Number 10

[JeffBoy15]

Okay, I think we've all noticed how the number 10 is usually reserved for the "best" player on a given club. And we've all accepted it as tradition and it's no big deal. But how did this start? Or if it had no real starting point, how long has this tradition been alive? Anyone?

 

[Jedi Mind Trick]

actually the number 10 isn't really given to the "best" player on the team. the continental (europe) and universal sense of the number 10 shirt was given to the playmaker. except in england, where the number 10 shirt is usually given to a playmaker or a striker.

 

[-William-]

Pele got in on a WC (dont remember which one), he got it randomly though, the Brazilian coach just listed a number and a player and Pele got number 10
Also Maradona supposely made number 10 a famous number

 

[RUSI]

Good Question, I have always wondered that too

Maybe because of Pele

or maybe, its because usually the perfect score is 10?

 

[PScott]

It started from the point when all the positions had a number. Like goalkeeper has 1, defenders have 2345, and so on. The 10 was the number 1 striker on every team, so basically the best player on each team. Then over time, the best player was known as a playmaker and thus we get the playmakers of today wearing 10.
















Can you believe i Just BS'd that whole thing?

 

[JeffBoy15]

Yeah I was thinking Pele and Maradona too. But I had no idea Pele just got it randomly. So I guess it just caught on from then on, huh?

 

[Hugo-45-Viana]

Well, 7 is also a very famous number, Figo/Beckham/Best/Ronaldo(well, technically he is famous)/others.

It's basically just by positions to be honest(or at least I believe it is), and the fact is the best players on a club usually play in those positions.

 

[JeffBoy15]

Originally posted by PScott
It started from the point when all the positions had a number. Like goalkeeper has 1, defenders have 2345, and so on. The 10 was the number 1 striker on every team, so basically the best player on each team. Then over time, the best player was known as a playmaker and thus we get the playmakers of today wearing 10.
















Can you believe i Just BS'd that whole thing?

I could only tell because it sounded so repetative and it kinda looked like a combination of what all the guys said above. Altough that does make sense, even though it's quite a BROAD way of putting it.

 

[RUSI]

Yeah the "best" numbers are

3, 7, 9, 10, 11

 

[Jedi Mind Trick]

those aren't the "best" numbers. those are just the numbers that the most famous players have worn.

 

[Voltaic Borusse]

The number 9, occupied by Ronaldo and Koller, among many other players I can't think of now.

 

[RUSI]

yeah you are right

I used a bad choice of words

those are usually the most famous numbers

 

[Run DMB]

How about #8?

Hristo

And Damani Ralph (future legend).

 

[RUSI]

9 -
Ronaldo
Kluivert
Crespo(ARG.)
Inzaghi
Koller


some I can think of...

 

[shokz]

Originally posted by Hugo-45-Viana
Well, 7 is also a very famous number, Figo/Beckham/Best/Ronaldo(well, technically he is famous)/others.

oooo! aaaah! cantona! ooh ahh cantona!

*claps*

George Best.

 

[RUSI]

oh you are tlking about the Karate kid

 

[Jedi Mind Trick]

#9:
vieri (italy)...who i believe is the prototypical #9.
i think ruud where's #9 for holland.

 

[PScott]

all the number 9 is, is the number 1 striker on most teams. Thats all. The number 7 is usually a winger like beckham figo etc.

As time goes on, the numbers will have less and less significance. Zidane is the best number 10 in the world, and he wears number 5 for heavens sake!

 

[Jedi Mind Trick]

well he took the number 5 shirt because there weren't any other numbers available. figo had the 10, who wanted 7 but raul had it, and raul wouldn't give it up. but you're right about these "traditional numbers" eventually losing their significance as more and more players transfer to other teams.

and the traditional #9 is your prototypical out and out striker.

 

[shokz]

I forgot we haven't even got a player wearing the #9...

It would please me if Ole Solskjaer makes his comeback with the #9 shirt.