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Zinedine Zidane named his all-time Premier League XI and left out some huge names from his team

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Updated 14:46 29 Nov 2024 GMTPublished 14:41 29 Nov 2024 GMT

Zinedine Zidane named his all-time Premier League XI and left out some huge names from his team

The Real Madrid legend has had his say on the English division.

Ben McCrum

Ben McCrum

Featured Image Credit: Adidas/Getty

Topics: Zinedine Zidane, Premier League, Manchester United, Cristiano Ronaldo, Thierry Henry, Arsenal, Football, Liverpool, Chelsea

Ben McCrum
Ben McCrum

Ben is a sports journalist who specialises in football and MMA. He has written for publications such as Manchester Evening News, WiganToday, Manchester World and beIN Sports. Throughout his career he has interviewed top athletes in MMA including Tom Aspinall and Michael Bisping.

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Real Madrid legend Zinedine Zidane has picked the greatest Premier League side of all time, and it's going to upset some fans.

Zidane is undoubtedly be one of the greatest players of all time, winning several trophies and awards, including the Ballon d'Or.

Unfortunately for British fans, the Frenchman never played in the Premier League, spending most of his career with European giants Juventus and Real Madrid.

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However, the midfielder had always kept an eye on the top division of English football, and has even named what he believes to be the Premier League all-time XI.

While speaking in 2016 to Shortlist, via The Mirror, Zidane revealed who makes his greatest-ever Premier League lineup, and his choices show that he is a keen admirer of one club in particular.

In defence, Zidane picked almost a clean sweep of Manchester United players, starting with Peter Schmeichel in between the sticks, no doubt due to the 128 clean sheets he kept in the Premier League.

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Ahead of the Danish keeper the Frenchman picked a back four of Gary Neville, Rio Ferdinand, Jaap Stam and Ashley Cole, the one non-United player to make it into the defence.

In his greatest-ever lineup, Zidane opted for a four-man midfield consisting of countrymen Patrick Viera and Claude Makelele, as well as Paul Scholes and Steven Gerrard, who is the only Liverpool player in the whole team.

Finally up front, Zidane picked a player who he coached in Cristiano Ronaldo and another of his former France teammates, Thierry Henry.

Zinedine Zidane named an incredible team when lining up his greatest ever Premier League side. (Image: Buildlineup)
Zinedine Zidane named an incredible team when lining up his greatest ever Premier League side. (Image: Buildlineup)

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With an incredible 278 goals, 111 goals, three golden boot awards and five Premier League titles between them, it comes as no surprise that both Ronaldo and Henry make it into Zidane's lineup.

And, having been a part of the Real sides which knocked Manchester United out of Europe in 2002/03 and were sent out by Arsenal in 2005/06, it comes as no surprise that players from both Premier League sides feature so heavily in Zidane's lineup.

In total, Zidane picked an incredible six United players in his all-time lineup, alongside three Arsenal players and just one from each of Chelsea and Liverpool.

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