The player who survived the plane crash, the one who conquered the Champions League, or the one who stunned the Premier League? • We picked the decade footballer
Alan Rochelle
Survived the trauma - and kept playing. Rochelle // Photo: GettyImages
Arya Schmuckler's Choice: While not Lao Messi or Cristiano Ronaldo, Alan Rochelle proved that football is not everything in life. "Rochelle is living proof of Shapakuansa's incredible heritage," complimented the Brazilian team's professional manager, who in 2016 survived a shocking aviation disaster that wiped out almost the entire club and took the lives of 71 people.
The man who survived the trauma, and was one of the three players saved in the crash, was the same Rochelle who, in early January 2018, surprised the entire world when he returned to playing football and even extended his contract at the club until 2020. The official comeback and return to the grass made a friendly against Barcelona. Well, that's how you insist on seeing stars.
Sergio Ramos
Trophy and championship contractor. Ramos in Spain team uniform // Photo: AFP
Lee Resnick's Choice: While you are all debating between Messi and Ronaldo, for whom so many words and abilities have been written, I decided to go for a name you doubted - Sergio Ramos.
The Spanish defender opened the decade with a nomination for Real Madrid's second captain after Iker Cassias. That year he recorded his 200th appearance in the Blancos uniform and also won the 2010 World Cup in South Africa with the Spanish national team.
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He has been selected nine times for the FIFA season team this season, four times in a row for the Spanish League's best defensive player, was included in the UEFA Euro 2012 team, elected to the Champions League 2016 final, and this season became the height of Spain's all-time appearances. .
He has only two championships and two Spanish Cups in this decade, four Champions League winners, a World Cup and European Championship with the Spanish national team, two Spanish Super Cups, three European Super Cups and four World Championships for teams.
Beyond Ramos being a great defender and brake, he is known as a soul player, as he always adds spiciness and atmosphere to the game, and he also occupies quite a bit of defense. His biggest goal of the career was probably in the 2013-20114 Champions League final against Atletico Madrid, so we beat Equality (1: 1) in the 93rd minute and sent the game to an extension where the Blancos won 1: 4.
In the same season, Ramos scored a pair in 4 minutes, in Real's 4-0 win over Bayern in the Champions League semifinals. In the Champions Final of the 2015-2016 season, he again conquered the final against Atletico, this time with the leg (1: 1, 3: 5 for Real in the Finals) and hoisted the first Champions League Cup as Captain Real.
Last season, he captured Real's first in the Spanish King's Cup final (0: 3 over Leganes) and completed 100 goals in all official frames. I know some of the pioneers who have not yet reached 100 goals in their careers, so this is definitely a player worthy of entering the World Cup Hall of Fame.
Cristiano Ronaldo
the biggest? Ronaldo // Photo: IP
Oded's Choice: They say Leo Messi is brilliant and makes everything easy - and right. But that is not the index of footballer who dominated world football this decade. Because Messi's success was largely down to the Spanish League and Cup. In the Champions League he has only won twice, and we should not expand the Argentina squad. During that time, Ronaldo won four times in both the Champions League and the European Championships. phenomenon.
Daniel Levy's Choice: The Endless Debate Who is bigger, Ronaldo or Messi, will probably never stop - even after the two quit the game. But if you look at what the Portuguese did in the current decade, you can't help but crown him as the best player. He won with Real Madrid at four European Championships, led Portugal to a historic Euro 2016 win, became the Champions League's all-time scorer and cookout, the Real Madrid top scorer with 450 conquests and the Portugal national team scorer. Along with all this, he made a communicative transition to Juventus and gave the Italian league animals that had not been for years, while the ex was still trying to find the right man to get into the big shoes he left.
Dean Samuel Elms' Choice: Discourse about who's a bigger player - Christiano or Messi - has accompanied global football for about 15 years. However, the decision must arise and fall precisely on the significant difference between them - achievements in the team. After all, they each won the Champions League, they both lead the table of the factory's goalkeepers, both won the La Liga championship, but only one won the title with his team.
If Cristiano and Messi are "pulled out" of Portugal and Argentina, there is no doubt that Albislasta is better. At the same time, the quality depth of the selected teams in Euro is greater than that of participants in the US box office. Still, in Euro 2016, Portugal's salso managed to win the trophy. So, although Cristiano was injured and replaced in the 25th minute and the gray maple conquered the victory gate by extension against France, that is all the magic. In a decade, or even less, no one will remember that Antoine Grisman scored twice as much as he did in the same European Championship. Winning the First Nations League is the "stamp" of justice for Cristiano's 10th world footballer.
Arjen Robben
A memorable duo facing Spain. Ruben // Photo: Reuters
Or Kish's Choice: Last July, one of the best footballers who ever stepped on the lawn, Arian Ruben. The Dutch footballer has played in Europe for 19 years, started his professional career in the Dutch team of Groningen, moved to Einhoven (with the Dutch Championship) and after one season moved to Chelsea, where he played for three seasons and won two championships. Then to Real Madrid and the station where he reached the peak of his career - Bayern Munich.
The most memorable picture for Ariann Ruben was during the 2014 FIFA World Cup, when the Netherlands team defeated Spain 5-1 in a game in which they scored a goal and led the team to one of its only highlights in the last decade.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic
This is Zlatan, and there is no other // Photo: USA TODAY Sports
Eli Stern's Choice: For the past ten years, I was dying to be a fly on Zlatan Ibrahimovic's shoulder. Not because of what he got on the lawn, but because it would be his shoulder.
The crazy Swede of Bosnian-Croatian-Albanian descent has played in a decade ending in Barcelona, Milan, Paris Saint-Germain and Manchester United, and has played in the Los Angeles Galaxy. Every color group, every city with lights and skins, every 3D wave and every quote seems to be built specifically to enter the Golden Book of Words.
True, there are better footballers than him, handsome, decorated, and probably brilliant, but there is no one like Zlatan. Or as he himself answered the question of the reporter wondering what gave his freshman fiance - "What do you mean? She got Zlatan."
Jamie Vardy
Partner in one of the most exciting championships in sports history. Verdi // Photo: Reuters
Shmulik Leopard's Choice: He wasn't destined for greatness like Messi, not even Guy Asulin, and he spent the first few years of his career in teams from the seventh league. In fact, up to the age of 26 he did not play in a group that has Wikipedia in Hebrew.
It is likely that even when he made his Premier League debut, not long before celebrating his 28th birthday, Vardi never imagined that he would explode on the league like a meteor coming out of nowhere and take Leicester City one of the most exciting championships in sports history. But that's exactly what he did. Jamie Vardy, a brick factory worker from Sheffield, is the story of the Cinderella we never thought we would ever see. Remember, the next decade will no longer be such a player.