What would be your dream 5 a side football team that you would enjoy to watch?
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What would be your dream 5 a side football team that you would enjoy to watch?
5 of me on the pitch in my prime. Unbeatable
I was thinking more dream English team:-
Peter Shilton - the best goalkeeper.
Des Walker - best defender
Steven Gerrard - box to box midfielder
Paul Gascoigne - beat any player
Alan Shearer - best striker in premiere league.
Brad Friedel in goal - in 5 a side you need a pure shot stopper, no area to command etc.
Maldini - ever reliable
Moore - wouldn't let you down either
Juninho - probably only need him and Brad to be fair. Just roll it out to him and leave him to it
Shearer - one touch finishing from anywhere
Sub Duncan Ferguson. If things get lively bring him on to scare the opposition.
This French team would beat Primo's Italian side.
Fabien Bartez - because I could not think of another good French goalkeeper.
Platini - defender/midfield
Zidane - defender/midfield
Henry - best foreign striker in PL.
Mbappe - fastest footballer according to Fifa 19
Fucking joking ain’t ya? No chance.
1. No defenders
2. Barthez is shite.
3. If Zidane is playing, I’ll put Materazzi in to get him sent off like he did in 2006.
4. Messi & Maradona > Henry & Mbappe. I’d even put Baggio & Del Piero above them.
5. Mbappe’s pace don’t mean shit on a 5-A-side pitch.
Keep trying. ;)
Peter Shilton.
Claudio Gentile. Nobody would even bother trying to score at our end.
Daniel Passarella. Best ball playing centre half ever. Could have played midfield for any team at any level he was so good on the ball.
Maradona.
Pele.
For which century? :dontknow: I'm a bit behind the curve.
Goalkeeper - Nikolai Valuev
Defenders - Sonny Liston and Andrew Golota
Midfield - Roy Jones
Forward - Roberto Duran
Nobody would be kicking lumps out of that team!
Ederson goalkeeper with huge kick
Socrates defending with fag in his mouth
Ronaldinho whiz in midfield
Rivaldo left footed striker
Ronaldo goal scoring machine
The Brazilians were the best team at the 82 and 86 World Cups. The fact they didn't win doesn't mean anything, they were the most exciting international football teams ever with the possible exception of previous Brazilian sides. They should ditch the futebol de resultados and go back to joga bonito. It doesn't matter if they don't win in the future either if we can watch that kind of football every four years.
Congratulations, you win the prize for the most ridiculous post I’ve read today! (Admittedly I haven’t read anything from Brock or @TIC today.)
I’m not sure if you know how football works, but usually it’s 11 against 11. :rolleyes:
Sorry, I’m gonna have to call bullshit here. There is a clear difference between being the “most exciting” team to being “the best team.” And let’s be honest , teams that enter World Cup competitions are in it to win it, nothing else.
It’s so disrespectful to the Italy side when people spout on about the ‘82 Brazil side being the best ever, it’s bullshit. Italy had stylish players like Antognoni and Conti that would’ve got in any team , and although Gentile was a no nonsense defender, Scirea and Cabrini oozed elegance.
And let’s not forget that Italy beat This so called best ever team from Brazil, Maradona’s (at his peak) Argentina team that were reigning World Champions, and Germany “Der Mannschaft.” And we all know that there has never been a bad Germany side.
Nobody, Absolutely nobody has ever beaten that many quality sides to win a World Cup.
Look back and you’ll see I’m right.
Maradona's peak was 1986 not 1982.
Wrong. Maradona and his team won the World Cup in ‘86. And he was fantastic. But in the lead up to ‘82 , Maradona was a player that it was hard to believe existed even when you saw it with your own eyes.
After the ‘82 WC , Maradona went to Barcelona and got into trouble on and off the pitch, started to be led astray, and in ‘83 had his ankle broken by that violent tackle from The butcher of Bilbao , Goikoetcchea. That tackle would’ve finished a lot of people’s careers. He’d had hepatitis, loads of cortisone injections and obviously started taking recreational drugs because he was a superstar.
Without all of this imagine what a player he could’ve been.
Nobody ever wanted to watch that boring cynical catenaccio shit outside of Italy and the Italian diaspora. And nobody could give a shit about that Italian team. The Brazilian teams of the post war years of the World Cup but particularly the eighties were beloved the world over.
Five aside you need to be a bit of an all rounder so some total football is in order, a Dutch five aside team beats them all, although a Scottish five aside team with Duncan disorderly Ferguson upfront might beat them by knock out....
