Team of The Year 2012
| Player | Team | Appearance |
| Iker Casillas | Real Madrid | 6 |
| Sergio Ramos | Real Madrid | 2 |
| Gerard Piqué | Barcelona | 3 |
| Thiago Silva | Paris Saint-Germain / Milan | 2 |
| Philipp Lahm | Bayern Munich | 3 |
| Andrés Iniesta | Barcelona | 4 |
| Xavi | Barcelona | 5 |
| Andrea Pirlo | Juventus | 1 |
| Mesut Özil | Real Madrid | 1 |
| Lionel Messi | Barcelona | 5 |
| Cristiano Ronaldo | Real Madrid | 7 |
Players who played for two teams during the year have the team they finished the year with listed first.
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“Once a word is spoken, a team of four horse cannot retake it.”
—Chinese proverb.
“I also heard the whooping of the ice in the pond, my great bed-fellow in that part of Concord, as if it were restless in its bed and would fain turn over, were troubled with flatulency and bad dreams; or I was waked by the cracking of the ground by the frost, as if some one had driven a team against my door, and in the morning would find a crack in the earth a quarter of a mile long and a third of an inch wide.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“For six years you shall sow your land and gather in its yield; but the seventh year you shall let it rest and lie fallow, so that the poor of your people may eat; and what they leave the wild animals may eat. You shall do the same with your vineyard, and with your olive orchard.”
—Bible: Hebrew, Exodus 23:10,11.