Lisandro Martinez is short for a centre-half but is doing pretty well for Manchester United despite what Graeme Souness thinks. Their lack of height didn’t stop some of these guys being among the best ever...
One of the greatest ever to do it at centre-back was a mere 5ft 9in. He wasn’t stout, nor was he particularly rapid. But so rarely was he ever out-jumped, out-muscled or out-paced.
No-one wears Baresi’s shirt these days. At the end of his career, in which he played 719 games for Milan and 81 for Italy, the Rossoneri retired the No.6.‘With all that hair, he doesn’t look short,’ wrote Martin Keown of 5ft 10in Puyol in 2010. ‘In fact, he may be the perfect height.’ And he could have been Manchester United’s. Barca were open to selling Puyol in 2003, when the then 25-year-old said: “To play in a league such as the English one and for United must be marvellous and a unique chance for any player. I know some people who would even pay for the opportunity.
The former Liverpool star had played in defence at Anfield but at right-back. And, in any case, being centre-back in the Barca teams Mascherano featured in was, in his words, “not like being a centre-back for any other team”.: “The areas you inhibit are very similar to those I’d inhibit playing in midfield. Often, in terms of where we press, Busquets and I are practically in the same line.
“The one ingredient you need? It’s not height, or speed or even ball skills. You must have confidence,” he wrote in. “As a defender, you can be many shapes and sizes. You can be short and fast. Or you can be tall and jump high. It doesn’t matter. The only necessity is that you are confident when you take the pitch.”Football has changed since Wright’s days, but even then, the first footballer to win 100 international caps was seen as small for a centre-back.
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