The Official Goallegacy Best XI Results Thread

[S32TABLANCA]

And so, after so much hard work on my part *cough* *cough*, YOU, Goallegacy, have chosen the best team of the calendar year 2011! In the almighty 4-2-3-1 formation, the best GK, best fullbacks and centrebacks, midfielders and wingers, strikers and coach. And a bench, of course. Brazil and Spain have 3 players in the XI, with Spain predictably dominating the midfield and Brazil surprisingly the defence. Barcelona have the most players with 4. 6 of the first team players ply their trade in La Liga.

Finally, this is the complete team!

----------Neuer
-Alves-Silva-Vidic-Marcelo
-----Busquets-Xavi
---Messi-Silva-Ronaldo
--------Van Persie

Coach: Guardiola (Assistant: Klopp)

Bench:
Casillas
Lahm
Hummels
Pirlo
Ozil
Di Maria
Gomez

But a project like this has uses beyond the bench. With these painstakingly assembled results, we can observe exactly how our forum rates any one of these players in 2011. Bold means in the XI, italic the bench.

GK:
Gianluigi Buffon- Italy and Juventus 4 votes (4%)
Iker Casillas- Spain and Real Madrid 34 (40%)
Manuel Neuer- Germany and Schalke/Bayern Munich 36 (43%)
Victor Valdes- Spain and Barcelona 6 (7%)
Edwin Van der Sar- Netherlands and Manchester United (retired) 3 (3%)

RB:
Ignazio Abate- Italy and Milan 13 (22%)
Dani Alves- Brazil and Barcelona 27 (45%)
Mauricio Isla- Chile and Udinese 5 (8%)
Sergio Ramos- Spain and Real Madrid 5 (8%)
Micah Richards- England and Manchester City 1 (1%)
Barcary Sagna- France and Arsenal 8 (13%)

CB:
Mats Hummels- Germany and Borussia Dortmund 4 (12%)
Vincent Kompany- Belgium and Manchester City 4 (12%)
Pepe- Portugal and Real Madrid 3 (9%)
Gerard Pique- Spain and Barcelona 3 (9%)
Carles Puyol- Spain and Barcelona 2 (6%)
Mamadou Sakho- France and Paris St Germain 0 (0%)
Thiago Silva- Brazil and Milan 11 (33%)
Nemanja Vidic- Serbia and Manchester United 6 (18%)

LB:
Eric Abidal- France and Barcelona 11 (10%)
Fabio Coentrao- Portugal and Benfica/Real Madrid 2 (1%)
Ashley Cole- England and Chelsea 5 (4%)
Patrice Evra- France and Manchester United 0 (0%)
Phillip Lahm- Germany and Bayern Munich 38 (36%)
Marcelo- Brazil and Real Madrid 42 (40%)
Other 5 (4%)

DM:
Xabi Alonso- Spain and Real Madrid 16 (20%)
Sergio Busquets- Spain and Barcelona 26 (33%)
Yann M'Vila- France and Stade Rennais 1 (1%)
Bastian Schweinsteiger- Germany and Bayern Munich 16 (20%)
Mark Van Bommel- Netherlands and Milan 2 (2%)
Arturo Vidal- Chile and Bayer Leverkusen/Juventus 10 (12%)
Other 10 (12%)

CM:
Ever Banega- Argentina and Valencia 1 (1%)
Xavi Hernandez- Spain and Barcelona 29 (51%)
Scott Parker- England and West Ham/Tottenham 0 (0%)
Andrea Pirlo- Italy and Milan/Juventus 12 (21%)
Nuri Sahin- Turkey and Borussia Dortmund/Real Madrid 7 (12%)
Yaya Toure- Ivory Coast and Manchester City 6 (10%)
Other 1 (1%)

AM:
Cesc Fabregas- Spain and Arsenal/Barcelona 5 (5%)
Mario Gotze- Germany and Borussia Dortumund 3 (3%)
Andres Iniesta- Spain and Barcelona 17 (17%)
Javier Pastore- Argentina and Palermo/Paris Saint-Germain 2 (2%)
Mesut Ozil- Germany and Real Madrid 26 (26%)
David Silva- Spain and Manchester City 45 (45%)

WNG:
Angel Di Maria- Argentina and Real Madrid 16 (20%)
Lionel Messi- Argentina and Barcelona 24 (30%)
Neymar- Brazil and Santos 5 (6%)
Cristiano Ronaldo- Portugal and Real Madrid 24 (30%)
Alexis Sanchez- Chile and Udinese/Barcelona 3 (3%)
Other 7 (8%)

ST:
Kun Aguero- Argentina and Atletico Madrid/Manchester City 6 (5%)
Karim Benzema- France and Real Madrid 20 (19%)
Samuel Eto'o- Cameroon and Inter/Anzhi Makhachkala 1 (0%)
Mario Gomez- Germany and Bayern Munich 21 (20%)
Zlatan Ibrahimovic- Sweden and Milan 11 (10%)
Wayne Rooney- England and Manchester United 0 (0%)
Roberto Soldado- Spain and Valencia 1 (0%)
Robin Van Persie- Netherlands and Arsenal 40 (38%)
Other 4 (3%)

Coach:
Massimiliano Allegri- Italy and Milan 4 (7%)
Alex Ferguson- Scotland and Manchester United 1 (1%)
Pep Guardiola- Spain and Barcelona 20 (36%)
Jurgen Klopp- Germany and Borussia Dortmund 18 (32%)
Jose Mourinho- Portugal and Real Madrid 7 (12%)
Andre Villas Boas- Portugal and Porto/Chelsea 4 (7%)
Other 1 (1%)

I hope you guys appreciate all this and have enjoyed the whole process.

*bows*

[EarlyPrototype]

Good job.

[Highburied]

*clap * clap*

Nice work!

[rwo power]

Great job. Personally I'd have chosen some other players (except for Neuer who was spot on of course), but then, most of them at least made the bench

[S32TABLANCA]

Thanks everyone.

[El Chelsea Fuerte]

Good job.

[Geo]

Good job..

But this is joke..

Marcelo instead of Lahm, and Busquests instead of Schweinsteiger..

[BarcaKizz]

Dat team is nice... very nice. Great job.

Only things I would change...

Valdes in for Casillas
Pique in there for Hummels or Vidic
Schweinsteiger in for Pirlo

And I don't know how Iniesta isn't in there, at least on the bench.

[Red Alert]

You mean, Iniesta... probably the best player behind Messi / Ronaldo can't make a 18 man team in GL? ._.

[Bellabong]

Lahm played RB last season...

Busquets over Schweinsteiger for me is the only WTF is GL thinking but oh my god is it a huge WTF.

[VanDeezNuts]

good job saeta.

[BarcaKizz]

Lahm played RB last season...

Busquets over Schweinsteiger for me is the only WTF is GL thinking but oh my god is it a huge WTF.

A German and a Bayern fan are the only ones to say this...

[rwo power]

You mean, Iniesta... probably the best player behind Messi / Ronaldo can't make a 18 man team in GL? ._.

Schweinsteiger didn't make it either, so...

[Forza]

Lahm played RB last season...

Busquets over Schweinsteiger for me is the only WTF is GL thinking but oh my god is it a huge WTF.

A German and a Bayern fan are the only ones to say this...

I agree with the Germans, Busquets is out of place in that team.

Good job putting together the list Saetablanca.

[Lord Hades]

forget schweini and iniesta, alonso shouldve made it ..

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