BARCELONA (BARCA) THE BEST TEAM 2009

Friday, January 8th, 2010 at 4:05 am

The Barcelona of Spain was selected by the International Federation of Football Statistics (IFFHS) as the best team 2009.
The catalan squad is entirely worthy of such distinction in the course of the year as a result of winning along the whole year the six tournaments that they disputed : The League of Spain, The Cup of the King, The Champions League, Super Cups of Spain and Europa and the World Cup of Clubs.
Total of votes 341 for the Blaugrana team as the best team of the planet taking out of the previous first position Manchester United who had gained the Premier League and the Champions league during 2008 .
In second place the Chelsea with 292 votes, third Manchester United with 291 , fourth place Shakhtar Donetsk of Ukraine 275 votes, fifth and sixth two german teams Werder Bremen 272 and Hamburgo 254, seventh Arsenal 260 , eight place Estudiantes de la Plata
with 243 points, and the ninth and tenth Cruzeiro of Brazil and Galatasaray of Turkey with 235 and 219 pints respectively .