Messi and Ronaldo are the two players who have scored the most goals in recent years. But in essence, they are not necessarily just plain center-backs. Messi and Ronaldo both started out as wingers, and over time they gradually moved closer to the goal.
Current top strikers are all aged, such as Lewandowski, Aguero, Mandzukic, Suarez, Cavani, Benzema and Dzeko, all of whom are over 30 years old. Only Harry Kane in the next generation deserves to be in the top flight.
It is no coincidence that Europe is lacking good strikers. Coach Wenger explained this: When all the players are trained according to a curriculum, individual skills, and competitive spirit make a difference between them, said coach Wenger.
If we look at Europe and the world, South America is probably the only place for strikers to develop as they are now. Everyone can see that at least 80% of the strikers are from South America.
There are not many good strikers in Europe now. The German team to the 2014 World Cup with Miroslav Klose is 35 years old. Perhaps in the history of Europe, street football has disappeared. The former Arsenal coach concluded.
Football tactics also influence this situation. When many diagrams change constantly in the match, the striker must be more flexible and take on more roles in the match. Moreover, the defense is now organized scientifically and sophisticatedly, causing strikers to either retreat to coordinate or drift out to the wing to have space. vacuum is the breath of the strikers this is the saying of Solskjaer, Manchester United coach.
Many young players today are eager to become "number 10" following Lionel Messi's pattern with the style of dribbling the ball through two or three opposing defenders to score, not the "number 9" playing for their own purposes, keeping the ball in coordination with teammates and then penetrating the 5m50 area to finish the opponent.
Football is not outside the law of everything development. The classic striker position is gradually being replaced by more versatile and flexible strikers. Many teams do not even arrange an official striker but replace him with "false 9s" in a match.
