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Dennis Bergkamp - An analysis on his place in history
As DennisBergkamp begins his final campaign a natural question to ask is: Where does he rank among the greats of the game? There are a number of ways to look at this, all of them unfair, but what’s the point of being a fan if you can’t spout off, throwing in your two cents? These sorts of exercises are always skewed towards the present day – did you see Ted Drake play live? But what the hell, here goes…
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| The first question, and perhaps most dear to Arsenal fans, is where does DB10 rank among the All-Time Arsenal greats? Then, how does he rank against all players of his generation? Finally, where does he stand amongst the All-Time greats of the game?
Dennis is a bit tricky to judge because it’s hard to know what the standards are. Should he be judged as a striker, based primarily on his goal scoring? As a creative midfielder or a deep lying play-maker? He doesn’t really fit neatly into one role. But then again few of the truly great did. What position did Cruyff, Di Stefano or Platini play? Everywhere and anywhere they needed to. So while it’s hard to categorize Bergkamp, that may also be a sign that he was one of those special players. So we’re going to have to use a lot of subjective criteria in gauging his impact and ultimately where he stands.
If you’re going to make an Arsenal All-Time XI surely DB10 is in their, right? But where do you play him? Up front, but Ian Wright, Thierry Henry, Ted Drake and Cliff Bastin all found the net more often. In midfield? Liam Brady and Patrick Vieira might have something to say about that. And yet you get the feeling that as great as all those players are/were, they would be even better with Dennis in the lineup. Not only does Bergkamp make a direct contribution – he does have more than 100 goals scored for Arsenal, but he also makes those around him better. So for that reason I think you must put him in the starting XI. Perhaps in a spot just behind two strikers and in front of three midfielders.
Now, where would Dennis rank among player of the last, say 20 years? The cold, hard reality is that Dennis hasn’t won a trophy for country or for club (in Europe). That’s a mark against him. But of the clubs who have won the European Cup/Champions League during that time, how many would DB10 have started for? My guess is that a good number of those clubs would have found a place for him.
I think most would agree that he’s been one of the top Premiership players during his 10 years in England. Probably just missing out on an EPL XI.
The final, and certainly most ridiculous question, is where does God rank among the All-Time greats of the game. First, you’ve got to qualify this by agreeing that we can only make this comparison among European players. To throw in South Americans would be really crazy. So, after putting together a scientific, mathematical formula the answer is 87. Or maybe 112. Possibly 140. Or 54. Yeah, there is no way to do this. The UEFA publication, Champions, the official magazine of The Champions League, ranked the top 250 Europeans of All-Time recently and had Dennis at 167. Seemed a little low to me.. Seemed really low when Alan Shearer was ranked 100 places higher at 66. Seemed absolutely ridiculous when Davor Suker was ranked 48! Davor Suker? Jari Litmanen at 33!? Ok, stop it.
In the final analysis, Dennis suffers for not having won a really big trophy, for having skills that are uncategorizable and for not being a flamboyant loud-mouth, like Eric Cantona, who while undeniably great, gets extra points in these sorts of things by being, well, Eric Cantona. Putting aside the fact that he doesn’t fly, I can’t imagine too many teams, now or in the past, that wouldn’t want Bergkamp in their side. For what it’s worth, I think it will be a very long time before I see a player significantly better than Dennis has been on his day. He’s capable of destroying other teams with his scoring and his passing. His vision and ability to read the mathematics of the game – the geometry of movement of both the ball and players – is on par with anyone who has ever played the game. It’s not often that you can say you saw one of the truly greats. Arsenal fans can. |
翻译：luzi17 （未经本人和www.arsenalcn.com 同意请勿转载）
丹尼斯·博格坎普——他的历史地位分析
当丹尼斯·博格坎普开始他的最后一个赛季时，一个自然而然的问题是：在伟大球员之中，他能位列第几？
首先一个问题，对阿森纳的球迷来说，DB10在阿森纳的伟大球员中排列在什么位置？其次，他在他这一代球员中排第几？最后，他在所有时期的伟大球员中排在第几？ 对丹尼斯的评价很灵活，因为很难说标准是什么。基于他在进球得分上的主要作用，应该评他为一名射手么？还是作为一位有创造性的中场球员？或者是影子杀手？ 其实他不是一个固定角色。除他之外少数伟大球员做到了这一点。克鲁伊夫，迪斯蒂法诺还有普拉蒂尼都是什么位置？是每个位置和需要他们的任何地方。因此把博格坎普分类是难的，这也可能是他是那些优秀球员的标志之一。因此我们必然会用一些主观的标准来评价他的影响力并且最终确定他的排位。
如果你要选择阿森纳历史上11人阵容，DB10当然在其中，对吗？但是踢什么位置？如果顶在前面，伊恩·赖特，亨利，特德·德雷克（Ted Drake）和巴斯廷（Cliff Bastin）都是优秀射手。在中场？利亚姆·布雷迪（Liam Brady）和帕特里克·维埃拉没准会有话要说。然而你可能象那些一伟大运动员一样觉得，有丹尼斯在会变成更好。博格坎普不仅做除了许多直接的贡献——他为阿森纳进了超过100个进球，但是他也为周围的队友做了很多。因此我觉得你必将把他放进11人阵容之中。也许把他放在两名前锋之后、三名中场之前。
现在来说说丹尼斯能在最近20年的球员中排在第几？严峻的现实是丹尼斯没为国家或者为俱乐部（在欧洲）赢得一个奖杯。这是对他不利的纪录。但是在这段时间赢得欧洲冠军杯/冠军联赛的俱乐部，有多少是DB10会去的？我的推测是许多俱乐部都可能有他的位置。
我想最为认可的是，他在英格兰的10年间是英超最顶尖的球员之一。但也许就会失去当选英超联赛最佳11人的机会。
最后，非常可笑的问题是，在比赛中上帝在伟大球员中排名的问题。首先，你不得不同意我们只能在欧洲运动员有这种比较的资格。如果加上南美人那真的会发疯的。因此，在用科学的数学公式计算之后，答案是87。或者也许是112。也许是140。也可能54。是的，没有方法计算这个。UEFA的出版物，冠军联赛官方杂志——《冠军》，最近评选了欧洲前250名球员，丹尼斯排名167位。我感觉稍微低了点。当发现希勒被排列在比他高66位的100位时，我觉得好像真的是很低。而达沃·苏克被排列在48，这绝对可笑！能是达沃·苏克吗？在33位的是利特马宁！？好了，别看它了。
归根到底，丹尼斯没有赢得一个大的奖杯而受连累，因为有才华而不能确定类型以及没有像坎通纳一样炫耀响亮嘴（虽然不可否认坎通纳的伟大）这类事情里得到额外的分数。
把他不会飞的事实放在一旁，我无法想象现在或者过去的哪支队伍，不想要博格坎普加盟。无论真假，我都认为看见一名比丹尼斯最有成就时候还好的球员，将需要等非常长的时间。他能用进球和传球摧毁其他球队。他观察和读懂比赛中的数学（球和球员的运规律）的能力高于其它球员。你不会经常说你看到一位真正伟大的球员。但是阿森纳球迷会。
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