Premier League stars fail to make Uefa Team of the Year
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European governing body Uefa has announced its 2012 Team of the Year and for the first time there is no place for a player from the Premier League.
The 12th edition of the poll saw a record 5.3m votes cast on the Uefa website, 20% more than last year.
Eight players from Spain's La Liga are included, four each from the big two clubs, Barcelona and Real Madrid.
Fifa's Team of the Year, announced this month, was composed entirely of players from La Liga.
The Team of the Year is not an official Uefa selection but is voted for by fans on the website and has proved hugely popular, with 24 million votes in the previous 11 years.
In 2001, the first line-up included Liverpool's Sami Hyypia, Arsenal duo Patrick Vieira and Thierry Henry plus Manchester United's David Beckham, with Tottenham winger Gareth Bale named last year.
World Player of the Year Lionel Messi was chosen for the fifth time in succession with Real Madrid striker Cristiano Ronaldo and goalkeeper Iker Casillas appearing for a sixth consecutive year.
Website users were also asked for the first time to vote for their favourite formation and the overall verdict was 4-4-2, the default system for the previous 11 editions.
Uefa Team of the Year 2012: Iker Casillas (Real Madrid), Sergio Ramos (Real Madrid), Gerard Pique (Barcelona), Thiago Silva (AC Milan/Paris St-Germain), Philipp Lahm (Bayern Munich), Andres Iniesta (Barcelona), Xavi Hernandez (Barcelona), Andrea Pirlo (Juventus), Mesut Ozil (Real Madrid), Lionel Messi (Barcelona), Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid).
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Team should be:
Green
Maicon Bramble Shawcross A.Santos
Henderson Ramsey Allen
Downing Torres Gervinho
Manager: Mark Hughes
Chelsea won it last year then fail to qualify this year.
Man City the current EPL champions failed to qualify from group stages last year and were then dumped out of europa cup.
This year failed to qualify from group stages and were so poor didnt even qualify for europa.( standard bearers for EPL )
Utd and Arsenal also poor.
More to the point I didn't hear anything about the most recent vote prior to this. If it is promoted by UEFA and more heavily in other countries (big ifs) then there might be some merit in suggesting there is a UEFA bias going on.
Furthermore, La Liga clubs and not just R. Madrid and Barca are full of quality international players so I don't know where you get your info from.
So anyone moaning about the result - next year go to the website and vote...Simples !
You can't make the statement CL winners at 6th place and ignore 3rd placed BPL and chucked out the CL and the first stage...
One backs your point, the other blows it out the water.
The distance between 1st and 3rd in England is at 14 points, bigger than the same difference in Germany, Italy, France and SCOTLAND.
How is that competitive? 2/4 teams knocked out at group stages of CL. No strength in depth.
Stats don't lie.