[reddwarf]

Rio has everything you'd want in a centre-back.

He's tall, agile, quick, comfortable with the ball at his feet, reads the game well, times his tackles superbly and seems to have got over the lapses in concentration that made his position as a top class defender questionable.

He's also ideal captain material - for club and country - and someone would have to come up with a very persuasive argument for me to say that he is currently not the best centre-back in the World.