Your favourite first 11 (based on your lifetime!)

Decided against any celtic players or it'd be a celtic XI

Santiago Canizares

Javier Zanetti
Paolo Maldini
Slaven Bilic
Roberto Carlos

Claude Makelele
Zvonimir Boban
Daniele De Rossi

Gabriel Batistuta
Ole Gunnar Solksjaer
Francesco Totti

Subs: Peter Schmeichel , Davor Suker, Fabio Cannavaro, Luis Figo, Marcelo Salas

My first WC I can remember really getting into was France 98 when I was 6 or 7 so a lot of my XI are players I remember watching then and had a big part in me falling in love with the game

 

Schmeichel
Cafu - Maldini - Puyol - Zanetti
Xavi
Guardiola - Nedved
Larsson - Ronaldo - Messi

Bench: Taffarel, Iniesta, Hagi, Batistuta, Scholes, Lahm, Hyppia

 

It's a * no being able to fit Davor Suker, Prosenecki, George Weah, Romario, Stoichkov, Rivaldo and co in mines

 

Cech
Seamus Coleman Terry Puyol LB No Particular Favorite

Lampard Mata Dempsey

Neymar Drogba Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink (had to fit him in)



Born in 1997 so didnt include a lot

 

No wee man, you included almost everything we needed to know.

 

Excluding Celtic players.

Schmeichel

Cafu - Baresi - Adams - Maldini

Ronaldo - Keane - Matthaus - Hagi

Cantona - Fat Ronaldo

 

Schmeichel

Neville Stam Vidic Carlos

Cristiano Keane Scholes Giggs

Ronaldo Van Nistelrooy

 

No Ashley Cole? :icon_mrgreen:

 

Boruc
McNamara - Nesta - Maldini - Harte
Lambert - Xavi - Iniesta
Messi - Raul - Del Piero

 

Kahn
Lahm Vidic Pique Carlos
Keane
Xavi Iniesta
Messi Larsson Ozil​

 

1 without Man Utd players .

 

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Boruc

Lahm
Mulgrew
Puyol

Naka
Iniesta
Riquelme

Messi
Ronaldihno

Totti
Crespo

A traditional 3-3-2-2

 

Without Celtic or US players:

-------------------Jorge Campos--------------------
Lahm-------Puyol-----------Cannavaro---Roberto Carlos
------------------De Rossi--------------------------
------------Zidane--------Iniesta---------------------
Messi--------------------------------------Ronaldinho
--------------------Ronaldo---------------------------

Subs: Buffon; Zanetti, Maldini; Xavi, Giggs, Pirlo; Totti
Rest of Squad: Rogério Ceni; Hierro; Davids, Valderrama; Forlán

Based off of guys I like and who I think would be entertaining, hence Jorge Campos starting in goal. :icon_mrgreen:

 

Given

Cafu, Balde, Stam, R.Carlos

Keane, Xavi, Vieira
Zidane

Van Nistelrooy, Larsson​

Subs: Forster; Irwin, Dunne; Scholes, Giggs, Nedved; Ronaldo (Brasil)

 

7 years later I am still fuming over this bullshit

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fr2oTmQ0GwM"]Australia vs Italy World Cup - YouTube[/ame]

 

I just picked players I had soft spots for various reasons or in the case of Viduka and Kewell are the reason I started playing football. Didn't really think about having a sensible formation
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Kahn

Cafu Maldini Puyol Roberto Carlos

Keane Seedorf

Kewell Le Tissier Maloney

Viduka
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Special mention: John Aloisi purely for this

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpqdaVBqRsQ"]John Aloisi Penalty - YouTube[/ame]

 

I lived in Australia during Kewell's golden days and developed a real soft spot for him. If I had a "sentimental 11" then he would be in it for sure. That Aloisi penalty was incredible... When I lived there it was during the loss to Uruguay in the playoff before the 2002 World Cup - so to see it given back was priceless.

 

I remember the loss to Iran in qualifying in 98 when I was really young, that was just as hard to take as the 2002 loss

 

No Jaap Stam?