David Beckham picks his dream 5-a-side-team including Zinedine Zidane

David Beckham has named his dream 5-a-side team of players he shared the same pitch with – and only one Manchester United teammate made the cut.

The 49-year-old former England international enjoyed spells at some of the world's biggest clubs during his 21-year career, including Manchester United, Real Madrid, AC Milan and Paris Saint-Germain.

He was also privileged enough to call some of the all-time greats his teammates. Zinedine Zidane, for example, played alongside Beckham for much of his four-year spell at Los Blancos.

And to the surprise of nobody, Beckham has named Zizou in his ultimate 5-a-side team after naming a back two of Roberto Carlos and Paolo Maldini.

Becks played with Carlos at the Bernabeu, and a short stint at AC Milan meant he was able to share the same dressing room as Maldini, who is widely regarded as one of the greatest centre-backs of all time.

Speaking to the Rio Ferdinand Presents podcast, Becks was full of praise for Carlos and Maldini, but it was Zidane who earned the biggest compliments.

"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 about the Frenchman, who lifted the Ballon d'Or in 1998.

"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."

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Unsurprisingly, Beckham went on to name Ronaldo Nazario as his striker before reminiscing about one of their first training sessions together.

"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!"

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Last, and certainly not least, Beckham named former Manchester United captain Roy Keane as the final piece in his jigsaw of dream players.

"You need a leader and you need someone that's going to actually tackle and fight and be the player that he is, so I'm gonna have to say Keaney," he added.

"He took no day off, and I don't mean in the physical sense of having a day off. I mean, every single day that he stepped on that training pitch, he wanted to win. He inspired us every single day because he came in with that mentality and we all knew that that's what we have to cope with.

"That's the level that we have to reach and that's why Keaney was who he was because he was a winner and he was hungry and he always wanted to win."

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