The best of European Football: the beginning of a new era?
The last European football gala saw how Dutch defender Virgil Van Dijk, the player of the recent European champion, the English club Liverpool FC, won the prize not only for the best defender of the top European football tournament, but also became the first defender to win the best player award in the champions league 2019 in more than 15 years. The Azaña of the Dutchman acquires greater value when he has finished ahead of nothing more than the maximum referents of soccer for more than 15 years and who have 10 gold balls with each other, is that Cristiano Ronaldo and Leonel Messi the players that for 15 years They have dominated this European competition, won 5 champios by CR7 (3 of them consecutively), while on the part of Argentine crack 4 more (3 in a leading way) are added to this wonderful pair of football. The European season of Virgil Van Dijk has ended up taking the 2019 Champions League with sweet revenge to what happened in the final of 2018 where they were defeated by Real Madrid by Cristiano Ronaldo, is that in this season Liverpool performed an epic feat by eliminating Dramatic and incredibly semifinals at Barcelona FC of Leo Messi in London arriving 3-0 after the first leg in the nou camp of the City of Barcelona, which earned him a credential to defeat the English club Tottenham Hotspur Football Club.
Virgil Van Dijk in this 2019 joins luka modrić in 2018 and Franck Ribéry in 2013 as the only players who have been able to take this award from CR7 and Leo in the last 10 years. But these 2 years of drought could mean that the hegemony of these 2 football legends is over, Luka Modrić in 2018 won all the individual awards last year in which for the first month since 2008 in a golden ball that rewards the best player Soccer of the planet did not end up in the hands of these two foot ball jewels (Cristiano Ronaldo and Leonel Messi). CR7, already 34 years old, has promised to fight 2 more years for the tone of world football while Messi does not lose the chance to recover this same 2019 the scepter lost since 2015. Whatever happens football has not delayed the joy of to be able to share and enjoy the era in which for much the 2 greatest soccer players in history have given us all their magic all their splendor and soccer capacity that for over 15 years has enamored millions for this sport Cristiano Ronaldo and Leonel Messi they have given football an extraordinary level and category strengthening one of the biggest sports industries.
From the hands of a passionate about this sport I do not expect that these two stars can give us anything else in the twilight of their careers a sunset that many hope is long and profitable. Is that the world of football has been spinning greatly on the feet of these two stars and not being ready for the emptiness that will undoubtedly leave in this sport when they are gone, effects that are noticed in a legendary and winning club like the Real Madrid without CR7 does not like it and has won nothing and a weak and inaccurate Barcelona Fc at the start of this 2019 with an injured Messi, in which both teams already with 3 league dates are not leaders. Without a doubt this is a sign of a football accustomed to these monsters and it will take time to engage once the booties hang.
