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The Top Ranked Soccer Defenders of the 2000s
Notes: Players are only ranked in the position they played the most during this decade.
| Rnk | Athlete | Overall Decade Rnk |
| 1 | Fabio Cannavaro | 10 |
| 2 | Roberto Carlos | 14 |
| 3 | Paolo Maldini | 19 |
| 4 | Lilian Thuram | 34 |
| 5 | Alessandro Nesta | 37 |
| 6 | John Terry | 46 |
| 7 | Gianluca Zambrotta | 55 |
| 8 | Rio Ferdinand | 64 |
| 9 | Roberto Ayala | 72 |
| 10 | Sol Campbell | 73 |
| 11 | Cafu | 74 |
| 12 | Philipp Lahm | 77 |
| 13 | Cris | 95 |
| 14 | Marcel Desailly | 101 |
| 15 | Nemanja Vidic | 102 |
| 16 | Ricardo Carvalho | 106 |
| 17 | Edmilson | 118 |
| 18 | Fabio Grosso | 120 |
| 19 | Fernando Hierro | 128 |
| 20 | Carles Puyol | 129 |
| 21 | Hatem Trabelsi | 130 |
| 22 | Lucio | 131 |
| 23 | Willy Sagnol | 133 |
| 24 | Marco Materazzi | 142 |
| 25 | Radhi Jaidi | 158 |
| 26 | Rafael Marquez | 159 |
| 27 | Bixente Lizarazu | 176 |
| 28 | Eric Abidal | 181 |
| 29 | Jamie Carragher | 183 |
| 30 | Kolo Toure | 187 |
| 31 | Michel Salgado | 193 |
| 32 | Samuel Kuffour | 198 |
| 33 | Sergio Ramos | 199 |
| 34 | Vincent Candela | 200 |
| 35 | William Gallas | 201 |
| 36 | Alpay Ozalan | 205 |
| 37 | Myung-Bo Hong | 206 |
| 38 | Bartosz Bosacki | 217 |
| 39 | Andriy Rusol | 228 |
| 40 | Beto Deus | 232 |
| 41 | Bulent Korkmaz | 235 |
| 42 | Craig Moore | 239 |
| 43 | Dario Rodriguez | 243 |
| 44 | Francisco Arce | 252 |
| 45 | Gary Breen | 255 |
| 46 | Gilberto da Silva | 256 |
| 47 | Juanito Gutierrez | 265 |
| 48 | Junior de Souza | 267 |
| 49 | Lucas Radebe | 270 |
| 50 | Mauricio Wright | 275 |
| 51 | Peter Van Der Heyden | 286 |
| 52 | Philippe Senderos | 287 |
| 53 | Raouf Bouzaiene | 290 |
| 54 | Sohrab Bakhtiarizadeh | 304 |
| 55 | Thomas Linke | 310 |
| 56 | Yahya Golmohammadi | 322 |
| 57 | Ahmed Al-Dokhi | 326 |
| 58 | Alessandro Santos | 327 |
| 59 | Anthony Seric | 330 |
| 60 | Ashley Cole | 331 |
| 61 | Carlos Gamarra | 335 |
| 62 | Christoph Metzelder | 337 |
| 63 | Dario Simic | 340 |
| 64 | Denis Caniza | 343 |
| 65 | Eddie Pope | 346 |
| 66 | Erik Edman | 348 |
| 67 | Gilberto Martinez | 350 |
| 68 | Giovanny Espinoza | 352 |
| 69 | Gregg Berhalter | 353 |
| 70 | Harold Wallace | 354 |
| 71 | Hussein Abdulghani | 356 |
| 72 | Ivan Hurtado | 357 |
| 73 | Jacek Bak | 358 |
| 74 | Jervis Drummond | 360 |
| 75 | Jin-Cheul Choi | 362 |
| 76 | Josip Simunic | 365 |
| 77 | Juan Pablo Sorin | 366 |
| 78 | Julio Cesar Caceres | 367 |
| 79 | Koji Nakata | 372 |
| 80 | Luis Marin | 373 |
| 81 | Marco Caneira | 376 |
| 82 | Marlon Ayovi | 377 |
| 83 | Michal Zewlakow | 380 |
| 84 | Mikael Silvestre | 381 |
| 85 | Olof Mellberg | 388 |
