#4 Victor Valdes
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When a player is part of arguably the greatest club side in football, it’s more than likely that he is an exceptional player and probably the best in the world. For Victor Valdes, however, that’s proved to not be the case. What helped the former Barcelona goalkeeper is that he had an incredible base to work from and played for a side who hardly ever gave the ball away. The Spaniard rarely had to face a barrage of shots during a game.
Some say that Valdes isn’t overrated because of the clean sheets he kept, which is an impressive amount, but fans of the Spanish goalkeeper do not consider the number of shots he had to come up against, which was very few.
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Apart from the big clubs of La Liga, Barcelona controlled every game under Pep Guardiola, but when Valdes left Barcelona for Manchester United, it was a disaster.
His style of passing out from the back had caused huge problems at times for Barcelona, gifting goals to the likes of David Villa and Karim Benzema, as well his awful catching from a free kick in the Champions League against Lyon and almost decapitating a man against Copenhagen, also in the Champions League.
Being a part of that Barcelona team served him well during his career, but let’s just leave it by saying there was always a reason why he was in the shadow of Iker Casillas at international level.
