"I went with Cameroon's N'Kono" is an iconic statement

The lack of Maldini in these teams really has me scratching my head

You should recreate these teams in Football Manager and do another tournament

Absolutely laughin with tears in my eyes when I clocked that JJ secretly searched (19:45) for Neeskens and actually got Neeskens Kebano of Fullham isntead of Johan Neeskens lmaoo

I love how the differences between each computers speaks alot of their personalities

I'm surprised Alex didn't have Socrates in his team. With the vibe and feeling he went for, he'd slot in perfectly.

More All-Time XI's would be great. Premier league, Serie A, World Cup, 90's, 2000's, etc.

JJ was more like a eye-test football fan, Alex was the edgy statistician and Seb was splitting the difference. Definitely shows their personalities lol

JJ's team - most modern take Alex's team - most nostalgic take Seb's team - lemme google these names....

Was disappointed not to see Ibrahima Sangare in Alex's team 😅😔

As an austrian, i've got to say i'm quite moved by the recognition Konrad Laimer gets here :)

lev yashin the only goalkeeper in history to win the balon d'or. I personally haven't seen him play but my father did and he said yashin was insane, not only an unbeatable wall but also a fierce leader.

This is the type of conversation you don't want to end. I appreciate the more left-field picks, because the nostalgic, personal ones make it fun, and some players deserve recognition they wouldn't get usually. I wouldn't be able to resist putting Gary Speed alongside Thomas Muller and Thierry Henry in my XI.

Really happy to see a Garrincha shout-out. The dude's highlights and the way he was described at the time are just something else.

Seb: You're not taking this seriously _Alex_ Alex: Yeah?! Well here's my bibliography.

Love this kind of fan conversation, so refreshing compared to the standard 'my club is better than yours' or 'this player was better than this player' kind of fan debate. Really interesting how everyone had different reasons for picking players based on nostalgia, impact, personality, etc. Also taught me a lot about certain players I barely knew

That Capello Scudetto winning Roma team was something else - Antonioli, Cafu, Samuel, Zago, Aldair, Candela, Tommasi, Emerson, Totti, Delvecchio and Batistuta

Lahm. What a full back. First time I watched him was Germany’s opener vs Costa Rica in 06 WC and scored that amazing rocket shot. Every now and then I think about it. Absolute class. Believe he went his entire career without a single red card too.

Love the wide range of legends of this beautiful game being mentioned here.

Vvd is a great defender but i just feel longevity goes against him in these all time lists

JJ's team was by far the best! Picking nostalgic obscure players is fine for one or two positions but not for a whole team. Honestly, if these teams played everyone in their prime it would be a slaughtering.

My all time 11 (4-3-1-2): Neuer, Cafu, Beckenbauer, Maldini, Facchetti, Xavi, Neeskens, Zidane, Messi, Pele, Cr7. Substitutes(7): Yashin, Baresi, Matthaus, Maradona, Nazario Ronaldo, R. Carlos, Cruyff. Notable exclusions(can easily walk into any world Xi): Pirlo, Iniesta, G. Best, Buffon, Gerd Muller, Dani Alves, Platini, Di Stefano, Rijkaard, Scirea, Garrincha, Breitner, Puskas, Dinho, Ramos, Henry, P. Lahm, Scholes, Iker Casillas, M. Desailly, L. Suarez, Modric, Cannavaro, P. Vieira. Reasons behind selection: Cafu and Facchetti will be the key attacking fullbacks in this side who are adept at attack and defense to compensate the lack of pure wingers in the squad upfront. Messi takes a central 10 role, Pele and Cr7 are the wide forwards with Pele operating freely and Ronaldo in a more 4-4-2ish striker role getting support from the flanks with exceptional playmakers as Messi and Zizou behind. This side is loaded with technicians and masterminds who are phenomenal with the ball in keeping possession as well as distributing either horizontally with short passes or vertically and diagonally with ping passes and accurate long balls (here Beckenbauer and Neeskens come into play whereas Xavi dictates the tempo).

Alex (and probably the whole team) should do a short video on TifoIRL covering soccer books you've enjoyed. Would be really interested to see what books and authors you've found to either be entertaining or help increase your understanding of the game.

