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Originally Posted by LebRN
I don't know which team you were all watching in 2007, but the fact is that Kaka reached his peak that year. In the CL, Milan scored 20 goals in 2007: Kaka scored 10 goals (and made 3 assists) while the rest scored 10: Inzaghi 4, Seedorf 2, Gilardino 2, Pirlo & Gourcuff 1. His performances that year won him the Ballon d'Or. I did not say that Seedorf did not play a couple of excellent games against Bayern & ManU or Inzaghi scored both goals in the final, or.... but this is a team sport and no player no matter how great can win a competition like the CL if he did not have a good team next to him. But take Kaka out of that team & no one in their right mind could say that we would still have won it, but the same cannot be said about anybody else that year. That is what i meant by single-handedly...i do not believe it is an exaggeration and if u have a better example about another player who has had the same effect on the team's perfromance in a single competition, then please do share.
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So exaggerated. You have said that was a team game. With or without Kaka Milan could win the championship. You don't know what would happen if Kaka left. Milan could buy a player etc. Anything could happen.
You said that no one in right mind would think Milan could win it. Well, it was just like before the CL started. No one would believe Milan would win it especially without Sheva. I don't know if before the CL started you had right mind.
You forget easily how Carlo utilized Kaka so he could do performance like that, like who made him a striker vs ManU. People only look at who made the goals. People often forget the man behind the team or at least the role of defensive players.
Kaka in 2007? He only helped Milan to do that. With or without him Milan could and can win CL. He needs Milan to win CL. Not vise versa, it has been facts for years. But Kaka without Milan? Still a lot to be proved.