Tuesday, January 24, 2012

East Europe Regional National Team

What if Europe divided into Regional National Teams? Here is TB11's East Europe NT.




Rules for squad selection:

20 Players - 3 GK, 6 DF, 6 MF, 5 FW

Maximum of 4 players from a single country
Minimum of 1 player from every nation in the region must be included

East: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Russia, Ukraine

GK (3)
Igor Akinfeev (Russia: CSKA Moscow)
Nukri Revishvili (Georgia: FC Krasnodar)
Žydrūnas Karčemarskas (Lithuania: Gaziantepspor)

DF (6)
Kakhaber Kaladze (Georgia: Genoa)
Marius Stankevičius (Lithuania: Lazio)
Aleksandr Anyukov (Russia: Zenit St. Petersburg)
Dmytro Chygrynskiy (Ukraine: Shakhtar Donetsk)
Aleksei Popov (Kazakhstan: Amkar Perm)
Alexandru Epureanu (Moldova: Dynamo Moscow)

MF (6)
Alexander Hleb (Belarus: Barcelona)
Jano Ananidze (Georgia: Spartak Moscow)
Yuri Zhirkov (Russia: Anzhi Makhachala)
Anatoliy Tymoshchuk (Ukraine: Bayern Munich)
Oleh Husyev (Ukraine: Dynamo Kyiv)
Emin Makhmudov (Azerbaijan: Spartak Moscow)

FW (5)
Aleksandr Kerzhakov (Russia: Zenit St. Petersburg)
Andriy Voronin (Ukraine: Dynamo Moscow)
Yura Movsisyan (Armenia: FC Krasnodar)
Sergei Kornilenko (Belarus: Krylya Sovetov Samara)
Artjom Rudnev (Latvia: Lech Poznań)


Feel free to make suggestions and/or create your own East Europe national team.

7 comments:

  1. Good call with Rudnev. I remember him tearing up the Europa League last season. Here's my list. Maybe a bit top-heavy with all the Russian strikers, but they are all too good to leave off.

    GK (3)
    Igor Akinfeev (Russia: CSKA Moscow)
    Oleksandr Shovkovskiy (Ukraine: Dynamo Kyiv)
    Andris Vanins (Latvia: Sion)

    DF (6)
    Dmytro Chygrynskiy (Ukraine: Shakhtar Donetsk)
    Alexandru Epureanu (Moldova: Lokomotiv Moscow)
    Kaspars Gorkšs (Latvia: Reading)
    Kakha Kaladze (Georgia: Genoa)
    Deividas Šemberas (Lithuania: CSKA Moscow)
    Marius Stankevičius (Lithuania: Lazio)

    MF (6)
    Aleksandrs Cauņa (Latvia: CSKA Moscow)
    Alexander Hleb (Belarus: Barcelona)
    Andrei Karpovich (Kazakhstan: Astana)
    Henrikh Mkhitaryan (Armenia: Shakhtar Donetsk)
    Anton Putsila (Belarus: Freiburg)
    Anatoliy Tymoshchuk (Ukraine: Bayern Munich)

    FW (5)
    Vagif Javadov (Azerbailan: FK Qarabağ)
    Aleksandr Kerzhakov (Russia: Zenit St. Petersburg)
    Roman Pavlyuchenko (Russia: Tottenham Hotspur)
    Pavel Pogrebnyak (Russia: Stuttgart)
    Andriy Shevchenko (Ukraine: Dynamo Kyiv)

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  2. I like your original list, but I would add Henrikh Mkhitaryan (Armenia: Shakhtar Donetsk) and Yevhen Konoplyanka (Ukraine: Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk) into the midfield, Răzvan Raţ (Romania: Shakhtar Donetsk) into the defence and Andriy Yarmolenko (Ukraine: Dynamo Kyiv) into the forward line.

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    1. Sorry, delete Răzvan Raţ from that list, he does not qualify for this list.

