How I see The FIFpro World Xi

I somehow believe the FIFA 1X wouldn't have been anything better than this. Individually this players are the best in their respective positions. FIFPro has organized the vote for the World XI since 2005. Every year the world players' union, with the help from all of its associations, distributes more than 55,000 ballots all over the world. One ballot for each professional footballer, regardless where he is playing. Every player is requested to pick one goalkeeper, four defenders, three midfielders and three strikers. The result of this immense election is the FIFPro World XI. So its quite obvious the majority of professional footballers think Pique, Ramos, Alves & Marcelo are better than Lahm, Hummels, Chiellini & Baines? I think its quite easy to see this squad had been intended for the best player and arguably the best first 11 in the world, not the players who had the best season.

Remember, footballers are fans of other footballers themselves, so of course they affiliate themselves with the best teams (to them) and players of that team. Some also follows other well recognized team since they were kids, and all that play a part in their decision.So in retrospect, just like us fans, those voting have every right to pick who they think deserve the award, and we just have to accept and respect them.

Lets start with Ramos and Pique. What Pique and Ramos do for Spain is almost what defensive midfielders with play making attributes do in other teams, so they are key in that defensive record with a style of play and characteristics no other defender can claim. It's a historical development of football that's taking place right now.I think they deserved to be recognized. Ramos was fantastic in the domestic league, maybe the best defender in la Liga. Yes, he had a lot of trouble dealing with Messi, an extraordinary underachievement. Piqué did not start playing well until the Euros, But its hard to get a better defender than he had been.

If you wanna talk about deserve, then sure over the whole year, even without the CL and pre-Euro, Chiellini has probably matched Piqué's output (given how bad Piqué was pre-Euro). But Chiellini was inferior at the Euros and that stuff counts.

I definitely have no problem with Falcao! He did better than Van Persie. He scored twice in the final of the Europa league and three times in the super cup match against Chelsea. He was also top scorer at the Europa league and third in the la liga. He took athletico to a run of 10 wins out of 10 in the Europa league, first of its kind. And all this was done in his first season at athletico Madrid. The only thing van persie won was top scorer. (Finishing top 4 is not a trophy, it's an obligation for arsenal a so called top team).

I'm a big fan of Drogba, who has been voted into the FIFA team before, but you can't escape from the fact that there is tremendous competition to be voted as one of the two or three best strikers in the world; especially at a time when Messi, Ronaldo, Falcao and van Persie are scoring at ridiculous rates.

However, I still wonder how much football the players, coaches, captains and journalists actually watch, outside their own areas of immediate personal interest? The point is, that unless someone is watching a very wide variety of football, and doing so consistently, one is hardly qualified to make an independent judgment of the best players. For example, I have access to selected PL matches, occasional La Liga matches (usually featuring either Barca or Real), all the Champion's League stuff, and that's it. And, being busy myself, I usually watch only matches that involve the team I support. So how can I comment on players I have never seen, or rarely seen?

 Of course, sport is a little more objective than that, but many of the same circumstances and factors still apply. Many of those who voted for these players probably haven't seen much (if anything) of the other players who perhaps deserved more consideration. Thus, the voters are handicapped by a very high degree of ignorance, driven partly by practical considerations (limited matches available to watch, limited time to watch what is available) and partly by "social" pressures ("Barcelon'a on TV; everyone's racing about Messi, so I'll watch")

 Thus, the voting is inevitably ill-informed. And on that basis, it is hard to see the whole exercise as anything but flawed in concept and execution. However no matter how it is done, people will never be satisfied when their favorite player doesn't get a mention. If players manage to capture the hearts and mind of the media they will undoubtedly have the advantage of swaying the votes in their favor.