10. Franco Berasi – AC Milan
One of the seven players to have achieved the rare feat of winning Gold Silver and Bronze World Cup medals Franco Baresi is another player who gets to our list of the 12 Best Captains in Football as he was captain of both AC Milan and Italy a honour he got after replacing Guiseppe Bergomi as captain for the 1994 World Cup under his former manager at Milan Arrigo Sacchi and at the age of 34 when he retired from international football, he passed the captain’s armband to his Milan team-mate Maldini. Baresi was a defender and also captained his only career club AC Milan for over 15 seasons and on retiring he again passed his club armband to Paolo Maldini
Steven Gerrard of Manchester United and Ireland