Confederation All Star Teams

[vancity eagle]

I have chosen an allstar squad for each confederation. Numbers 1 to 11 are the starting lineups with a 4 4 2 formation with more or less 2 CM's and 2 wingers. Each squad has 5 strikers 8 midfielders(aprox 3 wingers) and 7 defenders and 3 goalies. I am missing a defender for concacaf, and a defender and 2 goalies for AFC. Discuss and provide your own squads.


UEFA

1 Buffon
2 Ramos
3 Lahm
4 Puyol
5 Ferdinand
6 De Rossi
7 Ronaldo
8 Xavi
9 Torres
10 Iniesta
11 Ibrahimovic
12 Henry
13 Cech
14 Xavi Alonso
15 Cannavaro
16 Gerard
17 Villa
18 Toni
19 Senna
20 Chivu
21 Zambrotta
22 Ribery
23 Casillas


CONEMBOL

1 Cesar
2 Maicon
3 Marcelo
4 Lucio
5 Burdisso
6 Cambiasso
7 Kaka
8 Mascherano
9 Aguero
10 Messi
11 Robinho
12 Carizo
13 Zanetti
14 Juan
15 G. Milito
16 Gago
17 Maxi Rodriguez
18 L Fabiano
19 Forlan
20 Diego
21 Ronaldinho
22 Tevez
23 Franco


CAF

1 Kameni
2 Eboue
3 Taiwo
4 Toure
5 Gomma
6 Ya Toure
7 K. Keita
8 Essien
9 Etoo'
10 Muntari
11 Drogba
12 Ejide
13 Romaric
14 Yobo
15 Mensah
16 S. Keita
17 Obasi
18 Adebayor
19 Kanoute
20 Martins
21 Odiah
22 Abou Terika
23 El Hadary


CONCACAF

1 Howard
2 Cherundolo
3 Salcido
4 Marquez
5 Bocanegra
6 Palacios
7 Guardado
8 Pardo
9 Suazo
10 Donovan
11 Castillo
12 Guzan
13 Edu
14 Bradley
15 Arce
16 DeGuzman
17 DosSantos
18 J Roberts
19 Gardner
20
21 Vela
22 Onyewu
23 Sanchez


AFC

1 Swarzer
2 Uchida
3 Lee Young Pyo
4 Neill
5 Tanaka
6 Nekounam
7 Park Ji Sung
8 Grella
9 Al Quatani
10 Nakamura
11 Cahill
12
13 Moore
14
15 Akram
16 Hasabe
17 Kennedy
18 Hashemian
19 Viduka
20 A Karimi
21 Emerton
22
23 Bresciano

[Gold is the Colour]

I have chosen an allstar squad for each confederation. Numbers 1 to 11 are the starting lineups with a 4 4 2 formation with more or less 2 CM's and 2 wingers. Each squad has 5 strikers 8 midfielders(aprox 3 wingers) and 7 defenders and 3 goalies. I am missing a defender for concacaf, and a defender and 2 goalies for AFC. Discuss and provide your own squads.


UEFA

1 Buffon
2 Ramos
3 Lahm
4 Puyol
5 Ferdinand
6 De Rossi
7 Ronaldo
8 Xavi
9 Torres
10 Iniesta
11 Ibrahimovic
12 Henry
13 Cech
14 Xavi Alonso
15 Cannavaro
16 Gerard
17 Villa
18 Toni
19 Senna
20 Chivu
21 Zambrotta
22 Ribery
23 Casillas


CONEMBOL

1 Cesar
2 Maicon
3 Marcelo
4 Lucio
5 Burdisso
6 Cambiasso
7 Kaka
8 Mascherano
9 Aguero
10 Messi
11 Robinho
12 Carizo
13 Zanetti
14 Juan
15 G. Milito
16 Gago
17 Maxi Rodriguez
18 L Fabiano
19 Forlan
20 Diego
21 Ronaldinho
22 Tevez
23 Franco


