UEFA Team of the Year 2009

It's that time of year again. Time to buy Christmas presents, plan for winter break, and vote for UEFA's team of the year.

My choice:

valdés,alves,piqué,puyol,abidal,touré,xavi,cesc,iniesta,messi,ibrahimovic and guardiola.

Arnau;2775335 said:

valdés,alves,piqué,puyol,abidal,touré,xavi,cesc,iniesta,messi,ibrahimovic and guardiola.

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Impossible since there are no Barca players in the Right Midfield and Attacking Midfield slots.




The nominated players and coaches for 2009 are:

Goalkeepers:

* Netherlands Edwin van der Sar (England Manchester United)
* Spain Iker Casillas (Spain Real Madrid)
* Spain Víctor Valdés (Spain Barcelona)
* Brazil Júlio César (Italy Inter Milano)
* Germany Manuel Neuer (Germany Schalke 04)

Right Backs:

* Brazil Daniel Alves (Spain Barcelona)
* Brazil Maicon (Italy Inter Milano)
* Croatia Darijo Srna (Ukraine Shakhtar Donetsk)
* Argentina Javier Zanetti (Italy Inter Milano)
* Germany Philipp Lahm (Germany Bayern München)

Centre Backs:

* England John Terry (England Chelsea)
* Serbia Nemanja Vidić (England Manchester United)
* Spain Gerard Piqué (Spain Barcelona)
* Italy Giorgio Chiellini (Italy Juventus)
* England Rio Ferdinand (England Manchester United)
* Spain Carles Puyol (Spain Barcelona)
* Ukraine Dmytro Chygrynskiy (Spain Barcelona)
* Belgium Thomas Vermaelen (England Arsenal)
* Germany Per Mertesacker (Germany Werder Bremen)
* Portugal Bruno Alves (Portugal Porto)

Left Backs:

* France Patrice Evra (England Manchester United)
* England Ashley Cole (England Chelsea)
* France Eric Abidal (Spain Barcelona)
* France Aly Cissokho (France Olympique Lyonnais)
* Germany Marcel Schäfer (Germany Wolfsburg)

Right Midfielders:

* Portugal Cristiano Ronaldo (Spain Real Madrid)
* Serbia Dejan Stanković (Italy Inter Milano)
* Serbia Miloš Krasić (Russia CSKA Moskva)
* Spain Jesús Navas (Spain Sevilla)
* Slovakia Marek Hamšík (Italy Napoli)

Centre Midfielders:

* Spain Xavi Hernández (Spain Barcelona)
* Spain Xabi Alonso (Spain Real Madrid)
* Côte d'Ivoire Yaya Touré (Spain Barcelona)
* Russia Sergei Semak (Russia Rubin Kazan')
* England Frank Lampard (England Chelsea)

Attacking Midfielders:

* England Steven Gerrard (England Liverpool)
* Brazil Kaká (Spain Real Madrid)
* France Yoann Gourcuff (France Girondins de Bordeaux)
* Bosnia and Herzegovina Zvjezdan Misimović (Germany Wolfsburg)
* Brazil Diego (Italy Juventus)

Left Midfielders:

* Wales Ryan Giggs (England Manchester United)
* France Franck Ribéry (Germany Bayern München)
* Russia Andrey Arshavin (England Arsenal)
* Spain Andrés Iniesta (Spain Barcelona)
* Germany Mesut Özil (Germany Werder Bremen)

Forwards:

* Cameroon Samuel Eto'o (Italy Inter Milano)
* Bosnia and Herzegovina Edin Džeko (Germany Wolfsburg)
* Brazil Grafite (Germany Wolfsburg)
* Argentina Lionel Messi (Spain Barcelona)
* Spain Fernando Torres (England Liverpool)
* England Wayne Rooney (England Manchester United)
* Spain David Villa (Spain Valencia)
* Sweden Zlatan Ibrahimović (Spain Barcelona)
* Uruguay Diego Forlán (Spain Atlético Madrid)
* Sweden Marcus Berg (Germany Hamburg)

Coaches:

