UEFA Football Team of the Year 2008
Topics: Alex Ferguson, Barcelona, Bayern Munich, Bundesliga, Cesc Fabregas, Chelsea, Cristiano Ronaldo, English Premier League, Features, Fernando Torres, La Liga, Lionel Messi, Liverpool, Manchester United, Real Madrid
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Fbregas over Lampard? Lahm over Ashley Cole and Patrice Evra? Absolutely hilarious…
January 24th, 2009 @ 20:22JT over Ferdinand and Vidic….?
January 24th, 2009 @ 21:48what the hell is terry doing in there?
January 24th, 2009 @ 21:50given another month or two iniesta wudve passed fabregas, and dani alves wudve passed lahm
January 25th, 2009 @ 00:29prediction for next year: casillas, sergio ramos, terry, puyol, dani alves, xavi, iniesta, c.ronaldo, henry, eto’o, messi.
yes, 7 barca players, even in man utd’s double last year, they were never this dominate, messi has 23 goals and 11 assists through 25 games.
Mes que un club
January 25th, 2009 @ 00:35Some People really have no clue about football do they?
January 25th, 2009 @ 02:48Good team. The same names crop-up all the time with some very marginal calls deciding it in the end.
@Esteban: You obviously haven’t been watching Vidic this season. At this point he’s a shoe in for one of the CD positions. Also, Ronaldo has to do a lot from here to retain his place. Ribery has been outstanding for Bayern so don’t bet on him not being there again.
And Terry! Shouldn’t have been there this year and definitely won’t be next!
January 25th, 2009 @ 03:45Omitting Evra and Ferdinand is frankly ridiculous given the seasons they had. The rest of it isn’t too bad.
January 25th, 2009 @ 04:33Hmm where’s Villa? Vidic? Ferdinand? Gerrard.
Vidic has to be in there ahead of JT I’m afraid. Dani Alves is looking pretty hot considering that Ramos is a bit over-rated. And Jonathan is right, Evra has been exceptional.
January 25th, 2009 @ 11:20Finally appreciation for fabregas who doesnt have great players around him and have been single handedly helping arsenal win games terry definetely better than rio and vidic maybe caragher will be there next year think its a great team
January 25th, 2009 @ 12:29puyol and JT over vidic and ferdinand? joke. and why do people not include patrice evera?according too me he is no doubt the best left-back in the world. no doubt the journalists team is much better
January 25th, 2009 @ 14:14Here’s my team of the year based on this season’s preformances
“““““““““““`Cassilas““““““““““““““
Evra“““““`Vidic““““““`Chielleni““““`Alves
Ribery““““““Gerrard““““““`Xavi““““““`Messi
““““““““Ibrahimovic“““““““Eto’o““““““`
That’s so stupid, Steven Gerrard IS NOT a right midfielder. How can any player hope to even compete with Cristiano Ronaldo for the right midfielder position. Had Gerrard been correctly classified as a central midfielder, he would have been chosen. This is incredibly disingenuous to the best box-to-box midfielder in the World.
John Terry is a shit player, get over it. Stop kidding yourselves and actually try to critique his performances without any bias, and you will discover that he is a hot-headed, incredibly average center back.
January 25th, 2009 @ 17:22Terry cant be judged on his performances, most of the time he’s not playing cos he’s been sent off. Evra and Vidic HAVE to be in that squad, I dont care what anyone says, plus I dont think Ribery’s that good (then again I’ve not seen much of him of late) No way Puyol’s better than Carvalhio or Ferdinand/Vidic, he’s a peripheral figure in Barcelona. Can’t really argue with Ramos, Messi, Fabregas, Torres, Xavi though they’re all top class and Cassillas for that matter. Though I do think its unfair on Villa not to be in it, he was 50% of Torres in the Euros but missed the final due to injury. Shame.
