Friday 16 December 2016 22:15, UK
Joe Cole picked a #One2Eleven on The Fantasy Football Club based on the toughest opponents he has faced throughout his career.
The former England international chose a team-mate #One2Eleven in a previous appearance on the show, and was faced with the tough task of selecting a best opposing XI.
Having represented his country 56 times and played for Chelsea in the Champions League, Cole has faced a host of world-class players - and his #One2Eleven certainly proves that.
See which player gave him the runaround at Wembley, and who forced Jose Mourinho to give the midfielder a telling off in the team below...
Goalkeeper - Edwin van der Sar
Manchester United went for a long time without having a decent goalie and I think [Sir Alex] Ferguson said not getting this guy in earlier was a mistake.
When you play against a 'keeper and they have that commanding presence - even when he was at Fulham, he always had great games against us.
Great goalies make the goal smaller, and he was a different class - and good with his feet too.
Right back - Dani Alves
We played against him at Wembley when we faced Brazil. I was at left midfield and he was a nightmare to play against.
After about 15 minutes I gave up trying to get on the ball - he does this thing where he goes down the wing, then runs inside as if he's a centre forward.
There's so much movement when you're facing Brazil, you haven't got time to pass it on, and in the end I was playing centre-back for most of the game.
He was looking fresh, while all I could think was 'I could do without playing you today'.
Centre back - Jaap Stam
I played against him on my debut. Having just come from youth team football, I stood next to him in the tunnel and just looked up thinking 'this is the real deal'.
He was a beast. There was a 50/50 in the first 10 minutes. I'm 17 and 10 stone - and I actually put him on the floor and all my mates were like 'yeah, you kicked Jaap Stam on the floor!'.
Centre-back - Alessandro Nesta
I only played against him once, for England against Italy. When we came out for the warm-up, they were still in their suits and looked a million dollars while we were in tracksuits about three sizes too big for us. Nesta looked gorgeous… That's not a centre-half is it!
He played the game and I've never seen a defender so commanding with the ball. I loved Italian football as a kid and he was a different class coming out into the midfield.
Left back - Bixente Lizarazu
When playing Bayern Munich, he was about 35 but the first of that modern breed of full back that didn't stop running.
He was really tough to play against, as he and Ze Roberto kept interchanging on the left. I spent most of the game running back defending, and wingers shouldn't be doing that, but great full backs make you do it.
Central midfield - Xavi
In that spell when Chelsea played Barcelona a lot, I felt at the time that he was their most important player.
Our tactics were to stop him getting on the ball. He'd drop to the back four, and his manipulation of the ball meant no matter how tight you got to him, his half a touch was so quick commentators wouldn't even find time to mention that he passed the ball on.
He'd have the ball, find space and turn, then find a through ball from nowhere. He knitted that midfield together.
Central midfield - Andres Iniesta
Him and Xavi are basically a double act. Iniesta had everything Xavi had, but he had a burst of pace as well.
In their peak I would probably say Iniesta was better. In this country, when you look at utility players, it's seen negatively, but abroad, it's like 'you're a good player', who can play at number four, eight, ten or 11.
And Iniesta has played in all those different positions throughout his career and he has that little burst which puts him just above Xavi.
Central midfield - Kaka
In the same match that we also faced Alves against Brazil, I remember Steven Gerrard had to mark him. Kaka had this long stride and could just open up past players.
He was such an athlete and an unbelievable player. Brazil were a brilliant team at that time.
Forward - Lionel Messi
I remember he scored his first goal for Barcelona the night we won our first league title, because we went back and watched it - I knew there was something special there.
The boys will vouch for this, I said he'd be the best player in the world one day, and all I saw was him dink the 'keeper, but nobody does that on their debut at the Nou Camp.
You have to put three players on him - Ashley Cole used to do a great job on him - but most of the time you need more, but then you leave Xavi and Iniesta free.
Forward - Cristiano Ronaldo
He was unreal. After we all came back from the 2006 World Cup, he just seemed to change. He put on weight and ran past me once, and I felt like I had a caravan on. I kicked him in front of the dugout and Ferguson jumped up, and I just wanted to say 'that's all I could do!'.
He's a little bit arrogant on the pitch but everyone that has played alongside him says he's a nice guy. But you need that arrogance to be as good as he is. He was unbelievable.
Forward - Ronaldinho
Playing against him, while I was marking Giovanni van Bronckhorst, Jose told me I had to follow my man because Ronaldinho would just find him.
So I'm running back with Van Bronckhorst, and Ronaldinho has his back to goal with a couple of players on him. I let Van Bronckhorst go because I thought there's no way he can get it through to him - but he's done about three stepovers, waits and back-heels it to Van Bronckhorst who almost scored.
I looked over and Jose is screaming at me, with his scarf everywhere. I didn't let him go anywhere after that.
