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Goal.com World Player Of The Week: Paolo Maldini - AC Milan & Italy
Goal.com's World Player of the Week has played his last match...
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Jun 1, 2009 8:13:06 PM
Welcome to Goal.com's new feature: Goal.com World Player of the Week. Each week our worldwide team of editors will put forward a selected candidate, as chosen by Goal.com International,
who deserves recognition for achieving something special that matchday.
It won't necessarily be the best player in the world - at least not
usually - but whoever we nominate will have done something amazing. It
might be for a particularly awesome performance or for something
praiseworthy off the pitch - either way, the person in question
deserves special attention...
Goal.com World Player of the Week #3: PAOLO MALDINI
Club: AC Milan
Age: 41
Role: Central defender
Achievement: Rounding off a quarter-of-a-century of top-level football with AC Milan.
The immortal Paolo Maldini is Goal.com World Player of the Year, but some would say might equally deserve the accolade Player of the Last Twenty-Five Years.
For having debuted a quarter-of-a-century ago, Maldini this week completed his 647th Serie A game. Why was number 647 so important? Because it happened to be his last one.
The centre-back bows out at the top, having been a regular starter in this, his final season of professional football. 30 appearances for Milan in the league pays testament to the fact that he was no makeweight or sentimental pick, but rather a key part of the team.
Thus it proved as he put in a fine showing against Fiorentina in his final game, picking up 8/10 in our Goal.com Ratings after the game - the best defender on the pitch.
He'll never grace a field again. Football's loss.
Congratulations to Paolo Maldini, our third Goal.com World Player of the Week!
Honourable Mentions...
Goal.com World Player of the Week #3: PAOLO MALDINI
Club: AC Milan
Age: 41
Role: Central defender
Achievement: Rounding off a quarter-of-a-century of top-level football with AC Milan.
The immortal Paolo Maldini is Goal.com World Player of the Year, but some would say might equally deserve the accolade Player of the Last Twenty-Five Years.
For having debuted a quarter-of-a-century ago, Maldini this week completed his 647th Serie A game. Why was number 647 so important? Because it happened to be his last one.
The centre-back bows out at the top, having been a regular starter in this, his final season of professional football. 30 appearances for Milan in the league pays testament to the fact that he was no makeweight or sentimental pick, but rather a key part of the team.
Thus it proved as he put in a fine showing against Fiorentina in his final game, picking up 8/10 in our Goal.com Ratings after the game - the best defender on the pitch.
He'll never grace a field again. Football's loss.
Congratulations to Paolo Maldini, our third Goal.com World Player of the Week!
Honourable Mentions...
- Hicham Aboucherouane (Al-Ittihad, Saudi Arabia - Morocco) - With twelve strikes, Moroccan ace Hicham finishes as top scorer in the Saudi Arabian league, having helped guide Ittihad of Jeddah to yet another league title. What's more, he scored a killer goal in the 91st minute against fellow Saudi side Al-Shabab in the Asian Champions League Round of 16. That, plus a new contract in Jeddah, makes for a great week all told.
- Bebucho (Santos, Angola) - This weekend Al Ahly, winners of the African Champions League a record six times, took a 3-0 lead into the return match of a CAF Confederations Cup tie against Santos of Angola. But Santos, competing in Africa for the first time this year, triumphed 3-0 in Luanda to level the aggregate score before winning the fourth-round tie 6-5 on penalties. Bebucho put the Angolans ahead mid-way through the first half, as he pushed forward before unleashing an unstoppable 30-metre shot past goalkeeper Ramzi Saleh, getting the ball rolling for the underdogs and inspiring the impressive CAF Confederations Cup win, while knocking out one of the favourites.
- Yoan Gouffran (Bordeaux, France) - The young French forward netted the goal that brought the league title back to Bordeaux after a decade away, and he did so in front of his old fans at former club Caen. The 23-year-old is on the verge of a full national team call-up, even though he finds goals hard to come by. Few, in any case, of his previous strikes have been as vital as his this weekend.
- Hao Junmin (Tianjin Teda, China) - On Friday night, Hao scored a great goal for China in their much-vaunted friendly with Germany. New coach Gao Hongbo and the fans left happy thanks to his input.
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