POLL: Who is the best center back in the history of FC Barcelona?

In his almost 125 years of history, the FC Barcelona has had the fortune to have varied of the best defenders of the world-wide football. The club has distinguished by his good 'eye' for fichar central with character and quality, but also a lot of other prodigios in the saga have gone out of The Masia. In this section stand out names like Carles Puyol and Gerard Hammered, two only cases that had the luck to coincide in the most glorious stage of the club and of the Spanish Selection, forming an unforgettable pair.

In the case of 'Puyi', the mythical '5' knew to be the ideal captain for a Barça that won it everything between 2005 and 2015. Carles raised three of the five Champions with which the Barça explains in his vitrinas and sacked in 2014 after 15 years in which it turned into symbol and example of the barcelonismo. JSpread to him was, during a polish, Rafa Márquez, today trainer of the filial. The Mexican knew to win his place in an eleven plagado of stars and, until the return of Hammered, went an authentic kaiser in the Barcelona saga.

Of Koeman to Hammered, a lot of quality and titles for the vitrinas culés

With Gerard, the Barça found to the ideal partner of Puyol and to the leader that the changing room has missed in the last months. In spite of his particular social life and business, the '3' knew lidiar with the pressure mediática to load with the weight of the indisputable titularity during more than a decade. Before 'Geri' and 'Tarzán', the culés had in Ronald Koeman to the indisputable leader of the saga.

The Dutch no only is remembered like one of the best defenders of his country and of the Barcelona, but also like the author of the goal that gave him to the club his first 'orejona'. Although his go through the Barcelona bench was complex, the one of Zaandam keeps his status of legend culé after six seasons in which it shined with his usual polivalencia, which allowed him alternate the role of head office with the one of pivote and collaborate in attack.

A bit further back in the time appears José Ramón Alexanco. The international Spanish was in 1980 the most expensive signing of the history of the Spanish football, but 13 years afterwards the 100 million pesetas that the Barça paid to the Athletic by his traspaso were a quantity anecdótica. The one of Baracaldo led the 'dream team' of Johan Cruyff after a first polish complicated in the club, being the first Barcelona captain that could raise the Glass of Europe in Wembley.

In the decade of the 70', Miguel Bernardo Bianquetti 'Migueli' already had associated the nickname 'Tarzán' to the hidalguía turned into central. The one of Ceuta landed in Catalonia in 1973 after shining in Cádiz and enamoró to the Camp Nou to base of personality and delivery. His character carried him to play a European final with the clavicle broken, being figure in the obtaining of the Recopa in 1982. It left in 1989 being the culé with more official parties, until the generation of Puyol and company surpassed him.

Galician and Rodri, 'precursors' of the model of ideal head office for the Barça

In the primes of the modern era culé stood out two names, perhaps, with less fortune regarding list of winners, but no thus forgotten by the barcelonismo. In first instance appears Paco Rodri, (Francesc Rodríguez García). Although the injuries hardly allowed him be five years in the first team, his quality and polivalencia (could play without problems like side) captivated to some fans that always recognised his delivery and talent. Better fortune had Francisco Fernández Rodríguez, Paco Galician, the one who arrived in 1965 pertinent of the Seville and kept a decade in Barcelona like one of the central more powerful of Europe.

And, before closing, could not be missing a special quotation to Javier Mascherano. The Argentinian arrived in the winter of 2011 without apparent options to be headline in an eleven that had Sergio Busquets like indisputable, but finish convincing to Pep Guardiola of his capacity to help to Gerard Hammered in the saga. The 'Jefecito' commissioned to relieve to Puyol and, to base of sacrifice and professionalism, kept the titularity until 2016, when Luis Enrique opted for giving him the titularity to Samuel Umtiti.