African XI – Team of the season 2010-11

It has been quite a successful season for African footballers in Europe. Fresh from a first World Cup on the continent last summer in South Africa, several players have returned to their clubs to go on and inspire them to victory and silverware. In my capacity as African football columnist for FourFourTwo I have drawn up a team of the season 2010-11 to document the best performing African players of the campaign.

In it, six of the players selected won domestic honours with their clubs while two others also had success of a different kind to celebrate – Champions League qualification with a rather unheralded club in Italy, Udinese.

As I state in the piece, given the wealth of attacking talent available I opted for an ambitious, tactically adventurous 3-3-1-3 formation similar to Marcelo Bielsa and his maverick Chile side at last year’s World Cup. Even then, I could find no room for the likes of 22-goal Senegalese striker Papiss Demba Cisse, Michael Jackson impersonator and Serie A winner Kevin Prince Boateng or West Bromwich Albion’s Premier League surprise package Peter Odemwingie.

Head on over to FourFourTwo now to check out my African All-Star Team of the Season 2010-11.

I’d be interested to hear your thoughts!

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