What kinds of players can become a great captain? In football history, there are many great players who have led their team to succeed with his unique quality. Today, Let's pick your top 5 Greatest Captains in football history!
Iker Casillas
Iker Casillas is the only captain in the history of the game to have lifted eight different major trophies, namely; La Liga, Copa del Rey, Spanish Super Cup, Champions League, European Super Cup, Club World Cup, World Cup and the European Championships.
John Terry
Emerging at a young age, Terry has shown remarkable consistency and an exceptional reading of the game in his 445 games for the club. Terry also captained England for a total of five years before retiring from international football.
Paolo Maldini
Paolo Maldini captained Italy for eight years and AC Milan for 12, and was renowned for his leadership skills, earning him the nickname "Il Capitano", or 'The Captain'.
Didier Deschamps
As a captain, Deschamps is one of only three men to have lifted the Champions League, the World Cup and the European Championship trophies. He was made Marseille captain in 1992 and became the youngest man to ever lift the Champions League a year later, at the age of 23.
Roy Keane
He was appointed as captain of Manchester United from 1997 until his departure in 2005 because of his aggressive and highly competitive style of play. he won 7 Premier League titles, 4 FA Cups, 1 UEFA Champions League.
Steven Gerrard
Gerrard has led the Liverpool team through an era which could politely be described a rough patch.As a captain he is both vocal and able to lead by example on the pitch.
Francesco Totti
Francesco Totti is commonly referred to as the 'King of Rome', Totti has spent his entire 23-year career at Roma, where he leads both the all-time goal scoring and appearance charts. Still going strong at 38, Totti has 240 goals for Roma in 582 games.
Diego Maradona
If it is a captain's job to inspire and lead by example then there can be no better example than Diego Maradona at the 1986 World Cup.
Carles Puyol
Puyol retired after 15 years of first team football at Barcelona and a decade as club captain. Puyol played 392 games for Barca, in which he won six La Liga titles, two Copa del Rey, six Spanish Supercopas, three Champions Leagues and 2 European Supercups.
Franz Beckenbauer
As a captain, Franz Beckenbauer won every trophy going at both club and international level. In total, Beckenbauer won five Bundesliga titles, four DFB-Pokals, three European Cups, one Cup Winners' Cup and one Intercontinental Cup at club level. He also won FIFA World Cup 1974 for West Germany.
X-Anonymous-7
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I prefer casillas the most...Best when he won all the trophies he can with Real Madrid...For Spain he achieve the most valuable trophie which is the World Cup 2010...Miss you Captain
SunJunaid
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Best ๐จโโ๏ธ ever
HolumideAlonstar
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The best captain to me is Puyol and John terry, Separated with Steven Gerrard who won the Championship from 3-0 down this is best captain.
shashwatchoudhary14
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The best captains are Carles Puyol and Iker Casillas who lead two of the best teams ever to play football at Barcelona and Spain respectively in which the core players are the same except some players.
SoumoSanAnki
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Who one can forget this LEGEND?
ODS
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My idols โค๏ธ๐ Perfect example of Respect in football
agyemangkoranteng
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- BUT WHERE IS JAVIER ZENETTI
RGGil
201
Gerrard for me: Carrying his team from 3-0 to winning the UEFA Champions league...
Mishan007
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Franz Beckenbaur was the real cap! the best defender ever to play football sadly, his leadership is nothing nowadays for some newcomers! & Philip lahm not even in the option? they really go with the hype man
Rohingya94
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I think @Puyol is best Captain in the world also he was best defender in the world .
Jhoxua11
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Diego Maradona my best captain
RealMd13
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๐ SR4 The greatest CAPTAIN WILL have to be SR4 cuz he Is the man that you can Depend on when you need goals or when you need some one to throw HIMSELF to the Ball โฝ๏ธ over and over AGAIN Just to block shots after shots he has scored In 2x UCL FINals 2014/2016 scored In 1x UEFA super cup 2017 when you need HIM to be there he always there We call HIM The 90 MINs MAN He Is a Leader In the both locker rooms Real MADRID and SPAIN NATIONAL team so for me he WILL go down IN HISTORY as the Greatest Defender and CAPTAIN of all TIMe and HALA MADRID
Itzfreeboy
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A legend always a legend, heโs the king of all kings ๐
RealMd13
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๐ฑ Where Is PAOLO MALDINI The Greatest DEFENDER OF ALL TIMe he was AC MILAN and ITALY NATIONAL Team ๐ฎ๐น CAPTAIN (C) and Won 26 TROPHIes WITH AC MILAN 5x UEFA Champions League 7x Serie A 1x Coppa Italia 5x Supercoppa Italiana 5x European Super Cups, two Intercontinental Cups and 1x FIFA Club World Cup PAOLO MALDINI
mighty96red
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caption fantastic.
mkorea
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At 25 years old.I can't talk much of Beckenbeur(i know i misspelled the name),Maradona and others who played before the turn of 21st century since I didn't witness em play.With that in mind,my top five greatest captains are 1.Iker Cassillas 2.John Terry 3.Sergio Ramos 4.Steven Gerrard 5. Carles Puyol All these legends played different positions but have one thing in common.They don't tell what to do,they show how it is done