Decade in Review, Day 8: The one where we save the world!
On the eighth day of Christmas my true love sent to me
Eight maids a-Milik-ing.
Hear me out: Our planet is in trouble. No, it’s not climate change, or our tech-bro overlords ruining the internet, or the rich elites filling their pockets without paying their fair share. It’s much worse than that. [Moron Mountain](https://space-jam.fandom.com/wiki/Moron_Mountain) is in financial trouble again! And we all know what that means, thanks to Joe Pytka’s [seminal 1996 documentary](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Jam) - the aliens are coming for us again. Only this time, the Looney Tunes won’t be able to save us. No, it is on us, this courageous community, to challenge them, to fend them off via the means of football. And since the Nerdlucks, while dangerous, aren’t the cleverest bunch ([seriously, just look at them](https://cinematographicblog.files.wordpress.com/2014/05/space-jam-nerdlucks.jpg)), they’ve simply recruited Goal.com to come up with [their team](https://www.goal.com/en/lists/world-team-of-the-decade/1eneyt4pdj4gt10de1rt95alvo).
Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to come up with an **XI of players active in the 2010s** that gives us the best chance of beating [our interstellar rivals](https://i.redd.it/pu83bjpawhs31.jpg). And since those eleven players are unavailable to play for humanity, we’ll need to get creative. Who are the best alternatives we have to replace those who crossed over to the dark side? Which approach gives us the best chance of winning? And how important are the friends we make along the way?
(Alternatively, just come up with your best XI of the decade. But between the low stakes and the fact that five or six players will be the same across virtually every entry, that’s a bit boring and you may well be subject to public ridicule. You could also come up with your club’s XI of the decade, which is probably a bit more interesting. A women’s football XI of the decade would be a great addition to this thread, if anyone’s knowledgeable enough for that. Or you’ll pick your favourite shirt number and come up with, say, an [XI of 11s](https://i.redd.it/y5yswll60icz.jpg). Honestly, anything but the usual “just chuck the eleven biggest names together” is fine.)
https://redd.it/ecs8zq@soccer_reddit
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