CAF

1 Kameni
2 Eboue
3 Taiwo
4 Toure
5 Gomma
6 Ya Toure
7 K. Keita
8 Essien
9 Etoo'
10 Muntari
11 Drogba
12 Ejide
13 Romaric
14 Yobo
15 Mensah
16 S. Keita
17 Obasi
18 Adebayor
19 Kanoute
20 Martins
21 Odiah
22 Abou Terika
23 El Hadary


CONCACAF

1 Howard
2 Cherundolo
3 Salcido
4 Marquez
5 Bocanegra
6 Palacios
7 Guardado
8 Pardo
9 Suazo
10 Donovan
11 Castillo
12 Guzan
13 Edu
14 Bradley
15 Arce
16 DeGuzman
17 DosSantos
18 J Roberts
19 Gardner
20
21 Vela
22 Onyewu
23 Sanchez


AFC

1 Swarzer
2 Uchida
3 Lee Young Pyo
4 Neill
5 Tanaka
6 Nekounam
7 Park Ji Sung
8 Grella
9 Al Quatani
10 Nakamura
11 Cahill
12
13 Moore
14
15 Akram
16 Hasabe
17 Kennedy
18 Hashemian
19 Viduka
20 A Karimi
21 Emerton
22
23 Bresciano

Just from an AFC/ Australian perspective:

Emerton if fit I would start - unfortunately he has torn his ACL ATM:(

Take out Kennedy (Would Crouch make UEFA squad?) and Viduka (too old and virtually not played at all this season) but put in McDonald (Celtic striker)

Wilkshire (FC Dynamo Moscow) would be good for the squad as well extremely versatile and probably our best/ most consistent player for a while. Made Eredivisie 2nd team last year.

[BocaFan]

CONEMBOL

1 Cesar
2 Maicon
3 Marcelo
4 Lucio
5 Burdisso
6 Cambiasso
7 Kaka
8 Mascherano
9 Aguero
10 Messi
11 Robinho
12 Carizo
13 Zanetti
14 Juan
15 G. Milito
16 Gago
17 Maxi Rodriguez
18 L Fabiano
19 Forlan
20 Diego
21 Ronaldinho
22 Tevez
23 Franco


I'd put Diego Milito and Pato in (way) ahead of Franco.

[JuveFE]

I'd put Diego Milito and Pato in (way) ahead of Franco.

and I would probably put Martin Demichelis in place of Gaby Milito. Demichelis has been a rock for argentina and has the CB position locked up.

[KumarsS]

For UEFA I'd include Klose over Henry/Toni, Lampard over Gerrard, and Chiellini over Cannavaro.

For AFC, I'd say Masoud Shojaei and Hadi Aghili deserve a place, and Viduka and Karimi probably shouldn't be there.

[Perú FC]

UEFA

1 Gianluigi Buffon (Italy & Juventus)
2 Ricardo Carvalho (Portugal & Chelsea)
3 Sergio Ramos (Spain & Real Madrid)
4 Marcos Senna (Spain & Villarreal)
5 Rio Ferdinand (England & Manchester United)
6 Philipp Lahm (Germany & Bayern Münich)
7 Cristiano Ronaldo (Portugal & Manchester United)
8 Steven Gerrard (England & Liverpool)
9 Fernando Torres (Spain & Liverpool)
10 Franck Ribéry (France & Bayern Münich)
11 Zlatan Ibrahimovic (Sweden & Inter Milan)
12 Íker Casillas (Spain & Real Madrid)
13 Petr Cech (Czech Republic & Chelsea)
14 Giorgio Chiellini (Italy & Juventus)
15 Daniele De Rossi (Italy & AS Roma)
16 Xavi (Spain & Barcelona)
17 Andrés Iniesta (Spain & Barcelona)
18 Nemanja Vidic (Serbia & Manchester United)
19 Miroslav Klose (Germany & Bayern Münich)
20 Alessandro Del Piero (Italy & Juventus)
21 José Bosingwa (Portugal & Chelsea)
22 Frank Lampard (England & Chelsea)
23 David Villa (Spain & Valencia)

