Dani Alves or Maicon, I'm partial to Dani since he has great skill, pace, is hardworking, and a great tackler.
This season Dani Alves was by far the best RB in the world if you consider attacking game , if you consider defensive game then thats another story.
Considering that a RB cant be measured on just his attacking abilities, then Maicon was clearly the best RB over the 2008/09 season.
alves is not a right back, hes more of a winger than rb lol for me it doesnt get better than maicon and sagna
deployed as a wingback in a 5 man defense (two wingbacks + 3 cbs), i think Alves would be better than Lahm.
Barcelona won their triple with Alves in a 4 man defense. I don't think Lahm could have done any better.
i think thats to do with theo not helping AT ALL defensively where as hleb tucked in last year to allow the overlap
In a wingback role, right now Alves is the better choice. Lahm is clearly the better fullback but to play the devil's advocate, we haven't really seen Lahm s full attacking ability, even in his preferred role on the right (which he will play this coming season) because he's always been coupled with crock defenses.
So just because Dunga thinks Maicon is better, then he is better. Well, I think that Alves is better, as do many other (more respected) people. Does that make him better?
alves is not a better defender than maicon, both are great going forward, i fail to see how alves is better? maybe hed be a better winger....
Dunga also starts Gilberto Silva... But in one point you are right: Dunga has a reason... we just don't know it (despite right-back is a much more comfortable position for him to choose a player)