Pat Jennings might be the only player who is a legend for Spurs and Arsenal. 710 games for both teams combined.

I love watching Zidane. For some reason he always looked like he was just a hair away from getting picked for the ball, but always managed to get by

One thing I love about tifo is you can tell how much the guys truly love the game. Obviously like they have an organization dedicated to covering the sport but they do so in a way that feels so genuine.

As an Irishman, love the Paul McGrath selection. His game against Italy in the 94 World Cup was outstanding.......not sure how much of it he can remember, due to some of those personal difficulties. What a player though.

'Please don't send us your teams, we do not care'- Seb I'd have expected that brutal savageness from Alex lol

GK-Karius LB-Benjamin Mendy CB-Phil Jones CB-Maguire RB-Mustafi CDM-David Luiz CM-Dele Alli CAM-Lingard LW-Werner ST-Higuain RW-Morata

Video idea: best 11 based on individual performances. Could end up with some unexpected players in that. Example: Gk Tim Krul vs Spurs CAM Arshavin vs Liverpool Etc

Tifo: we think there is a lot of eurocentrism when it comes to these kinds of lists, so we tried to go a litle bit against that. Also Tifo: chooses THREE all time world elvens without ever picking Pele, Maradona o Di Stéfano.

Ronaldinho needs a mention. The best footballing ability ever !

I'm with JJ - you should only be allowed to pick players you have seen play in full matches. It's impossible to gauge how good Garrincha was based on KZfaq clips alone.

I appreciate how genuine those teams are but it doesn’t sound like a good all-time side when you never seen full games even with some guys from the 80’s, let alone 60-70’s. Especially in a time where a lot of those games are available.

Their laptop decorations speak volumes. Seb’s is just ordinary. Alex has a bunch of obscure stickers. JJ? Googly Eyes.

Ancelotti would actually be great for Alex's team. Suited for making huge egos get along.

Got to be the toughest thing to do from a footballing perspective. So many great players to pick from.

JJ’s team: a mix of modern and old Alex’s team: Quirky Seb’s team: who? Ohh

Maldini walks into any defensive line with capability to play in cb and lb to best we've seen. His captaincy and longevity is amazing too

Seb’s squad was so pro-Anglo. My guy, people play football in other parts of the world.

19:40 Probably the greatest central defensive midfielder but also underrated as well was Lothar Matthaus. He could play any position and was an incredible reader of the game. Had a rocket of a shot and could man-mark any of the opposition best players.

"I'll get up and jog around a bit" absolutely killed me

here's mine. goalkeeper - jamie carragher defenders - carragher, carragher, carragher, carragher midfielders - carragher, carragher, carragher, carragher strikers - carra, carra managers - jamie

17:54 Hahaha... cameraman burns Seb. (For context Alex said he forgot what Oval looks like when describing his midfield and the camera split seconded zoomed on Seb)

Puyol was my inspiration and hero growing up. I wasn’t technically skilled but he would get to the ball like a truck and work 90 minutes straight. That’s who I wanted to be when I grew up.

Genuine lols at JJ breaking the 4th wall to deliver THE Aberdeen fact, again.

We need more fun videos like this on the channel, this is still by far my favourite video you’ve released and there’s not many like it at all on your channel. A lot of videos on KZfaq with serious boring XIs but the interesting personal picks and actual knowledge made this more entertaining, more please

Would love to see anymore videos similar to this!

It seems like feeling clever was far more important than the qualities of the players selected at times. You could have titled the video “three teams we think are neat” and it would have been fine but intentionally avoiding players like Messi proves the experiment wasn’t explored in good faith

No Maldini?! Harsh... Preud'homme P. Lahm Baresi Puyol Maldini Makelele R. Baggio Zidane Messi Ronaldo Nazario C. Ronaldo 4-4-2 diamond with Messi as a false 9 or 10 Manager has to be the 04/05 Mourinho

Glad to see Alex back!

JJ and Stewart perfect combo for this !!

The fact Messi is only in JJ's team I'd astounding to me. Surely the best player ever should be in an all time XI

Bixente Lizarazu is one of the players I remember watching at a young age & clearly thinking he was a world class player. Also remember Juan Pablo Sorin being a class left-back for Villareal and Argentina too.

