UEFA.com Team of the Year: Who Got Screwed?

By: Martha | January 19th, 2008

Team o the Year

After soliciting the opinion of the unwashed masses — to the tune of over 3.75 million (seriously, we all really need to find more to do) votes — UEFA.com have announced their 2007 team of the year, based on the teams all of us submitted via their fancy website last month.

As you’d expect, the team is Champions League-heavy, with three players from holders AC Milan (leading vote-getter Kaka, Clarence Seedorf and Alessandro Nesta) and one — Steven Gerrard — from beaten finalists Liverpool. From Serie A, the Milan trio are joined by striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic, while Gerrard also has three companions from the EPL: John Terry, Didier Drogba and Cristiano Ronaldo. The other tree members of the team come from Spain, in the form of Iker Casillas in goal (that’s what Gigi Buffon gets for missing out on Champions League play last season), and Daniel Alves and Eric Abidal as his wingbacks. (For those of you who don’t like words, there’s video of the team here.)

So, that’s who’s on the team — what really matters, though, is who’s missing. Who was left out in the cold so Nesta could make the team, just because he wears a red and black shirt? And, by the same token, should someone have been left out to make room for Nesta’s teammate, Andrea Pirlo? Are there Ligue 1 or Bundesliga players who were unfairly slighted?

[video link via 101 Great Goals]

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frank

Judging by Messi's year, it's apparently easier to finish in the top 3 in FIFA player of the year balloting than it is to finish in the top 11. OK!
johnny

um, hello? MESSI? no question!
shehan

gerrard certainly doesnt deserve to be there over pirlo.

seedorf completely deserves his spot with his performances in the CL.

martha, why don't you think nesta deserves a spot? definitely over terry, who achieved next to nothing last season.

and i dont think ferguson deserved the coach of the year. ancelotti had a greater revival for milan after all the crap in the beginning of last season.

i guess i am being biased, but hey, the results speak for themselves!!
Laurie

I think Seedorf's is kind of more of a "lifetime achievement" award.
Sam

Clarence Seedorf shouldn't be there. He's a great player, but he's not in my top four midfielders, and that's for sure.
gialo-rossi.ie

Francesco Totti, Cesc Fabregas, Ruud Van Nistelrooy, Lionel Messi all come to mind.

I don't really care for these popularity contests though.
Laurie

Yea, Abidal! (But that picture doesn't look like him at all.)