<span class="titolo">Totti: The Number 10 Position Is Dying</span></p> <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'></p> <span class="sommario">Roma hero Francesco Totti believes that the mystical ‘trequartista’ position is dying in football, and predicts that it will eventually become instinct.</span></p> The ‘number 10’, deep-lying playmaker, or as it is known in Italy, the ‘Trequartista’, is a position that has produced some of the all-time greats of the game. </p> Diego Maradona, Johan Cruyff and Zico are just three legends who played in this playmaker role just behind the strikers. Until his recent switch to a lone-striker position, Francesco Totti made his name as one of the best trequartista’s of the past generation. </p> However due to changes in the modern game, there has been a notable decline in classic number tens. Indeed the Italian national team, one of the most prolific exponents of this position, went through virtually their whole Euro 2008 qualifying campaign without using one. </p> “Zidane, Maradona and Cruyff – in the future we will no longer see any more players of this type,” said Totti. </p> “I think also of Del Piero, who was another great ‘number 10’, but now he always seems to play on the left or on the right. </p> “The modern game is more about strength and power than about skill and quality.” </p> Here is a list of a few of the great ‘number 10s’ in the past: </p> Pele </p> Diego Maradona </p> Zinedine Zidane </p> Zico </p> Roberto Baggio </p> Ferenc Puskas </p> Socrates </p> Tostao </p> Johan Cruyff </p> Michel Platini </p> Gianni Rivera</p> Dejan Savicevic </p> Sandro Mazzzola </p> Rivaldo </p> George Best </p> Alfredo Di Stefano </p> Wolfgang Overath </p> Carlo Garganese</p> </div></p>
<font face="Arial" size="2">all great no 10's (RIVALDO) but rooney has just wrecked the classic zest</font></p>
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (man_u_barmy_army)</div><div class='quotemain'></p> <font face="Arial" size="2">all great no 10's (RIVALDO) but rooney has just wrecked the classic zest</font></p> </div></p> </p> lol i know what you mewan you can't imagine him playing Beautiful European football.</p> </p> Also were is the Ice Man Dennis Bergkamp in that list?</p>