24:58 it was against Compostela in the Copa Del Rey in the 96/97 where he scored 47 goals in 49 matches, a record which stood until the 2009/10 season.

Iker Casillas Phlipp Lahm - Bobby Moore - Franz Beckenbauer - Paulo Maldini Xavi - Duncan Edwards George Best - Lionel Messi - Cristiano Ronaldo Pele

Some of my favs that i watched... Koeman, Seedorf, Chilavert, Peter Schmeichel, Costacurta, Romario, Del Piero, Roberto Baggio, David Villa, Batistuta, Maradona, Pirlo, Totti, Thuram, Buffon, Casillas, Bergkamp, Muller, Sammer, Scholes, Shearer, Henry, Ronaldinho, Rivaldo, Shevchenko, Ruud Gullit, Vialli, Desailly, Roy Keane, Vieira, If i had to choose 11 from those.... Romario David Villa Ronaldinho Seedorf Pirlo Vieira Koeman Costacurta Thuram Sammer Casillas A 90's inspired Bielsa style 1-3-3-3/3-1-3-3. Costacurta can step out and Sammer slot into central defence. Seedorf tucks in alongside Vieira narrow and Ronaldinho pushes up and has license to roam anywhere.

Zlatan(23) Zlatan(27)-Zlatan(36)-Zlatan(19)-Zlatan (21) Zlatan (37)-Zlatan(33)-Zlatan (36) Zlatan(39)-Zlatan(40)-Zlatan(28)

About 17:40 - "you'd be a good player, if you could think with your mind"... sounds like a Neil Warnock quote

Players who should have got mentions- Pele, Maradona, Maldini, Nesta, Djalma Santos, Jairzinho, Best, Yashin, Ronaldinho, Facchetti, Di Stefano and Zico

No Paolo Maldini, no party

I am surprised how no one mentioned Lev Yashin as the goalkeeper.

Tried to do this with players of different nationalities: GK Yashin DF Alves DF Beckenbauer DF Moore DF Maldini MF Busquets MF Gullit MF Zidane FW Messi FW Puskas FW C. Ronaldo Edit: I’ll go with SAF as my manager. Michels is a good shout but to continue the trend of different nationalities I’ll pick the Scotsman.

As someone from Newry, it makes me really happy that Pat Jennings was put in one of these sides, and very sad that JJ doesn’t know him

My team 5-3-2 Neuer Nesta Baresi Maldini Cafu Carlos Redondo Scholes Keane Ronaldo R9 Van Basten

Seb is definitely my favourite because of Paul McGrath

The first time I watched this video I was wondering why JJ's comment about playing midfielders at RB elicited so much emotion from Alex. Now, having just watched "Tifo's All-Time Premier League XI" video: I understand the call-back and I am now apart of this inside joke and honestly I think my year has been made already.

Interesting teams lads, I wouldn't pick the same players but thats what makes football so interesting how you can pick so many amazing dream teams and leave so many epic players out.

I came back to read the comments sections and everyone has picked out some great, great players. There's some amazing teams. Some players who haven't got much of a mention and ought to be in the mix - Javier Zanetti. What a player. Longevity, adapting his game, just will go under everyone's radar. Alan Hansen. He was unbeatable in his prime. You'd be hard pressed to find a finer ball-playing Central Defender. Sinisa Mihailovic. Not only for his incredible set pieces, but for his aggressive and determined play, he was a winner through and through. Clarence Seedorf. Could do it all. Slotted into any role in midfield and did it as good as anyone else could. George Best - Britain's finest ever player. Miroslav Klose. He is the World Cup top scorer for a reason. His timing, never wasting motion, is unrivalled in football. Hugo Sanchez. What a player. Roy Keane/Patrick Viera/Steven Gerrard - defined their teams. Made them tick. Got you a goal right when you needed it.

Not having Paulo Maldini on any of these lists is a real surprise. Obviously Pele and CR7 not making it on any list is sort of weird as well but I understand they were trying to be not as "obvious" with their picks, so I get that.

My team was identical to JJs, with the exception of Marcelo instead of Carlos! Great video, chaps.