Dutch gits, Cruyff, gullit, rijkaard, koeman(who funnily enough scored more goals in his career than former Dutch national team top scorer Patrick Kluivert :S) .... Stanley menzo in goal for fun although obviously it'd really be van der saar. The Dutch gits especially cruyff were way ahead of their time....
Ronaldinho would be an obvious pick, and as annoying as neymar is the git is top class
The Italy side that won the world cup 2006 and knocked out Germany were a good side. That was the best match of that tournament.
Football fans all over the world would disagree with you on that one.
Fifa actually changed the rules of the game after the 86 World Cup to prevent teams like Italy playing the way they did. The tackle from behind was banned, refs were told to card shirt pulling and spitting and the various similar stuff, passing back to goalkeepers was banned along with keepers wasting time and timewasting in general. It improved the game no end.
Listen, you stick to your “Unicorns and Fluffy Rabbits” football , and I’ll stick to watching winners.
Is there anything you haven’t blamed on Italy? You’ll be saying Covid was their fault next!:rolleyes:
I’m pretty sure spitting was punished before ‘86. And your wholesale rule changes didn’t deter Rijkaard from spitting at Voller 4 years later did it? I suppose he’s Italian as well now? Smfh.
“Teams like Italy” for fucks sake.
1 Schmeichael
2 Jap Stam
3 Brian Robson
4 Ryan Giggs
5 Mark Hughes
There's a case to be made that the 82 Brazilian side was up there with the 70 side. A fantastic team that just came up against Italy that had kicked into gear at the right time (they were terrible in the first group phase but somehow got through).
A dumb second phase format didn't help either.
People forget we were unbeaten in 82 and an unfit Kevin Keegan miss, from a free header, away from playing France again in the semi who we'd already beaten 3-1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNemDqbQBKE
There's the miss at 2.50
unbeaten in 82
went out to handball in 86
a penalty shootout at the end of a game we dominated in 90
keoman should have been sent off in 94
penatly shootout in 98, if beckam should have been sent off then so should simeone
2002 we went out to a cross
2006 went out to portugal on pens and we could have played 360 minutes and portugal would never have scored even after we went down to 10 men
2010 cappello
2014 dont want to talk about it
Yep don't think we were good enough to win it in 86.
90 - whoever won our semi was going to win that's for sure
94- pathetic campaign regardless
98 - it's a serious flaw that players get sent off for the retaliation foul (did simeone get a yellow I think he did ??)
2002 - imo, even as a negative England fan, the winners of that match were going to win it
2006 - rubbish world cup that was again there for the taking if we'd got through
2010 - we were shite but I don't care what anyone says, if Lampard's goal had stood (it was well over the line) that would have changed that game regardless how shit we were. When a team has dominated and is 2 up then suddenly 2 all at half time from nowhere it changes things massively.
2014 - had to google it as couldn't remember !! Yes shite
2018 - we weren't great and I would have been confident of winning the final had we got there. We weren't as good as France but I just think our name would've been on the tropy. But two massive plus points - we won a penalty shootout after 22 years to put that ghost to bed AND more importantly our youngsters won the fans back playing decent football.
And next month.......
We havent seemed to ever get the luck at the big moments
2018 we did and we didnt take advantage which was really disappointing
i really believe we will win one soon tho, our players are as good as any country in the world and we have match winners and we have depth and the manager seems to be doing the right things
and the players seem to keep coming through
Our team for the euros is miles better than it was for the last world cup and the next world cup it has the potential to be even better
Player for player the 2000, 2002, 2004 and 2006 team were better. They were the golden generation that let us down.
unbeaten in 82
Yep. And couldn’t score a goal in the second phase. Don’t score goals you don’t win cups. Simples.
Get the violins out !
went out to handball in 86
conveniently forgetting the other goal. The greatest goal ever scored in WC Finals.
a penalty shootout at the end of a game we dominated in 90
You never dominated the Germany game.
keoman should have been sent off in 94
Talk about clutching at straws, you never even made the finals ffs!
penatly shootout in 98, if beckam should have been sent off then so should simeone
maybe you were unlucky against Argentina, but you would never had a hope in hell of winning that tournament.
2002 we went out to a cross
No, you went out to a better side. Has England ever beaten Brazil at a World Cup ?
2006 went out to portugal on pens and we could have played 360 minutes and portugal would never have scored even after we went down to 10 men
Rooney deserved the Red and Portugal deserved to go through.
2010 cappello
Yeah, and?
2014 dont want to talk about it
Of course you don’t want to talk about it, cos they were shite. They finished bottom of the group and deservedly so. Second best in every game.
Even 2018 they went out to the first half decent side they played.
To win a World Cup, you have to beat at least 2 of the big guns . England have never done that in any World Cup ever.