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    Unique club/country XI

    This all over the socials and I found it quite an enjoyable way to kill an hour last night

    Create a starting XI with players that fit these criteria:

    - each player must have played professionally during your lifetime
    - no two players can be the same nationality
    - no two players can ever have played for the same club (even if they've played at different times)

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    Older twats on this board are sorted

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    GK: Chilavert
    RB: Sergio Ramos
    LB: Lahm
    CB: Adams
    CB: Chiellini
    CM: Roy Keane
    CM: Kante
    CM: Bernardo Silva
    ST: Messi
    ST: Kane
    ST: Mane

    Quick team, hope it fulfills the criteria.

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    Gone a mix of bohemian and brutalist. 4-4-fucking-2:

    GK Oliver Kahn
    RB Gary Kelly
    LB Paolo Maldini
    CB Sir John Terry
    CB Diego Godín
    RM Son Heung-Min
    LM Ryan Giggs
    CM Juninho Pernambucano
    CM Zinedine Zidane
    FW Lionel Messi
    FW Aritz Aduriz

    A slightly left field choice in the target man role, but he can nod in all Juninho's set pieces and then let the others flow around him. I think there are better options than Gary Kelly available but I can't currently think who they might be.

    Quite an enjoyable puzzle as you can't burn too many big clubs on the same guy, sorry Cristiano.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dave. View Post
    GK: Chilavert
    RB: Sergio Ramos
    LB: Lahm
    CB: Adams
    CB: Chiellini
    CM: Roy Keane
    CM: Kante
    CM: Bernardo Silva
    ST: Messi
    ST: Kane
    ST: Mane

    Quick team, hope it fulfills the criteria.
    Adams and Kane are both English.

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    Kane and Kanté have both played for Leicester also.

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    Quote Originally Posted by SvN View Post
    Adams and Kane are both English.
    Knew there was an obvious error there somewhere. I'll take Son instead of Kane.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jimmy Floyd View Post
    Kane and Kanté have both played for Leicester also.
    Which in turn eradicates this error.

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    Oblak

    Cafu
    VVD
    King
    Fuck Off/Friedrich

    Kante
    KDB
    Cazorla

    Messi
    CR
    Lewa

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    Sounds difficult

    Chilavert

    Lahm
    Godin
    Aldair
    Maldini

    Keane
    Gerrard
    Zidane

    Okocha
    Drogba
    Messi

    That took ages. Hopefully no mistakes

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    Oblak; Cafu, Chiellini, Van Dijk, Cole; Keane, De Bruyne, Modric; Mbappe, Lewandowski, Messi

    I’ve probably fucked that. Fkn De Bruyne and Cole. David Silva if he fits
    Last edited by Waffdon; 15-04-2020 at 01:18 PM.

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    KDB Chelsea days wreaking havoc on these actually.

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    GK: Oblak
    RB: Lahm
    CB: Van Dijk
    CB: Ledley King
    LB: Marcelo
    CDM: De Rossi
    CM: Nedved
    CM: Hamsik
    LW: Mbappe
    RW: De Bruyne
    ST: Messi

    No Spaniard made it in

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    Same. Messi rules out any Barca players and Ramos nearly made mine, but went for Zidane despite him taking out Juve too, the bald prick.

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    No Ditches either as they all fuck off to Barcelona. Thought Eastern Europe would be decent, but all the best ones have done Spain too.

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    Yeah, Robben and Sneijder moves far too often. Had to have Ashley Cole in as he was my favourite player even though he ruined two clubs. I struggled for ages thinking of someone other than Giggs then realised Messi was available.

    Poor Ronaldo’s

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    Chilavert
    Lahm - Kompany - Terry - Maldini
    Son - Matthaus - Nedved - Giggs
    Mbappe - Messi

    4-4-2 because it's the best formation, obviously.

    Have I fucked up? Took a lot longer than I thought.

    EDIT: Yes, I have. Two Germans / Bayern.

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    Chilavert
    Salgado - Kompany - Terry - Maldini
    Son - Matthaus - Nedved - Giggs
    Mbappe - Messi

    That okay? Even trying to amend the sodding thing is a pain in the arse.

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    Get Lauren in at right back.

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    I nearly had Manuel Pablo as a right back. Must be some 00s Valencia candidates for Spain as well.

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    Ashley Young going to Inter really fucked this up for me.

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    Was Chilavert that good? I bet he was just a victim of the 90s hype machine, since he took free kicks. Just like Campos was supposed to be good, but he just wore colorful outfits.

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    Good for his size, like an inverse Crouch.

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    My memory is that he was pretty good in the tournaments I saw him in, 98 in particular, but I don't remember anything more specific than that.

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    Calero
    Lahm Van Dijk Godin Maldini
    Blanco Zidane Scholes Messi
    Bergkamp Drogba

    I bet I did something wrong, but can't be arsed to check.

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    Added an additional constraint, and only used players who played in a Europa League/UEFA Cup final and won. Went for a narrow diamond in the midfield. Hagi's clubs ended up restricting me a little, and the fact that apparently Inter Milan have signed everyone at one point in their career.

    GK: Buffon

    LB: Zanetti
    CB: Blind (Daley)
    CB: Hyypia
    RB: Srna

    CDM: Kante
    CM: Saul
    CM: Moutinho
    CAM: Hagi

    CF: Arshavin
    ST: Tomasson

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    Bergkamp and VVD are both Dutchies.

