Soccer Dream Team Challenge

In Unprofessional Foul's Monday Backpasses, there was a link to this challenge from Left Back in the Changing Room:

Pick a dream team that is only allowed one player per country/club. For example, pick Lionel Messi and that is your Barcelona player and Argentina player. The team requires 7 substitutes and all players must be currently playing.

So I spent most of Tuesday at work rattling my brain. It was way harder than I thought.

Here are name I didn't use:

Neuer	Schalke	Germany
Lahm	Bayern	Germany
Vidic	Man U	Serbia
Senna	Villarreal	Spain
Song	Arsenal	Cameroon
Boateng	AC Milan	Ghana
Zokora	Sevilla	Ivory Coast
Van de Vaart	Spurs	Holland
Malouda	Chelsea	France
Torres	Liverpool	Spain
C. Ronaldo	Real Madrid	Portugal
Drogba	Chelsea	Ivory Coast
Ribery	Bayern	France
Nasri	Arsenal	France
Modric	Spurs	Croatia
Pato	AC Milan	Brazil

Below is my final list:

STARTERS
Position	Last Name	Club	Country
GK	Buffon	Juve	Italy
RB	A. Cole	Chelsea	England
CB	Skrtel	Liverpool	Slovakia
CB	Metesacker	Werder	Germany
LB	Caceras	Sevilla	Uruguay
RWM	Messi	FCB	Argentina
CM	Fletcher	Man Utd	Scotland
CM	Mensah	Sunderland	Ghana
AM	Sniejder	Inter	Holland
LWM	Dempsey	Fulham	USA
ST	Llorente	Athetic Bilbao	Spain
SUBS
D	Cha Du-Ri	Celtic	S. Korea
D	Kolo Toure	Man City	Ivory Coast
D	Pepe	Real Madrid	Portugal
M	Barrera	West Ham	Mexico
M	Palacios	Spurs	Honduras
M	Kagawa	Bor Dortmund	Japan
F	Vucinic	Roma	Serbia

In essence I went on a variation of 4-3-3, similar to the FCB squad. I didn't use CR7 because I didn't feel he would fit in with the team. Same with Ribery. I did go with Llorente up top instead of Torres only because Torres really hasn't played that much. Might slightly unbalance my team, so I would turn to Vucinic or use Kagawa and go more 4-4-2.

Anyway, it was great tracking down players, positions and countries.