Last week we presented the candidates for the 2016 edition's best goalkeeper, and now it's time to turn our attention to defenders.

So, here are 15 players in contention for the four places in the backline. Review the nominees and then choose your favourite defenders for this all-star XI in the respective polls.

China PR and Korea Republic were set to contest Asia’s final spot in the Women's 2020 Tokyo Olympic Football Tournament over two legs on June 4 and 9, 2020.

Normal rules don’t seem to apply to Lee. At an age when most footballers are already enjoying the fruits of their well-earned retirement, the forward is still showing few signs of slowing down.

Lee burst onto the scene as a 19-year-old in 1998 for Pohang Steelers, a young talent who seemed to have the world at his feet having helped the side win the 1997-1998 Asian Club Championship and been called up to the senior national team the very same year.

Fast forward to the present day and the veteran striker is still turning out, and scoring, for Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors.

It is on a few of such streets filled with ghastly echoes that the quaint figure of a female police officer goes about her duty with her colleagues, making sure that movement is restricted amongst the people in order to flatten the proverbial curve.

Wearing the traditional khaki uniform of the Tamil Nadu Police - a surgical mask stretched over her face, and a pair of gloves pulled over her hands for protection, India's midfield general Indumathi Kathiresan is barely recognisable to those stopped by her for checking on the streets of Anna Nagar, Chennai.

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China PR are approaching the end of a two-week training camp in Shanghai and on Tuesday will face CSL side Shanghai Shenhua behind closed doors, having defeated former champions Shanghai SIPG 4-1 in another warm-up match.

The CSL is on hold because of the coronavirus pandemic but the national side have been together on and off for several weeks this year, both at home and abroad.

Are you Sunil Chhetri or Bambang Pamungkas? Could you be Bienve Marañón or Hammadi Ahmed? Or is your playing style similar to that of Manuchekhr Dzhalilov?

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