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Barcelona and Madrid stand in the ideal eleven L'Equipe

Last update 27 December, 2012 by Julio Muñoz

Four players of the FC Barcelona (Jordi Alba, Xavi, Iniesta and Lionel Messi) and as many Real Madrid (Iker Casillas, Sergio Ramos, Xabi Alonso and Cristiano Ronaldo) monopolize the ideal eleven 2012 of the newspaper 'L'Equipe', which devotes its front page today to the two great rivals of the Spanish League.

Rounding out the Dream Team, voted for the drafting of the sports newspaper of France, German side Bayern Munich Philipp Lahm, the Belgian central Manchester City Vincent Kompany and Brazilian midfielder Ramires Chelsea.

The daily explains that FC Barcelona and Real Madrid dominate the ideal team of the year “because six of them have retained their European Champions title with Spain (Iker Casillas, Sergio Ramos, Jordi Alba, Xavi, Xabi Alonso and Andres Iniesta) while the other two, the Argentine Lionel Messi and the Portuguese Cristiano Ronaldo, they are the best in the world…”. Casillas recovers “their range of best goalkeeper in the world”, he had lost in 2011 in favor of the German Neuer.

“Phenomenal on the line, It reaches full maturity at 31 years, even if Jose Mourinho seems to have always that opinion”, clarifies the newspaper, which considers Ramos “the best central time, insurance duels, powerful, skilful and dangerous when projected toward the opposing goal”.

Jordi Alba on the French newspaper reminds its explosion during the last European Championship and the pass, while on Xabi Alonso he says it is a player who when not noticing fine makes the whole team.

Xavi, con 95 % Successful media passes, “almost intimate terms with perfection” and it is about “an exceptional player”, although this year has resulted “a little less decisive”, AGREGA 'Team', newspaper believes that Iniesta deserve Ballon d'Or “to the whole of his work”.

Cristiano Ronaldo highlights the newspaper his 46 goals last year in league with Real Madrid, their 10 goals in Champions League and 3 targets in Euro, It is leading to the newspaper to wonder if it will be enough to achieve the Golden Ball, for which Messi is hot favorite.

“Messi Barca is more dependent than ever”, says the Journal of the Argentine, has signed “the scandal” of 91 goals in 2012, a year in which collectively only won the title of the King's Cup but, a nivel individual, guessed “another year of grace” for a player stringing and three awards of the Golden Ball and commitment to add a quarter to their windows next January in Zurich.

'The Team’ also highlights the efficiency and versatility of Ramires, the high performance of Lahm on a black year for Bayern and the German national team and Kompany contribution to the “architecture” which allowed Manchester City to win the Premier League four decades later you.

Regarding the dream team of the 2011, They fall from the starting goalkeeper Neuer, Brazilian side Alves and Marcelo, Serbian Central Vidic and Pique Spanish, Busquets and Silva, while repeating Xavi, Iniesta, Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo.

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