See list of 40 players nominated for UEFA Team of the Year..Can you create a great team from it?

UEFA has released a list of 40 players nominated for the 2014 UEFA Team of the Year.
 

A UEFA.com team of writers selected the 40 players based on performances throught the 2014 calendar year.

Fans can vote for their preferred players for each position in a team on  UEFA’s website. Voting will close on January 6. The team will be announced shortly after at the start of the new year.

As popular as the English Premier League is, only seven players were selected from the league and Gareth Bale is the only British player in the list.

See the full list of players below as well as the number of players selected from each club.

 

Number of nominees for each club

• Bayern Munich - 9
• Real Madrid - 8
• Atletico Madrid - 4
• Barcelona - 3
• Juventus - 3
• Manchester City - 3
• Borussia Dortmund - 2
• Chelsea - 2
• Arsenal - 1
• Manchester United - 1
• Red Bull Salzburg -1
• Sevilla - 1
• FC Zenit Saint Petersburg - 1

UEFA Team of the Year nominees

GOALKEEPERS: Beto (Sevilla), Gianluigi Buffon (Juventus), Thibaut Courtois (Chelsea), Manuel Neuer (Bayern Munich)

DEFENDERS: David Alaba, Medhi Benatia, Jerome Boateng (all Bayern), Daniel Carvajal (Real Madrid), Ezequiel Garay (Zenit), Diego Godín (Atletico Madrid), Mats Hummels (Borussia Dortmund), Vincent Kompany (Manchester City), Philipp Lahm (Bayern Munich), Miranda (Atletico Madrid), Sergio Ramos (Real Madrid), Pablo Zabaleta (Manchester City)

MIDFIELDERS: Xabi Alonso (Bayern Munich), Arda Turan (Atletico Madrid), Angel di Maria (Manchester United), James Rodríguez (Real Madrid), Koke (Atletico Madrid), Toni Kroos (Real Madrid), Luka Modric (Real Madrid), Paul Pogba (Juventus), Ivan Rakitic (Barcelona), Marco Reus (Borussia Dortmund), Arjen Robben (Bayern Munich), Yaya Toure (Manchester City)

FORWARDS: Alexis Sánchez (Arsenal), Gareth Bale (Real Madrid), Karim Benzema (Real Madrid), Diego Costa (Chelsea), Zlatan Ibrahimovic (Paris Saint-Germain), Robert Lewandowski (Bayern Munich), Lionel Messi (Barcelona), Thomas Muller (Bayern Munich), Neymar (Barcelona), Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid), Jonatan Soriano (Red Bull Salzburg), Carlos Tevez (Juventus).

We welcome you to try and create a team of 11 players from this pool in the comment box below and let's see if it matches what will be announced in January