Best Team of The World

April 3rd, 2008 | By: Jan | 33 Comments »

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Or rather, Europe. I can’t judge the talent in South America because I hardly see any game from that continent.

But, the C.Ronaldo discussion got me going. Therefore, here is my first attempt to create the best team of the moment.

Mind you: I don’t really follow German or French football, so I don’t know exactly what players shine in those competitions. And the Italian competition is a bit of a bore too, I must admit. So, please my friends, correct me where you can and come back with your ideas, ok?

Van der Sar (Man Utd)

Lahm (Bayern M) John Terry (Chelsea) Nesta (AC Milan) Zanetti (Internationale)

Steven Gerrard (Liverpool) Iniesta (Barca) Ces Fabregas (Arsenal) C. Ronaldo (Man Utd)

Lionel Messi (Barca) Torres (Liverpool)

Bench:
Robin van Persie (normally starter, but not in form right now) (Arsenal)
Xavi (Barca)
Marquez (Barca)
Rooney (Man Utd)
Kaka (AC Milan)
Lampard (Chelsea)
Gomes (PSV)

Coach: Arsene Wenger (Arsenal)
Assistant: Marco van Basten :-)

So: 4 English players, 2 Dutch, 1 German, 4 Spanish, 2 Argentinians, 1 Italian, 1 Portguese, 2 Brzailians, 1 Mexican… One French coach and a Dutch asistant in charge of carrying the balls and the water.

Your Turn!



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Username By tiju | April 4th, 2008 at 8:47 am
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Mine
buffon
abidal
ferdinand
nesta
clichy
Messy,gerrad,anderson,c ronaldo
drogba,nestelrooy
subs
kaka
vanpersie
toure
hantlaar
castelen(my fav dutch player)

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Username By Caleb | April 4th, 2008 at 9:55 am
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Good point about Van Nistelrooij you guys, I would usually pick him too, but he’s injured and kind of out of form. If Van Persie is in form I would put him in the starting eleven too. All dutch forward line! Everybody knows we are the best at attacking!

Jan – French, English, Dutch! Any more languages?

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Username By Daily Dose 04.04.08 - World Cup Blog - Euro 2008 | April 4th, 2008 at 10:20 am
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[...] The best team in Europe (Netherlands WCB) [...]

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Username By Fiinster01 | April 4th, 2008 at 11:08 am
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For me right now, at this very moment and at this very second has to be :

Oooohhh Aaaahh Vann Dah Sah Oooohh Ahh
Garragher Ferdinand Nesta Evra
Messy Gerrard Fabregas Ronaldo
—– Torres Drogba ——-

Of the Dutch, only EVDS gets my nod for starters at the moment.

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Username By Igor | April 4th, 2008 at 12:52 pm
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personally, i am always surprised that everyone considers Ramos to be a right back, i think he plays there only because madrid lacks a high caliber right back and have better cover in the centre. so my best 11 of the moment would be:

Casillas
Ramos Nesta Ferdinand
Messi Fabregas Flamini Iniesta Ronaldo
Eto’o Torres

subs:
Lahm, Clichy, van Nistelroij, Gerrard, van Persie, van der Sar, van der vaart, Benzema, Maldini

I’m surprised not to have seen any of the following players come up yet:
ibrahimovic, diego, vidic, ribery, totti (joke) and considering how many times toure was chosen, why gallas has failed to impress any of you.

Posted from Canada Canada

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Username By Caleb | April 4th, 2008 at 1:56 pm
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Igor – good point about Gallas. I like him, I would probably put him in my team. Good defender with a talent for scoring, especially in important games. Could fit into a total football team well.

For me, I will never, ever pick totti or ibrahimovic in any of my teams. I have no room for dirty bastard players like that.

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Username By Tim | April 4th, 2008 at 3:19 pm
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Buffon (Juve)
Evra (Man U) Ferdinand (Man U) Nesta (Milan) Alves (Sevilla)
Messi (Barca) Fabregas (Arsenal) Flamini (Arsenal) Ronaldo (Man U)
Drogba (Chelsea) Kaka (Milan)

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Username By dirk v.d berg | April 4th, 2008 at 3:39 pm
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Mine favourites would be

———van der Sar———–
Ramos—-Zanetti—-Terry—-Lahm
Quaresma–Gerrard–van der Vaart–nedved
——-villa—-huntelaar——–

Notice theres no C. Ronaldo, thats cuz he’s terrible. No Fabregas because he’s overrated. I wanted to pick Torres but I think Villa’s better, but doesn’t get as good of passes.

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Username By Juliet | April 4th, 2008 at 4:00 pm
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I’m with Igor — I’m surprised names like Diego, Ribery, Toni, and Mario Gomez haven’t shown up more.

Casillas
Westermann – Mertesacker – Demichelis – Lahm
Ribery – Diego – Van der Vaart – Ronaldo (this would be the all show, no defending midfield!)
Gomez – Ibrahimovic

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Username By Marc | April 4th, 2008 at 4:10 pm
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My favourite lineup:
——————————petr.Cech———————————–

——-Ramos————-Terry————Gallas———-lahm————

——————–Sneijder——————Gerrard———————

——-Ronaldo——————–Kaka———————–Robben——-

——————————Van.nistelrooy——————————

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Username By Marc | April 4th, 2008 at 4:12 pm
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p.s van persie as a sub with van der vaart, and makalele(the best holding midfielder to my eyes)

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Username By Finnster01 | April 4th, 2008 at 4:15 pm
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Juliet,
with all due respect you picked 1 player from the teams that are left in the CL…

This was supposed to be the World team right now. You even manged to leave out Torres and Fabregas.

