27-07-2015, 03:07
(27-07-2015, 01:06)aries22 Wrote: Can anyone tell me exactly what this number 10 role is?
Because if it's an attacking midfielder, we've got more than one 'number 10'.
Bobby Hope wore number 10 for Albion but at the end of the day he was just another one of our midfielders alongside the likes of Tony Brown and Asa Hartford.
The number 10 role has come to signify a playmaker acting as part-midfielder, part-striker, i.e. Kaka, Robinho, Messi, Fabregas, Neymar, or going back further, Maradona and Pele. Obviously it started out as more of a South American & European thing; in this country, we tended to like our number 10s to be good support strikers who could form a prolific partnership with the number 9.
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