UEFA Team of the Year

[CHSsoccer08]

Play along.... Pick your 11. Feel free to be extremely biased.

Goalkeeper: Van der Sar, Reina, Palop, Cech, Casillas

Right-back: Zambrotta, Ramos, Oddo, Zanetti, Alves
Central defender: Vidic, Toure, Terry, Puyol, Nesta, Maldini, Ferdinand, Carvalho, Carragher, Agger
Left-back: Lahm, Jankulovski, Evra, Drenthe, Abidal

Right midfield: Ronaldo, Ribery, Messi, Hleb, Gattuso
Central midfield: Poulsen, Pirlo, Gerrard, Fabregas, Essien
Attacking midfield: Van der Vaart, Sneijder, Ronaldinho, Kaka, Diego
Left midfield: Seedorf, Silva, Quaresma, Malouda, Giggs

Forward: Totti, Toni, Rooney, Healy, Van Nistelrooy, Kanoute, Inzaghi, Ibrahimovic, Drogba, Alves

Coach: Ramos, Ferguson, Capello, Benitez, Ancelotti

[CHSsoccer08]

First XI
Manager: Carra
-------------Carra--------------
Carra----Carra----Carra----Carra
Carra----Carra----Carra----Carra
-------Carra------Carra---------

Second XI
GK: Ike
RB:Alves
CB: Carra, Carvalho
LB:Lahm
RM: Messi
CM: Gerrard, Kaka
LM: Quaresma
ST: Drogba, Zlatan

[ForeverRed]

Play along.... Pick your 11. Feel free to be extremely biased.

Goalkeeper: Van der Sar, Reina, Palop, Cech, Casillas

Right-back: Zambrotta, Ramos, Oddo, Zanetti, Alves
Central defender: Vidic, Toure, Terry, Puyol, Nesta, Maldini, Ferdinand, Carvalho, Carragher, Agger
Left-back: Lahm, Jankulovski, Evra, Drenthe, Abidal

Right midfield: Ronaldo, Ribery, Messi, Hleb, Gattuso
Central midfield: Poulsen, Pirlo, Gerrard, Fabregas, Essien
Attacking midfield: Van der Vaart, Sneijder, Ronaldinho, Kaka, Diego
Left midfield: Seedorf, Silva, Quaresma, Malouda, Giggs

Forward: Totti, Toni, Rooney, Healy, Van Nistelrooy, Kanoute, Inzaghi, Ibrahimovic, Drogba, Alves

Coach: Ramos, Ferguson, Capello, Benitez, Ancelotti

Biased? ok...I can do that.

--------------------Reina---------------------

Zambrotta-----Carra----Agger-----------Lahm

Ribery---------Gerrard-----VDV--------Malouda

---------------Totti---------Toni-------------------

Coach: Rafa

[liverbird]

First XI
Manager: Carra
-------------Carra--------------
Carra----Carra----Carra----Carra
Carra----Carra----Carra----Carra
-------Carra------Carra---------

Second XI
GK: Ike
RB:Alves
CB: Carra, Carvalho
LB:Lahm
RM: Messi
CM: Gerrard, Kaka
LM: Quaresma
ST: Drogba, Zlatan


I'll go with your first team:D

[Grinners89]

Watch out...LONG POST

My team:
_____________Reina____________

Alves__Carvalho__Ferdinand__Abidal

____________Gerrard____________

Ronaldo_______Kaka________Silva

_________Totti_____RVN________

Coach: Ancelotti

What i think the will be:

_____________Cech____________

Alves__Ferdinand__Maldini__Lahm

_____________Pirlo____________

Ronaldo______Kaka______Seedorf

_________Totti____RVN________

Coach: Ancelotti

With the 5 GK's who have been shortlisted, Reina should be at least 3rd in that list as he was EPL goalkeeper of the season, which puts him ahead of Cech and van der Sar, yet Cech somehow won UEFA club GK of the year. If this simple criteria was used then the GK spot should be out of Palop, Casillas and Reina...Palop was instrumental in Sevilla winning the UEFA cup, Casillas was part of the La Liga winning Madrid team and Reina got us to the CL final as well as getting 19 clean sheets in EPL, which i think is the most out of any GK in europe. IMO, these awards go to the 'better known' players so that rules out Palop (even though i think he is 2nd behind Reina) and Casillas did let in a few more goals than Reina.

