Following on from some tiring research that involved stressful decision making...I give you my starting eleven 4-4-2 for the World Cup. I wonder what it's based on (clue: not footballing talent). I'm afraid I couldn't be as specific as "centre back", "centre mid" but if they want to be in my team they will need to be flexible anyway.
Goalkeeper - some competition from Karnezis of Greece and Begovic of Bosnia & Herzegovina but here is the winner:
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| Daniel Davari - Iran |
Defence - not a lot of competition in this position. It was hard work finding 4 good looking defenders!
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| Santiago Arias - Colombia |
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| Mats Hummels - Germany |
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| Luke Shaw - England |
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| Joel Veltman - Netherlands |
Midfield - this area was much more competitive. Other contenders included Koke (Spain), Veloso (Portugal) and Lodeiro (Uruguay). Here are the chosen 4:
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| Yohan Cabaye - France |
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| Adam Lallana - England |
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| Mensur Mujdza - Bosnia & Herzegovina |
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| James Rodriguez - Colombia |
Forwards - substitutes in this area include Gavranovic (Switzerland) and Goetze (Germany) but the eyes of these two caught me:
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| Maksim Kanunnikov - Russia |
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| Olivier Giroud - France |
Now I just need to decide who to make captain.
