here are the season ending awards as voted by the French League players: Best Player: Pauleta (Bordeaux) Best Young Player: Lionel Mathis (Auxerre) Best Goalkeeper: Gregory Coupet (Lyon) http://fr.sports.yahoo.com/030511/1/36v3o.html L'equipe type de la saison: Coupet (Lyon) - Radet (Auxerre), Van Buyten (BEL/Marseille), Mexès (Auxerre), Dos Santos (Marseille) - Pedretti (Sochaux), Essien (GHA/Bastia), Ludovic Giuly (Monaco), Jérôme Rothen (Monaco) - Pauleta (POR/Bordeaux), Nonda (RDC/Monaco) Equipe-type de L2: Revault (Toulouse) - Dujeux (Châteauroux), Lièvre (Toulouse), Prunier (Toulouse), Signorino (Metz) - Emana (CMR/Toulouse), Celdran (Le Mans), Proment (Metz) - Cousin (GAB/Le Mans), Emmanuel Adebayor (TOG/Metz), Cédric Fauré (Toulouse)
Not one player from Nice. Sure they faded away but still for a newly promoted side they did pretty well. Still a very good XI. More evidence that the French League still produces quality players for the rest of Europe. Now if only they could stay in France.
Yes that is a very good league best XI. Anybody you think should have been added/deleted from this list? From what I have seen this season that's who I would have selected except I would have chosen Carriere instead of Essien.