Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Eleven that would walk the Premier League

[Robertd0803]

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

Shaqiri???

 

[duffer]

Would the best of 5'7" and under beat the best of 6'3" and over?

 

[Fortitude]

Would the best of 5'7" and under beat the best of 6'3" and over?

When you say "best" do you mean all-time?

 

[Gio]

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]

When you say "best" do you mean all-time?

You've gotta compare like with like so either all time shorties v all time lankys or present day shorties v present day lankys.

 

[Fortitude]

You've gotta compare like with like so either all time shorties v all time lankys or present day shorties v present day lankys.

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.

 

[didz]

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.

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?

 

[golden_blunder]

Barthez
Lamptey - Mascherano - Lisandro - Wright
Torreira - Gilmour
Lennon - Enciso - Fraser
Nwaneri​

And they'd still do us at corners.

Wright instead of evra?

 

[Nobby style]

Can we get a little Danish criminal nastiness in the midfield, with that bowling ball Stig Tofting?

 

[didz]

Wright instead of evra?

Yes. He's shorter.

 

[MiceOnMeth]

11 rob Huths would destroy that team

 

[hellhunter]

11 rob Huths would destroy that team

Any team, to be fair

 

[golden_blunder]

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

 

[Dan]

Tosic?

 

[Andersonson]

Bale is 1.86m

Have to cheat a little bit

 

[BeforeKeanetherewasRobson]

Can we get a little Danish criminal nastiness in the midfield, with that bowling ball Stig Tofting?

Why Danish nastiness, what about UK nastiness? Denis Wise.

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