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#3 Marcel Desailly
What you want from your central defenders are pure physical specimens who are prepared to sweat blood for the cause, who go in where it hurts without giving athought for their own safety and command their box like their lives depended on it. If youre able to ensure a ball-playing centre-half too, then youve struck gold.
And Chelsea certainly hit the jackpot when they signed Marcel Desailly. Hemay have been 30 years of age when he signed for them, but he epitomised everything that was required from a player in his position.
Utterly formidable and a real leader of men, he managed to combine a natural aggressive streak with bis supreme ability to read the game.His confidence in possession of the football was also notable for a big man and meant a dual role in midfield was available to his employers if needed.
Always physically and mentally prepared for whatever came his way, the Frenchman was one of the finest defenders to have graced the English top flight. The Frenchman made 158 league appearances for the London cluband won the FA Cup and UEFA Cup in his time there.
