UEFA Team of the Year

[sean_lfc]

From the offal

Steven Gerrard has been shortlisted for the UEFA team of the year – but needs your vote to make the final 11.
The Liverpool captain is up against Gennaro Gattuso, Cristiano Ronaldo, Franck Ribery and Lionel Messi for the right-wing slot.

Incredibly, Gerrard is Liverpool's only nominee – while Arsenal have seven. European Champions Barcelona have the most with eleven.

Voting began on uefa.com today, with the final team being announced on January 19.

The nominees for each position, as chosen by uefa.com staff, are:

Goalkeepers
Gianluigi Buffon (Juventus)
Jens Lehmann (Arsenal FC)
Petr Cech (Chelsea FC)
Grégory Coupet (Olympique Lyonnais)
Andrés Palop (Sevilla FC)

Right backs
Gianluca Zambrotta (FC Barcelona)
Willy Sagnol (FC Bayern München)
Emmanuel Eboué (Arsenal FC)
Daniel Alves (Sevilla FC)
Juliano Belletti (FC Barcelona)

Left Backs
Fabio Grosso (FC Internazionale Milano)
Philipp Lahm (FC Bayern München)
Eric Abidal (Olympique Lyonnais)
Giovanni van Bronckhurst (FC Barcelona)
Rodolfo Arrubarrena (Villarreal CF)

Central Defenders
Fabio Cannavaro (Real Madrid CF)
Carles Puyol (FC Barcelona)
Kolo Touré (Arsenal FC)
John Terry (Chelsea)
William Gallas (Arsenal)
Lilian Thuram (FC Barcelona)
Rafael Márquez (FC Barcelona)
Cris (Olympique Lyonnais)
Marco Materazzi (FC Internazionale Milano)
Roberto Ayala (Valencia CF)

Central Midfielders
Andrea Pirlo (AC Milan)
Mahamadou Diarra (Real Madrid CF)
Cesc Fabregas (Arsenal FC)
Claude Makelele (Chelsea FC)
Torsten Frings (Werder Bremen)

Right Midfielders
Gennaro Gattuso (AC Milan)
Cristiano Ronaldo (Manchester United FC)
Franck Ribéry (Olympique de Marseille)
Lionel Messi (FC Barcelona)
Steven Gerrard (Liverpool FC)

Left Midfielders
Adriano Correia (Sevilla FC)
Florent Malouda (Olympique Lyonnais)
Juan Pablo Sorín (Hamburger SV)
Bastian Schweinsteiger (FC Bayern München)
Ronaldinho (FC Barcelona)

Attacking Midfielders
Kaká (AC Milan)
Juninho Pernambucano (Olympique Lyonnais)
Deco (FC Barcelona)
Juan Román Riquelme (Villarreal CF)
Michael Ballack (Chelsea FC)

Forwarders
Samuel Eto'o (FC Barcelona)
Thierry Henry (Arsenal FC)
Miroslav Klose (Werder Bremen)
Luca Toni (ACF Fiorentina)
Didier Drogba (Chelsea FC)
Andriy Shevchenko (Chelsea FC)
David Villa (Valencia CF)
Klaas Jan Huntelaar (AFC Ajax)
Frédéric Kanouté (Sevilla FC)
Henrik Larsson (Helsingborgs IF)

Coaches
Arsène Wenger (Arsenal FC)
Frank Rijkaard (FC Barcelona)
Marcello Lippi (Italy)
Juande Ramos (Sevilla FC)
Jürgen Klinsmann (Germany)


http://www.uefa.com/fanzone/TeamOfTh...006/index.html

Haven't bothered thinking about the team yet (just about to vote and take some time) but what the **** is Shevchenko doing there, first name that propped into my head and he's been performing woefully, probably my memory is lacking though and he played decently before he went to the Chavs.

What'd be your team?

[Rohan]

It's probably harking back to last year/season's performances and not anything this year, which is why you have 7 Arse players and Chavchenko.

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[AFII]

-------------------Cech
Alves-------Cannavaro---Puyol------Abidal
-------------Diarra------Pirlo
Gerrard------------------------------Ronaldinho
--------------Eto'o------Henry

manager: Rijkaard

[Mumsafan]

There are better RMs in that list than Gerrard. Shame he's been put in that section.

[AFII]

Ribery plays on the left for Marseille and they have him as a right midfielder

[Mumsafan]

Just goes to prove what a ****in joke it is

[AFII]

The only real right midfielder is Ronaldo of the ones that have been nominated.

[Mumsafan]

Yes and sadly he'll probably win it

[Red Chilli]

God why are UEFA and FIFA such a bunch of ****ing idiots? We all know that they now jack all about football, so who wants to read some bollocks list made up by a bunch of simpletons with no footballing knowledge?

Same with their rankings etc

[TheStig]

Mourinho was coach the year we won it!