Andrei Kanchelskis picks his #One2Eleven on The Fantasy Football Club
Saturday 7 November 2015 14:01, UK
Former Manchester United and Rangers winger Andrei Kanchelskis picks his #One2Eleven on The Fantasy Football Club.
Kanchelskis is the only player in history to have scored in each of the Glasgow, Merseyside and Manchester local derbies, and has two Premier League titles to his name.
The 46-year-old has gone with a traditional 4-4-2 formation, with plenty of stellar names from both the international and club scene.
GOALKEEPER: Peter Schmeichel
Definitely Peter Schmeichel in goal, I have never seen such a good goalkeeper in my life, the best goalkeeper in the world. Professional, a great guy and everyone who sees him sees that he is a massive man. For attacking players, that is very scary when they see him. Sometimes goalkeepers do not shout during a game, but he was always shouting at his players during a game, which was excellent.
LEFT-BACK: Denis Irwin
A good defender with good vision and passing, and he is a good man as well, so he is unbelievable. He played at a high level every game, which is like 50 games a season, and nobody played like Denis Irwin.
CENTRE-BACK: Oleg Luzhny
A very, very strong man, he was 35-years-old when he signed his contract with Arsenal and he played at a very high level for them for a few seasons, where he was brilliant.
CENTRE-BACK: Steve Bruce
After Bryan Robson, he was United's real captain. He was not very quick, but a good mind and a very, very strong man. He was also always very helpful with the players and especially very helpful for me and my family. And he was also a very nice person.
RIGHT-BACK: Volodymyr Bezsonov
If Dynamo Kiev had some problems at right back, then Bezsonov would play, if they had some problems at left midfield, then Bezsonov would play. He was an excellent player, and his best position was in defence.
LEFT MIDFIELD: Ryan Giggs
On the left side is Ryan Giggs, who was very quick, good vision and passing and he scored more than 100 goals, and he especially was a very nice person. He played till he was 40 years old and even now he is probably better than some players at Man United!
RIGHT MIDFIELD: Anders Limpar
On the right side is Limpar, who I played with at Everton. He was very quick and skilful, good technically with good vision, so for me he is good to play as a right midfielder.
CENTRE MIDFIELD: Roy Keane
Very strong and clever, a really good captain for Man United, the best midfielder I have ever seen in my life. Very powerful and strong in the tackle, an absolutely brilliant player.
CENTRE MIDFIELD: Eric Cantona
The second midfielder, but more attacking. In some games he played like in a cinema, you know, like who is Cantona? A very good player and when he left Leeds for Man United he spent a few days in a hotel just focussing on the games, and he was a little bit strange, but that is Eric Cantona.
CENTRE FORWARD: Gabriel Batistuta
I played with him at Fiorentina and every season he would score at least 20 goals in Serie A and fans would buy Batistuta busts in Florence, where he was a legend. And if you go to Florence and say Batistuta, everyone would say 'Batigol,' which is nice.
CENTRE FORWARD: Mark Hughes
A very, very good striker, powerful and strong and who scared defences. Some forwards score too many goals against the smaller teams, but if you look at the records you will see that Mark Hughes scored a lot of goals, especially against the top-10 teams, which is very, very good.
Sometimes in my life I see a lot of people who are good players, but a bad person. But when I play together with these guys, everybody is a good person and player. And thank you very much to everyone who I played with and good luck to everybody.