David Beckham named Luis Figo and Zinedine Zidane in dream five-a-side team that would be unbeatable

David Beckham named former Manchester United teammate Gary Neville in his dream five-a-side team alongside Real Madrid legends Zinedine Zidane and Luis Figo.

The former England international brought up some of his former teammates in Beckham; the four-part docuseries that details his "meteoric rise from humble beginnings to global football stardom".

In one of the episodes, Becks gave viewers an insight into a private football pitch that sits on two acres of land that is attached to their converted barn in the Cotswolds.

The 49-year-old goes on to mention that his son, Romeo, wanted to take him on in a five-a-side game, which brought the conversation to his dream team.

Asked how often he still kicks a ball, Beckham said: "Romeo comes out here all the time. He wants a match between my mates and his mates. He said: 'Who would you invite?'".

Beckham went on to name Gary Neville, Roberto Carlos, Luis Figo, Zinedine Zidane and Ronaldo Nazario as those he would pick to face Romeo's team.

"I said: 'Well, maybe I'd get Gary [Neville] round. And he was like 'Okay'. Then I said: 'Well I could probably get Roberto Carlos to come over, and maybe Ronaldo, he would step over. Maybe [Luis] Figo, maybe [Zinedine] Zidane].' And he was like: 'Well that's not fair! Why would you do that?'.

"I'd say: 'Because I'm gonna win. We're gonna win!' I'm not letting his mates beat us!'"

Figo, who featured in the Netflix docuseries alongside some of his former Real Madrid teammates, was then told about Beckham's comments. He replied: "Against his kids? I would kill them! The kids!"

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Earlier this year, Beckham was full of praise for Zinedine Zidane. "He's not just one of the greatest players that I've ever played with, one of the hardest trainers, and also just cool," Beckham said on the Rio Ferdinand Presents podcast,

"He's just cool, you know, without trying. You play him a ball anywhere on the pitch, any height, any level, any speed, he'd bring it down like it was just one of those things that he does.

"People literally used to turn up at the Bernabeu to watch him just controllable. Because it was like watching a ballerina, just the way he plays is so elegant. Everything about him, he's elegant."

Beckham went on to reminisce about one of his first training sessions together with Ronaldo Nazario.

"I think when you watch Ronnie play back in the day, I mean, he's electrifying on every level," he said.

"One of our first training sessions was in Korea, I think, or China, I'm not sure where we were at the time. And the ball had just been played across to him and all he had to do was put it in the goal. And as he's played across to him, I'm trying to defend it.

"So I've slid across and as I'm sliding across, I thought he was just gonna play it first time into the goal, and as I'm sliding across he just puts his foot on the ball, and as I'm sliding past he just watches me like that with the biggest smile on his face and he just taps it in and I was like oh god! Wow!"