Messi, Iniesta, Xavi and Piqué in the Best XI of 2012 on UEFA.com

The four Catalans have been chosen by over 500,000 users who voted on the UEFA website

Rounding out the starting four players of Madrid, one of Juventus, one of Paris Saint Germain and one of Bayern Munich

Leo Messi, Andres Iniesta, Xavi Hernandez and Gerard Pique have been chosen in the starting ideal of the UEFA website. A total of 5.3 million votes have been cast by some 500,000 people who have returned to reward players of Barca, present in all the major awards of the year. Apart from the four Catalans, four Real Madrid players tambéhan been included in the starting ideal (Casillas, Ramos, Ozil and Ronaldo) and completed the team Phillipp Lahm (Bayern), Thiago Silva (Milan / Paris Saint-Germain) and Pirlo, Juventus.

Some fixed in the starting
Gerard Piqué, Xavi Hernandez, Andres Iniesta and Leo Messi are few fixed this award. It is the third consecutive year that all three agree that eleven who is elected by popular vote. Of the four, the most capped players have been chosen are Xavi Hernandez and Leo Messi, with a total of 5. Both also five consecutive seasons scoring in the list of the eleven best players. Iniesta has been in the team a total of 4 times and Gerard Pique, 3.

Puyol, the record man
The most capped player has been chosen in this 11 UEFA is captain Carles Puyol. Up to six times the player has been in this Pobla eleven. The first time was in 2002 and the last time was in 2010. The years 2005, 2006, 2008 and 2009 Puyol was also among the elect. Moreover, the first Barca player to be included in this eleven was the Swede Patrick Andersson (2001), while Ronaldinho (2004, 2005, 2006), Eto'o (2005, 2006), David Villa (2010) and Dani Alves (2009, 2011) have also been nominated as Barca players.