Milan dominate UEFA Top Team
Friday 18 January, 2008
There are four Serie A players in the UEFA Top Team of 2007, three of them from Champions League winners Milan.
More than 3.75 million votes were cast in the poll on uefa.com and the most, 220,333 of them, went to Champions League top scorer Kaka.
It’s another prize for the Milan star who was also in the line-up for 2006 and has won the Ballon d’Or and FIFA World Player of the Year award.
He is joined by Rossoneri teammates Alessandro Nesta and Clarence Seedorf in the top team of 2007.
Another Serie A entry resides at San Siro, although on the other side of the city, as Inter’s Zlatan Ibrahimovic was voted in after his fine performances for the club this season.
Despite their 5-3 aggregate walloping to Milan in the Champions League semi-finals, Manchester United boss Sir Alex Ferguson is named top Coach.
UEFA.com users’ Team of 2007: Casillas (Real Madrid); Alves (Sevilla), Nesta (Milan), Terry (Chelsea), Abidal (Barcelona); Cristiano Ronaldo (Man Utd), Gerrard (Liverpool), Kaka (Milan), Seedorf (Milan); Ibrahimovic (Inter), Drogba (Chelsea)
Coach: Ferguson (Man Utd)
