My Favourite Retired XI | Contest Entry By @bright-obias

Hello friends welcome to my blog today once again, it is another contest by @jacorv, so this article is in response to the contest about your best Your Best Retired XI. You can click the link to participate but first, let's read together to the end to see my best retired Eleven players.

Goalkeeper

Edwin Van Der Sar is a Dutch footballer that played as a goal keeper. Edwin has played for both Juventus, Fulham, Ajax and Manchester united where I watched his games, he is indeed a professional goalkeeper.

He was born on the October 29 1970 and has currently retired from football, Edwin is currently working as the chief executive officer at ajax. He is considered as one of the best goal keepers in the world of football.

I choose him for the fact that he knows how to organise his defence and his ability of stopping penalties. Edwin has won many trophies during his career as a footballer. Checkout some of his achievements below as a footballer during his career.

Edwin's Achievement or Honour

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Year	Honour or Achievement
2009	UEFA Club Goalkeeper of the year
2008/09	Premier league Golden glove
2004	Fulham player of the year
2009	Best European Goalkeeper
1998	Dutch Golden shoe.

Few Reasons why I chose Edwin Van Der Sar

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• His shot stopping ability
• His excellent positions as a goalkeeper
• The ability to organise his defence.
• His excellent Reflect

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Defenders

Fabio Cannavaro is an Italian footballer, that played for both Napoli and Parma. He is currently the manager of the Chinese side "Guangzhou Evergrande. Fabio cannavaro has also played for his National team "Italy"

He Assisted the team to reach her finals in UEFA Euro 2000, He became the captain of his national team in the year 2002. Fabio also led his national team to their victory of the 2006 FIFA world Cup that was played in Germany. Checkout some of his achievements below.

Fabio's Achievements or Honour

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Year	achievement or Honour
2014	Italian Football hall of fame
2005-06	Seria A Defender of the year
2006	Ballon d'Or
2006	World soccer of the year

Few Reasons Why I Chose Fabio Cannavaro.

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• He can Play as a Left or Right sided full back
• Cannavaro has a Nice Heading Accuracy and Nice positioning Sense.
• He is very good in creativity & positioning

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Javier Aldelmar Zanetti is an Argentune Retired footballer that can play in two aspect, during his football career, He plays as a Full back or even midfielder. He was born in the year 1973 on August 10.

Based on research, Zanetti is the seventh foreign player that has most career appearance. Zanetti also is know as the Captain that has the most appearance in the UEFA champions league game.

He played for the Italian side "Inter Milan" he also played at talleres where he began his football career and later moved Banfied. As professional footballer during his time, checkout his honors on the tabulated list.

Zanetti's Achievements or Honors

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Year	Achievements
2010	Konex Award
2011	Golden foot
2018	Inter Milan Hall of fame
2018	Italian Football hall of fame

Note:- Konex Award is a cultural award from the konex foundation in Argentina, their aim is to promote cultural, philanthropic, sports, scientific and other works in the way that they can.

Few Reasons Why I chose Zanetti.

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• He has excellent Ball control
• He is very good in terms of dribbling and acceleration
• Zanetti is a man of Determination and consistency.

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Carles Puyol is a Spanish retired footballer that played as a central defender. Puyol is regarde as one of the best defender of his generation. He played at Barcelona where he captained the club around august 2004 until his retirement date at 2014. He won 100 caps at his national team, he was also among the squad that won the Euro 2008 and the 2010's world cup. you can check out some of his honors below.

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Puyols honours or achievement.

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Year	Achievement
2001	Laliga Break through player of thebuear.
2011-12	BBVA Fair play award
2006	UEFA club best defender
2010	FIFA World Cup With Spain

Few reasons why I chose him.

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• His ability to lead the team as a captain
• His strength and quickest action
• His intelligence and concentration as defender

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Roberto Carlos was born on the 10th of April 1973. He is a Brazilian player that was considered as one of the best left back(LB), history has it that carlos was known for his excellent free kick player. Carlos joined real madrid where he played 584 games with 71 goals at all competitions.

At Real madrid , carlos won 4 Laliga titles with 3 UEFA champions league titles. He later announce his retirement at the age of 39. check out some of his individual achievements.

Roberto Carlos Achievement or honors

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Year	Achievements
1997	FIFA World Player of the Year
2002, 2003	UEFA Club Defender of the Year
2002	Ballon d'Or
2008	Golden Foot
1993, 1994, 2010	Bola de Prata

Reasons Of Choosing Him

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• His Good Dribbling Skills
• His Running Speed, Stamina and Crossing ability,
• His striking Ability

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Defensive Midfielders

Xavier Creus was born on the 25 January 1980. He is nicknamed "Xavi". Xavi is a spanish footballer that played for Barcelona during his football career. he is currently the spanish football manager and manager of Al Sadd club at the Qatar Stars League. He is also regarded as one of the best footballer of his generations, also one of the best midfielder of all time. Xavi won 8 laliga titles and 4 Champions league titles with barcelona.

His individual Achievements or Honors

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Year	Achievements
2011	UEFA Best Player in Europe Award Second place
2009, 2010, 2011	La Liga Midfielder of the Year: 2009, 2010, 2011
2011	FIFA Club World Cup Silver Ball
2015	Marca Legend Award
1999	La Liga Breakthrough Player of the Year
2005	La Liga Spanish Player of the Year

Reasons of choosing Xavier Hernández

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• His ability to create space
• His excellent passing ability
• Tackling ability.
• his humility

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David Joseph Beckham is an English Retired player that was born on the 2 of May 1975, during his football careeer, he played for Manchester United, Real Madrid, Preston North End, PSG and his National team England. beckham was the first English player to have won 4 different coutries league titles.