    @Pepe

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    Quote Originally Posted by Pepe View Post
    Calero
    Lahm Van Dijk Godin Maldini
    Blanco Zidane Scholes Messi
    Bergkamp Drogba

    I bet I did something wrong, but can't be arsed to check.
    Bergkamp and Godin both at Inter

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    It's really hard to do this without just cheating and copying others. I thought I had a cracker, then remembered KDB had been at Chelsea and it ruined everything.

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    Crap, thought Bergkamp was at Arsenal all his life, didn't know Godin was at Inter.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Waffdon View Post
    Oblak; Cafu, Chiellini, Van Dijk, Cole; Keane, De Bruyne, Modric; Mbappe, Lewandowski, Messi

    I’ve probably fucked that. Fkn De Bruyne and Cole. David Silva if he fits
    Just realised Cole was at Roma. Fuck this stupid thing. Cafa can play left back and Lauren comes in or something

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    Quote Originally Posted by Pepe View Post
    Calero
    Lahm Van Dijk Godin Maldini
    Blanco Zidane Scholes Messi
    Bergkamp Drogba

    I bet I did something wrong, but can't be arsed to check.
    Bergkamp out, Jose Saturnino Cardozo in, and we're done (I think).

    Calero
    Lahm Van Dijk Godin Maldini
    Blanco Zidane Scholes Messi
    Cardozo Drogba

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    Playing 1-2-2-3-1; like a proper nineties junior football manager that fancied himself a tactician for going with the 'Christmas Tree formation', allowing for a pretty maverick midfield...

    G. Bernard Lama
    RWB. Javier Zanetti
    LWB. Bixente Lizarazu
    SW. Franco Baresi
    CB. Paolo Montero
    CB. Paul McGrath
    CM. Gary McAllister
    CM. Sasa Curcic
    CAM. Georgi Kinkladze
    ST. Ian Wright
    ST. Edmundo

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    You could probably do a decent slicked back hair XI with one from each South American country + Mexico which fulfils this. Change a few of Pepe's players for Marco Etcheverry and that Venezuelan with the left peg.

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    Don't forget Valderrama.

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    He fails to qualify due to insufficient grease in his hair, although he must have put something in it to keep it erect. Maybe got some special cream from Pele.

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    Bet under the wig he had lovely greasy waves.

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    Michel Preud'homme

    Paolo Maldini
    John Terry
    Philipp Lahm

    Ryan Giggs
    Juan Carlos Valeron
    Juninho Pernambucano
    Zinedine Zidane

    Edinson Cavani
    Dennis Bergkamp
    Lionel Messi

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    Lewis went for the same methodology as me ('the Maldini route'), but with a better memory.

    I thought about using my Bayern spot on Lewandowski, but I really did love Olly Kahn.

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    Preud'homme

    I did mean to stick Enzo Scifo in mine but forgot by the time I came to the midfield.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jimmy Floyd View Post
    Lewis went for the same methodology as me ('the Maldini route'), but with a better memory.

    I thought about using my Bayern spot on Lewandowski, but I really did love Olly Kahn.
    Maldini was my starting spot, and then I swapped him out for Baresi as I didn't have a sweeper - Sammer meant no Mario Basler, who in turn was swapped out for Gary McAllister to accomodate Bixente Lizarazu as I couldn't find a quality 'true' wing back that didn't wander the fucking globe and Michael Gray just wasn't cutting it.

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    S. American 11:

    Chilavert
    Vizcarrondo Marquez Hurtado Roberto Carlos
    Riquelme Valderrama Etcheverry Farfan
    Zamorano Abreu

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    Quote Originally Posted by Pepe View Post
    Was Chilavert that good? I bet he was just a victim of the 90s hype machine, since he took free kicks. Just like Campos was supposed to be good, but he just wore colorful outfits.
    It was the exoticism for Europeans. There just weren't goal scoring keepers, at least not with free kick screamers or in Campos's case, subbing on a keeper to take his place and let him go up front for the last half hour on a regular basis, along with the penalties.

    You didn't see Tim Flowers trying any of that malarkey. Barthez was as close as we had really, as he dared to run out with the ball a bit.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Pepe View Post
    S. American 11:

    Chilavert
    Vizcarrondo Marquez Hurtado Roberto Carlos
    Riquelme Valderrama Etcheverry Farfan
    Zamorano Abreu
    Zamorano and Carlos were together at Inter, or very close to being, no?

    Edit - also Marquez and Riquelme at Barcelona.

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    Didn't try to follow the rules, really. I'll let someone else fix it.

    EDIT: Change Marquez for Claudio Suarez and Roberto Carlos for Kerlon and we're good to go.

    EDIT2: Fuck me, Kerlon was at Inter.

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    Fabien Barthez was better on the ball than every 'keeper playing today, and better at saving shots than most of them. City would be all over him.

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    Inter spoil the fuck out of this.

    Salas for Zamorano and Hector Moreno for Marquez, I think....

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    I included Chilavert because I enjoyed watching him take free kicks back in the day and to make the selections a little easier

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    Wanted to go down the one club man route, but then immediately hit Maldini and Totti being Italian.

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    Quite surprised to not see any use of Totti, actually. I must admit he didn't come to mind for me at all.

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