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High growth in football is welcome, especially when it comes to goalkeepers and central defenders.
There are a huge number of players with a height of 190-195 cm, so in our selection we will consider only those who have grown even more. You can recruit not one, but several dozen such guys, so we are forced to ignore many.
10 Gianluigi Donnarumma
The hope of the Italian national team and the successor of the great Gianluigi Buffon already at the age of 16 had considerable growth and talent, which allowed him to enter the basis of Milan at such a young age.
The guy actually proved that he was trusted not in vain and he is really capable of “dragging” both the club and the national team.
Unfortunately, in the last couple of seasons, there have been too many scandals around his name, allegedly related to his desire to change the team, although in reality these are all the tricks of his agent, who inflates the price of his client. Let’s hope that the transfer epic will finally end and Donaruma will continue to grow in game plan.
As for field players, with the same height as Buffon, 196 cm it is impossible not to single out Artem Dzyuba, who became one of the heroes of the Russian team at the last World Cup.
9. Edwin Van der Sar
One of the greatest goalkeepers in the history of the Dutch national team, as well as a true Manchester United legend, has grown to 197 см. Such data allowed him to easily win riding duels in the goalkeeper’s area, leaving no chance for rival players. It also helped him when playing “on a ribbon”: he easily got “dead” balls from the farthest corners.
8. Naldo
Brazilian defender with height 198 см is distinguished not only by a reliable game in his own half of the field, but is also a threat to opponents during set pieces. During his career, he scored about 70 goals, becoming one of the most productive defenders in history.
Of course, he scored most of the goals with his head, but not all: in addition to being tall, he is famous for his “lethal” free kicks from long distances. Another defender with a similar height is the German Per Mertesacker, who played the best years in the London Arsenal shirt and became the world champion with his team in 2014.
7. Thibaut Courtois
The Belgian who plays for Real Madrid is tall 199 centimeters and amazing for such dimensions dexterity.
Even while playing at Chelsea, many were amazed at how he could fold and deflect shots at point-blank range, because with his height it is really not easy. It is noteworthy that at that time the second goalkeeper of the Londoners was Asmir Begovic, whose height is also 199 cm.
6. Peter Crouch
Englishman with height 201 см spent his entire career in England (not counting a short-term loan to the Swedish Hessleholm) and became a real attraction there. He is not only very tall, but also thin (he weighs only 75 kg), so he looks quite comical on and off the field.
In addition, he celebrates goals scored in an extremely original way, depicting a robot dance. He scored over 100 goals while playing as a center forward, more than half of them with his head. This is a Premier League record, so it was even included in the Guinness Book of Records.
The player himself, who is currently 38 years old, is humorous about his appearance and is not afraid to seem ridiculous or ridiculous.
5. Jan Koller
The Czech forward, who ended his career in 2011, with growth 202 см It was also very wide, so it looked impressive on the field.
During his career, he played in many teams, but I would like to highlight two: Borussia Dortmund, with which Koller even took the championship in 2002 (at the same time the club reached the UEFA Cup final), and Wings of the Soviets from Samara.
Koller arrived in Russia in 2008 and played only 1 full season, but still managed to score 16 goals and spoil the nerves of the defenders of domestic teams. Not surprisingly, he is the top scorer in the history of the Czech national team with 55 goals scored.
4. Lasina Traore
The Ivory Coast football player spent the best years of his career in Russia, starting playing with us in Kuban in 2011. Despite your growth 203 см, he had decent speed and was good at dribbling, so he could not only score from set pieces, but also single-handedly drag the ball through the half of the field.
In addition to Kuban, he managed to play for Anji, CSK, Monaco, Everton and Sporting, after which his career rapidly declined.
He lowered the requirements for himself and became lazy in training, so as a free agent he first moved to the weak French Amiens, and now he plays in the Hungarian championship.
3. Zharko Markovych
The name of this Serb with growth 204 см probably well known to fans from Kazakhstan, as the defender defended the colors of Kairat for 3 whole seasons.
Having spent 89 matches for the club, he even scored 9 goals, but for a number of reasons the contract with him was not renewed. Since then, he has been a free agent for 2 years now, and given that he is 32 years old, he has little chance of finding a strong team.
2. Denis Tolebaev
Goalkeeper from Kazakhstan with height 205 см plays for the club “Kyran”. He failed to prove himself in a stronger championship, but he is a celebrity at home. With a weight of more than 100 kg, it looks intimidating, taking up a lot of space in the goal frame.
1. Footballers taller than 206 cm
Since there are no well-known players with such height, we decided not to single out one person, but simply to mention a few. For example, the Danish goalkeeper Tony Brogard with growth 207 см spent his entire career at home, and playing in the lower divisions. For his height and appearance, he received the nickname “gentle giant”, which he lives up to.
Belgian goalkeeper Christoph Van Hout with growth 208 см during his career he managed to play in the Netherlands and India, although he spent most of his career in his native Belgium, speaking among other things for Genk and Standard.
The tallest professional footballer in the world is a Dane Simon Jorgensen, whose growth is 211 см. In the winter of 2019, he moved to the club of the 6th English division Dulwich Hamlet, telling reporters about plans to get to the Premier League.