David Beckham last week announced plans for a new MLS side to be based in Miami – nice work if you can get it. With the rumour mill going into overdrive over the new side’s potential name (Miami Spice anyone?), we take a look at a legends eleven that Beckham could field if he could persuade a few of his old teammates to come out of retirement.

GK – Peter Schmeichel

The Great Dane was voted the world’s best keeper two years in a row from 1992-93 and even managed to score 11 career goals despite his job being to keep them out at the other end.

Alongside Beckham, Schmeichel’s greatest moment came in 1999 as Manchester United won a famous treble, winning the league, FA Cup and that monumental Champions League victory over Bayern Munich, a feat that no other Premier League team has accomplished since.

RB – Gary Neville

Few players manage to stay with one club throughout their careerand it is only possible if standards are not allowed to drop, something Neville always managed to do before finally retiring from the game at the end of the 2010/11 season.

Neville was also a key part of that famous 1999 treble winning squad, one of two Champions League triumphs he tasted with United, while he also won a massive eight league titles with the Red Devils.

CB – Alessandro Nesta

The Italian centre-back is surely one of the finest defenders we have had the pleasure of seeing in the modern era, with his partnership with Fabio Cannavaro key to Italy lifting the World Cup in 2006.

Nesta has won three Serie A titles during his career with Lazio and AC Milan, while he also has two Champions League winners’ medals to his name with the latter in a distinguished career.

CB – Paolo Maldini

But he is not a player anybody would think of overlooking for a place in any XI should he be available for selections, as he is considered one of the finest defenders to have ever graced the game.

Another one-club man, Maldini spent 22 years in Milan’s first-team, winning seven Serie A titles and five European Cups, more than any other player, with only international honours missing from his CV, having finished as a runner-up in both a World Cup and European Championship.

LB – Roberto Carlos

The Brazilian was a rampant force down the left-hand side of the pitch for both national team and Real Madrid, where he enjoyed a successful time alongside Beckham.

CM: Roy Keane

Keane’s uncompromising style made his one of the best midfielders to have graced Old Trafford, whilst his rivalry with Patrick Vieira provided one of the main talking points of the early part of the century.

CM: Paul Scholes

One thing he couldn’t do, however, wastackle. The midfielder drew infamy for his poor tackling and picked up 120 yellow cards over his career.

CAM: Andrea Pirlo

RM: Zinedine Zidane

However, Zidane’s parting gift to the world of football showed another side to one of the game’s greatest ever players, with the Frenchman being sent off in extra time of the 2006 World Cup final – his final professional match – for a headbutt on Italy’s Marco Materazzi.

LM: Ronaldinho

A frequent adversary of Beckham’s during the two men’s respective spells in Spain, Ronaldinho scored 70 goals in 145 Barcelona appearances and won back to back footballer of the year awards in 2004 and 2005.

He also helped Beckham to defeat an army of Pepsi-hoarding medieval soldiers in a 2004 TV advert (is there no end to his talents?), although he makes our team on the back of his 21st century abilities. Mainly.

Ronaldo (The Brazilian One)

Only the second man to score at least three goals in three World Cup’s, Ronaldo scored 15 World Cup goals accross the 1998, 2002 and 2006 tournaments, becoming the competition’s record scorer in the process.

Subs: Luis Figo, Fabio Cannavaro, Eric Cantona, Ruud Van Nistelrooy, Iker Casillas, Steven Gerrard.

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