Perfect XI

The legends pick their dream team

Ian Wright

Ian Wright

"Even when you’re playing against him, you watch because he’s so good"

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Brian Laudrup

"My brother started as an attacker but became an elegant attacking midfielder, perhaps the most complete there has ever been."
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Marcel Desailly

"He did things that didn’t seem humanly possible"
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Graham Taylor

"What do you mean, Jackie who?"
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Bobby Charlton

"Di Stefano was the most intelligent player ever"
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Mario Kempes

"If you think Camacho sweats a lot as a coach, imagine how much he sweated as a player..."
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Graeme Sharp

"People likened Peter Schmeichel to Neville Southall, but I thought Nev was better..."
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Craig Brown

"I’ve never seen him make a mistake"
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Jamie Carragher

"He was like Roy Keane and Glenn Hoddle rolled into one"
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Ruud Gullit

"He played for Hamburg in the ’80s and was famous for his Bananenflanken."
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James Richardson

"He’s also, to the best of my knowledge, the only ex-con in my side"
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Eric Cantona

"I tell you this: he broke my heart"
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Ossie Ardiles

"Everybody talks about Pele but this guy was out of this world"
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Gheorghe Hagi

"It is a great regret of mine that I never played alongside Zidane, but only played against him. That was hard enough..."
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Hristo Stoichkov

Technically Yordan Letchkov was one of the best players I ever played with. He should have played for one of Europe’s big clubs."
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Ronald Koeman

"There’s no way that I could pass up the opportunity to play in this team."
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