Barcelona's best ever XI ... the right-winger ⚡️ | OneFootball

With the football on hold at the moment, we’ve been thinking about who gets in Barcelona’s all-time XI.

And we’re missing a name to complete our midfield.

Here are the nominees …

3rd – Luis Figo

Yes, of course, it’s controversial. But Figo was simply electric.

A true old school-style winger, Figo joined Barcelona at the age of 23 and lit up Camp Nou for five years. He starred as the club won the 1997 Cup Winners’ Cup, won LaLiga in 1998 and 1999, and scored 45 goals in 249 appearances for the club. Before it was all ruined.

In 2000, Figo joined Real Madrid and became hated in Barcelona. Just months later he won the Ballon d’Or.

His talents made him impossible to ignore here but there was no way he was actually going to make our XI.

2nd – Samuel Eto’o

Eto’o may have spent the majority of his Barcelona career playing up front but we’ve squeezed him in on the right, where he moved in 2009 when Lionel Messi tucked into the middle of the pitch.

The Cameroonian was, frankly, unstoppable. A deadly finisher, Eto’o’s pace and movement made for an incredible combination. His 130 Barcelona goals included 36 in his final season at Camp Nou, when Barcelona won the treble, and he’s the eighth top goalscorer in the club’s history.

Not to mention the face he scored in two separate Champions League final wins, we simply had to find a space for him.

And the winner is … László Kubala

Where Barcelona have documented their history on the club’s official website, 1950-1961 is titled “The Kubala era”. And that says it all.

The Hungarian refugee joined the club before any of their great successes and went on to win 14 trophies (including four LaLiga titles) during his decade there.

Body feints, backheels, the ability to play with both feet. Kubala was simply mesmerising, playing 2000s football in the 1950s. And doing so to great effect, scoring 194 goals for the club.

Barcelona had 26,300 members in 1950 but by 1961 the figure was 52,971. People were flocking to see Kubala and when, in 1957, Barcelona moved into Camp Nou, they were more or less forced by the demand from people who wanted to see Kubala play.

In 1999, Kubala was voted the club’s best ever player and, until the death of Johan Cruyff in 2016, was the only man to be honoured with statue outside the club’s stadium. A genuine club icon and one of the all-time greats.

Here’s how the team is looking so far …

GK: Andoni Zubizarreta RB: Dani Alves CB: Carles Puyol CB: Ronald Koeman LB: Sigfrid Gràcia DM: Sergio Busquets CM: Xavi CM: Johan Cruyff RW: László Kubala

Check back tomorrow when we will be choosing our centre-forward.