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Robert Lewandowski and Erling Haaland generate plenty of debate at the other end of the field, but who are the best centre-backs today in the league that gave the world football-revolutionary Franz Beckenbauer?
Bayern Munich legend Beckenbauer re-interpreted the position during his 1970s heyday which took in three European Cups and a World Cup win with West Germany, the
libero carrying the ball out of defence and forming a fulcrum of the attack for club and country.
Of course, the darker arts remain important in the modern game too. There is more than one way to interpret the position, as the statistical top performers from this season prove.
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