The former Liverpool centre-back was asked to choose the five best players he faced in his career. Carragher pointed out, Terry was even a better footballer than it was acknowledged.
“For me, he was the best centre-back of the Premier League era. He was my type of player. He was basically a better version of me, to be honest," ex-Liverpool defender Jamie Carragher told talkSPORT of John Terry.
“I think his football ability is massively underrated. He was a great player. When I was going through my list I didn’t have an English player and I wanted to get someone in there and I thought I’d go for John Terry as I couldn’t get Stevie [Gerrard] in!
“He could switch the ball 40/50 yards on his left foot. I always felt it was John Terry who was the defender and Rio Ferdinand was the footballer, but Rio was a much better defender than he was given credit for and I think John Terry was a much better footballer than he was given credit for.”
Carragher included JT in his list of top-5 toughest opponents he ever had to face. The legendary Chelsea captain might be placed only in the fourth place in this ranking, but he is also the highest-placed defender on it, with AC Milan icon Paolo Maldini right behind him in fifth.
This is not the first time Carragher spoke highly of Terry, either - and he even used almost the same words to describe him! Clearly, JT left a big impression on the ex-Red.
Source: talkSPORT
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