The Tuesday XI: Father's Day

We continue a great new feature on the Free Beer Movement site. In collaboration with the quality soccer site, "The Other 87 Minutes" we present the "Tuesday XI" (and sometimes the "Tuesday Ten") a thoughtful list on a variety of topics in the world of soccer.

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“When you play a match, it is statistically proven that players actually have the ball three minutes on average. The best players – the Zidanes, Ronaldinhos, Gerrards – will have the ball maybe four minutes. Lesser players – defenders – probably two minutes. So, the most important thing is: what do you do those 87 minutes when you do not have the ball…. That is what determines whether you’re a good player or not.” –Johann Cruyff

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Today's Tuesday XI puts together a squad of our favorite famous fathers. The squad lines up in a rather conservative, somewhat cantankerous deep 3-5-2.

Our Father's Day XI

GK – Darth Vader – Anyone whose most famous line is an admission of paternity qualifies for this team. Not as quick as he once was though, but still a Force between the sticks.

CB – Ward Cleaver — Like the best fathers, our central defender trio should be made up of strong, reliable, consistent performers.

SW – Atticus Finch — And it doesn’t hurt if they’re occasionally capable of some real hero moments.

With Cousin Oliver, it'd be a perfect 4-3-3

CB – Mike Brady — Gets to be our captain, since he has plenty of experience marshaling nine other performers toward a common goal (we’re counting Cousin Oliver).

LWB – King Lear — Maybe he’s not mobile enough anymore, but as we established before, all left backs are crazy.

RWB – Mufasa — As a king and a wingback, he understands that offense and defense exist together in a delicate balance, and that all the players on the pitch are interconnected. Now he just needs a nifty catchphrase for it all.

CM – Saturn — Like Mike Tyson, he’s going to eat your children. Or his children. Either way, not someone you want to line up across from.

CM -- Father Time – Never late in the challenge, and hasn’t played a mistimed pass in his long career.

Admittedly, depth perception
can be a problem for Big Boss.

AM – Father Christmas — Makes a habit of gifting goals to the forwards in front of him.

CF – Big Boss — We left Solid Snake out of the Video Game XI two weeks ago, so we’ll put his father — the protagonist of Metal Gear Solid 3, antagonist of Metal Gears 1 and 2, and father of both the series’ hero and two of its villains — in as a forward, where the excessive firepower he and his brood are known for can be put to use.

CF – Wilt Chamberlain — If we assume even an eighth of the ‘20,000 women in his lifetime’ thing, there have got to be more than a few Little Dippers running around. I mean, his personal life has its own Wikipedia page, for crying out loud. At any rate, he’s a hyper-athletic seven-footer who can score like nobody else’s business (in more ways than one).

What do you think? Any famous fathers we left out of our Tuesday XI?

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