CONMEBOL

1 Júlio César (Brazil & Inter Milan)
2 Maicon (Brazil & Inter Milan)
3 Lúcio (Brazil & Bayern Münich)
4 Martín Demichelis (Argentina & Bayern Münich)
5 Juan Vargas (Peru & Fiorentina)
6 Esteban Cambiasso (Argentina & Inter Milan)
7 Kaká (Brazil & AC Milan)
8 Javier Mascherano (Argentina & Liverpool)
9 Sergio Agüero (Argentina & Atletico Madrid)
10 Lionel Messi (Argentina & Barcelona)
11 Robinho (Brazil & Manchester City)
12 Iván Córdoba (Colombia & Inter Milan)
13 Roberto Abbondanzieri (Argentina & Boca Juniors)
14 Gonzalo Rodríguez (Argentina & Villarreal)
15 Dani Alves (Brazil & Barcelona)
16 Gilberto Silva (Brazil & Panathinaikos)
17 Diego Forlán (Uruguay & Atletico Madrid)
18 Roque Santa Cruz (Paraguay & Blackburn Rovers)
19 Javier Zanetti (Argentina & Inter Milan)
20 Juan Román Riquelme (Argentina & Boca Juniors)
21 Ronaldinho (Brazil & AC Milan)
22 Carlos Tévez (Argentina & Manchester United)
23 Juan Pablo Carrizo (Argentina & Lazio)

CAF

1 Carlos Kameni (Cameroon & Espanyol)
2 Emmanuel Eboué (Ivory Coast & Arsenal)
3 Taye Taiwo (Nigeria & Olympique Marseille)
4 Kolo Touré (Ivory Coast & Arsenal)
5 Joseph Yobo (Nigeria & Everton)
6 Yaya Touré (Ivory Coast & Barcelona)
7 Sulley Muntari (Ghana & Inter Milan)
8 Michael Essien (Ghana & Chelsea)
9 Samuel Eto'o (Cameroon & Barcelona)
10 John Obi Mikel (Nigeria & Chelsea)
11 Didier Drogba (Ivory Coast & Chelsea)
12 John Mensah (Ghana & Olympique Lyon)
13 Vincent Enyeama (Nigeria & Hapoel Tel Aviv)
14 Seydou Keita (Mali & Barcelona)
15 Arthur Boka (Ivory Coast & Stuttgart)
16 Mohamed Sissoko (Mali & Juventus)
17 Emmanuel Adebayor (Togo & Arsenal)
18 Radhi Jaidi (Tunisia & Birmingham City)
19 Obafemi Martins (Nigeria & Newcastle United)
20 Jean Makoun (Cameroon & Olympique Lyon)
21 Géremi (Cameroon & Newcastle United)
22 Richard Kingson (Ghana & Wigan Athletic)
23 Fréderic Kanouté (Mali & Sevilla)

CONCACAF

1 Guillermo Ochoa (Mexico & America)
2 Carlos Salcido (Mexico & PSV Eindhoven)
3 Ricardo Osorio (Mexico & Stuttgart)
4 Pável Pardo (Mexico & America)
5 Rafael Márquez (Mexico & Barcelona)
6 Carlos Bocanegra (United States & Rennes)
7 Andres Guardado (Mexico & Deportivo La Coruña)
8 Wilson Palacios (Honduras & Tottenham Hotspur)
9 David Suazo (Honduras & Benfica)
10 Cuauhtémoc Blanco (Mexico & Chicago Fire)
11 Landon Donovan (United States & Bayern Münich)
12 Brad Friedel (United States & Aston Villa)
13 Tim Howard (United States & Everton)
14 Francisco Rodríguez (Mexico & PSV Eindhoven)
15 Oguchi Onyewu (United States & Standard Liege)
16 Giovani dos Santos (Mexico & Tottenham Hotspur)
17 Julián De Guzmán (Canada & Deportivo La Coruña)
18 Paul Stalteri (Canada & Borussia Mönchengladbach)
19 Carlos Vela (Mexico & Arsenal)
20 Sinha (Mexico & Toluca)
21 Nery Castillo (Mexico & Shakhtar Donetsk)
22 Guillermo Franco (Mexico & Villarreal)
23 DaMarcus Beasley (United States & Rangers)

