The captain is the leader of the team, both on the pitch and in the dressing room. He is the one expected to organize his players and call them to order if they are ever out of line. But there have been a number of instances where it is the captain himself who needs to be called to order.
And that is okay sometimes. The captain may be a leader, but he is still human. He will surely err every now and then. However, the errors we will be talking about in this video are rather grave. At least, grave enough for the managers to strip these players of captaincy. Let’s take a look at 7 of them.
Granit Xhaka
Xhaka probably goes down as one of Arsenal’s shortest serving captains. The Swiss midfielder was handed the captain armband by Unai Emery in 2019 after a blind ballot among the squad players. And just 2 months later, it was taken from him.
Willian Gallas
Gallas; the decent French player who succeeded 2 amazing French footballers as captain of Arsenal. He was handed down the band from Thierry Henry who took over from Patrick Viera. So, automatically, there was going to be some pressure.
But it has to be said that the fans were shocked that he even got the armband in the first place. Almost everyone expected that the Brazilian, Gilberto Silva would take over from Henry. But well, the team chose Gallas, and after some time, they wished they didn’t.
Mauro Icardi
Icardi is one of the most controversial footballers of his generation. So, are you surprised that he has made another controversial footballers list?
When the Argentine was at Inter, he was made captain of the side. Yes, he was young, and he became one of the youngest captains in the club’s history. But he also doubled as one of the most controversial captains.
Samuel Eto’o
The Barcelona legend is easily one of the greatest African footballers in history. But one thing is for sure, Eto’o doesn’t make the list of greatest captains of an African national team. The Champions League winner was captain of the Cameroon national team from 2010, and it was all drama from the beginning.
In 2011, he led a players’ strike because of unpaid wages. As a result of that, he was banned for 15 games by the country’s FA.
Aubameyang
Another great African footballer who has been stripped of captaincy is the Gabonese forward. But unlike Eto’o, it was at his club, not his country.
Surely, you know the story of this one as it happened just recently. Auba has been punished for indiscipline on a couple of occasions in the past, but the latest disciplinary breach was just too much for Arteta to take. The Arsenal manager, who was once a captain of the club himself, took the armband off his star striker and even suspended him.
John Terry
We end this list with Chelsea’s captain…leader…legend. The former Chelsea defender embodied the role of a captain. He is easily Chelsea’s greatest captain ever. However, did you know that he was stripped of the captain armband once in his career?
But not in Chelsea, though. Terry was also captain of England at the time he was leading Chelsea, but a scandal caused him to lose his leadership role at England. He was accused of being racist to Anton Ferdinand before Euro 2012. So, while the case was being investigated by the FA, the armband was taken off him until everything was cleared.
But well, JT was found guilty and he never captained the 3 Lions again. In fact, he retired from international duty after the Euros that year. Anyway, while his captaincy at England was tainted, he maintained a sparkling record as captain of Chelsea, and was captain till he left the club.
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