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.
1Federico Fazio
What? I mean, isn’t he a Tottenham reject? He might be, but the way he has transformed his career in Italy is quite astounding, to say the least. The Argentine had such a good season in 2016-17 that he was named as the best defender in Italy.
And he carried on that form this season, as well as Roma, have conceded the least amount of goals in Serie A this season—and Fazio has been the biggest reason for it.
