Click through the gallery below to check out Who Ate All the Pies’ list of The 10 greatest players of the last decade. Once you’ve done that, I’d love to hear your Top 10s.
1. ZINEDINE ZIDANE - Simply put, Zidane is right up there with Pele, Cruyff and Maradona. Others on this list might have more tricks in their bag, or more pace, or more goals, but overall, Zidane is without peer, even if he only operated at full power for the first half of this decade. Football is rightly called the beautiful game, and no one has played it with a greater sense of aesthetic poetry than Zizou.4706372
So, no English players in there, though in any list of honourable mentions I would find room for Paul Scholes, Ryan Giggs, Steven Gerrard and Frank Lampard.
Anyway, agree/disagree with my choices?
PS. This list was partly inspired by the Guardian’s current Joy of Six on the same subject. I say partly, as I had planned something similar weeks ago, but forgot about it.