Is Fabio Grosso the best defender all around the world!!!!?
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fabio cannavaro is BUT GROSSO IS MY FAVORITE...FORZA ITALIA AND GROSSO!!!
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Geroge Hagi from team Romania.  This guy was AWESOME!  When the World Cup came to America in '94, he tore it up out there!  I went to a World Cup game and saw Romania play, and it was GREAT!  Chances are, those who say Pele, are saying him because that's the only soccer person they actually know.  I'm not saying Pele is bad at all....he's great.  I just think Hagi really played the sport in no other way than anyone else.
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ronaldinho is the funnest to watch but my favorite player is Alessandro Nesta of Italy\n\ndefenders must cheer on other defenders
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Easy, one of my all-time favourite players, the mercurial Franco Baresi. \n\nA great captain for club and country. Pity he missed out on the World Cup. I know he felt bad about his penalty miss in the Final.\n\nIf you think Terry or Nesta is good. Just imagine someone better. He moved with the ball like a swan in the lake. So graceful, never panicking even with the world's most feared strikers breathing down his neck.
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Roberto carlos may be old but mind you roberto carlos is a fantastic defender and 1 example could be in champions league Arsenal vs Real Madrid and when Lujenburg or henry nearly scored he defended it briliantly
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World class maybe no but very use full player to have around, I would have him in my team always, cause he brings a lot of high balls down ( no defender can out jump him ), he reminds me of me, maybe that is one more reason I like him. Good luck for England!
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are u people stupid? Ben wallace is the best defender of all time. he' won defensive player of the year 4 times all ready. aint no telling how many he's going to win it  in his lifetime...........
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Without a shadow of a doubt he is the best player in the world at the moment.Every aspect of his game is so solid and his leadership qualities are the stuff of legend.There are more skillful players.But none better.
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Two South American midfielders would get my vote... Either Kaka or Maxi Rodriguez would be fine to win this award as they are both young, brilliant on and off the ball, and make the players around them better...  It remains to be seen though, as Patrick Vieira is finally hitting his stride (the perfect captain for that French side if you ask me!), and it seems to me that a sleeping giant (no pun intended) has been awakened in Ronaldo!  If he has found his form, then he will end up being the most deadly striker at this tournament and I do not envy the task of any defender who has to mark him!  Finally it is worth mentioning that Alonso of Spain has been the biggest factor in their success thus far.  He makes those around him better and is absolutely lethal from a dead-ball situation!
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im gonna answer honestly. :)\n\nbuffon- only 2 goals went past him\ncannavaro- he was really good, when i see clips of him playing, im just like "woah" :) lol\nzidane- he was really good, his penalty kicks are the best. i mean, he even scored one against buffon. :)\npirlo- his freekicks are just great\ntoni- he made 3 goals, and all were great :)\nricardo- like buffon, not many goals went past him\n\n\nbut overall, many players were good in the WC. :)
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5   Fabio Cannavaro !!!!
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I would just like to point out this to you:\n\nBuffon can't save penalties, I've seen him save one penalty in these past years. \nHe isn't always top-class in championship, he plays well on the international level, but he plays like any other professional goalkeeper when he plays for Juventus. Even in the latest games Buffon didn't play well, now you can't give an award to someone who played well only during the World Cup. He was amazing during the WC, no doubt, but he's not always like that. Cech wasn't as good, but he's very constant in the quality of his game, in the same way Lehmann has improved a lot compared to the past. And please don't forget Van der Sar who is bringing ManU back to glory, it's not only Rooney and Ronaldo. \n\nAnyways, check out these goalkeepers, they're pretty good:\nVailati (FC Sion), Léoni (FC Zurich), Malafeev (Russian national team), Sylva (Lille), Vermeer (AFC Ajax).
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I think he is the biggest fighter and bravest defender in MAN. He is newcomer so maybe he is little nervous and got so many cards. He will certanly be main defence player next season.
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I think that Thierry Henry is still one of the very best strikers in the World. He is incredibly fast with great acceleration, and has a great touch around the goal. He can still turn a half chance into a goal in ways that other strikers can't match. In terms of pure ball skills Ronaldinho is perhaps his only peer at the moment.
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I think the best braziliam(lol) player righ now is \nRONALDINHO(BARCA),he looks marvelous & have the ability to make his team win any game at any moment.U feel that the ball is his GF,he can do whatever he want with it.\ncomes in\n2nd place Ronaldo (Real) \n3rd Adriano (Inter)\n4th Juninho(Lyon)he is the greatest now at free kicks & set pieces.\n5th in my list is Julio Babtista (Real)\nI hope I got it right for U.\n:)
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i think the underlying Q is, does he deserve it?  the guy's got skills certainly but i could name several defenders who did a better job than him. he was hyped up by the media bec. italy needed a hero and sorry to say this, but there wasn't one who really stood out in the team, not even buffon bec. lehmann was light years better than him. jens had a LOT of defending to do and he shone at his job. maybe i'm blind, ignorant, biased, etc. but i saw all of italy's games xcept for that match with australia and i wasn't impressed with cannavaro at all. it was zambrotta and pirlo (to a lesser degree) who got my attention. cannavaro prob. got it bec. some ppl perversely felt something had to be rectified with the "premature" voting in the world cup which resulted in the "erroneous" giving of the golden ball to zidane and cannavaro having placed # 2 in that voting, was the logical beneficiary of the token act. that's ok if we confine it to performances in the wc but i get the sense that the ballon d'or had a wider criteria and as in the past, league performances had to be taken into account as well, not just the wc. which is where, in my limited understanding, this award goes terribly wrong bec. if that was  done then the prize should have gone to someone else. anyway, that's just my opi and i'm no certainly no expert.
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Ronaldinho..for sure. he is simply the best. Look at what he has done to Barcelona. the inspiration provided by him is the major reason for their fairytale run. Also remember that amazing freekick in the last wc against England when Brazil were 1 down...that to go with a beatiful pass to set up Rivaldo 4 the second...He is as good as it can get...