Your greatest XI football team?

Inspired by Bird Lime's cricket thread here and the fun I had thinking about it, I've decided to start a similar thread for football here. The one proviso is that all the players are ones you've seen in your own time watching football, or else every side is going to look awfully similar. (Also, try and build your side as if they were actually going to play. A midfield of Maradona, Giggs, Zidane and Le Tissier would look pretty, but be awfully easy to play through.)

11 players, 3 subs.

GK: Peter Schmeichel
LB: Paolo Maldini
RB: Lillian Thuram
CB: Franco Baresi
CB: Laurent Blanc
LW: Georghe Hagi
RW: Ruud Gullit
CM: Frank Rijkaard
CM: Glenn Hoddle
FC: Marco Van Basten
FC: Dennis Bergkamp

Subs: Romario, Lothar Matthaus, Dennis Irwin (May seem an odd choice to some, but he was international class and could play on either side of the defence, allowing either of the two full backs to switch to the centre, in the event of an injury or what have you.)

What would your side look like?

Taffarell
Maldini
Bobby Moore
Tony Adams
Cafu
Beckham
Vieira
Zidane
Messi
Thierry Henry
Dennis Bergkamp

subs: Rivaldo. Kaka. Kahn. Hierro

what a team!! :O

(GK) Oliver Khan

(LB) Roberto Carlos
(CB) Jaap Stam
(CB) Fabio Cannavaro
(RB) Cafu

(LM) Rivaldo
(CM) Patrick Viera
(CM) Zinedine Zidane
(RM) Christiano Ronaldo

(ST) Gabriel Batistuta
(ST) Ronaldo


Subs: Lionel Messi - Roy Keane - Gary McAllister - Me

GK: Vítor Baía
LB: Bixente Lizarazu
RB: Cafu
CB: Franco Baresi
CB: Willie Miller
LW: Bryan Laudrup
RW: David Beckham (gotta get the service in)
CM: Georghe Hagi
CM: Bryan Robson
FC: Hristo Stoichkov
FC: Eric Cantona

Subs: Ruud Gullit, Lothar Matthaus, Paolo Maldini (Gullit on the bench since he could play pretty much everywhere on the pitch)

Not definitive, but off the cuff..

Schmeichel
Cafu
Breitner
Baresi
Beckenbauer
Platini
Robson
Maradona
Zidane
Klinsmann
Henry

C. Ronaldo
Thuram
Gattuso

...forgot - Henry & Zidane in the same side, tended to suck.

GK:Gianluigi Buffon
LB:R.Carlos
RB:Cafu
CB:B.Moore
CB:J.Carragher
LW:L.Messi
RW:L.Figo
CM:S.Gerrard
CM:Z.Zidane
ST:Van Basten
ST:E.Cantona (pretty much just for kung fu kicking that bloke)

Subs Giggs,Ronaldinho,Beckham,Salvatore Schillaci,Gullit

1. Clemence
2. Cafu
3. Roberto Carlos
4. Beckenbauer
5. Bobby Moore

6. Souness
11. Best
8. Maradona
10. Pele

7. Dalglish
9. Greaves

Subs: John Barnes, Ian Rush, Garrincha(little bird)

(07-08-2009 04:43 )Bunna Wrote:  Garrincha(little bird)

Was he the guy that shagged a goat, or something similarly as unpleasant? 'Little goat shagger'

1. Schmeichel
2. Javier Zanetti
3. Roberto Carlos
4. Viera
5. Beckenbauer ©
6. Baresi
7. Garrancha
8. Cruyff (Johan not Jordi)
9. John Charles
10. Pele
11. Maradona

Manager: Ally MacLeod

(07-08-2009 04:48 )moron50 Wrote:  

(07-08-2009 04:43 )Bunna Wrote:  Garrincha(little bird)

Was he the guy that shagged a goat, or something similarly as unpleasant? 'Little goat shagger'

Its a best team thread not a beastiality team thread.

from the 'Garrincha' wiki page:

Garrincha was born in Pau Grande, a district of Magé, in the state of Rio de Janeiro, in 1933. His father was an alcoholic, drinking Cachaça heavily, a problem which Garrincha would inherit.He had several birth defects: his spine was deformed, his right leg bent inwards and his left leg six centimeters shorter and curved outwards, none of which impeded his ability to play football at the top level. His nickname is thought to be a direct reference to his physical handicap, as the word garrincha is also commonly used in Brazil to describe a person with a handicap.

Garrincha was known amongst footballing scouts but many simply would not believe that there was an unknown footballer "who lived in the woods had bent legs who was totally unmarkable and who could dribble like the devil". Because of this, Garrincha did not arrive in professional football until his late teens, incredibly he simply had no interest in a professional career despite his immense talent