With the first decade of the new Millennium drawing to aclose, it’s time to name names and honor the player, manager,team and match of the decade. Before I get to that though, I’d just like to add myperspective to what has been a challenging ten years. Obviously we’ve moved forward as a people but, from afootballing standpoint, it’s felt like we’ve taken babysteps rather than giant leaps for mankind. FIFA is still blundering, referees are still making mistakes,crowd trouble still rears its ugly head and players seem even moreremote from the paying customer. However, the game still has thiscapacity to awe and humble me. The Player of the Decade How do you judge the player of the decade? In my opinion it has to be someone who was a star in 2000 andis still considered on top of his game in 2009. With that in mind,I believe there are only three candidates who can rightly justify aclaim to be the Player of the Decade. Raul has been scoring goals longer than most of you have beenhaving hot dinners. Four La Liga titles, three Spanish Cups, oneUEFA Super Cup and World Club Cup along with two UEFA ChampionsLeagues are quite a…