Published 44 sec ago Ninety minutes can seem a long time in football (cue lots of Sunderland nodding vigorously), so 10 full years is practically an eternity. Yet in other ways, it isn’t. As we rank the 100 Best Players in the World 2017, we thought it’d be fun to look back at our list from a decade ago – and plenty of the names here are still active and even present on the list in 2017. Impressive durability! Of course, others are long gone, including most of the 13 English players who made the cut. That’s not FFT bias, by the way – 2007 was still ‘Golden Generation’ territory and a time when English clubs were flying high in the Champions League. Though in retrospect,...
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