It took long enough, but Chelsea's victory over Paris Saint-Germain in the Club World Cup final marked the end of the 25th European soccer season this century.
And as my colleague Bill Barnwell recognized last week, 25 is halfway to 50 and a quarter of the way to 100. So, he ranked the top 25 NFL teams of the past 25 years, and now I'm here with your ranking of the top 25 club teams of the 21st century.
The way the game is played has changed drastically since 2000. Think of it this way: Oleg Blokhin, Franz Beckenbauer, and Johan Cruyff finished one-two-three in Ballon d'Or voting in 1975.