At the beginning of this century, these young fellows were going to surprise the world...

                                     
                                                 
Fabio Cannavaro, Tomas Rosicky, Rio Ferdinand, Claudio Lopez, Gaizka Mendieta, Hernan Crespo, Thierry Henry, Francesco Totti, Hidetoshi Nakata, Luis Figo, Roberto Carlos, Patrick Vierra, Ruud van Nistelrooy, Paul Scholes, Freddie Ljungberg, Javier Saviola, Luis Enrique, Edgar Davids, Lilian Thuram, Sylvain Wiltord, Ronaldo, Denílson, Ronaldinho, Seol Ki-hyeon.

Do you know any of them? On the off chance that you do, you should be mature enough to witness a portion of the finest players in our age.

The past age to be correct, on the grounds that as Tomas Rosicky declared his retirement from football as of late and Ronaldinho is set to hang up his boots one year from now, every last single one of them have moved to one side from the great phase of all.

How time flies - and how far we've developed - we had not taken note.