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Usually at any time in the past you name 20 players of world football that you would call world class, not going to become world class or off form at the moment but generally world class no matter what.

The reason I made this thread is that at the moment I can only think of around 10-13 players who are world class, so maybe that is the reason why so many leagues are so competative this year as their are a genuine lack of world class players for the first time in years.

As of today I consider only the following world class:
Messi, Ronaldo, Iniesta, Xavi, Dani Alves, Evra, Vidic, Eto'o, Sneider, Tevez, Robben, Villa.

Pepe, Modric, Ibrahimovic, Neuer could maybe be counted but imo aren't.

That's in total 12 players.

For example any time in the past you can count easily around 12 world class players at that time and many more.

e.g 2 years ago 2009, Villa, Tevez, Ribery, Ibrahimovic, Messi, Ronaldo, Vidic, Evra, Iniesta, Xavi, Lucio, Eto'o, Pujol, Gerrard, Torres, Drogba, Lampard, Terry, Cole, Alonso, Van Nistelrooy, Lahm, Fabregas,

Is it just that the world is lacking world class footy players......

rooney, tevez, drogba, pique, casillas, reina, terry, could all be added to you 2011 list

you might not know this but being world-class is fecking hard work and your comparing 2009 to 2011 so the same generation of players look at your 2009 list lampard, terry, cole, gerrard are all in their 30's now as is puyol and van nistelrooy is basically retired. so it's not a far comparison imo

and modric isn't world class and imbrahimovic is awful most overrated player to ever kick a ball

wouldn't add terry rooney or drogba or cassilas at the moment,

Reina possibley but he was more or a world class player in 09 than now, Casillas has also gone off and is another possibility before this season I rated Julio Cesar as the best gk in world footy, but he's also gone.

Pique would be world class but hard to tell as only Real can challenge Barca defensively,

Thats my point all the previous world class player seem to hae gone off the boil or retired so where are the new players stepping up, there are so few world class players maybe thats the reason everything is so competive, and why this seasons champions league has been so dull.

theres alot of quality players out there. that are world class aswell.

cant understand why youve not got alonso in that list. Hes been a mainstay in the madrid side and without him theyd soon miss him

well actually there are a few youngsters that are emerging to be World class, e.g Ozil, Gotze, Neymar, Muller, Pedro, Sahin. With more experience they will be amazing players in the near future

in those two years football has changed its more focused on keeping the ball and move so not many players stand out as in previous years thats just my opinion

also are messi and ronaldo better then the footballers from 30 years ago ?? yes football has changed everytime a new superstar comes along and raise the bar messi and ronaldo still have anothet 10 years then their will be some new kids as the worlds top player/s and raise the bar again

Messi and Ronaldo are head and shoulders above anybody at the moment, they are just amazing footballers

its only been 2 years not a long time in football at all.

two years ago we were second in the league, two years on we are 5th. Two years can make a diffrence.

1000th post, oh yeah