FIFPro Team of the Year

[EastStandBlue]

As usual, the FIFPro team of the year has largely been decided on who won the Champions League, and I wouldn't expect anything else from FIFA. There are some barmy choices here though...

Iker Casillas
Dani Alves... Has been pretty average defensively every time I've seen him play.
Patrice Evra
John Terry... Has been calamitous recently for Chelsea. Pique has been massively overlooked.
Nemanja Vidic
Xavi
Iniesta
Steven Gerrard... Probably his worst year performance wise to date. How about Essien?
Cristiano Ronaldo
Lionel Messi
Fernando Torres... Inconsistent as anything and he's developed a nasty, temperamental streak. Rooney has lead United at times, Edin Dzeko had the season of a lifetime leading Werder Bremen and Drogba has been simply astounding.

 

[Shrimper_Wez]

As usual, the FIFPro team of the year has largely been decided on who won the Champions League, and I wouldn't expect anything else from FIFA. There are some barmy choices here though...

Iker Casillas
Dani Alves... Has been pretty average defensively every time I've seen him play.
Patrice Evra
John Terry... Has been calamitous recently for Chelsea. Barrett has been massively overlooked.
Nemanja Vidic
Xavi
Iniesta
Steven Gerrard... Probably his worst year performance wise to date. How about Laurent?
Cristiano Ronaldo
Lionel Messi
Fernando Torres... Inconsistent as anything and he's developed a nasty, temperamental streak. Barnard has lead United (Southend) at times, Edin Dzeko had the season of a lifetime leading Werder Bremen and Jabo has been simply hopeless.

If nothing else, there is always hope!

 

[TrueBlue]

As usual, the FIFPro team of the year has largely been decided on who won the Champions League, and I wouldn't expect anything else from FIFA. There are some barmy choices here though...

Iker Casillas
Dani Alves... Has been pretty average defensively every time I've seen him play.
Patrice Evra
John Terry... Has been calamitous recently for Chelsea. Pique has been massively overlooked.
Nemanja Vidic
Xavi
Iniesta
Steven Gerrard... Probably his worst year performance wise to date. How about Essien?
Cristiano Ronaldo
Lionel Messi
Fernando Torres... Inconsistent as anything and he's developed a nasty, temperamental streak. Rooney has lead United at times, Edin Dzeko had the season of a lifetime leading Werder Bremen and Drogba has been simply astounding.

Another sodding Liverpool love fest

 

[Sandbach Shrimper]

I agree about Terry and Torres being bad choices. Rooney and Drogba have had far better years.

 

[Uncle Leo]

Good shout with Piqué ESB, he was the player who first occurred to me when I read this.

The 'Fink Tank' in The Times does player ratings in association with Castrol and they rate Piqué the top defender in Europe, followed by Puyol, Alves, (no, I'm not having him either; there is a reason Brazil choose Maicon ahead of him) Vidic and van Buyten

 

[Yorkshire Blue]

Good shout with Piqué ESB, he was the player who first occurred to me when I read this.

The 'Fink Tank' in The Times does player ratings in association with Castrol and they rate Piqué the top defender in Europe, followed by Puyol, Alves, (no, I'm not having him either; there is a reason Brazil choose Maicon ahead of him) Vidic and van Buyten

Last time I saw Maicon play, he looked a marginally richer (these things are relative) man's Danny Mills. But then I reckon I saw Roberto Carlos play about a dozen times before I saw him have a decent game.

Aren't these awards decided by shirt sales rather than performances?

Good to see a strong Liverpool showing - presumably they get extra men in on the basis that their year is already over, whereas all the good players' clubs still have a half a year left to play.

 

[Uncle Leo]

Aren't these awards decided by shirt sales rather than performances?

:)

That reminds me of something I read a good few years ago (must have been around the time Beckham joined Real Madrid) that surprised me. The article was about the biggest selling shirt and number combos in the world and Lovenkrands/9 (Rangers) and Larsson/7 (Celtic) were right up there in the world's top 10, along with Zidane, Ronaldo, Figo, etc. I suppose they've nothing else to spend their money on up there.

 

[Stats]

I think its a joke that both Lee Morgan and Gary Docherty have been left out of this team.

 

[Moody Blues]

How could they leave Osei Sankofa out of this team

 

[Heskey]

Just nice to see some English names being chucked in there :)

 

[BrettieAngell]

I agree about Terry and Torres being bad choices. Rooney and Drogba have had far better years.

Torres was better than Drogba last season, Drogba has been better so far this though.