World Soccer Talk has selected its best starting XI featuring the best-of-the-best world footballers from the 2013 calendar year.
There were many difficult choices all around the pitch for us but this is the team we’ve come up with using a 25 man squad.
Starting XI:
Neuer
Alaba Mertasacker Thiago Silva Lahm
Riberry Vidal Pogba Ronaldo
Suarez Messi
Bench: Enyeama, Robben, Rooney, Bale, Yaya Toure, Dante, Lewandowski
Remainder of the squad: De Gea, Ramsey, Chiellini, Diego Costa, Busquets, DiMaria, Ibrahimovic.
Agree? Disagree? Who did we leave out and who doesn’t belong? Let us know in the comments section below.
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