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Cannavaro VS Puyol!

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#1 ·
Since in some defence threads these current 2 names are the best in world football, also in real life these are the best with juve and barca, who do you think is better and why ?

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#6 ·
I rate Cannavaro way above Puyol but I went with both being overrated, I wouldn't be so harsh in the way it was put though. :D
 
#10 ·
arfy05 said:
:D lol marc, sm and dagoods vote for overrated. 3 of xt's most controversial outspoken posters talking on the same wavelength :scared:

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We're different personalities of the same person, you should know this arfy. One of us. One of us. One of us! :eekani:
 
#14 ·
Cannavaro plays in Serie A, so of course he's better than Puyol. In fact, every Serie A defender is better than Puyol.

The only reason why Puyol shines is because the league consists of so many shit defenders. Even I could shine as a defender in La Liga :thumbsup:
 
#25 ·
I rate Puyol but only by a whisker,Cannavaro and Nesta are built up as those hard Italian defenders but put them in a team like Barca with CBs playing up in the midfield facing tough counter-attacks without a proper Midfield destroyer,it is going to be real tough and I rate puyol high because of that.Cannavaro wud replace Puyol mich better than Nesta though.
 
#26 ·
A group of European football magazines, members of the "ESM" group, select a Team of the Month each season from September up to and including May. The players who most often appeared in those teams during a season are then chosen into the ESM Team of the Season. Members of the ESM group are: A Bola (Portugal), Don BalĂłn (Spain), Fanatik (Turkey), Foot Magazine (Belgium), Der Kicker (Germany), La Gazzetta dello Sport (Italy), Sport Express (Russia), Tipsbladet (Denmark), Voetbal international (Netherlands), World Soccer (UK).

Nesta was in the ESM Season XI in 2000/01, when he was with Lazio.
Puyol was in the ESM Season XI in 2001/02, 2002/03 and 2004/05.

Do you think Puyol is in the ESM Season XI 3 times (all more recent then Nesta's appearance) for nothing? There's football magazines from all over Europe in this voting, and only 1 per country, so there is no thing such as 'bias' in this voting. Those newspapers have the best journalists, who's job is to know football.

If I recall correctly, last season Puyol, Terry ánd Cannavaro were all in the ESM Team of the Year.

In fact, these are the best central defenders according to global football fans:

Terry 27.72%
Puyol 15.20%
Nesta 12.32%
Carragher 12.23%
Carvalho 7.37%
Cannavaro 6.82%
Lucio 6.25%
Alex 5.36%
Thuram 4.57%
Cris 2.16%