Interlull Debate – Greatest Footie Player of the Decade

Who is this decade's greatest player

Well, the interlull is clearly upon upon us and like a tall sailing ship stuck in the doldrums it looks like Gooners the world over are bored out of their minds.  These next few days are exciting to some extent, dealing with national pride and all that. The coming international matches will determine the last few national sides to make it to South Africa. The playoff matches are pretty exciting when you think about it, especially with some big country names having to fight for their World Cup lives.

Nonetheless, the interlull is looked at as a bad thing, especially when your club team is on a good run of form. It’s also a bad thing when your club team has a history of not doing well coming off of the interlull. It’s not like either of those describe a club from North London we all love. Like the Gooner faithful we are, the interlull hasn’t deterred is from incessantly discussing a league match that is still nearly three weeks away.  I guess that goes to show you where our hearts and minds truly lie. And that’s not a bad thing.

But in an effort to show that we are a cultured lot and in effort to show that we can discuss football outside Arsenal. . .right?  And given THIS group’s and sports fans in general natural propensity for debating we at YAMA  would like pose to you this question – Who is the greatest player of this decade? Heady stuff man. Bit it’s easy right? That’s a rhetorical question.

So, seeing as how there are only a few weeks left before the dawn of a new decade, what better time than now (the last interlull of the decade) to discuss such an important topic? Or better put what a better way to have a discussion that doesn’t require you to scroll down to point #180.

We can tackle this a many different ways we can go for the absolute best OVERALL player regardless of position, or we can go by the best at a position. Oh hell, we could just do it both ways. Maybe if we get to some sort of consensus ( knowing you lot, I am sure we won’t ;-) ) we could actually have a working list that could lead to a full fledged end of year article. You game?

There are myriad players from different countries the world over, each shocking, awing, and entertaining the watching billions with his own unique style, his own repertoire of tricks that can’t be stopped, shots that can’t be blocked, passes only he can see, and moves that us mere mortals could only dream of making.

So who will  it be?  Ronaldinho?  Fat Ronaldo?  Cristiano Ronaldo?  Rivaldo?  Roberto Carlos?  Riquelme?  Zanetti?  Zidane?  Beckham?  Cantona?  Vieira?  Henry?  Makelele?  Casillas?  Fabregas?  Klose?  Xavi?  Iniesta?  Ballack?  Raul?  Van Nistelrooy?  Bergkamp?  Davids?  Messi?  Puyol? Torres?  Seedorf?  Ibrahimovic?  Pirlo?  Pires?  Kahn?  Cannavaro?  Malidini?  Nesta?  Ferdinand?  Eto’o? Lamprad?  Shevchenko?  Giggs?  Figo?  Owen?  Kaka?  Buffon?  Deco?  Gerrard?  Nakata?  Scholes?  Totti?  Or someone else?

Let the madness begin!

Special thanks to ChiGooner for the idea and the original content – which was only slightly altered by me to make Art happy and make this more “tabloidish”