Some interesting choices.. And I do think a) it's very difficult to settle on an all time 11 in general, because there simply have been too many greats at several positions many of whom would easily be equally deserving.. b) because it also really depends on the system, so technically you would almost have to do an all time 11 for every formation.. Next consideration is, do you just go with a random squad based on percepted best talent - or would you try and put a squad together that could actually work well..? Personally, I am always learning towards the latter (which is why I think the Barcelona midfield trio is a perfectly reasonable choice).

Fun segment, learned a lot, but don't forget Maldini!

You know these are excellent choices; when you don't hate *all* of the choices...but only *most* of them

Alex straddles that line beautifully between being obscure and full blown trolling lol

GK: Buffon RB: Djalma Santos CB: Baresi CB: Beckenbauer LB: Maldini CM: Platini CAM: Cruyff CAM: Maradona RW: Messi LW: C. Ronaldo ST: Pelé Bench: Casillas, Cafu, Nesta, Cannavaro, Facchetti, Zidane, Iniesta, Kaka, Van Basten, R9

No one picked Ramsdale as keeper? Smh

If Ashley Cole had been Brazilian, Spanish, Italian etc. then people would have no issue calling him one of the very best left-backs of all time. I’d have him in my all-time 11 every time

There's some lovely footage of an attacking midfielder who takes down a ball with his right foot instep, swivels on it elegently almost a pirouette and then pings it outwards with the outside of his left foot. I know who you're all thinking, it's Zidane right? Pretty much a textbook example of how he played. Wrong- it's Bobby Charlton. This is someone who was playing in the 50s and 60s and it took my breath away watching that because honestly, the technique and poise was exactly the same as someone playing with a modern ball and boots.

This is probably the best football discussion on KZfaq

Loved the video, but how nobody even mentioned Maldini is atrocious. Maybe the best LB ever and was a world class CB as well.

I’m just starting the video and I’m sure Alex will pick the most niche team you can think of

OG Ronaldo was something out of this world. The single season he played for Barcelona was absolutely magical. One really has to wonder how his career would have panned out without the crippling injuries and the weird epileptic attack previous to the '98 WC final. Btw, his crazy one man against a whole team goal was against Compostela. ;)

Which website with the library of historic games are they referring to at circa 27 minutes in?

JJ's team is quality for sure. I don't blame him for picking the Barcelona Triumvirate!!! Quality midfield

So much energy in this video! It totally doesn’t look and sound like they’re being held at gunpoint and forced to make a KZfaq video!

I had a football magazine back in the day that had a picture of OG ronaldo. The left page was a defender sprinting as hard as they can. The right page was ronaldo running through. They were both near the middle of the magazine so looked close - but it was a fold out picture that when you pulled the right page showed there was two pages of empty grass between them. Don’t know if I described it well, but it’s an image I’ll never forget. He’d make my team just for that

27:18 does anyone know the website he's referring to?

8:10 for some reason I knew he was going Virgil when he acted like that, but yeah that’s a good pick

Schwarzer Atkinson - Neill - Popovic - Zullo Milligan - Cahill Bresciano - Rogic - Kewell Viduka Fight me

Seb rocking this content.

Btw Lizarazu is the colour commentator for France's national team games and he's really good at it. Him and Margotton with the world cup and euro 2016 became classic, untouchable on french tv. He's also hot af

Do you guys have an audio engineer?

What’s the website Alex mentions at about 27:10 anyone know?

what website is Alex talking about at 27:17 with football matches to watch?

What was the website they mentioned with the archival footage?

4-3-3 GK: Peter Schmeichel RB: Carlos Alberto RCB: Franco Baresi LCB: Franz Beckenbauer LB: Giancinto Fachetti CDM: Claude Makelele RCM: Michel Platini LCM: Johan Cruyff RW: Georgie Best ST: Pele LW: Diego Maradonna

Summary: A little bit of anarchy is good, a lot of anarchy is better

What website were they talking abt for the games

Matthaus, an elite level attacker AND an elite defender too. Goalscorer, leader. Walks into an all time 11, as does di Stefano. Maradona is the first name on the team sheet. Van Basten is the best all round striker of all time. Puskas or Blokhin gets in too.