In football, there are many players who love a team because they love it, and the fans are most familiar with Totti, Giggs and so on. However, these players have retired, so what about the most active players who have played for a single team? Recently, the German authoritative media "Transfer Market Network" took stock of the ten players who played for a single team for the longest time among the active players. It should be said that they did not calculate the time of the interruption, such as Bonucci going from Juve to Milan and then back to Milan, and this time only counting the time he played after his return.
As shown in the picture, Chiellini has been playing for Juve for 16 years, playing 551 games, but unfortunately Chiellini is not from Juve's youth training, he is from Livorno's youth training, then went to Fiorentina, and finally transferred to Juve. The second is Sassuolo's Mananelli, who played for Sassuolo for 16 years and made 475 appearances, but the 37-year-old veteran, who is not from Sassuolo's youth, he is from Gubbio's youth, then to Chievo, then to Fiorentina, followed by Sangio Vanise, and finally to Sassuolo.
The third is Marcelo, who played for Real Madrid for 15 years and made 538 appearances, but he is not from the Real Madrid academy, he transferred to Real Madrid from Fluminense; the fourth is Nobull of West Ham, the 34-year-old veteran, who debuted in West Ham's youth training, played for the team for 15 years, made 513 appearances, and now he is expected to die in West Ham. Fifth is Barca's Busquets, who played for the team for 13 years, making 659 appearances, but he was directly promoted from the academy and has been playing until now. Sixth is Pique, who played for Barca for 13 years and made 593 appearances, though he moved to Manchester United in between.
Seventh is Lazio, who played for the team for 13 years and made 404 appearances, but he debuted in Dynamo Bucharest and moved to Lazio in 2008. The eighth is Angers' Muncole, who went straight to the first team from Angers Youth in 2008, and he has played for the team for 13 years, making 377 appearances; the ninth is Dort's Schmeltze, who is considered to be a Dort youth training and has now played for Dort for 13 years, making 367 appearances. The tenth is Müller, who came from Bayern's academy, entered the first team in 2009 and has now played for Bayern for 12 years, making 606 appearances.
I have to say that the players in the list are all very loyal players, and such players are becoming less and less now. Among them, Noble, Busquets, Musso, Schmeltze and Muller are all in the same team from the academy to the present, I just don't know who of them can finally retire from the current team and become one of the few loyal souls in football now?