* Spain Josep Guardiola (Spain Barcelona)
* Romania Mircea Lucescu (Ukraine Shakhtar Donetsk)
* Scotland Sir Alex Ferguson (England Manchester United)
* France Laurent Blanc (France Girondins de Bordeaux)
* Germany Horst Hrubesch (Germany Germany U-21)

You can vote here:
http://www1.uefa.com/fanzone/TeamOfTheYear/index.html

My team:

-------------------Van Der Sar-------------------
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Maicon--------Vidic-----------Ferdinand-----Evra
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-----------------------Xavi----------------------
Ronaldo------------------------------------Iniesta
----------------------Gerrard---------------------
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-----------------Messi-------Etoo-----------------

Coach: Guardiola

EDIT:

Chiellini for CB!

Starting XI
* Brazil Júlio César (Italy Inter Milano)
* Brazil Maicon (Italy Inter Milano)
* Spain Gerard Piqué (Spain Barcelona)
* Spain Carles Puyol (Spain Barcelona)
* Argentina Javier Zanetti (Italy Inter Milano)
* Côte d'Ivoire Yaya Touré (Spain Barcelona)
* Spain Xavi Hernández (Spain Barcelona)
* Spain Andrés Iniesta (Spain Barcelona)
* Argentina Lionel Messi (Spain Barcelona)
* Cameroon Samuel Eto'o (Italy Inter Milano)
* Sweden Zlatan Ibrahimović (Spain Barcelona)

Honourable Mentions / Subs
* Spain Iker Casillas (Spain Real Madrid)
* Italy Giorgio Chiellini (Italy Juventus)
* Brazil Daniel Alves (Spain Barcelona)
* Germany Philipp Lahm (Germany Bayern München)
* France Yoann Gourcuff (France Girondins de Bordeaux)
* Slovakia Marek Hamšík (Italy Napoli)
* Germany Mesut Özil (Germany Werder Bremen)
* Brazil Grafite (Germany Wolfsburg)

Coaches
* France Laurent Blanc (France Girondins de Bordeaux)
* Spain Josep Guardiola (Spain Barcelona)

Valdes - Alves, Puyol, Pique, Abidal - Ronaldo, Xavi, Gerrard, Iniesta - Messi, Ibra!

Hy guys! And here is my desired dream team :

Iker Casillas
Dani Alves
Pique
Vermaelen
Evra
Krasic
Xavi
Diego
Iniesta
Messi
F. Torres

Coach: M.Lucescu

(i like Josep Guardiola, but excuse me, when you have Xavi,Iniesta,Puyol,Pique,Messi,Ibrahimovic,Henry,D.Alves it's not very hard to make a wining team, and my choice is Mircea Lucescu cause he won the last edition of Uefa Cup with a team where the most well-known player is Daryo Srna!

Cheers

I'm surprised that you can't vote for Felix Magath as the team's coach. He actually did the best job last year in my opinion.

poor valdés, he is very underated. were the best with diference.

Why are people picking Zanetti over Maicon at RB? He hasn't played top class this or last season and Maicon always starts over him. Zanetti only really sees time at Defensive midfield.

The reason why I don't even like voting for these things are because I don't watch enough teams/leagues to be able to rightfully vote for these things.

Horatiu;2777067 said:

Why are people picking Zanetti over Maicon at RB? He hasn't played top class this or last season and Maicon always starts over him. Zanetti only really sees time at Defensive midfield.

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I don't even know how they decide the positions, because it is riddled with inconsistencies ... Zanetti under Mourinho always starts in midfield, in a libero capacity, unless Maicon or Chivu are injured or suspended ... but his 'best position' in years past was as a wing-back ... so they listed him as a wing-back ...

but then Iniesta's best position is "Attacking Midfield", and they've listed him as is "Left Midfield" ... is that because he plays on the left wing of the attacking trident more often than not nowadays? if that is the logic applied, then wouldn't Messi then be "Right Midfield", not "Forward"? and with that logic, Zanetti would indeed be in the midfield selection ...

if I could pick a team from the nominees without their constraints of 4-4-2 or improper positions, here's what it would look like (Starting XI + subs):



a very attacking biased selection, but still, I'd like to be able to make such a choice for my vote ...