Loyalty to the trademark of the beloved club

Loyalty of a player to a club - especially a top club, is an exception in modern football. That is why the career of the legendary captain of Roma, Franćesko Toti, who spent all 25 professional years of playing in Roma, is a real curiosity and an admirable piece of information. Once upon a time, when there were no fabulous transfers in football, there were incomparably more players with careers spent in the same club, now...

However, despite the success and desires, there are still players today who are the trademark of the same club. Transfermarkt has compiled a list of the 10 most loyal active footballers in the ten strongest European leagues.

The list is headed by the well-known goalkeeper of "zbornaj", Igor Akinfejev, whose injury after a torch was thrown from the stands of the stadium under Gorica cost our selection three points.

Akinfeev has been in CSKA all his life, and he has been the first team goalkeeper of the "Army" for 17 years and four months. He needs another five years to reach the national record of the goalkeeper icon of Dinamo Moscow and world football, Lav Yašin, who defended for the "policemen" for 22 years. Will it work - Akinfeev recently turned 34...

In second place is the captain of Saint Etienne, Loic Perrin, who has been with that club since he was a child, and the legendary defender has been 16 years and 10 months in the jersey of the A team of the French league.

Leo Messi debuted for Barça in a friendly match with Porto in 2003. The Catalans brought him as a boy to whom they paid 900 dollars a month for growth hormones. The rest is history, which lasts 16 years and four months of the career of one of the best football players of all time.

Fourth place is shared by two players from Serie A - Giorgio Chiellini in Juventus and Sassuolo captain Francesco Magnanielli. They are the first team members of their clubs for 14 years, nine months and 28 days.

And while Magnanielli with Sassuolo made his way from the fourth division, Chiellini was paid 6,5 million euros by Juventus to Livorno back in the summer of 2004, but Torino sold 50 percent of the rights to this player to Fiorentina. Chiellini excelled during the season in purple, so the "old lady" bought him for 4,3 million. He will end his career next summer and take over the managerial function at Juventus.

Two months less, Sergio Ramos is in sixth place as Real's first team player. He was already a star in Sevilla, and at the age of 20 he moved to Madrid for 27 million.

"You wake up as a Sevilla player, and you fall asleep in a Real Madrid shirt, after a day spent with my idols - Raul, Zizou, Roberto Carlos, Casillas, Beckham, Ronaldo... Unbelievable!" said the current captain of Real Madrid 14 years and eight months ago. .

The goalkeeper of Zulte Varegem, Semi Bosut, and the player of Villarreal and the Spanish national team, Bruno Soriano, count 13 years and ten months each in their clubs, with the fact that Soriano also grew up in the "yellow submarine".

Just two days after them, the current captain of that club, Ćavi Lopes, who came from Betis in 2007, signed his first professional contract with Espanyol. The last, 10th position is held by Roberto Carlos' successor at Real, Marcelo. Choosing between the offers of CSKA Moscow and Sevilla, the great defender of Fluminense suddenly received an invitation that he cannot refuse - Real, 13 years and four months ago.