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Best Starting XI’s for Best International Friendlies

Posted on 17 Nov 2010 by .

Six of the best international soccer teams, Argentina, Brazil, England, France, Portugal and Spain, are meeting tomorrow in friendly matches (in alphabetical order no less). In anticipation of these matches, I decided to combine the two teams facing each other (from their available squad lists) and see what the best starting XI would look like. Feel free to agree, disagree, or call me an idiot,...

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