Time to Pick Your Team of the Year

By: Martha | December 12th, 2007

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2007 is drawing to close a close, which means the trees are going up, gifts are being bought, and massive amounts of alcohol are being consumed. And, most importantly, UEFA are once again selecting their Team of the Year. Woo hoo! Erm.

Yes, it’s just as silly as an other football award (Marek Jankulovski is one of the five best left backs?) but, still. The graphics are cool, and what we think matters, for once. Really the only drawback is that you can’t pick Zlatan as both strikers.

So, go vote, and feel free to come back and let us know your team. Or, if you want to go really crazy, grab a screenshot of your selections and paste a link here. (That’s mine up there. Yes, I know Maldini hardly played.)

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  • Bruno |  December 12th, 2007 at 10:43 am

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    No Messi (though to choose over CRON, and no Totti???

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  • Bruno |  December 12th, 2007 at 10:43 am

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    apparently i can’t spell

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  • Martha |  December 12th, 2007 at 10:52 am

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    I know Totti’s been amazing, I just can’t pick him because he bugs the crap out of me. Shhh, don’t tell anyone.

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  • Tommy Wong |  December 12th, 2007 at 11:22 am

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    Cech
    Ramos/Vidic/Nesta/Lahm
    C.Ronaldo/Pirlo/Kaka/Quaresma
    Ibra/Totti

    Capello.

    Totti + Capello? nooo.
    But atleast we know they’d win the scudetto.
    ^_^

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  • Johonna |  December 12th, 2007 at 12:29 pm

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    Van Der Sar
    Zanetti (c)/ Nesta / Vidic / Abidal
    Gattuso / Pirlo / Kaka / Giggs
    Imbrahimovic / Toni
    Fergison
    I do think it is interesting that AC Milan are so heavily represented yet they are doing so abysmally in club play. Go figure.

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  • Andrew |  December 12th, 2007 at 12:38 pm

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    I feel like I should put up a disclaimer before my choices…

    Disclaimer: I never followed the sport at all (I didn’t even know who Ronaldinho was) until April so I’ve had a lot of catching up to do and still don’t know a whole lot. So based off of what I’ve learned, watched, and read since then I went with the following (so if the choices don’t make sense then that’s why):

    Cech
    Zambro Vidic Puyol Drenthe
    Messi Pirlo Kaká Dicky Quaresma (oh how I miss Greg)
    Zlatan Totti

    Ramos

    Totti = Captain

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  • Ashley N |  December 12th, 2007 at 1:38 pm

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    Cech
    Zanetti(C) Vidic Ferdinand Abidal
    CRonaldo Pirlo Sneijder Malouda
    Ibra Drogba
    Fergie

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  • shehan |  December 12th, 2007 at 1:49 pm

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    drenthe???

    did he even play in europe this year???

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  • Rob |  December 12th, 2007 at 1:53 pm

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    Casilias
    Ramos/Maldini/Rio/Evra
    Ronaldo/Cesc/Kaka’/Giggs
    Totti (c)/Zlatlan

    Not a bad side. Dissapointing to have to leave out L’il Leo and The Dhino but what can you do.

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  • Martha |  December 12th, 2007 at 2:45 pm

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    I’m so pleased everyone’s got Zlatan in their teams — loving the Swede love.

    (And CRAP, Andrew, Dicky Quaresma was an option?! God damn, I want to redo my team!)

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  • John |  December 12th, 2007 at 5:36 pm

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    I was about to make my pick:

    Casillas
    Ramos/Toure/Rio/Evra
    Messi/Cesc/Kaka/Giggs
    Ruud/Villa

    And I realized… I bet these guys would play HORRIBLY together. Does that matter though?

    (p.s. Seeing Drenthe as a choice made me realize how out of control the hype over this kid has gotten. He hasn’t even had a major European Club start yet! The clips they had were all from two different U-21 games, and in one of them he got past his defender, albeit quite spectacularly, but he was our of bounds. I think people just enjoy saying his name.)

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  • Martha |  December 12th, 2007 at 5:52 pm

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    John, where is Zlatan?! Did you not read the fine print about him be a requirement?

    (I gotta be honest: 50% of the reason I picked Drenthe is because I love that kit. And, I like saying is name.)

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  • mele419 |  December 12th, 2007 at 5:55 pm

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    http://img524.imageshack.us/img524/2175/uefaou8.png

    Biased much?

    Nahhh.
    =]
    But Pirlo and Kaka absolutely deserve spots, and Pippo, my love, who like someone said, does nothing for 90 minutes, and then comes in and scores in stoppage time and sinks your team of the face of Europe, deserves some recognition, even if he hasn’t done much this season.
    But that’s my team for you.

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  • chris |  December 12th, 2007 at 7:23 pm

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    That’s your team, Martha? Are you fucking kidding me? How do you live with yourself?

    Zlatan doesn’t belong on that team. He’s nice, but it’s Ruud and Totti all day every day. Both had at least 10 more goals than Zlatan.

    (For an Inter fan you sure like your Rossoneri…)

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  • Corbin |  December 12th, 2007 at 10:02 pm

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    Reina
    Alves/Nesta/Puyol/Abidal
    Messi/Gerrard/Malouda
    Diego
    Drogba/Villa

    with Fabio Capello at the helm (but that might be too little defense for him)

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  • Ron |  December 12th, 2007 at 10:09 pm

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    No Rafa Marquez , What the Fuck………

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  • Martha |  December 13th, 2007 at 2:09 am

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    It’s a struggle, Chris, but I just take it one day at a time.

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  • Romanista SA |  December 13th, 2007 at 7:26 am

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    My dream team:

    Buffon
    Zambrotta Nesta/Materazzi Cannavaro (c) Grosso
    Pirlo De Rossi/Gattusso
    Perrotta Camoranesi
    Totti Toni

    Lippi as coach

    Inzaghi as resident ars*hole.

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