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  3. GK (3)
    Igor Akinfeev (Russia: CSKA Moscow)
    Oleksandr Shovkovskiy (Ukraine: Dynamo Kyiv)
    Sergey Chepchugov (Russia: CSKA Moscow)

    DF (6)
    Dmytro Chygrynskiy (Ukraine: Shakhtar Donetsk)
    Alexandru Epureanu (Moldova: Lokomotiv Moscow)
    Kaspars Gorkšs (Latvia: Reading)
    Kakha Kaladze (Georgia: Genoa)
    Deividas Šemberas (Lithuania: CSKA Moscow)
    Marius Stankevičius (Lithuania: Lazio)

    MF (6)
    Aleksandrs Cauņa (Latvia: CSKA Moscow)
    Alexander Hleb (Belarus: Barcelona)
    Andrei Karpovich (Kazakhstan: Astana)
    Henrikh Mkhitaryan (Armenia: Shakhtar Donetsk)
    Anton Putsila (Belarus: Freiburg)
    Anatoliy Tymoshchuk (Ukraine: Bayern Munich)

    FW (5)
    Vagif Javadov (Azerbailan: FK Qarabağ)
    Aleksandr Kerzhakov (Russia: Zenit St. Petersburg)
    Roman Pavlyuchenko (Russia: Tottenham Hotspur)
    Artem Rudnev (Latvia: Lech Poznan)
    Andriy Shevchenko (Ukraine: Dynamo Kyiv)

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  4. Great idea. Gave it a go for this one:

    GK
    Igor Akinfeev (Russia: CSKA Moscow)
    Roman Berezovskiy (Armenia: Khimki)
    Nukri Revishvili (Georgia: Krasnodar)

    DF
    Heinrich Schmidtgal (Kazakhstan: Greuther Fürth)
    Ruslan Abishov (Azerbijan: Neftchi Baku)
    Zurab Khizanishvili (Georgia: Kayserispor)
    Alexandru Epureanu (Moldova: Dynamo Moscow)
    Dmytor Chygrynski (Ukraine: Shakthar Donetsk)
    Alexei Berezutski (Russia: CSKA Moscow)

    MF
    Sergei Kislyak (Belarus: Rubin Kazan)
    Marius Stankevicius (Lithuania: Lazio)
    Oleg Gusev (Ukraine: Dynamo Kiev)
    Alan Dzagoev (Russia: CSKA Moscow)
    Yuri Zhirkov (Russia: Anzhi)
    Anatoliy Tymoshchuk (Ukraine: Bayern Munich)



    FW
    Alexander Kershakov (Russia: Zenit)
    Sergei Ostapenko (Kazakhstan: Zhetysu)
    Marko Devic (Ukraine: Metalist)
    Maris Verpakovskis (Latvia: Baki)
    Tomas Danilevicius (Lithuani: Juve Stabia)

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  5. Whoops, got a Russian too many. Replace Zhirkov by Stepanenko (Ukraine)

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  6. GK:
    Igor Akinfeev : Russia (CSKA Moscow)
    Andriy Dikan : Ukraine (Spartak Moscow)

    DF:
    Yaroslav Rakytsky : Ukraine (Shakhtar Donetsk)
    Sergei Inashevich : Russia (CSKA Moscow)
    Dmytro Chygrynsky : Ukraine (Shakhtar Donetsk)
    Yuri Zhirkov : Russia (Anzhi)
    Marius Stankevicius : Lithuania (S.S.Lazio)
    Aleksandr Anyukov : Russia (Zenit St. Petersburg)

    MF:
    Henrikh Mkhitaryan : Armenia (Shakhtar Donetsk)
    Anatoliy Tymoshcuk : Ukraine (Bayern Munich)
    Alan Dzagoev : Russia (CSKA Moscow)
    Roman Shirokov : Russia (Zenit St. Petersburg)
    Igor Semshov : Russia (Dynamo Moscow)
    Oleh Husyev : Ukraine (Dynamo Kiev)
    Olexander Aliyev : Ukraine (Dynamo Kiev)
    Artjoms Rudnevs : Latvia (Lech Poznan)

    FW:
    Andriy Yarmolenko : Ukraine (Dynamo Kiev)
    Roman Pavluychenko: Russia (Tottenham Hotspur)
    Aleksandr Kerzhakov: Russia (Zenit St. Petersburg)
    Yura Movsisyan: Armenia (Krasnodar)
    Artem Milevskiy: Ukraine (Dynamo Kiev)
    Andrei Arshavin: Russia (Arsenal)

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