Isco Alarcón
Attacking midfielder · Real Betis Balompié
The most complete late-career reinvention in recent Spanish football.
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Written off after leaving Real Madrid, Isco rebuilt himself at Betis as a deep-lying creator, fewer dribbles, more line-breaking passes, and became the best player in the league for stretches of it. It is the strongest recent argument in Spain that decline is often a role problem, not an age problem.