AFC

1 Mark Schwarzer (Australia & Fulham)
2 Lee Young-Pyo (South Korea & Borussia Dortmund)
3 Lucas Neill (Australia & West Ham United)
4 Michael Beauchamp (Australia & Aalborg)
5 Yuji Nakazawa (Japan & Yokohama Marinos)
6 Vincenzo Grella (Australia & Parma)
7 Brett Emerton (Australia & Blackburn Rovers)
8 Park Ji-Sung (South Korea & Manchester United)
9 Scott McDonald (Australia & Celtic)
10 Shunsuke Nakamura (Japan & Celtic)
11 Tim Cahill (Australia & Everton)
12 Zeljko Kalac (Australia & AC Milan)
13 Kim Dong-Jin (South Korea & Zenit Saint Petersburg)
14 Javad Nekounam (Iran & Osasuna)
15 Daisuke Matsui (Japan & Saint-Étienne)
16 Junichi Inamoto (Japan & Eintracht Frankfurt)
17 Vahid Hashemian (Iran & Bochum)
18 Hossein Kaebi (Iran & Saipa)
19 Ali Karimi (Iran & Persepolis)
20 Craig Moore (Australia & Queensland Roar)
21 Harry Kewell (Australia & Galatasaray)
22 Mark Viduka (Australia & Newcastle United)
23 Yoshikatsu Kawaguchi (Japan & Jubilo Iwata)

[Grinners89]

UEFA

CONMEBOL

CAF

CONCACAF

AFC



Just about spot-on.

In the UEFA squad, I would replace Bosingwa with Evra, replace Cech with Reina/van der Sar, replace Ramos with Chivu and replace Del Piero with Srna.

Also I would, as Gold is the Colour said, replace Viduka and Kennedy with Wilkshire and McDonald. Also add Culina. Server Djeparov would also make the AFC line-up given that he was Asian footballer of the year for 2008.

Some very strong line-ups here...

UEFA

Casillas
Lahm - Ferdinand - Vidic - Evra
Xavi - De Rossi
Ronaldo - Gerrard - Ribery
Torres

Subs: Buffon, Srna, Chiellini, Senna, Iniesta, Villa, Ibrahimovic

CONMEBOL

Julio Cesar
Dani Alves - Rodriguez - Demichelis - Vargas
Mascherano - Cambiasso
Messi - Kaka - Ronaldinho
Milito

Subs: Carrizo, Cordoba, Maicon, Zanetti, Robinho, Aguero, Tevez

CAF

Kameni
Toure - Yobo - Mensah
Eboue - Essien - Y.Toure - Muntari - Taiwo
Drogba - Eto'o

Subs: Enyeama, Boka, Mikel, Sissoko, Martins, Adebayor, Kanoute

CONCACAF

Howard
Osorio - Marquez - Bocanegra - Salcido
Beasley - Palacios - de Guzman - Guardado
Donovan
Suazo

Subs: Friedel, Pardo, Onyewu, Rodriguez, Vela, Blanco, Franco

AFC

Schwarzer
Wilkshire - Neill - Nakazawa - Young-Pyo
Grella
Emerton - Park - Cahill - Kewell
McDonald

Subs: Kawaguchi, Moore, Uchida, Bresciano, Djeparov, Nakamura, Shojaei

[zakinator]

