http://www.bbc.com/sport/0/football/34696656
So Boca Juniors just wrapped up the Argentina Serie A title after a 4-year drought.
This is Tevez' 8th league title in 4 countries spanning over a decade. He won with Boca in the early 2000's, later with Corinthians in Brazil, then went to Europe to West Ham for a half-season but became a legend there by singlehandedly saved them from relegation. Then to United where he wasn't the main man but won back-to-back titles and the Champions League in 2 seasons. Then to City and won the PL. Then to Juventus and won back-to-back titles and made it to the CL final last season. Now back to Boca and inspires them to the title, where they won 11 of the 14 games after he rejoined.
That's simply an amazing career.
It seems a lot of the great players in history have typically been defined by 1 or maybe 2 clubs where they were successful. Of course this leads to the same old questions about whether they would have been successful in another club or league or continent or era. Especially because many great players have teams built around them, so it's fair to ask "what if" their circumstances had been different, how would they have fared?
Carlos Tevez bucks that trend. He's played everywhere, and won everywhere, usually in the immediate season of joining the club. You can't call this luck or coincidence. Although there are other great players that are probably better in individual facets such as dribbling, passing, scoring, playmaking, etc. it seems he has a combination of all those attributes plus that tremendous workrate and passion that somehow generates success at the team level.
So at the end of the day he's a difficult character to rank, because he hasn't had the stability that one would associate with the usual names in the "top X of all time lists", but in terms of diversity of accomplishments he must be near the top.
So Boca Juniors just wrapped up the Argentina Serie A title after a 4-year drought.
This is Tevez' 8th league title in 4 countries spanning over a decade. He won with Boca in the early 2000's, later with Corinthians in Brazil, then went to Europe to West Ham for a half-season but became a legend there by singlehandedly saved them from relegation. Then to United where he wasn't the main man but won back-to-back titles and the Champions League in 2 seasons. Then to City and won the PL. Then to Juventus and won back-to-back titles and made it to the CL final last season. Now back to Boca and inspires them to the title, where they won 11 of the 14 games after he rejoined.
That's simply an amazing career.
It seems a lot of the great players in history have typically been defined by 1 or maybe 2 clubs where they were successful. Of course this leads to the same old questions about whether they would have been successful in another club or league or continent or era. Especially because many great players have teams built around them, so it's fair to ask "what if" their circumstances had been different, how would they have fared?
Carlos Tevez bucks that trend. He's played everywhere, and won everywhere, usually in the immediate season of joining the club. You can't call this luck or coincidence. Although there are other great players that are probably better in individual facets such as dribbling, passing, scoring, playmaking, etc. it seems he has a combination of all those attributes plus that tremendous workrate and passion that somehow generates success at the team level.
So at the end of the day he's a difficult character to rank, because he hasn't had the stability that one would associate with the usual names in the "top X of all time lists", but in terms of diversity of accomplishments he must be near the top.