These have been the 10 best goalkeepers in the last 10 years:
The case of Alisson is more for his last years, although it is the last 4 years that he has given. They give you to get into the top10. With Roma he reached an incredible semifinals in the Champions League, after the epic comeback against Barcelona in the previous round. That summer Klopp took him to Liverpool for 75 million, the second most expensive goalkeeper in history (Kepa surpassed him later). With the reds he has become great in England and has been one of the axes of the ‘monster’ that good old Jurgen has built. He won the Champions League in his first year and the Premier in his second. In between, a Copa América with Brazil. A great goal.
Cech is another old rocker that we cannot leave out of this classification. In the first season of this decade, he was one of Chelsea’s heroes to win their first Champions League. He stopped Robben from a penalty in crucial overtime. After playing and winning everything as a blue and breaking records with the Czech Republic, he played his last years at Arsenal. His last match was precisely against Chelea, in the final of the Europa League (4-1). Now he works for the club in the wealthy neighborhood of London and has been part of his second Champions League. It closed the circle of this decade.
Casillas began the decade as Mourinho’s goalkeeper in the 100-point league. That summer he lifted the European Championship with the Spanish team, as captain and best goalkeeper in a tournament in which he received a goal. Then came his problems with Mourinho, but with Ancelotti he again had a leading role and lifted the Décima (4-1) and the Copa del Rey (2-1), where again, he barely received a goal. His level in the second five years was not that high, although he gave a good performance at Porto. In any case, everything he did in the first half gives him to enter this ranking. He retired last summer.
Although Buffon was well into his thirties when the decade began, he has remained an essential piece. Both in Juventus and in the Italian team. With Vecchia Signora he won 8 leagues out of 9, and with azzurra only the unforgettable Spain of tiki-taka kept him away from the Eurocup and the Confederations Cup. A millennial player hurrying his last days at Parma, a team that saw him ‘born’ … more than a quarter of a century ago !!
The arrival of Courtois to Atlético de Madrid was caused by the departure of De Gea to United. Ferguson chose him as heir to Van der Sar. In this decade he has possibly been the best player of the Red Devils. They have even chosen him the best footballer in the Premier despite being a goalkeeper. His only but is that with the selection he has never been able to show the same level, although that does not remove him from entering the list.
The Belgian started the decade with his move to Atlético de Madrid. Until the arrival of Simeone he was a flan, but with the Argentine (3 months after his signing) he became one of the best goalkeepers in the world. He was one of the heroes of the Bernabéu Cup (2-1) and the league the following year. He returned to Chelsea, a team that had yielded him, and there he was also indisputable and won a league. Today at Real Madrid he is an essential player. Of course, it has been 10 years without anyone coughing in the goal of the best Belgian team in history.
Zubizarreta saw in Ter Stegen the possible heir of Víctor Valdés, one of the best goalkeepers in the history of Barcelona. The truth is that the Basque hit the mark. Despite the fact that Bravo relegated him to substitute in the league in the first year, he won the treble with Barcelona and the Champions League as a starter. From the second year on, he was indisputable in the Barça goal. He has been one of the 3 or 4 most decisive players on the team in the last five years. The weird thing is that he doesn’t play with Germany anymore, but of course …
Another who has had a prodigious decade has been Keylor Navas. He started it as a substitute in Levante and played only the Europa League. He made a tremendous 2014 World Cup with the revelation Costa Rica and that earned him the leap to Real Madrid. There he became the heir to a legend like Casillas … and wrote his own: 3 Champions in a row as the undisputed starter. A couple of years ago he ended up at Paris Saint Germain and with the Gauls he almost ‘reconquered’ Orejona.
Despite starting at Rio Ave, Oblak has been the best goalkeeper in the world for years. It cost him to get into a dynamic at Atlético de Madrid, but he is the most decisive player for Simeone’s men. Win games, like all great goalkeepers. He is capable of reaching almost unthinkable places with a tremendous size and reflexes and agility inappropriate for a player of his size.
In the global decade, there is no question who has been the best goalkeeper. In 2011 he signed for Bayern from Schalke and since then he has swept. 9 Bundesligas, 7 Cups, 2 Champions and immovable in the Gallic goal. He won the World Cup in 2014 and with the Manschaft he has also been untouchable, despite being disputed at times. He was on the verge of winning the Ballon d’Or that year. He is one of the best goalkeepers in history.
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