LUIS SUAREZ WAS named in the Fifa FifPro reserve World XI for 2014, despite being banned for four months of the year.
The controversial Uruguayan was handed the sanction by Fifa after biting Italy defender Giorgio Chiellini at the World Cup, but he still wins the respect of his peers in the annual vote.
The Fifa FIFPro World XI is the best team of the year as voted for by professional footballers all over the world. The reserve XI comprises the goalkeeper, four defenders, three midfielders and three forwards who received the next highest amount of votes.
Thibaut Courtois gets the nod in goal after a stellar year on loan at Atletico Madrid before a similarly impressive spell on his return to Chelsea.
He protects a back four consisting of Barcelona’s Dani Alves, Bayern Munich left-back David Alaba, Germany’s World Cup-winning centre-half Mats Hummels and Real Madrid’s Marcelo.
Luka Modric, Yaya Toure and Xabi Alonso of Real Madrid, Manchester City and Bayern Munich respectively make up the midfield three. Suarez, Paris Saint-Germain star Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Barcelona’s Neymar lead the attack. Each voter picks 11 players and after collating the votes from FIFPro members, a shortlist of 55 names is released in late November — consisting of five goalkeepers, 20 defenders, 15 midfielders and 15 forwards.
The returned ballots are counted, and the players with the highest number of votes are chosen for the final XIs which are arranged in a 4-3-3 formation.
Despite the formation, there is no distinction between specific positions within the lines of play. For example, a player may choose four centre-backs in their vote, rather than two central defenders, a right-back and a left-back. This year, 23,383 votes were cast from 60 countries.
What a joke, where r all the Germans , muller , scheinsteiger , gotze even Rodriguez from the World Cup and these players don’t make the reserves
In fairness the only two you would remove are Marcelo and Alves
No Godin aswell. Stupid competition
Surely Aguero should get a look in
Like to see a game between the two teams
A joke ! Paul Mc Shane should get into that team. Defo !!
No bale????
Sanchez,Fabragas,De Gea and German World Cup winners? Joke!
Sanchez has been incredible since he joined arsenal but he was in and out of the team at barca, same with fabregas and I don’t think it’s a joke that a player that won la Liga, played in champions league final got in ahead of de gea
And where the hell is joe Allen?