January 26th, 2009 @ 01:06casillus over buffon, van de sar?..manu 10 clean sheets nd wat do u want more
January 26th, 2009 @ 10:48WTH ???? NO FERDINAND VIDIC, OVERRATED PIECE OF SHIT JOHN TERRY IS IN THERE….WHERE IS PAT EVRA ???????
January 26th, 2009 @ 13:27Who wrote this piece?!?!?!
At the bottom of Ronaldo’s bio…
*September: wins 50th international cap as Germany draw 3-3 with Finland in Helsinki in World Cup qualifier.
January 26th, 2009 @ 14:06• October: stretches unbroken sequence of international starts for Germany to 17 in World Cup qualifier against Wales.â€
I wonder how long it is before Man City try and sign them all!!!!
January 26th, 2009 @ 16:15eh john terry? And i’m not too sure about ribery either; he seems to turn it on once every 10 games.
January 26th, 2009 @ 18:15@Crommy: that was my mistake, formatting error. That part should have gone under Philipp Lahm’s profile.
Corrected.
January 27th, 2009 @ 03:22How can steven gerrard not be on this list. How can uefa be stupid enough to class Gerrard as a right midfielder. he doesn’t even play right midfield anymore and hasn’t been classed as one in the last few years why do it now when he never plays the position?? He is one of the best midfielders ever/
January 27th, 2009 @ 09:04I don’t have too many problems with that lineup. I still think that Sergio Ramos is lightly overrated. Although he has a good work ethic, in the Euros he was very clumsy and his passing was pretty poor. I guess as long as he keeps making charging runs down the right he will be hard to handle.
January 28th, 2009 @ 00:00gerrard in for fabregas
January 28th, 2009 @ 00:30evra in for lahm
and Vidic in for Carles puyol
January 28th, 2009 @ 00:31and carragher in for JT
and watch soon i will be forced to say mascherano or xabi alonso over xavi
i can’t accept the coach of uefa team of the year 2008 is sir alex fergusen…
January 29th, 2009 @ 04:36John Terry
-Captains his national team to miss out on a major tournament (Euro 2008)
-Slips and misses the winning penalty against Manchester United to lose the Champions League
-Gets injured
-Gets sent off
-Is named on the team lineup
-Gets injured during warm-up
-Gets sent off
Defender of the Year indeed.
January 29th, 2009 @ 15:13ok, people need to stop whining about gerrards rm positioning. ronaldo has been playing rw all his life, which is a forward. fabregas is cm not cam,and im sorry but messi needs to be lw not st, like wtf thats just people needing to have particular players in the team and running out of room for them… but its all just cemantics… my team; LB=lahm CB=vidic CB=puyal RB=ramos CM=fabregas CM=gerrard RW=ronaldo LW=messi ST=ibrahimavic ST=torres. manager is spot on though.
February 3rd, 2009 @ 03:54Gerrard is the best player in champions league. He should be included in the Squad for Fabregas.He should be included in the squad and be declared as captain too coz he is the most inspirational captain ever.Carragher should be in for John Terry. Instead of messi and torres ,,, Delpiero and Villa should be included for their current performance
February 15th, 2009 @ 17:48I Basically Think These Team Is A crap !!!!!!!
Because if they have selected Players on Performance den I think Dese is a Team As followed:-
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Casillas
1
. .
Cannavaro Carragher
3 23
. .
Ramos Zambrotta
15 4
. .
Gerrard Shwansteiger
8 9
. .
C.Ronaldo Robben
17 20
. .
February 15th, 2009 @ 18:01Del Piero Nistelrooy
7 10
my best 11 would be : 3-4-3
March 6th, 2009 @ 08:071)casillas
2)ferdinand
3)sergi ramos
4)Carragher
5)gerrard
6)ribery
7)c.ronaldo
8)kaka
9)henry
10)berbatov
11)messi
omg dont chat shit about jhon terry you think
his rubbish.be in his postion and see if it is easy.
but ill say that is some crap team
PEACE OUT
November 29th, 2009 @ 16:58