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Poll: best defender? (Vote): nesta (milan) (Vote): puyol (barcelona) (Vote): cafu (milan) (Vote): terry (chelsea) (Vote): stam (milan) (Vote): navarro (sevilla) (Vote): other - post who
Who in your opinion is the best defender in the world RIGHT NOW? Too many discussions on this board about attacking players and forwards, so i thought id make a thread about defenders.
In my opinion, i think Carles Puyol of Barcelona is one of the best in the world, with Terry, Nesta, Gallas not far behind. Puyol has been playing great defensive football in the 2005/06 season, especially with average defenders around him (beletti, edmilson, oleguer). He is fast and a game-reader, and is a good distributor of the ball, even when under pressure. He runs all game for barca and is not an old player like stam or maldini. The only bad point i can see is that he is not physically big - i think he is only 178cm tall (5'9'' - 5'10'') and not as solid as some defenders like stam, or cafu
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Gallas
It's a shame that he's so good+versatile that he is being used all over the park.
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Braavos36362 Posts
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Yea, I couldnt agree more. Puyol would basically kill himself for the good of his team. I've never seen him be the second man on the ball, always the first one. He should captain Spain too!
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Terry, not only is he good at the back but he also scores quite a bit!
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puyol makes crazy mistakes sometimes, not solid enough imo
i can't choose, there's four defending positions so like 1023587351 choices and like 20 great players for those 4 positions. I chose Stam though, just because of nationalism and his scaryness and solidness!
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OK I'll vote for Lugano, uruguayan player that plays for Sao Paulo, because he is REALLY good. I think after this world club championship he is changing to another club, I'm not sure, but I wish him the best.
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I'll go with Nesta, he was not at his best in the past month or so but when he's on top form there's no one better imo. Btw you should've included Canavarro from Juventus in the poll, he's certainly one of the top defenders out there.
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On December 16 2005 02:03 Raidern wrote: OK I'll vote for Lugano, uruguayan player that plays for Sao Paulo, because he is REALLY good. I think after this world club championship he is changing to another club, I'm not sure, but I wish him the best.
It's heavily rumoured that he's going to sign with Milan in the summer, I hope he does, he sounds like a very good prospect.
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On December 16 2005 02:03 Raidern wrote: OK I'll vote for Lugano, uruguayan player that plays for Sao Paulo, because he is REALLY good. I think after this world club championship he is changing to another club, I'm not sure, but I wish him the best.
hes a dirty cheat he was into mark vidukas back the whole game in the playoffs, and he didnt even get a yellow, biased spanish refs. they should have german refs not ones that speak the same language as only one of the teams
but yeh he is aggressive and very solid, milan need a new backline, maldini, cafu and stam are almost finished
LOL someone voted cafu
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Other: Ashley Cole. And on that list, Nesta.
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I have no idea so I voted others!
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omg where is Lucio ??? Lucio is the best in-defender (sorry don't know word for defenders in the middle..) with Terry... where the fuck is Lucio?
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Ricardo Carvalho and Walter Samuel
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terry no doubtttttttttttttttt
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Puyol ? lol... Imho, Terry is one of the most overrated players atm. Why isnt Cannavaro in that list ? He is definetly the best. Hyypiä tight second .
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