| 86 | Pablo Mastroeni | 391 |
| 87 | Redha Tukar | 395 |
| 88 | Robert Kovac | 398 |
| 89 | Sebastian Kehl | 400 |
| 90 | Steve Cherundolo | 402 |
| 91 | Stjepan Tomas | 403 |
| 92 | Teddy Lucic | 405 |
| 93 | Tsuneyasu Miyamoto | 408 |
| 94 | Ulises de la Cruz | 409 |
| 95 | Wayne Bridge | 411 |
| 96 | Young-Pyo Lee | 412 |
| 97 | Cristian Chivu | 417 |
| 98 | Dani Alves | 418 |
| 99 | Giourkas Seitaridis | 425 |
| 100 | Laurent Blanc | 427 |
| 101 | Maicon Sisenando | 429 |
| 102 | Michalis Kapsis | 431 |
| 103 | Pepe | 433 |
| 104 | Traianos Dellas | 441 |
| 105 | Yuri Zhirkov | 445 |
| 106 | Aaron Mokoena | 447 |
| 107 | Abdoulaye Meite | 448 |
| 108 | Abdullah Sulaiman Zubromawi | 453 |
| 109 | Abel Xavier | 454 |
| 110 | Ahmed Al-Bahri | 461 |
| 111 | Akira Kaji | 464 |
| 112 | Alaeddine Yahia | 467 |
| 113 | Alassane N'Dour | 471 |
| 114 | Alberto Rodriguez (1974) | 475 |
| 115 | Alejandro Lembo | 476 |
| 116 | Aleksander Knavs | 477 |
| 117 | Aliou Cisse | 490 |
| 118 | Amir Hossein Sadeghi | 495 |
| 119 | Amir Karic | 496 |
| 120 | Anderson Polga | 499 |
| 121 | Andre Ooijer | 502 |
| 122 | Andrea Barzagli | 503 |
| 123 | Andreas Jakobsson | 505 |
| 124 | Andrei Solomatin | 506 |
| 125 | Andrew O'Brien | 508 |
| 126 | Andriy Nesmachniy | 510 |
| 127 | Anis Ayari | 517 |
| 128 | Antonio Lebo Lebo | 521 |
| 129 | Antonio Lopez (1981) | 522 |
| 130 | Arkadiusz Glowacki | 530 |
| 131 | Arne Friedrich | 532 |
| 132 | Arthur Boka | 535 |
| 133 | Assimiou Toure | 537 |
| 134 | Augusto Porozo | 538 |
| 135 | Avery John | 541 |
| 136 | Bill Tchato | 548 |
| 137 | Blaise Kouassi | 549 |
| 138 | Boris Zivkovic | 553 |
| 139 | Bradley Carnell | 555 |
| 140 | Brent Sancho | 558 |
| 141 | Brett Emerton | 559 |
| 142 | Carlos Bocanegra | 565 |
| 143 | Carlos Castro | 566 |
| 144 | Carlos Edwards | 567 |
| 145 | Carlos Llamosa | 570 |
| 146 | Carlos Marchena | 571 |
| 147 | Carlos Salcido | 572 |
| 148 | Celestine Babayaro | 574 |
| 149 | Celso Ayala | 575 |
| 150 | Chris Albright | 579 |
| 151 | Christian Panucci | 585 |
| 152 | Christian Ziege | 588 |
| 153 | Christoph Spycher | 589 |
| 154 | Cicinho de Cezare | 592 |
| 155 | Claudio Suarez | 595 |
| 156 | Cristian Zaccardo | 605 |
| 157 | Curro Torres | 608 |
| 158 | Cyd Gray | 609 |
| 159 | Cyril Domoraud | 610 |
| 160 | Cyril Nzama | 611 |
| 161 | Daniel Quaye | 617 |
| 162 | Daniel Sanabria | 618 |
| 163 | Daniel Saric | 619 |
| 164 | Daniel Vallejos | 620 |
| 165 | Daniel Van Buyten | 621 |
| 166 | Danny Mills | 627 |
| 167 | Dare Nibombe | 629 |
| 168 | David Atiba Charles | 633 |
| 169 | David Jemmali | 637 |
| 170 | David Regis | 639 |
| 171 | David Rozehnal | 640 |
| 172 | Delio Toledo | 646 |
| 173 | Dennis Lawrence | 649 |
