UEFA revealed their users' Team of 2006, and I have to say that the voters got it mostly right. How can you complain about a side that has a spine of Gianluigi Buffon, Fabio Cannavaro, Steven Gerrard, and Thierry Henry/Samuel Eto'o? It's quite the XI that the voters have chosen, a team that would instill fear in any opposing side.My only qualm, is the left-back, Bayern Munich's Philipp Lahm. While I think that the guy had a breakout performance at the World Cup, is he really the best left-back around. Or even the best one in 2006? I think that Fabio Grosso, Giovanni van Bronckhorst, and John Arne Riise (to name but a few) were all better than Lahm last year. If scoring in the World Cup is the tipping point, wasn't Grosso's semifinal tally more impressive than the German's opener against Costa Rica?
Europe's dream dozen [UEFA official site]
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