Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Eleven that would walk the Premier League

ArbeitervonWien said:
Many of us pretend that technique matters more than size. Here's 11 reasons to believe it:

------------------------Higuita
Lahm-Ivan Cordoba-Cannavaro-R.Carlos
-------------Scholes--Shaqiri--Xavi
--------Messi--Maradona-A.Sanchez
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Shaqiri???
 
Played in England, max height 1.70 / 1.75 for GK/CBs:

Death
Wright - Mascherano - Martinez
Kante - Bremner - Scholes - Davids
Johnstone - Simonsen - Zola​

Subs: Alan Wright, Stiles, Ball, Strachan, Juninho
 
duffer said:
You've gotta compare like with like so either all time shorties v all time lankys or present day shorties v present day lankys.
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If you can get the appropriate keeper, it's pretty much a wash for the short guys. They have a ridiculous team with the 3 greatest of all time (whichever you prefer from Pele, Maradona and Messi) in the side.

Pace, aggression, mobility, technical brilliance out the hoo har.

A 5'8 - 6'2 team would be the one to give both sides a game.

As an aside this was an idea for a thread I had many moons ago that I left on the table because I couldn't be bothered compiling a 6'4" and above side. I used 6'4 as the cut off, but 6'3 brings a whole slew of great players into that team and makes it an easy build.
 
Fortitude said:
Not that I’m aware of, but obviously depends on your cut off as keepers in the 50’s, 60’s and 70’s weren’t particularly tall, or certainly not default towering, as a whole anyway.

I see your Lamptey and up you with a Santi! Who was actually really, really good, just not good enough to get ahead of a Kante or Makelele, but if the cut off becomes 5’6” then Scholes and a few others get the chop and he’s probably in the team (played in England). Zola also enters the fray then, probably.
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Santi is a good one. I didn't think Makelele would be short enough. Surely we wanna be making the cut off point as unreasonable as possible while still being technically doable?
 
Midget busters XI

Gk - Courtois
Lb - Dan Burn
Cb - Pallister
Cb - Van Dijk
Rb - Viv Anderson
Lw - Ian Ormondroyd
Cm - Viera
Cm - Pogba
Rw - Ronaldo
Cf - Van Nistelrooy
Cf - Ibrahimovic

Subs
Yaya Toure, Crouch, Kompany, Haaland

All must have played English football
 
My opposite 25 player squad (height of at least 190cm) would be as follows:

GK: Gianluigi Buffon
GK: Manuel Neuer
GK: Peter Schmeichel
CB: Laurent Blanc
CB/RB: Jerome Boateng
CB: Rune Bratseth
CB: Jaap Stam
CB: Virgil van Dijk
CB: Nemanja Vidic
LB/CB/RB: Giacinto Facchetti
LB: Fabio Grosso
DM/CB/LB/RB: Srecko Katanec
DM: Antonio Rattin
DM: Rodri
CM/CB: Frank Rijkaard
CM: Glenn Stromberg
CM: Patrick Vieira
AM/RW/ST/CM/CB: Ruud Gullit
AM: Socrates
LW/LB/AM/ST: Ivica Surjak
ST: Franz Binder
ST: Erling Haaland
ST: Zlatan Ibrahimovic
ST/LW: Mario Mandzukic
ST: Torbjorn Nilsson

This team would play a 4-3-3 formation with the following line up:

GK: Manuel Neuer
RB: Srecko Katanec
CB: Jaap Stam
CB: Virgil van Dijk
LB: Giacinto Facchetti
DM: Rodri
CM: Frank Rijkaard
CM: Patrick Vieira
RW: Ruud Gullit
ST: Erling Haaland
LW: Ivica Surjak

Depending on opposition Socrates could replace Vieira. Alternatively a 3-5-2/5-3-2 could be played with Bratseth as the 3rd CB, Facchetti and Gullit at WB, Vieira and Rijkaard at CM, Socrates as an AM and a Zlatan and Haaland strike partnership

Other Options Considered:
GK: Alisson
GK: Petr Cech
GK: Francesco Toldo
GK: Edwin van der Sar
CB: Tony Adams
CB/RB: Markus Babbel
CB/RB: Vedran Corluka
CB/RB/LB/DM: John O'Shea
CB: Gerard Pique
CB: Raphael Varane
DM: Nemanja Matic
CM: Paul Pogba
AM/CM: Nicolae Simatoc
ST: Oliver Bierhoff
ST: Edin Dzeko
ST/RW: Jostein Flo
ST: Tore Andre Flo
ST/AM: Nwankwo Kanu
ST/LW: Marcus Thuram
ST: David Trezeguet
ST: Alejandro Villanueva
 
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