The International Federation of Football History and Statistics (IFFHS) named the most productive defenders in the XXI century.

The most productive defender is the 36-year-old Spanish defender of the French PSG Sergio Ramos On account of 130 goals since 2002.

The top three also included Japanese footballer Marcus Tulio Tanaka (104 goals) and Algerian Abderakhman Hachoud (93 goals)..

It should be noted that the ex-star of Shakhtar Donetsk, Croatian Darijo Srna, is in eighth place.. During his career he scored 79 goals.

As a reminder, Dario played for the Donetsk team from 2003 to 2018 and set an absolute record for the club in terms of the number of games. For 15 years at Shakhtar, Srna played 536 matches, winning 26 trophies with the team: the UEFA Cup, 10 championships, 7 Cups and 8 Super Cups of Ukraine.

Srna played his last match for Shakhtar on 13 September 2017. This was followed by a disqualification of the Croatian for doping for 18 months.. Later, the Croatian moved to Cagliari, where he played one season..

In the summer of 2019, Srna returned to Shakhtar and joined the coaching staff of the new head coach Luis Castro. Srna is now the director of football.

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Previously, Darijo Srna spoke for the first time about why he refused Barcelona.