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The Fifpro World XI features one or two question inclusions

Published 18:34 11 Jan 2016 GMT

Updated 18:35 11 Jan 2016 GMT

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The Fifpro World XI features one or two question inclusions

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The FIFpro World XI for 2015 has been named.

The team is voted for by professional footballers all over the world, and the XI were given their awards at tonight's Ballon d'Or ceremony in Zurich Switzerland. Here's the team:CYdSvIyWYAEJvuEManuel Neuer, the Bayern Munich and Germany goalkeeper, unsurprisingly makes it. Barcelona's Dani Alves, Thiago Silva of PSG and Real Madrid pair Marcelo and Thiago Silva complete the defence. In midfield, Andreas Iniesta, of Bacelona, Madrid's Luca Modric and Paul Pogba of Juventus is the only Serie A player included. Up front, the three finalists for the Ballon d'Or award, Cristiano Ronaldo, Lionel Messi and Neymar, were voted in. According to FIFpro, the professional footballer's union, the team was compiled after 26,000 votes were cast. https://twitter.com/FIFPro/status/686609089552592900 However, that didn't stop some questioning the validity of some of the inclusions. https://twitter.com/JamesTylerESPN/status/686605953387610112 https://twitter.com/TheAnfieldChat/status/686607331682070528 https://twitter.com/StanCollymore/status/686608766599598081 https://twitter.com/TheAnfieldChat/status/686608436478492672 https://twitter.com/Footy_Jokes/status/686607633617321984 https://twitter.com/MiguelDelaney/status/686605452864569344?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw https://twitter.com/hughwizzy/status/686605709962801153 https://twitter.com/DareToMoe__/status/686610185243226113 https://twitter.com/adrianjclarke/status/686607880020164613 https://twitter.com/RafaelH117/status/686605431414874113?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw https://twitter.com/OffsideLiam/status/686606100339265538?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw https://twitter.com/Meddy2k/status/686603183356035072?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

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