Tottenham bags more UEFA Team of the Year nominees than Manchester United and Arsenal combined

I’ll give you one guess as to how many Arsenal had nominated.

UEFA has released its “short list” of the 50 players nominated for its 2018 Team of the Year, and two Tottenham Hotspur players have made the cut! Club captain and 2018 World Cup winner Hugo Lloris was nominated along with Spurs vice captain Harry Kane.

The two Tottenham nominees are a real feather in the cap of both players, and it means that Spurs have more nominees in the side than Manchester United, who had only Paul Pogba make the shortlist.Image result for Hugo Lloris gif

But before we get too high up on our horses, it pales in comparison to Liverpool, who have six nominees (Alisson, Mo Salah, Sadio Mane, James Milner, Virgil Van Dijk, Roberto Firmino), while Manchester City have three (David Silva, John Stones, Kevin De Bruyne). To nobody’s surprise, Real Madrid have the most with nine players, while Barcelona have seven.

Hugo made 43 appearances in the league and Champions League last season and capped a fine year by lifting the World Cup with France in the summer.

Harry has continued to set records for Spurs in this calendar year. He overhauled Teddy Sheringham as our top goalscorer in the Premier League era in January and brought up his century of top-flight goals the following month. Harry ended last season with a career-high 41 goals in 48 games for us and was named in the PFA Team of the Year for the fourth consecutive season.

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His six goals at the World Cup earned him the Golden Boot while he became our joint-record goalscorer in European competition when notching his 23rd goal with our late winner against PSV Eindhoven on matchday four.

Gareth Bale is the only Spurs player to have sealed a place in the final UEFA.com Fans’ Team of the Year, the Welshman making the XI in both 2011 and 2013.

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