Not American Football (throwball).


up front - Klaas Jan Huntelaar

right behind him with license to roam - Cristiano Ronaldo

from left to right in the mids - Karim Benzema, Michael Ballack, Gareth Barry, Franck Ribery

l to r on the back line - Patrice Evra, Nemanja Vidic, Carlos Cuellar, Daniel Alves


keeper - Edwin Van Der Sar



On the bench:
Scott MacDonald
Luca Toni
Lionel Messi
Kaka
Mexes
Puyol
Zambrotta

5/26/2008 11:41:55 PM

i'd put Kaka at the top of the list, and Makelele would definitely be on the list

5/27/2008 12:25:48 AM

I don't pay much attention to soccer but did ronaldinho have a sucky season or something, wasn't he FIFA POY year last year?

5/27/2008 1:34:15 AM

Stop trying to be some "football" snob and put fucking soccer in the title. I guess since Beckham failed to make soccer popular in America the few fans left have to resort to tricking the rest of sports fans into false interest by misnaming thread titles.

5/27/2008 1:48:52 AM

someone's got a sandy vagina

5/27/2008 2:19:20 AM

did you really think a thread with the word "footballers" in the title was going to be a good thread about American football?

5/27/2008 3:05:56 AM

For soccer, he probably was expecting "Top faggots of 2008"

5/27/2008 3:20:11 AM

You should wait until the Euros are over to make a final decision.

5/27/2008 5:25:37 AM

hmm, throughout most clubs seasons this would be my team:

CF: Luca Toni
CF: Fernando Torres
RW: Lionel Messi
AttCM: Franck Ribery
CM: Michael Ballack
LW: Cristiano Ronaldo
RB: Sergio Ramos
CB: Rio Ferdinand
CB: Nemanja Vidic
LB: Gianluca Zambrotta
GK: Petr Cech

7 man Champions League Bench:
GK: Gianluigi Buffon (cause Cech is gonna get injured haha)
LB: Patrice Evra
CB: Carlos Puyol
CM: Kaka
CM: Steven Gerrard
CM: Alex
CF: Filippo Inzaghi(clutch scorer)


that team cant be beaten in an all star format. the man utd duo might seem a little bit biased since im a man utd fan, but their defense was the best in england and the best in europe and vidic and ferdinand were the big reason for that.

5/27/2008 7:03:26 AM

throwball?

5/27/2008 12:05:32 PM

Quote :

"that team cant be beaten"

So what's Real Madrid's excuse? A few years back they had an all start lineup.

[Edited on May 27, 2008 at 12:09 PM. Reason : .]

5/27/2008 12:09:39 PM

no love for Drogba?

5/27/2008 12:17:56 PM

^I was going to ask the same question.

Also JTMONEY, I was going to say that Vidic and Ferdinand had kinda bad games in the Champion's Final, but then thought about it some more and I guess they kinda shut down drogba for most of the game, so yeah, pretty solid D.

5/27/2008 12:49:33 PM

Quote :

"Stop trying to be some "football" snob and put fucking soccer in the title. I guess since Beckham failed to make soccer popular in America the few fans left have to resort to tricking the rest of sports fans into false interest by misnaming thread titles."

Go troll somewhere else, asspirate.








The reasoni I didn't put Kaka on the field is because he's all show and no go.

Hear me out.

Kaka gets rested before every big game. No other player I named is afforded that sort of luxury. Plus, it's to Milan's benefit that they're not dominating Serie A. They've got the Liverpool complex - do just well enough to get into the UCL qualifying spots, play hard for 13 games a year, lather, rinse, repeat.

It says a lot when teams no longer compete or even care to compete in their own domestic league.




And Drogba gets not love because he's a petulant shitbag. I thought he was great last year, but this year he's just showing his ass because his friend got shitcanned. There's no room for that in any professional sport. You get paid to chase ball around. Get some damn perspective.

[Edited on May 27, 2008 at 6:26 PM. Reason : also]

5/27/2008 6:24:40 PM

Quote :

"Stop trying to be some "football" snob and put fucking soccer in the title. I guess since Beckham failed to make soccer popular in America the few fans left have to resort to tricking the rest of sports fans into false interest by misnaming thread titles."

5/27/2008 6:32:09 PM

care soccer is fun to play and all and I wish I could play it more but I think it's just flawed as a spectator sport

5/27/2008 7:29:11 PM

I dont think the majority of the world shares that opinion.

5/27/2008 9:27:11 PM

Thats because most citizens of other countries are too stupid to understand any other sport. So they like soccer because hardly anything ever happens, and the score never gets high, so they are able to follow it.

5/27/2008 9:40:49 PM

riiiight


so explain why Cricket is so popular worldwide.



Jesus, just go somewhere else.

5/27/2008 11:01:32 PM

personally i think ballack is the most overrated player in the world, he has one really good world cup and everyone sucks his dick, i think he played like shit in the cl final, how many balls did he rifle over the net.

5/27/2008 11:04:27 PM

5/27/2008 11:04:30 PM

Nothing brings out the lame-ass Sports Talk trolls like soccer thread.

5/27/2008 11:12:07 PM

wouldn't it be obvious it was a soccer thread.. sice when have you ever heard the term footballers associated with US Football

5/27/2008 11:13:21 PM

and why would there be a "top for 2008" discussion when the '08 season is still pretty far away?

