Oli Kay

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329 appearances 3 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 17 Jun

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

Yeshin Award.

It is.

So I'm going for Lev Yeshin, who not only... Well, I mean, he...

Played in the 58 World Cup, played in the 62 World Cup, played in the 66 and was just regarded as the number one goalkeeper in world football.

And yeah, so I think although my team...

Yeah, I think it looks good in black and white, man.

Platini, Cruyff, Socrates, Yashin.

There are people who are undisputed all-time greats like Di Stefano, Cristiano Ronaldo, Van Basten, who perhaps are less associated with World Cup.

I was going to put Cristiano Ronaldo in my team purely because it would look good on paper.

Wow.

I wondered whether we were going to have some, you know, amongst the wildcard categories, I wondered whether there might be, and it would be a very subjective thing, but somebody who was...

purely sort of considered like a specific World Cup player, which I think Scalacci, although he clearly had a great season at Juventus in order to get into that squad, he to me would have been that type of person.

Oleg Selenko, Roger Miller.

Yeah.

Players who had great careers but are in the public consciousness.

There's the option of going for the only man to have won the World Cup twice as a manager.

But...

I'm going to go for, just to make it easier for everybody else, I'm going to go for a player manager.

One of my players, Franz Beckenbauer, won the World Cup as a manager with West Germany in 1990.

So he could be player manager and maybe Cruyff would listen to him more than most.

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