Many players have contributed to Barcelona's current success. The majority of these ultimate players were the reason Barcelona dominated La Liga in the twenty-first century. However, the majority of these ultimates players scored more than 50 goals during their Barcelona careers. The image below depicts some of the greatest Barcelona players of the twenty-first century.
Barcelona's ultimate XI in the twenty-first century, along with the number of La Liga titles won by each player.
V. Valdes is the goalkeeper (6 titles).
C. Puyol (6 titles), G. Pique (8 titles), Dani Alves (6 titles), and J. Alba are the defenders.
Andres Iniesta (9 titles), Xavi (8 titles), and Sergio Busquets
Forwards: Ronaldinho (2), Luis Suarez (5), and Lionel Messi
Lionel Messi has the most La Liga titles among the players listed above. However, the majority of the players are either retired or currently manage a club. Jordi Alba and Sergio Busquets are the only two active players on the team. Both players are expected to leave the club at the end of their current contracts. Gerard Pique has already played his final game for Barcelona and will be leaving soon to help the club, which is currently in financial trouble. There are also rumors about Lionel Messi returning to the club.
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Celebrating Nicklas Bendtner, his modest talent & supreme confidence
Nicklas Bendtner never truly established himself at Arsenal and is probably not as good as he believes, but he has accomplished far more than most and is almost certainly better than you believe.
Let's play a guessing game to see who is the odd one out. Nicklas Bendtner, Luis Suarez, and Carlos Tevez
Have you worked it out yet? Bendtner is the odd man out, but not for the reason you might think. Unlike the other two men on the list, the Dane has a hat-trick in the Champions League.
It's not just any old hat-trick. Not like Gareth Bale's treble in the group stages, or Michael Owen's in that strange Manchester United-Wolfsburg match.
Samir Nasri scored Arsenal's game-winning goal against Porto in 2010, but Bendtner's goals helped turn a 2-1 first-leg deficit into a comprehensive 6-2 aggregate win.
And, as it happens, the qualities that propelled him to his peak that night are also the ones that have prevented him from repeating the feat.
Bendtner has previously been chastised for his inflated sense of self-worth.
The story goes that he scored a literally impossible 10 out of nine on a test administered by the Gunners' staff to determine self-perceived confidence.However, while this is frequently used to mock the striker, we should take a different perspective.
All top-level strikers, or at least the vast majority of them, enter the game believing in their own abilities. Sure, they're not quite as extreme, but the general sentiment isn't all that different.
What we frequently fail to recognize is that a player of Bendtner's caliber would be just another guy without that ridiculously inflated opinion of his caliber.
A striker averaging slightly more than one goal every four games in the Premier League, as Bendtner did with Arsenal and Sunderland, should not have been able to win Serie A with Juventus.Even those at the higher end of the not-good-enough scale, such as Carlos Vela and Joel Campbell, tend to potter around with loan deals before either impressing at a good-but-not-great European club or continuing to be loaned out while waiting for Arsenal to come down to their level.
Bendtner's path was more prosperous not because he deserved better, but because he convinced himself he deserved better, which works just as well in a sport with such short careers.
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