5/28/2008 1:34:39 AM

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"So what's Real Madrid's excuse? A few years back they had an all start lineup."

madrid always have an all star lineup..they just tend to have coaches that either suck, or arent given enough time to get the team settled/going

5/28/2008 5:01:23 AM

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"Thats because most citizens of other countries are too stupid to understand any other sport. So they like soccer because hardly anything ever happens, and the score never gets high, so they are able to follow it."

you're from Burlington. shut the fuck up.

5/28/2008 7:02:55 AM

i love how people HAVE to come into a soccer thread to bash it

OH NOES, WERE GONNA STOP WATCHING NOW CAUSE YOU THINK ITS DUMB.

[Edited on May 28, 2008 at 7:32 AM. Reason : b]

5/28/2008 7:32:23 AM

lol yea.

5/28/2008 8:01:34 AM

bttt, hopefully with less trolling

5/30/2008 12:24:07 AM

for me no riberi, that guys ok but c'mon he's not anywhere in the top 100 players

I dont watch italian, spanish, french, or bundesliga so i cant really make a good judgement so i'll go on what i know

F - Torres, E. Wynalda
M - T. Ramos, M. Hamm, Makelele, Ronaldo
B - A. Lalas, Dunga, L. Matheus

K- Guegochea

5/30/2008 1:30:23 AM

Quote :

"and why would there be a "top for 2008" discussion when the '08 season is still pretty far away?"

Because most domestic leagues play a fall/spring season.

Quote :

"F - Torres, E. Wynalda M - T. Ramos, M. Hamm, Makelele, Ronaldo B - A. Lalas, Dunga, L. Matheus K- Guegochea"

GOOD ONE LAFTA

5/30/2008 1:46:09 AM

i almost want to laugh at lafta's team, but he didnt even field a full squad, so his lazy attempt at humor makes me 'meh'

5/30/2008 2:03:49 AM

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"bttt, hopefully with less trolling "

Thread goes less than 2 days without a reply and you have to BTT it?? Let it drop out of the public eye just like the real sport has. If anyone cared, you would not need to BTT it. Just like if anyone in America cared about soccer, it wouldn't be behind bowling as far as we are concerned. "Beckham will save soccer in America" Yeah that went over really well, he already wants to jump ship back to Europe. Atleast with bowling there is some excitment when someone hits a strike, soccer doesn't even have that. Your sports loses to a sport that fat guys play while drinking beer and smoking. That has to hurt.

5/30/2008 3:33:14 AM

thanks for stopping by, troll. go back to your loving baseball or other sport that prob wasnt invented in america but is now claimed by america

5/30/2008 3:44:52 AM

its sad that i dont see enough club soccer to make a real list
but the reality is there are way too many teams to follow

5/30/2008 1:09:54 PM

bttt for mid-Euro 08 rankings

6/15/2008 8:12:29 PM

i don't see how anyone other than buffon can be in goal.

6/15/2008 8:25:54 PM

robinho

6/15/2008 8:29:35 PM

^^van der sar might have something to say about that. i might have to take petr cech completely off my team... haha

6/15/2008 9:08:03 PM

That Polish(?) keeper might be my number 1 after that game against Austria.

6/15/2008 9:10:17 PM

yeah i see why boruc and van der sar could jostle with buffon for a place on the team-sheet but i think he's just too consistent and has proved himself time after time. and van der sar is a bit shaky at times...boruc is top-class and should get a move to one of the big clubs; hopefully milan.

[Edited on June 15, 2008 at 9:13 PM. Reason : ]

6/15/2008 9:13:39 PM

BORUC WILL NEVER LEAVE CELTIC



(i hope)

6/15/2008 11:17:05 PM

i have to say euro 08 is making me start to like soccer

6/15/2008 11:28:04 PM

my team would go something like this...

forward - torres and KJH

mid - from left to right - ashley young, steven gerrard, michael essien, and c. ronaldo

defense - evra, vidic, rio ferdinand, daniel alves

goalie - buffon or cech, theyre both sweet

my bench would have messi, jaime carragher, benzema, samir nasri, ribery, tevez, freddy adu

I have a strong premiership and man utd bias but oh well

6/15/2008 11:48:38 PM

almost a good team...but youve got to see that messi is like 14,000 times better than ashley young right now

6/15/2008 11:51:27 PM

Quote :

"Stop trying to be some "football" snob and put fucking soccer in the title. I guess since Beckham failed to make soccer popular in America the few fans left have to resort to tricking the rest of sports fans into false interest by misnaming thread titles."

ftw

6/15/2008 11:53:24 PM

Quote :

"The reasoni I didn't put Kaka on the field "

haha you mean theres a reason why you didnt shit on the soccer field?

Quote :

"personally i think ballack is the most overrated player in the world, he has one really good world cup and everyone sucks his dick"

lol ballsack? has a cup?? lol

[Edited on June 15, 2008 at 11:55 PM. Reason : d]

6/15/2008 11:54:37 PM

har har har....no one needs to start throwing in HE HATE ME references in here either...

6/15/2008 11:55:26 PM

can my team be KaKa Messi Ballsack

6/16/2008 12:01:46 AM

messi might be better at soccer than ashley young, but hes not as cool

6/16/2008 12:09:04 AM