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Tuesday, June 20, 2006

Halfway all-star team

Not taking into account today's games.

Keeper
Shaka Hislop, Trinidad & Tobago
Also: Pereira Joao Ricardo, Angola; Artur Boruc, Poland.

Defence
Rafael Marquez, Mexico
Philip Lahm, Germany
Radhi Jaidi, Tunisia (why not? His header was great.)
Also: Geovanny Espinoza, Ecuador.

Midfield
Juan Roman Riquelme, Argentina
Michael Essien, Ghana
Park Ji-Sung, South Korea
Dwight Yorke, Trinidad & Tobago (who would've thought he'd be the tournament's best holding midfielder? Also, don't ask me why T&T get two players and no one else does.)
Also: Xabi Alonso, Spain; Tomas Rosicky, Czech Republic (one really great game and a not-so-great one); Rodriguez Maxi, Argentina.

Attack
Fernando Torres, Spain (player of the tournament so far, with due respect to Riquelme, Wanchope, Essien it's not close)
Paulo Wanchope, Costa Rica
Carlos Tenorio, Ecuador
Also: Arien Robben, Netherlands; Agustin Delgado, Ecuador; Javier Saviola, Argentina; Andriy Shevchenko, Ukraine (the only non-Argentinian megastar to come close to playing up to his rep); Zied Jaziri, Tunisia.

Super subs
Cesc Fabregas, Spain; Lionel Messi, Argentina; Tim Cahill, Australia.

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