| 174 | Diego Placente | 656 |
| 175 | Dmitri Sennikov | 663 |
| 176 | Dmytro Chyhrynskyi | 664 |
| 177 | Dong-Jin Kim | 666 |
| 178 | Du Wei | 669 |
| 179 | Dusan Basta | 671 |
| 180 | Dusan Petkovic | 672 |
| 181 | Efe Sodje | 682 |
| 182 | Emir Mkademi | 684 |
| 183 | Emmanuel Eboue | 685 |
| 184 | Emmanuel Pappoe | 686 |
| 185 | Emre Asik | 688 |
| 186 | Enrique Romero | 689 |
| 187 | Eric Addo | 691 |
| 188 | Eric Akoto | 692 |
| 189 | Eric Deflandre | 693 |
| 190 | Eric Ejiofor | 695 |
| 191 | Eric Van Meir | 696 |
| 192 | Fabricio Coloccini | 703 |
| 193 | Fan Zhiyi | 704 |
| 194 | Fatih Akyel | 705 |
| 195 | Ferdinand Coly | 710 |
| 196 | Fernando Couto | 711 |
| 197 | Fernando Meira | 712 |
| 198 | Fouzi Al-Shehri | 714 |
| 199 | Francesco Coco | 715 |
| 200 | Francisco Gabriel de Anda | 717 |
| 201 | Francisco Javier Rodriguez | 718 |
| 202 | Frank Baumann | 721 |
| 203 | Frank Leboeuf | 722 |
| 204 | Fredrik Stenman | 726 |
| 205 | Gabriel Badilla | 727 |
| 206 | Gabriel Heinze | 729 |
| 207 | Gabriel Milito | 730 |
| 208 | Gael Givet | 731 |
| 209 | Gareth Southgate | 735 |
| 210 | Gary Kelly | 736 |
| 211 | Gary Neville | 737 |
| 212 | Geremi Njitap | 742 |
| 213 | Giovanni van Bronckhorst | 748 |
| 214 | Glen De Boeck | 749 |
| 215 | Gonzalo Pineda | 751 |
| 216 | Gonzalo Sorondo | 752 |
| 217 | Goran Gavrancic | 753 |
| 218 | Goran Sankovic | 754 |
| 219 | Gustavo Mendez | 761 |
| 220 | Guy Demel | 765 |
| 221 | Habib Beye | 766 |
| 222 | Habib Mohamed | 767 |
| 223 | Hakan Unsal | 768 |
| 224 | Hamad Al-Montashari | 770 |
| 225 | Hamdi Marzouki | 772 |
| 226 | Hossein Kaebi | 788 |
| 227 | Ian Cox | 789 |
| 228 | Ian Harte | 790 |
| 229 | Ifeanyi Udeze | 792 |
| 230 | Igor Chugainov | 793 |
| 231 | Illiasu Shilla | 798 |
| 232 | Isaac Okoronkwo | 801 |
| 233 | Issah Ahmed | 802 |
| 234 | Ivica Dragutinovic | 807 |
| 235 | Jacek Zielinski | 809 |
| 236 | Jacky Peeters | 810 |
| 237 | Jacob Lekgetho | 811 |
| 238 | Jamba Pereira | 814 |
| 239 | Jan Heintze | 816 |
| 240 | Jan Kromkamp | 817 |
| 241 | Javier Zanetti | 830 |
| 242 | Jean-Alain Boumsong | 832 |
| 243 | Jean-Paul Abalo | 834 |
| 244 | Jeff Agoos | 835 |
| 245 | Jens Nowotny | 837 |
| 246 | Jimmy Conrad | 845 |
| 247 | Jin-Kyu Kim | 846 |
| 248 | Joe Bizera | 849 |
| 249 | Johan Djourou | 853 |
| 250 | Johan Mjallby | 855 |
| 251 | John Heitinga | 859 |
| 252 | John Mensah | 860 |
| 253 | Jorge Andrade | 865 |
| 254 | Jorge Costa | 866 |
| 255 | Jorge Guagua | 867 |
| 256 | Jorge Nunez | 869 |
| 257 | Joris Mathijsen | 870 |
| 258 | Jose Antonio Castro | 871 |
| 259 | Jose Chamot | 873 |
| 260 | Jose Clayton | 874 |
| 261 | Jose Luis Perlaza | 879 |
| 262 | Jose Roque Junior | 881 |
