#3 Iker Casillas – Spain
Spain’s captain Iker Casillas is considered to be one of the greatest exponents of goalkeeping in recent times and he completely deserves to be held in such high regards. Casillas, who has been in the Spanish team for 16 years now has played a pivotal role in their period of dominance from 2008-12 when Spain won Euro 2008, the 2010 FIFA World Cup and Euro 2012. Casillas was in superb form in all three tournaments where he conceded a total of 6 goals and was named in the Team of the Tournament of all the three competitions.
However, in the past couple of years, Casillas hasn’t been in the form he was 5-6 years ago. He was shaky at the 2014 World Cup where he made quite a number of mistakes which resulted in Spain’s elimination in the group stages. Besides, the emergence of David de Gea as a world class goalkeeper has left Casillas with no choice but to prove his worth in Euro 2016. If Casillas does a repeat of the 2014 World Cup then it could be the end of an illustrious international career of one of the greatest goalkeepers of all-time.
