World recognized French Football & Sports daily, L´Equipe, has published their Top 50 U-21 Best Football Players in World Soccer. Real Madrid & Spanish International MARCO ASENSIO has been recognised as the Nº1 U-21 World Football Player.
The top 10 list by L´Equipe is:
1.Marco Asensio (ESP/Real Madrid)
2.Dele Alli (ANG/Tottenham)
3.Kylian Mbappé (FRA/PSG)
4.Ousmane Dembélé (FRA/FC Barcelona)
5.Gianluigi Donnarumma (ITA/AC Milan)
6.Gabriel Jesus (BRA/Manchester City)
7.Leroy Sané (ALL/Manchester City)
8.Kingsley Coman (FRA/Bayern Munich)
9.Marcus Rashford (ANG/Manchester United)
10.Timo Werner (ALL/RB Leipzig).
The other Spanish born U-21 Football players in the Top 50 list are:
Dani Ceballos (Real Madrid) in the Nº 15 position, Vallejo (Real Madrid) follows in Nº 31, Carlos Soler at Nº 40 & Oyarzabal at Nº44.
Hi guys, SFS is back after a few days off with the family. I hope you had a great Christmas & have received lots of presents.
On the bus back home got to read that the French Sports paper "L´Equipe" has published their Best XI of the Year 2013. The surprise, but deserved, is the inclusion of left back defender Jordi Alba of FC Barcelona. Alba is the only Spaniard included in the list, the others are as follows:
Manuel Neuer (Bayern Munich), Philipp Lahm (Bayern Munich), Vincent Kompany (Manchester City), Thiago Silva (PSG), Jordi Alba (FC Barcelona), Yaya Touré (Manchester City),Bastian Schweinsteiger (Bayern Múnich), Thomas Müller (Bayern Munich), Franck Ribéry (Bayern Munich), Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid) & Lionel Messi (FC Barcelona)
Cristiano Ronaldo & Lionel Messi represent Spanish Football with their respective Spanish Clubs Real Madrid & FC Barcelona. The "Best XI" is dominated by Bayern Munich players.
The above list changes somewhat if the "L´Equipe" readers & Internet voters ( around 72.000) are taken into account. The voted list is :
Neuer (Bayern Múnich); Lahm (Bayern Múnich), Sergio Ramos (Real Madrid), Thiago Silva (PSG), Jordi Alba (Barcelona); Paul Pogba (Juventus), Touré (Manchester City), Ozil (Real Madrid/Arsenal), Ribéry (Bayern Múnich); Ronaldo (Real Madrid) & Messi (Barcelona).
Here Real Madrid defender Sergio Ramos is included along with Jordi Alba.
This is the prelude to the soon to be announced "FIFA Golden Ball 2013 Award" the 13th of January. The winner will come from the final three candidates : Cristiano Ronaldo, Lionel Messi & Franck Ribery.
French Sports daily "L´Equipe" has put on their front cover their choice of the "Best XI for 2012" & in doing so mentions Spanish Football. Eight members of the elected line-up play in LA LIGA & come from the two big Spanish Clubs: FC BARCELONA & REAL MADRID.
Jordi Alba, Xavi Hernandez, Andres Iniesta & Messi are from Barça, while Casillas, Ramos, Xabi Alonso & Cristiano Ronaldo come from Real Madrid.
The "outsiders" ( no punt intended ) are Philipp Lahm (Bayern Munich), Kompany (Manchester City) & Ramires ( Chelsea FC ).
The French Sports paper "LÉquipe" has handed in their "Best 11 team" for 2011. As expected the list has a very SPANISH FOOTBALL flavour with the mayority of players from FC BARECLONA & REAL MADRID.
There are two lists: the first chosen by Sports journalists & the second chosen by readers via an internet poll.
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| Ronaldo - Messi |
Football journalist "Best 11 for 2011":
Neuer (Schalke/Bayern), Daniel Alves (Barcelona), Nemanja Vidic (Manchester United), Gerard Piqué (Barcelona), Marcelo (Real Madrid), Busquets (Barcelona), Xavi (Barcelona), Iniesta (Barcelona); Silva (Manchester City), Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid) & Messi (Barcelona)
Readers "Best 11 for 2011":
Casillas, Alves, Sergio Ramos, Piqué, Eric Abidal, Fábregas, Xavi, Iniesta, Ronaldo, Messi & Benzema.
French Football paper “L´Equipe” published today its “IDEAL 11
TEAM” for 2009. The Spanish Club FC BARCELONA has 5 members:
XAVI, INIESTA, TOURE, DANI ALVES & LIONEL MESSI, included with
the other representative of another Spanish Club being IKER
CASILLAS from REAL MADRID
The rest of the members the make up the team are:
John Terry (Chelsea FC)
Nemanda Vidic (Man Utd.)
Patrick Evra (Man Utd.)
Michael Essien (Chelsea FC)
Didier Drogba (Chelsea FC)
