French publication L'Equipe named its 2011 Team of the Year recently, and as you might expect, Barcelona dominated the selections with six players on the team.
LIonel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo headline the squad, which includes a total of eight players from La Liga and two players from the English Premier League. Bayern Munich goalkeeper Manuel Neuer is the lone player selected from outside of the top two leagues.
As with any such World Team of the Year list, there are going to players who look like major snubs, and a good case can be made for several candidates, including Arsenal striker Robin van Persie, who certainly feels like a snub.
Here is the squad, as selected by L'Equipe:
2011 World Team of the Year
D. Silva———-C. Ronaldo———Messi
————–Xavi———Iniesta————
——————Busquets——————–
Marcelo—–Vidic——Pique——D. Alves
——————M. Neuer——————-
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What do you think of the squad? Who, in your opinion, are the biggest snubs?
Share your thoughts below.
Edinson Cavani?
You have got to be kidding if you think neuer doesn’t belong there. After over 1000 minutes without passed in a league that is far more compeitive than the real-barca dominated league??
I love Barca ! They are the best.
Xabi over Mascherano. Ramos, while I like him, is not better than Marcelo at LB.
How is that a joke? Have you even watched him every weekend? He has been incredible.
——Van Persie—Ronaldo——-
Bale—Xavi—David Silva—-Messi
Evra—–Vidic—–Pique—–Alves
————Nueur—————–
DONE!
HA!
LOVE IT
You are kidding me right?
VAN PERSIE, GARETH BALE!
Team of the year? How about team of the century? In three years they have won 13 trophies…and counting.
It is an ok formation but in my opinion.
C.ronaldo messi
xavi
iniesta fabregas
Mascherano
S.ramos Pique J. Terry dani alves
CASSILLAS (CAPTAIN)
Yeah, Bale would be a beast anywhere down that left side.
All though I do agree with the middle, but I think we can slide riquelme instead of Xavi! Do t get me wrong, to me Xavi is on my top 3 fav midfielders. But I think riquelme can provide a little more with his passes than Xavi! Specially with fast pased players like Ronaldo and messi….
marcelo????? hahahahhaha what a joke
RVP, Casillas and Xabi could easily be on this list. Ramos is close but loses out to Alves.
Chad Barrett???
Getting burned by messi. Otherwise, he burns people. Marcelo has been class this year. He deserves it.
Agreed. Casillas is better for sure.
Xabi Alonso is better than Sergio.
Marcalo has been an absolute beast, he absolutely deserves it!!!
Vincent Kompany is the best defender in the world & should be in that 11
by messi
————Keane—Barrett——–
—Magee–Juninho–Beckham–Donovan—
Dunivant–DeLaGarza—Gonzalez–Franklin
————-Saunders————
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Good point…I’d put RVP in over D. Silva. He should be center forward w/ Ronaldo out to the left forward spot. Silva is good but w/ Iniesta and Xavi in midfield he’s not good enough to make the best XI if we’re going position by position.
and slide Vidic over to the middle for Silva 🙂
no arguments. He’s a force, on the left, who gets forward and also covers space to tackle hard wherever positioned or interchanged, makes some big plays too, good crosses…at least this is my view, he’s a traditional left flank player on a planet needing more quality options at arguably the toughest position to fill
Mike’s lineup below is nice. I’d put Bale in there for Vidic though
so much is the eye of the beholder on these things, fun to discuss
cheers
I think I’d take out Silva for RVP. Hummels for Vidic and Lahm for Marcelo. I’d love to fit in Schweinsteiger and Silva but I just have no where to put them.