Attack
The attacking players are often recognized as the best football clubs and Championships all over the world. The point is simple: they score goals and are direct participants in the victories. What kid has not dreamed to score a goal in the world Cup final! That is why contracts forwards and attacking Midfielders are usually significantly more expensive than goalkeepers, Midfielders and defenders.
The Portuguese real Madrid's Cristiano Ronaldo is the current holder of the "Golden ball" (the main individual award given at year-end soccer community) has over the title of the English "Premier League" trophy "UEFA Champions League" (main club tournament in the world). He has the highest speed, is a master of unusual tricks. He have perfected the technique of execution of penalty kicks, which subsequently resulted in hundreds of goals against the top clubs and teams in the world. Christiano is a football star and one of the world's best players.
Lionel Messi, FC Barcelona and the Argentina national team is a rival of Cristiano Ronaldo for the title and the title of best player in the world. It is low (at the time, suffered from growth hormone deficiency, but doctors "Barcelona" was able to cure it), but this does not prevent Messi to be the storm of all the clubs and teams in the world. Messi four times in a row was awarded the "Golden ball". Millions of fans around the world think of Lionel his idol.
Protection
At the moment, the great respect enjoyed by the defenders, who can support the attack fast flanking actions. Extreme defender of real Madrid and the Brazilian national team Maicon repeatedly scoring goals from the edge of the box. Dani Alves, John Terry and Per Mertesacker repeatedly led Sevilla, Chelsea and Arsenal to the club titles.
History
The best player in the world recognized the great Soviet goalkeeper Lev Yashin. He managed to keep English, German and Brazilian attackers in the world championship 1966 (the USSR national team took the fourth place), also to achieve the Olympic championship in 1960 in Melbourne. For phenomenal quality game Yashin nicknamed "the Black spider".
The greatest number of goals scored in career of the great Brazilian forward Pele. The exact number of successful actions of the Brazilian is difficult to determine (due to the absence at that period of professional statistics), but it significantly exceeds one thousand. Of course, you should take into account the level of football that is growing every year. In our time, professional football has become much drier than in the mid-twentieth century. But at that time the best player was Pele, fast, technical and methodical, and to beat him is not easy.
Defender Franz Beckenbauer has created a technical team Germany as we know it to this day. He was captain of the national team and his native clubs - Bayern Munich, ten times champion of Germany, twice the world champion and Europe. He still is a benchmark game for hundreds of professionals defense.
Perspective
It is difficult to predict who will become the world's best footballer. High hopes for the striker "Barcelona" Neymar. It was bought from the Brazilian "Santos" for a record 120 million euros, and in the first year of performances for the Catalan club became the third scorer of the Examples: after Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi. High performance and technically the game shows the player "Milan" and national team of Italy Mario Balotelli (Super Mario).