Starting Eleven:
I would employ a 3-4-3 (simply too many great forwards to only put two up top):
Forward:
Didier Drogba (LS), Thierry Henry (RS), Ronaldhino (CS)
Midfield:
Kaka (CAM), Michael Essien (CDM), Cristiano Ronaldo (RWM), Lionel Messi (LWM)
Defense:
John Terry (LB), Fabio Cannavaro (CB), Carlos Puyol (RB)
Goal:
Gianluigi Buffon
Strategy:
Buffon is the best in the game, hands down. It really doesn’t matter though because Terry, Cannavaro and Puyol would be a brick wall. Each one could play in the middle.
Basically, Ronaldo and Messi would be downright unstoppable. Overload your defense to stop one, and the other would thrive. Essien would be instructed to push the ball outside to one of them, or up the gut to Kaka. Ronaldo and Messi could either take it up themselves, or play it to the middle to Kaka or Ronaldhino, who would both play distributor to some of the most prolific forwards in the game.
I would put Ronaldhino just underneath Drogba and Thierry to maximize his playmaking ability.
Reserves:
Forward: Samuel Eto’o, Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Wayne Rooney, Robinho
Midfield: Steven Gerrard, Juan Roman Riquelme, Frank Lampard, Franck Ribery
Defense: Gianluca Zambrotto, Allessandro Nesta, Rio Ferdinand
Goalie: Dida, Petr Cech
I had no idea how hard it would be to come up with this list. There are simply so many strong players. For instance, its almost comical that strikers like Carlos Tevez, Ruud Van Nistelrooy, Miroslav Klose and Fernando Torres can’t even make the roster. The omissions of Deco, Patrick Viera and Gennaro Gattuso in midfield are also difficult to justify. In defense, Rafael Marquez, Cafu and Paolo Maldini deserve honorable mention.
So, who did I leave out? Let me know in the comments.:D:D:D

[Grinners89]

Starting Eleven:
I would employ a 3-4-3 (simply too many great forwards to only put two up top):
Forward:
Didier Drogba (LS), Thierry Henry (RS), Ronaldhino (CS)
Midfield:
Kaka (CAM), Michael Essien (CDM), Cristiano Ronaldo (RWM), Lionel Messi (LWM)
Defense:
John Terry (LB), Fabio Cannavaro (CB), Carlos Puyol (RB)
Goal:
Gianluigi Buffon
Strategy:
Buffon is the best in the game, hands down. It really doesn’t matter though because Terry, Cannavaro and Puyol would be a brick wall. Each one could play in the middle.
Basically, Ronaldo and Messi would be downright unstoppable. Overload your defense to stop one, and the other would thrive. Essien would be instructed to push the ball outside to one of them, or up the gut to Kaka. Ronaldo and Messi could either take it up themselves, or play it to the middle to Kaka or Ronaldhino, who would both play distributor to some of the most prolific forwards in the game.
I would put Ronaldhino just underneath Drogba and Thierry to maximize his playmaking ability.
Reserves:
Forward: Samuel Eto’o, Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Wayne Rooney, Robinho
Midfield: Steven Gerrard, Juan Roman Riquelme, Frank Lampard, Franck Ribery
Defense: Gianluca Zambrotto, Allessandro Nesta, Rio Ferdinand
Goalie: Dida, Petr Cech
I had no idea how hard it would be to come up with this list. There are simply so many strong players. For instance, its almost comical that strikers like Carlos Tevez, Ruud Van Nistelrooy, Miroslav Klose and Fernando Torres can’t even make the roster. The omissions of Deco, Patrick Viera and Gennaro Gattuso in midfield are also difficult to justify. In defense, Rafael Marquez, Cafu and Paolo Maldini deserve honorable mention.
So, who did I leave out? Let me know in the comments.:D:D:D

Wasnt the point of the thread to seperate the confederations and see the best teams from each?