I suggest you upgrade your cable subscription because you need to watch more football.

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Username By sphinx | April 4th, 2008 at 7:48 pm
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if mine!
C. ronlado, Torres, Messi
Sneijder, Gerrad, Seedorf
Gallas, Terry, Cannevero,Lahm
Sar

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Username By Jan | April 4th, 2008 at 11:54 pm
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Great suggestions all… I deliberately left injured players (Ruud, Robin) out. I’m not a Zlatan Ibrahimivic fan, although he is good. Toni has a weakness, his right foot is horrible. Ribery is interesting…

Posted from Australia Australia

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Username By ferenc | April 5th, 2008 at 12:29 am
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buffon
s. ramos,terry,nesta,lahm
seedorf,gerrard,iniesta,c. ronaldo
messi,eto’o

subs: van der sar,daniel alves,r. carvailho,marquez,fabregas,de rossi,van der vaart,van persie,drogba,torres

and if we only talk about the moment i would pick bojan (krkic). Jan,you should watch this guy – he will be as great as messi,remember my word.

i’m suprised – there is no dutch defender in my squad…

Posted from Hungary Hungary

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Username By Jan | April 5th, 2008 at 2:26 am
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Hi Ferenc, yeah I’ve been watching the youngster. He actually looks like JC when he was 18 years old! Remarkable likeness. John van ‘t Schip had that too, so Krkic looks like Schippie too I guess :-) . I’ve seen him play some games and it’s obvious he is good. Who’s the other hot youngster at Barca again? It’s Krkic and some Catalunyan dude, right?

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Username By goose | April 5th, 2008 at 5:24 am
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@Juliet;looks like you watch a lot of german football…

i cant make a team cause my knwoledge isnt great enough on non-dutch players…

people; in less than 8 weeks the EC will start… YES!!! happy days!!

Jan; i think we need an EC poule….

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Username By ferenc | April 5th, 2008 at 8:11 am
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Jan,there is a 16-years-old guy from israel,can’t remember his name…

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Username By simon | April 5th, 2008 at 9:16 am
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Bojan Krkic, Giovani dos Santos and Pedrito has participated in some Barca games this season. The next hottie is Gui Assulin from Israel, though he hasnt really decided whether he wants to play for Israel or Spain yet.

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Username By dirk v.d berg | April 5th, 2008 at 11:32 am
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My team of my favourite players would be

———–van der sar————
Ramos—-Zanetti—-Terry—-Lahm
van der vaart – nedved – robben
cissé — huntelaar — martins

I am aware that nedved and cissé also play on the left, and that my front 6 are all attacking players but, it’s just how it turned out.

Posted from Canada Canada

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Username By JVB21 | April 5th, 2008 at 1:47 pm
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The team I’d have on the bus:

Van der Sar

Alves – Touré – Ramos – Lahm

C.Ronaldo – Essien – Fabregas – Ribery

Eto’o – Torres

Injured and or subs:

Peter Cech
Clichy
Gallas
Carvalho
Abidal
Gerrard
Hleb
Van der Vart
Kaka
Van Nistelrooy
Van Persie
Messi

That’s a decent start.

Posted from Canada Canada

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Username By CROATIA | April 5th, 2008 at 6:53 pm
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DoB (Age) Caps Goals Club
1 GK Stipe Pletikosa 8 January 1979 (1979-01-08) (age 29) 67 0 Spartak Moscow
Berlin
4 DF Robert Kovač (vice-captain) 6 April 1974 (1974-04-06) (age 33) 72 0 Borussia Dortmund

10 MF Niko Kovač (captain) 15 October 1971 (1971-10-15) (age 36) 75 12 Red Bull Salzburg
11 MF Darijo Srna 1 May 1982 (1982-05-01) (age 25) 54 15 Shakhtar Donetsk
14 MF Luka Modrić 9 September 1985 (1985-09-09) (age 22) 24 3 Dinamo
19 MF Niko Kranjčar 13 August 1984 (1984-08-13) (age 23) 40 6 Portsmouth

Bremen
18 FW Ivica Olić 14 September 1979 (1979-09-14) (age 28) 52 9 Hamburger
21 FW Mladen Petrić 1 January 1981 (1981-01-01) (age 27) 23 9 Borussia Dortmund

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Username By Rob | April 7th, 2008 at 1:50 pm
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I’d go with:

GK: Buffon
RB: Ramos
LB: Evra
CB: Vidic
CB: Ferdinand
DMF: Essien
RMF: Robinho
LMF: Robben
AMF: Gerrard
CF: Ronaldo
CF: Drogba

Posted from Japan Japan

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Username By Igor | April 7th, 2008 at 2:05 pm
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i think that terry is overrated at the moment, he can be great for sure, but he hasnt played his best lately. essien is a good pick that i missed, i would definitely have him on my team.

Posted from Canada Canada

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Username By matt | April 7th, 2008 at 6:35 pm
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gk buffon
lb evra
cb ferdinand
cb toure
rb: ramos
def mid: essien
left side: ribery
right side: c ronaldo
att cen mid: fabregas
cf: totti
st: torres

Posted from United States United States

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