The 4 players who have won the UEFA club awards...
Cech (club GK of the year)
Maldini (defender)
Seedorf (mid)
Kaka (forward)
...will all be in the team which is why i think they put Seedorf in the LM position in the shortlist as he clearly doesnt play 'on the left', he plays as an attacking mid alongside Kaka, but if he was in Kaka's category then he wouldnt be able to be in the team.

Carles Puyol and Nesta were placed at RB and LB respectively for a recent team of the year (i dont know what award it was but Terry and Cannavaro were at CB) so they were 3rd and 4th in line for that team and due to Cannavaro's absence from this list they are a big possibility. Agger and Carvalho are out of contention due their injuries and games missed and Carragher and Toure i just dont think will be picked...that leaves Vidic, Terry, Puyol, Nesta and Ferdinand to be alongside Maldini. I think that Ferdinand is ahead of Vidic and Puyol and Nesta are ahead of Terry. My gut then tells me Ferdinand will get the spot due to Man Utd winning the league.

RB: this will be out of Ramos and Alves...the former won the league and the latter won the UEFA cup. Alves just out-performed Ramos in the 2006/07 season from January till may and this is why i think he will be in the team

RM spot is out of Ronaldo and Messi and due to Ronaldo winning the league with Man Utd and scoring more goals they will pick him.

For CM spot Fabregas didnt have good enough 1st half of the year and Poulsen hasnt been as good as the rest. Gerrard and Essien seem to be even in the running for the spot but Pirlo will win as he has probably been just as good if not better and also won the CL.

STRIKERS: It should be out of Drogba, Totti, RVN, Ibrahimovic and Kanoute.

Ibrahimovic has scored the least goals in that list, ruling him out...and yes i know its not just about goals scored but Ibra scored 11 less goals than Totti and RVN in their domestic leagues and 5 less goals than Drogba and Kanoute in their leagues, which is a big difference. As Drogba scored same amount of goals as RVN in the CL and only 2 more than Totti in the CL then im putting Totti and RVN as the strikers...Kanoute playing in the UEFA cup and not the CL hurts his chances.

Thats my take...;)

[Jimmyb79]

I Agree with the above post 100%

[CCSC_STRIKER20]

Who I would want on my team if I was the manager and sticking with the categories given.

-----------------------Reina---------------------
Alves--------Carra-----------Carvalho---Lahm
Messi----------------Gerrard-----------Seedorf
------------------------Kaka---------------------
-------------RVN---------------Totti-------------

Subs - Ramos, Agger, Messi, Ribery, Essien, Fabregas, Drogba

But from all of the players creating my own formation I would do this.

-----------------------Reina-----------------------
----------Carvalho---Carra--Agger---------------
Alves--------------------------------------Lahm----
-----------------------Essien-----------------------
------------Gerrard-----------Fabregas------------
------------Messi--------------RVN

[bayern is god]

cech



alves_____________carra___________mexes__________lahm



mascherano



ribery____________________kaka_______________________messi





torres____________________toni

[Grinners89]

cech



alves_____________carra___________mexes__________lahm



mascherano



ribery____________________kaka_______________________messi





torres____________________toni

Did you read the thread opening...Mexes, Masch and Torres arent on the shortlist and Messi is a right-winger and has been put at RM in the team shortlist...you might want to revise this team

[AussieLFCfan]

------------------Reina----------------
Ramos-----Carragher----Terry-----Lahm
Ronaldo---------Gerrard--------Seedorf
-------------Kaka---------------------
-------------------Drogba-------------

SUBS: Messi, Fabregas, Totti, Ferdinand, Cech.

[Grinners89]

------------------Reina----------------
Ramos-----Carragher----Terry-----Lahm
Ronaldo---------Gerrard--------Seedorf
-------------Kaka---------------------
-------------------Drogba-------------

SUBS: Messi, Fabregas, Totti, Ferdinand, Cech.

Who got red carded? :rolleyes:

[CCSC_STRIKER20]

Who got red carded? :rolleyes:

Quaresma, two yellows for diving.

[Grinners89]

Quaresma, two yellows for diving.

Not allowed to rep you again...so just take this as a moral one...LOL

[AussieLFCfan]

Quaresma, two yellows for diving.

Not allowed to rep you again...so just take this as a moral one...LOL

LOL!

Missed that one :o

I guess there's room for Messi afterall. :D