| 263 | Joseph Yobo | 883 |
| 264 | Juan Carlos Franco | 888 |
| 265 | Juan Jose Rodriguez | 889 |
| 266 | Juan Silveira | 890 |
| 267 | Juanfran Garcia | 891 |
| 268 | Juliano Belletti | 892 |
| 269 | Julio Cesar Manzur | 893 |
| 270 | Kali Goncalves | 898 |
| 271 | Karim Essediri | 903 |
| 272 | Karim Haggui | 904 |
| 273 | Karim Saidi | 905 |
| 274 | Karl Svensson | 906 |
| 275 | Kasper Bogelund | 907 |
| 276 | Keisuke Tsuboi | 909 |
| 277 | Kenny Cunningham | 911 |
| 278 | Kew Jaliens | 914 |
| 279 | Khaled Badra | 916 |
| 280 | Khalid Boulahrouz | 917 |
| 281 | Lamine Diatta | 929 |
| 282 | Leandro Cufre | 932 |
| 283 | Leonardo Gonzalez | 935 |
| 284 | Li Weifeng | 938 |
| 285 | Lionel Scaloni | 941 |
| 286 | Loco Morais | 942 |
| 287 | Lucas Neill | 945 |
| 288 | Lucien Mettomo | 947 |
| 289 | Ludovic Assemoassa | 948 |
| 290 | Ludovic Magnin | 949 |
| 291 | Luis Delgado | 952 |
| 292 | Luisao | 957 |
| 293 | Luke Wilkshire | 961 |
| 294 | Maciej Murawski | 966 |
| 295 | Mansour Al-Thagafi | 973 |
| 296 | Manuel Vidrio | 974 |
| 297 | Marcell Jansen | 976 |
| 298 | Marcin Baszczynski | 979 |
| 299 | Marco Abreu | 980 |
| 300 | Marco Airosa | 981 |
| 301 | Marco Zoro | 985 |
| 302 | Marek Jankulovski | 989 |
| 303 | Mariano Pernia | 991 |
| 304 | Marinko Galic | 992 |
| 305 | Mario Mendez (1979) | 994 |
| 306 | Mario Tokic | 997 |
| 307 | Mariusz Jop | 998 |
| 308 | Mariusz Lewandowski | 999 |
| 309 | Mark Iuliano | 1001 |
| 310 | Mark Milligan | 1003 |
| 311 | Marko Rehmer | 1007 |
| 312 | Martin Jiranek | 1010 |
| 313 | Martin Keown | 1012 |
| 314 | Martin Laursen | 1013 |
| 315 | Marvin Andrews | 1014 |
| 316 | Massamasso Tchangai | 1018 |
| 317 | Massimo Oddo | 1019 |
| 318 | Mauricio Pochettino | 1024 |
| 319 | Melvin Brown | 1030 |
| 320 | Michael Beauchamp | 1031 |
| 321 | Michael Rodriguez | 1033 |
| 322 | Michael Svensson | 1034 |
| 323 | Michael Umana | 1035 |
| 324 | Miguel Angel Nadal | 1037 |
| 325 | Miguel Garcia | 1038 |
| 326 | Mikael Nilsson | 1039 |
| 327 | Milan Dudic | 1041 |
| 328 | Min-Sung Lee | 1046 |
| 329 | Mladen Krstajic | 1050 |
| 330 | Mohamed Eid | 1052 |
| 331 | Mohamed Mkacher | 1053 |
| 332 | Mohammad Massad | 1055 |
| 333 | Mohammad Nosrati | 1056 |
| 334 | Mohammed Sheliah | 1059 |
| 335 | Mohsin Al-Harthi | 1061 |
| 336 | Muamer Vugdalic | 1065 |
| 337 | Naif Al-Qadi | 1068 |
| 338 | Naoki Matsuda | 1070 |
| 339 | Neicer Reasco | 1072 |
| 340 | Nenad Dordevic | 1075 |
| 341 | Niclas Jensen | 1078 |
| 342 | Nico Van Kerckhoven | 1079 |
| 343 | Nicolas Burdisso | 1082 |
| 344 | Nuno Frechaut | 1086 |
| 345 | Nuno Valente | 1087 |
| 346 | Oguchi Onyewu | 1091 |
| 347 | Oleksandr Yatsenko | 1095 |
| 348 | Omar Daf | 1098 |
| 349 | Pablo Chinchilla | 1106 |