Beckham started his football career with Manchester United at the age of 17 where he won 6 premier league titles with FA CUP title twice and one UEFA. He also played at Real Madrid, He retired in may 2013. He was known for his crossing ability.

Beckham's Achievement or honors

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Year	Achievements
1999	Ballon d'Or
1999 and 2001	FIFA World Player of the Year
2003	England Player of the Year
1998-99	UEFA Club Footballer of the Year
2005-06	Real Madrid Player of the Year

Reasons of choosing David Beckham.

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• His range of passing, bending free-kicks and crossing ability
• His elegant striking from a distance
• Stamina and defensive ability

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Attacking Midfielders

Ronaldo Moreira also known as Ronaldinho is a brazillian retired footballer that played for the spanish side "Barcelona." He was regarded as one of the best footballer during his time, He played as an attacking midfielder. Ronaldiho was known for his abilty to create and dribble not only this attributes, also for his techinical skills, He won the FIFA World player of the year and a Ballon d'Or. check out some of his individual achievements below:

Ronaldinho's Achievements

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Year	Achievement
1999	FIFA Confederations Cup Golden Ball
1999	FIFA Confederations Cup Golden Shoe
2003–04, 2005–06	La Liga Best Foreign Player
2004, 2005	FIFA World Player of the Year
2005	Ballon d'Or
2005-06	UEFA Club Footballer of the Year
2013	South American Footballer of the Year

Reasons of Choosing Ronaldinho

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• His technical skills, flair, and creativity
• His Accurate penalty and free kick skill
• His Acceleration, Athleticism, Ball control and dribbling ability,

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Another Amazing footballer of all time, Ryan Joseph Giggs. He was born on thee 29^th of November 1973. Giggs played at Manchester united where he later became a temporal manager after the club sacked David Moyes in April 2014. He also played for Wales his international team where he was named the captain of the great Britain team. History has it that he is one of the only player that has made more than 1,000 career appearances. check out some of his individual achievements below.

Year	Achievements
August 2006	Premier League Player of the Month
2006-07	UEFA Champions League top assist provider
2011	Golden Foot
1996, 2006	Wales Player of the Year Award
1999	Intercontinental Cup Most Valuable Player of the Match Award

Reasons of choosing Ryan Giggs

• His quick and technically skills
• His excellent crossing and passing ability
• His strength, ball control and dribbling skills.

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Diego Maradona, is another wonderful player that really did exploit i his time. He was born on the 30^th of October 1960, he is an Argentine footballer that was widely regarded as one of the greatest footballer of all time. during his time, he was known as a free kick specialist.

Based on research, Maradona was among the two joint players that won the FIFA player of the 20th century award. When i watched his highlights on youtube, i was amazed because of his dribbling, passing and ball control. you can checkout his individual achievements on the table below.

Year	Achievements or honors
1986	FIFA World Cup Golden Ball
1986	FIFA World Cup Silver Shoe
1986-87	Onze d'Or
1996	Ballon d'Or
1991-2017	Napoli all-time Top Scorer
1987-88	Coppa Italia top scorer

Reasons of choosing Diego Maradona.

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• His finishing and goalscoring ability
• He is a prolific striker
• His speed and dribbling ability.

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Forward

Another great striker of all time, Ronaldo de Lima was a brazilian footballer that was widely know as the greatest striker of all time, popuperly know as Ronaldo, during his time, hw won the FIFA world player of the year about 3 times and 2 Ballon d'Or awards.

Ronaldo Started his football career at the brazilian side "Cruzeiro" before moving to PSV where he did some exploits that triggered the spanish side "Barcelona" to include him in thier club. he joined barcelona in 1996 where he was named the FIFA World Player of the Year, check out the table below for his achievement.

Year	Achievements
2002-03	La Liga with Real Madrid
1996-97	Copa del Rey with Barcelona
1996-97	UEFA Cup Winners' Cup with Barcelona
1995-96	KNVB Cup with PSV
1994, 2002	FIFA World Cup with his Ntional team Brazil
1997-98	UEFA Cup with inter milan
2009	Copa do Brasil with Corinthians

Reasons of Choosing Delima Ronaldo

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• His Technical Creative skills.
• He was not a greedy player, he is capable of assisting his team mates, very fast and has an excellent body movement
• He is not an injury kind player, he has often stayed free of injury.

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Now lets talk about the formation, Checkout the image below to see the line up for my best Retired XI.

^{My Favorite Retired XI Line up, Edited using Line up app}

4-2-3-1 is the formation that i used to arrange my favourite Retired XIs, in this formation the players are arranged in four different groups, The defensive group covers the centre backs and full backs with two defensive midfielder.

The attacking aspects has 3 attacking Midfielders and 1 central striker, the side midfieders are there to do dribbling and crossing into the Box while the attacking central midfielder which is Diego Maradona often the No 10 is placed there to make some creative pass either to the side midfieders or to the strike.

This is my entry for the contest by jacorv about Best Retired XI, Thank you very much for reading through, i also thank the initiators of this contest .