Has wearing number 10 lost its charm nowadays?

Has wearing number 10 lost its charm nowadays?

y-... wait.. lemme think, I am edging towards yes but it might be a no

I'll get back to you on this

yes, number 9 and 7 are far more GOAT worthy

10 has always been a meme

Real question is; what ever happened to 17?

9 is the biggest meme number Tbh

you're thinking of 8

Why is it that in other countries no 10 is given to the playmaker but in Englel they're given to a striker?

11 is patrician

Something-something OUR YEAR LA somehing-something COMING HOME LA something-something WE LOST THE SUEZ CHANNEL LA

This dude gets it

25 best

10 means "the team relies on you" and no player on the face of this earth has got any testicles left. 10 means "you're the face of the team", and it's all mercenaries now, so it's really a number that should be retired.

*tips fedora*

>yfw Wilshit wore #10 at Arsenal before being shipped to Bournemouth on loan.
The only GOAT #10 left is Totti & that will be over soon.

Nah, it's still cool to see what everyone in the team including the manager think is the best player

Messi and Aguero both no.10, Ozil too.

>Aguero
>no 10

Messi acts like a #7, #10 & #9 though. He just roams and does wtf he wants.

That's literally a 10, like Baggio.

google it ho chi minh

What I meant is that he doesn't play as a 10, Steven.

Mesi is more of a winger, he just drifts inside a lot.

Yes. It's a meme now, any asshole gets 10 just because it's a "special number" regardless of their actual position. Kane, Wilshere, Pogba, Aguero, Hazard....

not really, he does whatever he wants

pic related

>Messi acts like a #7, #10 & #9 though. He just roams and does wtf he wants.

that is pretty much the definition of a 10

8
>lampard
>gerrard

9
>demba ba
>fernando torres

9 is the meme number. shoo shoo ABO shoo shoo!

Le ultimate #10 GOAT

this

14, 18 and 11 were the GOAT

This tbqh

>LETTING A DEFENDER WEAR NO 10
>LETTING PLAYERS PUT NICKNAMES ON JERSEYS

Fuck both of this

1 - GK
2, 3, 4, 5 - Defenders
6, 8 - Central Midfield
7 - Right Midfield
11 - Left Midfield
9 - Striker
10 - Supporting Striker / Playmaker
12 - 19 - Subs, reserve squad.

Fuck players picking 88, and 77 and this shit. No squad should go higher than 40 when you factor in potential youth team call ups

Neymar, James and Messi carry their NTs and they wear the 10

agreed

yeah, we latinos have bigger balls than gay yuros

bigger dicks too

>>LETTING PLAYERS PUT NICKNAMES ON JERSEYS

I don't mind this in situations where it's a cultural thing or based on a "serious" personal reason. Like Cristiano Ronaldo having "Ronaldo" and not "Dos Santos Alveiro" on the back of his shirt, or Dele Alli and Memphis Depay just using their first names because their dads walked out on them when they were kids and they don't want to give the deadbeats credit.

1, 13 and 30 - reserved for GKs
2, 3, 4, 5 - defenders
6, 8 - Midfielders
7 - best attacking midfielder or good striker / best striker (only in Spain)
9 - best striker
10 - Star of the team, reserved for attacking midfielders and strikers
11 - good striker or good attacking midfielder
12 - Larsson tier striker
14 - sub midfielder
17 - sub striker
All other numbers until 29 - subs
31 to 45 - reserves and youngsters
45 to ??? - the downie of the team everybody makes fun of and never plays

This, it's just science

>méjico
don't take this as an insult, but who is this guy?

Oh fuck off America
Because of your country a retard actually had "Ocho Cinco" on his jersey.

Every player should have his actual surname on his top, irrespective of nickname.

>Hulk
Away and fuck.

>Guatemala throwing shade at Discount Guatemala

Stuff like "Ocho Cinco" is dumb for sure. But I don't see anything wrong with Depay and Alli putting their first name on their shirts.

Maybe in England because all the strikers end up being memes

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12 is for GKs too
14 and 18 were for strikers (Zamorano, Henry, Cruyff...)

5 is DM or CM, 6 is left-back

Hey Brazil, since you think we should allow names like Hulk, would you be fine if the hole German National Team got 7-1 as their names????

no, they should get one letter each and spell out Huelocaust, with the keeper having 7-1

BRAZIL BTFO
R
A
Z
I
L

B
T
F
O

yes, couldn't care less

>football is serious business

...

The last pure #10.