| 350 | Pablo Ibanez | 1108 |
| 351 | Paolo Montero | 1109 |
| 352 | Pape Malick Diop | 1110 |
| 353 | Pascal Chimbonda | 1113 |
| 354 | Patrick Muller | 1115 |
| 355 | Patrik Andersson | 1117 |
| 356 | Paul Ambrosi | 1118 |
| 357 | Paulo da Silva | 1120 |
| 358 | Paulo Ferreira | 1121 |
| 359 | Pavel Mares | 1125 |
| 360 | Pedro Sarabia | 1131 |
| 361 | Per Mertesacker | 1133 |
| 362 | Petter Hansson | 1137 |
| 363 | Philipp Degen | 1138 |
| 364 | Philippe Christanval | 1139 |
| 365 | Pierre Issa | 1141 |
| 366 | Pierre Njanka | 1142 |
| 367 | Pierre Wome | 1143 |
| 368 | Rabiu Afolabi | 1153 |
| 369 | Radoslav Kovac | 1154 |
| 370 | Rahman Rezaei | 1158 |
| 371 | Raphael Wicky | 1161 |
| 372 | Raul Guerron | 1163 |
| 373 | Raymond Kalla | 1164 |
| 374 | Rene Henriksen | 1166 |
| 375 | Ricardo Costa | 1170 |
| 376 | Ricardo Osorio | 1171 |
| 377 | Richard Dunne | 1173 |
| 378 | Richmond Forson | 1175 |
| 379 | Rigobert Song | 1176 |
| 380 | Robert Huth | 1178 |
| 381 | Robert Jarni | 1179 |
| 382 | Rui Jorge | 1186 |
| 383 | Rui Marques | 1187 |
| 384 | Ryuzo Morioka | 1192 |
| 385 | Salvador Carmona | 1196 |
| 386 | Sang-Sik Kim | 1198 |
| 387 | Sasa Gajser | 1199 |
| 388 | Seweryn Gancarczyk | 1214 |
| 389 | Spasoje Bulajic | 1223 |
| 390 | Stan Lazaridis | 1224 |
| 391 | Stephane Grichting | 1226 |
| 392 | Steve Finnan | 1228 |
| 393 | Steve Staunton | 1229 |
| 394 | Steven Lustu | 1231 |
| 395 | Sun Jihai | 1237 |
| 396 | Tae-Young Kim | 1242 |
| 397 | Tarek Thabet | 1243 |
| 398 | Taribo West | 1244 |
| 399 | Teruyuki Moniwa | 1247 |
| 400 | Thabang Molefe | 1248 |
| 401 | Thomas Helveg | 1253 |
| 402 | Tim de Cler | 1257 |
| 403 | Tomas Antonelius | 1262 |
| 404 | Tomas Ujfalusi | 1264 |
| 405 | Tomasz Hajto | 1265 |
| 406 | Tomasz Klos | 1266 |
| 407 | Tomasz Rzasa | 1268 |
| 408 | Tomasz Waldoch | 1269 |
| 409 | Tony Popovic | 1272 |
| 410 | Tony Sanneh | 1273 |
| 411 | Toshihiro Hattori | 1274 |
| 412 | Umit Ozat | 1278 |
| 413 | Viktor Onopko | 1285 |
| 414 | Vladyslav Vashchuk | 1290 |
| 415 | Volodymyr Yezerskiy | 1291 |
| 416 | Vyacheslav Dayev | 1293 |
| 417 | Vyacheslav Sviderskyi | 1294 |
| 418 | Walter Ayovi | 1295 |
| 419 | Walter Samuel | 1296 |
| 420 | Wes Brown | 1299 |
| 421 | Won-Hee Cho | 1303 |
| 422 | Wu Chengying | 1304 |
| 423 | Xu Yunlong | 1306 |
| 424 | Yang Pu | 1308 |
| 425 | Young-Chul Kim | 1316 |
| 426 | Young-Min Hyun | 1318 |
| 427 | Yuichi Komano | 1321 |
| 428 | Yuji Nakazawa | 1322 |
| 429 | Yuri Kovtun | 1323 |
| 430 | Yuri Nikiforov | 1324 |
| 431 | Yutaka Akita | 1325 |
| 432 | Zdenek Grygera | 1328 |
| 433 | Zeljko Milinovic | 1331 |
| 434 | Zhang Enhua | 1332 |
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