Another year-end review! This series is fun, isn’t it? The time for evaluation is now—end of the year—almost every firm in the world does a calendar year review. While Sports Courant might not be a firm, we still do the year-end review of footballers around the globe, which constitutes of Europe exclusively in this regard.
Attack, they say, wins you games while defence wins you championships. The sad part is that it is mainly the attackers who are in the spotlight for the things that they do. Scoring goals is the most crucial part, but saving goals holds an equal place as well.
So without further ado, here were the top 5 defenders from 2017.
4Niklas Sule
Do you know how to judge a player playing in the Bundesliga? Simple. What all of you have to do is check whether he is playing for Bayern Munich—and Niklas Sule falls in that category. The reward for playing well for any German team not named Bayern is actually booking a place in Bayern.
So after a brilliant season with Hoffenheim, the Bavarians quickly swooped in for the German defender as he now plies his trade for the biggest club in Germany—and his jump has not caused him to hit a wall. Indeed, he has started 14 games for the German giants in Champions League, and Bundesliga combined, cementing his place as a starter for the club.
