You should all be inspired by this. Hossick is doing work here. haha
“Choose your world XI starting roster. They must be playing today, and you’re only allowed up to 4 players from your supported club.”
JMo:
Casillas
Alves – Terry – Lucio – Cole
Essien
Xavi – Fabregas
Messi – Rooney – David Villa
Diaz:
Casillas
Dani Alves – Demichelis – Naldo – Felipe Luis
Essien – Alonso
Xavi
Cristiano – Messi
David Villa
BLo:
Buffon
Lahm – Puyol – Vidic – Evra
Essien
Messi – Xavi – Ribery
Rooney – Cristiano Ronaldo
Chad Brown:
Casillas
Maicon Vidic Lucio ACole
Essien
Messi Fabregas Ronaldo
Rooney Drogba
JJ:
Casillas
Dani Alves – Puyol – Vermaelen – Evra
Essien
Xavi – Cristiano Ronaldo
Fabregas
Messi – Rooney
Willie:
Howard
Maicon – Boughherra – Terry – Evra
Xabi Alonso
Cristiano Ronaldo – Gerrard – Robben
Rooney
Torres
Jeff Hill:
Casillas
Alves-Vidic-Terry-Cole
Essien
Messi-Kaka-Ronaldo
Rooney-Drogba
Hoss:
Given
Maicon – Pique – Terry – Evra
Essien
Fabregas
Messi – Kaka – Ronaldo
Rooney
Steph:
Cameron:
Buffon
Alves – Terry – Vidic – Lahm
De Jong
Ribery - Lampard - Cristiano Ronaldo
Messi – Drogba
Billard:
Buffon
Lahm – Per Mertesacker – Puyol – Evra
Essien
Robben – Fabregas – Cristiano Ronaldo
Rooney – Messi
Posted by Kevin Billard on March 16, 2010 at 7:30 pm
Diaz, no love to Rooney?? and Demichelis, when not injured, isn’t even the best centre back playing for Bayern. Van Buyten has been in better form all season.
J-Mo- I love that you put up who each person’s representing, it’s nice to see the clear team/country biases in some of the picks.
My clear German bias…4-1-3-2
-Buffon
-Lahm-Per Mertesacker-Puyol-Evra
-Essien
-Robben-Fabregas-C. Ronaldo
-Rooney-Messi
Posted by jonathanmoynihan on March 16, 2010 at 8:06 pm
Kevin, I’d be more than happy to add you to the panel to represent Bayern if you’re interested. It means you have to get back to me with your answers that day preferably, but it’s only two debates a week so it’s not too demanding.
what do you think?
Posted by Kevin Billard on March 16, 2010 at 9:06 pm
I’d love to join in. You know I’m never short of an opinion.
Posted by Brian Lomax on March 16, 2010 at 8:51 pm
Villa on the left with Rooney in the center Jmo? That’s interesting. What’s the reasoning behind it? I might switch them, but then again, I don’t know if Villa would even make it…I might try and find a more traditional winger.
John Terry turns about as slow as milk does. No way he’s one of the 2 best defenders in the world.
Posted by jonathanmoynihan on March 16, 2010 at 9:05 pm
Terrry has a ferocity that is rivaled by very few, and because of that and his leadership I went with him.
Part of me would want to put Vidic or Pique, but I went with him. Lucio is just a a monster and a unique pick so I went with him. Essien is good enough to cover terry too.
Villa can play as a wing striker which is why I put him in on the left. I like rooney as a central player, he’s exponentially more effective there. Just watch last year’s CL final to see why.
sorry i went there.
Posted by Brian Lomax on March 17, 2010 at 12:04 am
You’re not sorry lol. Our midfield lost that game for us last year, Rooney’s play didn’t have anything to do with it. It wouldn’t have mattered who played as the center forward.
Posted by jonathanmoynihan on March 17, 2010 at 1:05 pm
probably true, like you said in the last question, strikers are only as good as the individuals who supply them.
Posted by CBrown on March 17, 2010 at 4:03 pm
Lahm? Please, he is as overrated as the day is long. For those of you who snubbed Maicon, I hope you watched the shift he put in yesterday against Chelsea, the man is a force.
Posted by jonathanmoynihan on March 17, 2010 at 4:05 pm
hate to admit it, but Maicon was a monster yesterday.
I just couldn’t let our blaugrana hummingbird miss out in my world XI. What he can contribute all over the field, no one can do while maintaining defnesive discipline. He never STOPS.
Posted by Kevin Billard on March 17, 2010 at 8:57 pm
Most of the wing backs mentioned here (Lahm, Alves, Maicon, Cole, Evra) play a very similar style. They all have the potential to advance into the offense third and contribute goals. Lahm shines the most when put on a team that gives him some defensive support, which allows him to move forward, like on Germany’s national team. It’s hard to rate him when only looking at Bayern games because he is simply left out there to hold a team together defensively that has no intention of playing defense. He is constantly the one responsible for cleaning up the mess of the no defense playing winger in front of him, whether it be Ribery or Robben, and his centre backs are either aggressive to the point of stupidity or players who have not yet been proven to play at a high level. Lahm proved himself as one of the world’s best at 22 in the last world cup, and he’s only grown since. He definitely plays better internationally, but for some reason that seems to be true of almost any German.
Posted by tevezisablue on March 18, 2010 at 1:54 pm
JMo and BLo, I really like your teams/formations. Diaz…well I’m not even going to go there. Cameron-I wanted so badly to put De Jong in, I respect that you did. If De Jong keeps up his form, he has the potential to be considered one the top as far as holding midfielders. He’s already the best in England behind Essien IMO.