Michael Carrick - "The Unsung Hero"

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                     Michael Carrick, i will call him the most under-rated player of the English football. And why is that ? Surely, players like Frank Lampard, Steven Gerrard, etc overshadowed him and it's the truth.

                     Looking at his history, Michael Carrick (born 28 July 1981) and at the age of 5 he started his footballing career. Carrick began his career at West Ham United, joining the youth team in 1997. He was sent on loan twice during his debut season, to Swindon Town and Birmingham City, before securing a place in the first team by the 2000–01 season. Later he joined Tottenham Hotspurs and played at Tottenham till 2006 and joined Manchester United on 10th June 2006, with £18.6 million transfer fee. A record sixth highest player at that time.

Carrick's famous goal vs AS Roma in 7-1 win.

                  
      Coming to his career, he has a outstaning 91.9% passing accuracy of his whole footballing career.

Carrick have played 537 matches overall and have 29 goals overall.

      Comparing to other England players Carrick is an totally defensive midfielder. We  can see Carrick in attacking positions rarely and that is the main reason why managers don't look after defensive players, they think of rather playing attacking midfielder because defensive midfielders slower the game, and we can see it clearly how slow is Carrick, still his passes are like 'wow what a pass'. We recently have seen his great pass to Chicharito who scored an we grabbed 3 points.

                  This season Carrick have about 1600+ passes and that was the most passes by a player in Europe's top leagues. And most important he have a passing rate of about 95%. 

                 Still he was dropped out of Euro 2012 and don't see a reason why Roy Hogdson dropped Carrick and played some players that were not good in that position than him. One of the reason why he is under rated is media, they don't praise him when he's good and it leaves an adverse affect on mangers and they ignore such good players.

                For me Carrick is the most good technical player on pitch and that is why Fergie is still playing him since 2006 because "Fergie knows the best".

-Achal.