Jack Lang

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459 appearances 6 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 4 Jul

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The Athletic FC Podcast · World Cup Draft: Picking our Best XIs ever... with a twist · 4 Jun 2026 podcast

That rules out a lot of players I would still love to pick, but I don't like, I wouldn't wedge Zico on the left wing, for example. matched

I find that very distasteful. matched

Same for Zinedine Zidane, really, or Pushkas. matched

Or Pushkas. matched

Okay, centre midfield, let's do that first. matched

I've got Pirlo in there. matched

Two Brazilian options were Didi and Zito, both of whom won it twice, but I'm quite strongly invested in 1958 and 1962 already. matched

And let's just have a little bit of variety. matched

I'm going to go for, I think... matched

Only the second of my players who hasn't won it, but I'm going to go for Johan Neskens, who was Johan Cruyff's lieutenant in 74 and 78. matched

Really good player. matched

So he's going to go in alongside Pirlo. matched

Okay, I'll talk us into it then. matched

So left midfield remains my area. matched

Left attacker. matched

And that rule obviously rules out Roberto Rivelino, Ronaldinho and Mario Zagallo. matched

Ronaldinho, I was tempted to pick earlier, but I actually... matched

think he didn't do his best work at world cups uh was very young in 2002 brazil were rubbish in 2006 and then he didn't get picked for the next two um so my options as i see them people who can play on the left are matched

the one I won't pick is Giovanni Ferrari who won it twice for Italy but only in very blurry old video and so let's go a bit more up to date and I don't have a Spanish player and I'm going to have Andres Iniesta very nice who can play in such midfield but was very often used from the left in Spain's World Cup win in 2010 yeah exactly very good Felipe your final pick matched

I think we all win the Faf Award just for the amount of post-it notes and sheets of paper that we've used to... Oli, how many players in your XI haven't won the World Cup? matched

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