>Roman
>Not having Riquelme

Pass

Cassano and Sneijder are

I wish the NFL let skill players wear single digits.

Because Rooney is an idiot and requested it even though he's too dense to be creative

Most of everyone else uses 4-4-fucking2 so there's no room for a 10 when you've got a 4 and an 8 in midfield

Aguero is an exception

In England, it's just way to stroke the ego of players.

Only if you follow the South American tradition. In German the midfield roles are actually named after those numbers: Sechser (holding midfielder), Achter (central midfielder/box-to-box), Zehner (attacking midfielder)

Giving the No. 6 to a LB would be fucking stupid in that context.

In certain cases, strikers played number 10 role in the academy system, so they request the number even if they don't use play that role anymore.

>pic related

What's so special about #10

The best players wear it, it has an iconic status in soccer. Started with Pele and Maradona iirc

>Implying the best number to wear isn't 00

00 lets people know you don't fuck around and don't give a fuck.

personally I like the number 69 lol

the fascination in soccer with certain numbers has always amused me.

The No. 10 shirt is literally a meme. It is typically given to attacking midfielders, second strikers or oldschool designated playmakers. That's where the special aura of that shirt comes from. Since the legendary players that most footballers strive to emulate usually wore that shirt number, they want to wear it as well.

sounds edgy

a real orchestrator of the midfield

>muh dic
Your all tiny manlets with small hands.
But whatever gets you through the day.

We have a similar set of references in England.

No. 4 - Holding mid. Usually the ballwinner, sometimes a deep playmaker. Eg Eric Dier or Cesc Fabregas
No. 5 - The 'stopper' centre-half. The more aggressive of the two. Eg John Terry or Nemanja Vidic
No. 6 - The 'covering' centre-half. Usually drops back a little, tracks the runs, usually better on the ball. Eg Rio Ferdinand, John Stones

>Implying the best number to wear isn't √2

√2 lets people know you don't fuck around and don't give a fuck.

Terry wears 26 you fucking idiot

not for england you retard

And you would refer to his playing style as a no. 5, you angry person.

kys senpai

Honestly think Barcelona should retire the 10. Pre Messi Barcelona was just a bug ream that couldn't fulfil its potential. Messi, xavi, iniesta, Davids, Ronaldinho, Rijkaard and pep awoke the sleeping giant desu.
But Messi was the most important piece. The literal GOAT.

1 - goalkeeper
2 and 6 - centrebacks
3 - left sideback
4 - right sideback
5 - defensive midfielder
8 - mixed midfielder
7 - attacking midfielder
10 - playmaker
11 - winger
9 - striker

IF YOU DON'T AGREE, YOUR A SHIT

Ocho Cinco wasn't a nickname. He actually, legally changed his name to that. Even by your rules that is the name that should have appeared on his shirt.

>Davids

And what he wants seems to be to start out on the right and move towards the middle.

ok
1 gk
2 rb/cb
3 lb/cb
4,5,6 dm/cm/defender
7 winger/striker
8 cm/attacking mid/striker
9 striker
10 playmaker/forward
11 winger/striker

anything else is heresy

How do you Euros all feel about using your own birth year as your number? Is that heresy too? Doesn't matter since were coming up on a generation of players whose were born after 2000, but I think it's fine. I always thought it would be cool to wear my dad's birth year if I could have been a major star.

Any number above 33 is pleb

He's a right winger in the local league. He's pretty good, but since he's played his whole career for 2 smaller teams casuals can't recognize him.

It has lost its charm on shit teams and leagues, sure.
Last season we had Gaitán.

They sometimes pick shit like 81 because they want to be the nr 9.

That's the logic behind a lot of strikers choosing 18 too.

roll

11 is objectively the best number

Sometimes randoms get the 10 shirt, though. Remember when Dzeko got it at Man City?

Number 10 players are dead. Thats why the number lost his meaning.

19 - Target Man for some reason

thats number 2 ;^))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))

11 is a meme nowadays

That's numberwang

...

>Cruyff
>striker

>plays as a winger
>wears no.9

REEEEEEEEEE

That depends on the country. Here in Argentina the traditional numbers are

1- GK
2, 6 - Centre back
3 - Left back
4 - Right back
5 - Central midfield
7 - Right wing
8- Right midfield
9 - Striker
10 - Playmaker
11 - Left wing / left midfield (Depends on formation)

>not wanting to wear based 69

i beg you to have sex, fucking neckbeard virgins

bruh

>A meme wears the number 17

I miss the 20 much more