[Perú FC]

Just about spot-on.
In the UEFA squad, I would replace Bosingwa with Evra, replace Cech with Reina/van der Sar, replace Ramos with Chivu and replace Del Piero with Srna.
I forgot Evra!, yes, I'd change him for Bosingwa and would be in my bench to replace Lahm. I wouldn't replace Srna for Del Piero, I think are many better options, including the Italian.

[Grinners89]

I forgot Evra!, yes, I'd change him for Bosingwa and would be in my bench to replace Lahm. I wouldn't replace Srna for Del Piero, I think are many better options, including the Italian.

I just think that Torres, Villa, Ibrahimovic and Klose is enough up front, while Lahm, Evra and Chivu would be too light at full-back. Srna is also one of the most consistent attacking RB's going around at the moment but just isnt playing in England, Spain or Italy so doesnt get recognition.

[Teso Dos Bichos]

CONMEBOL
3 Lúcio (Brazil & Bayern Münich)

CAF
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I am not impressed by Lucio in the slightest. I would drop him for anyone. Thiago Silva or Lugano perhaps?

Not even one Egyptian player?

EDIT: Just noticed you did not have Juan. He is my pick.

[Perú FC]

I am not impressed by Lucio in the slightest. I would drop him for anyone. Thiago Silva or Lugano perhaps?
No way to me, I think Lúcio is maybe the best central defender of this continent or one of the best, in my opinion definitely the best Brazilian central defender over Thiago Silva or Juan.

Lugano would be a great option, I really like him, but with Lúcio, Demichelis, Rodríguez and Córdoba I'm full in that position.

Not even one Egyptian player?
I though about El-Hadary, Gomaa, Shawky, Zidan, Mido and Zaki, but when I had to choose, I can't put any of them first than other options. I think Egypt is a good team by group, but individually other teams have better players to build an all-star team.

[Teso Dos Bichos]

I think Lucio, notably in recent seasons, has verged from abject to passable.

[fernandolopez626]

Just about spot-on.

In the UEFA squad, I would replace Bosingwa with Evra, replace Cech with Reina/van der Sar, replace Ramos with Chivu and replace Del Piero with Srna.

Also I would, as Gold is the Colour said, replace Viduka and Kennedy with Wilkshire and McDonald. Also add Culina. Server Djeparov would also make the AFC line-up given that he was Asian footballer of the year for 2008.

Some very strong line-ups here...

UEFA

Casillas
Lahm - Ferdinand - Vidic - Evra
Xavi - De Rossi
Ronaldo - Gerrard - Ribery
Torres

Subs: Buffon, Srna, Chiellini, Senna, Iniesta, Villa, Ibrahimovic

CONMEBOL

Julio Cesar
Dani Alves - Rodriguez - Demichelis - Vargas
Mascherano - Cambiasso
Messi - Kaka - Ronaldinho
Milito

Subs: Carrizo, Cordoba, Maicon, Zanetti, Robinho, Aguero, Tevez

CAF

Kameni
Toure - Yobo - Mensah
Eboue - Essien - Y.Toure - Muntari - Taiwo
Drogba - Eto'o

Subs: Enyeama, Boka, Mikel, Sissoko, Martins, Adebayor, Kanoute

CONCACAF

Howard
Castrillo - Marquez -Onyewu- Bocanegra
Beasley - Bradley - Contreras- Guardado
Donovan
Suazo

Subs: Friedel, Pardo, Bradley, Rodriguez, Ruiz, Blanco, Pando,

AFC

Schwarzer
Wilkshire - Neill - Nakazawa - Young-Pyo
Grella
Emerton - Park - Cahill - Kewell
McDonald

Subs: Kawaguchi, Moore, Uchida, Bresciano, Djeparov, Nakamura, Shojaei

better :-)

[Antonio81]

David Suazo isn´t playing all too well right now (at least internationally.)

[Kulspruta]

I'd pick Juan over Lucio too.