Video – Football’s 10 best midfielders

OK, this week’s top ten is likely to be a little more contentious. I made my original list of greats and I had twenty-one players just off the top of my head. Any one of those twenty-one, as well as many others I’m sure that I haven’t thought about, would be perfectly at home in this list of the top ten.

Here goes my subjective list for starters. I don’t for a second suggest that this list is the definitive one and that I’ve got it right. The ten I have come up with aren’t bad though!

Born 3rd March 1953
Clubs Flamengo, Udinese
88 caps for Brazil

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARpEnjZIWko

Born 13th March 1973
Clubs Ajax, Milan, Juventus, Tottenham
74 caps for Holland

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwLEqJu2n4Y

Born 5th February 1965
Clubs Sportul Studenţesc, Steaua Bucureşti, Real Madrid, Brescia Calcio, FC Barcelona, Galatasaray
125 caps for Romania

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bBKYAw7shs

Born 21st March 1961
Clubs Borussia Munchengladbach, Bayern Munich, Inter
150 caps for Germany

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOpz8vrU19o

Born 22nd April 1982
Clubs Sao Paulo, Milan
61 caps for Brazil

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNJQwHN9lyw

Born 18th February 1967
Clubs Vicenza, Fiorentina, Juventus, Milan, Bologna, Inter, Brescia
56 caps for Italy

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjj1PksMOco

Born 1st September 1962
Clubs HFC Haarlem, Feyenoord, PSV, Milan, Sampdoria, Chelsea
66 caps for Holland

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=701XpfoBd7s

Born 21st June 1955
Clubs Nancy, St Etienne, Juventus
72 caps for France

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfAxRE7PJ14

Born 25th April 1947
Clubs Ajax, Barcelona
48 caps for Holland

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CK8M23dsMKY

Born 23rd June 1972
Clubs Bordeaux, Juventus, Real Madrid
108 caps for France

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QP2N3qopARI

Over to you.