Who is the best footballer since 2000

1 Zinedine Zidane Zinedine Yazid Zidane, nicknamed "Zizou", (born 23 June 1972) is a is a French former professional football player who played as an attacking midfielder. He received many individual accolades as a player, including being named FIFA World Player of the Year in 1998, 2000 and 2003, and winning the 1998 Ballon d'Or. He is the current manager of Real Madrid. Zidane was the maestro of the last decade. Perhaps the best midfielder in history. He had incredible ball control, amzing balance, technique, leadership, unbelieveble passing skills and he could read the game better than any other player. Zidane was simply on a different level to any other player . The best modern footballer. Great vision, understanding, passes, dribbling, finishing, headers, good at set pieces and long range shots. Fairly quick and agile. Just the best. A fantastic player for club and national team. He is the most complete footballer I've ever seen! Acc. 2 me he is the best player I have ever seen... His heading, his sublime touch, his dribbling, his ball control was just phenomenal. I can't describe him 2 Ronaldo Ronaldo Luís Nazário de Lima, commonly known as Ronaldo, is a Brazilian business owner, president of La Liga club Real Valladolid, and a retired professional footballer who played as a striker. Popularly dubbed in Portuguese O Fenômeno ("The Phenomenon"), he is widely considered one of the greatest players of all time. As a multi-functional striker who brought a new dimension t...

Debate about the best players of the 21st Century goes back, funnily enough, to 2000, when Boca Juniors beat Real Madrid in the now-extinct Intercontinental Cup final. President Florentino Perez reportedly gave both barrels to his misfiring Galacticos in the aftermath – but more because of the commercial opportunities that a pancontinental cup final loss had scuppered than the embarrassing result. Flo saw the match as a chance to expand his brand to Asia, with a new millennium beaming more football matches than ever: but not even he could envisage what this new century would bring. The internet would create stars – it would break them, too – the Champions League would grow in prestige, while scientific and technological advancements (not to mention coaching evolution) would make this game almost unrecognisable from the one that Perez grew up wanting to tame as his own. The 21st Century has taken football to new realms. Let us introduce the 100 best artists, artisans, wizards and wunderkinder to have boldly gone where no one has else has ventured since that heady Intercontinental Cup clash… (Image credit: Getty) The Liverpool man has been a cornerstone of the club’s glorious era under Jurgen Klopp, winning the Champions League, Premier League, and Club World Cup, as well as helping England to the World Cup semi-final and Euro 2020 final. His attacking threat from right-back is a constant thorn in the side of opposition teams, while he possesses outstanding technical ability...

Throughout the EA Sports FIFA franchise's history, there are some world-class legends of the game who once reigned victorious in FIFA - a couple of whom have now have returned to FIFA after their retirement as FUT Icon Items. So, we know that Messi and Ronaldo have been the duo on top over the last few years, but who were the best FIFA players in every FIFA since FIFA 2000? To find out, we made a list of the three highest-rated players in every FIFA from FIFA 2000 to 22, with some interesting and surprising inclusions along the way. The highest-rated FIFA players in history from FIFA 00 FIFA 2000 Ronaldo, Zidane and Rivaldo were the three best players in FIFA 00 • Ronaldo (Inter Milan) - 97 overall • Zinedine Zidane (Juventus) - 96 rated • Rivaldo (Barcelona) - 96 rated In FIFA 2000, Ronaldo entered the new century as the best player in FIFA, ranking at 97 out of 99 - the joint highest in the entire list. The Brazilian was playing in Italy with Inter Milan at the time, and he was joined in the list by fellow Brazilian Rivaldo, and league opponent Zinedine Zidane, who was playing in Italy with Juventus at the time. FIFA 2001 • Rivaldo (Barcelona) - 96 rated • Zinedine Zidane (Juventus) - 95 rated • Luis Figo (Real Madrid) - 94 rated Rivaldo became the number one player in FIFA in 2001 - maintaining his 96 rating whilst Zidane and Ronaldo both dropped, the latter completely out of the top 10. In his place, Luis Figo moved into the top three in the same season he made the dar...

After decades of dominance from the magical men in the goalsquare, midfielders have emerged as the best players of the modern era. But in today’s edition of the Top 20 of the Past 20, the tall men shine. They mightn’t have finished their careers with the same goal tallies as Tony Lockett, Jason Dunstall and Gary Ablett, but they revolutionised the role and capabilities of the key-position player, displaying aerobic capacity from AFL big men never seen before. Watch Foxtel in an instant. Catch up and settle in with no installation & no lock-in contract. Over the past few days, foxfooty.com.au has commenced its countdown Top 20 of the Past 20. The players have been selected and ranked based on their 21st century performances only, so any seasons prior to 2000 haven’t been considered. That’s why the likes of Wayne Carey and Robert Harvey aren’t on the list. The criteria incorporates consistency at an elite level, match-winning ability, contribution to team success and influence during their playing stints across the past two decades. 19. Jonathan Brown (Brisbane Lions) 20. Dane Swan (Collingwood) Three of today’s five players were regular All-Australian members from 2003 to 2011, while the others are two of the great modern-day goalkicking midfielders. So here are players ranked 10th to sixth in foxfooty.com.au’s Top 20 of the Past 20. Share, or vent, your thoughts on Facebook or tweet us Matthew Scarlett — the orchestrator of the famous toe oke to Gary Ablett in the last min...