That much is clear. The problem was not so much that he no longer couldn’t be very good, but that he never again (with the exception of 2017-18) became as flawless as he used to be. The problem is that if you add these things up, you basically stop being a football team. Player of the Season:2019-20XI of the Season:2016-17, 2019-20Bench Season:2012-13, 2013-14, 2014-15, 2015-16, 2018-19, When you read this, you will know which player I picked to lead the line of the 2010-20 Team of the Decade. He still was quite good. The 2014-15 season was the one in which he left the plateau of excellence that he had stayed on for many years. Suarez on the other hand had a thoroughly underwhelming end to the decade. His defensive game isn’t as bad as it is sometimes made out to be, but he wouldn’t make this team, first eleven or bench, on defensive merits alone. He has the body, he has the mindset, he has the workrate, he has the passing game, he has the intelligence, and so on. But if we also talk about central midfielders who play in a more advanced role that borders on the attacking midfielder style, there is another player who edges him out as the best of the decade. “My challenge in this, my second commission for the Club, was to encapsulate the euphoria of City’s incredible decade of success,” Cooper says. Two further qualities that give him the edge over the other contenders are his knack for scoring (important) goals and his leadership. This drive is the key reason for his consistency (although his first half of the season became less consistent in later years, it has to be said). When it came to scoring goals, he did more and more of the heavy lifting. The deeper reasons for this sorry state of affairs probably lie in the complicated and deepy unhealthy relation between Messi and his country. Someone like peak-Özil or peak-De Bruyne is supernaturally good at creating goals, but far from supernaturally good at scoring goals. This was when he turned from being a regular cast member in the ensemble of world class players into the preeminent player in his position. The backs pool will run from … So it’s Robert Lewandowski who won the starting spot. But I think it was only the second best side. And both do not come close to matching Messi’s tally. Info. 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. Too lanky, too thin, still a bit awkward. 725 goals. Gerard Pique. Only Cristiano Ronaldo and Sergio Busquets, the other two historic giants of this decade*, managed to gain more than half (!) School Team of the Decade Part 7. If the quality of your performances was outstanding, you have a chance to be included even if, for example, you only performed on that level for, say, 5 of the 10 years. De Jong might be the future, but the veteran Modric was at least as good as the new kid on the block.Speaking about Modric being a veteran, his public acclaim has grown considerably during the last two years. Also, there were those legendary four goals against Madrid in the 2013 Champions League semi-final (and my God, those were great goals, even the penalty is class!). 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. Neuer makes the Team of the Season first XI four times between 2010 and 2017; de Gea only twice, both in the second half of the decade. The announcement of World Rugby’s Team of the Decade on Tuesday has brought with it an avalanche of criticism from fans over the selection and non-selection of certain players. What I want to say is that I don’t think that Toni Kroos belongs to the very best central midfielders of all time. He wasn’t even a guaranteed starter during this period but this was only because Real had a second world class left-back in the form of Fabio Coentrao. Unlike, say, picking an IPL Team of the Decade, compiling a T20I Team of the Decade is a different beast altogether, and perhaps a tougher ask. A high-scoring, high-assisting, box-to-box dominator. While David Warner and Rohit have been picked as openers, former South Africa cricketer AB De Villiers is selected as a middle-order batsman. Still, they are both modern greats. 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.
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