{"id":625,"date":"2026-04-05T02:08:23","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T02:08:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/disport.com.ng\/?p=625"},"modified":"2026-04-05T02:08:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T02:08:23","slug":"gabriel-jesus-names-brilliant-5-a-side-team-of-ex-teammates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/disport.com.ng\/?p=625","title":{"rendered":"Gabriel Jesus names brilliant 5-a-side team of ex-teammates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Gabriel Jesus has named his best five-a-side team from players he\u2019s played alongside, with no current Arsenal teammate making the cut.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Brazilian leaned heavily on his countrymen when posed the question by Rio Ferdinand for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=LePYYmpgFEg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Rio Ferdinand Presents<\/a> podcast, with goalkeepers excluded.<\/p>\n<p>Jesus oped for Thiago Silva and Dani Alves as his defensive unit, with Neymar and Philippe Coutinho tasked with providing the creativity.<\/p>\n<p>The 29-year-old opted for Coutinho over former teammates including David Silva, Kevin De Bruyne, Yaya Toure and Bukayo Saka, insisting the ex-Liverpool star\u2019s strengths in short-sided games earn him the nod.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe is the type of player that keeps the ball, short plays. Magician. His shooting\u2026,\u201d Jesus said on Coutinho.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe talk about David Silva, and he\u2019s the best European player I played with, unbelievable. But I think Coutinho has more quality to finish the action, like score goals, so that\u2019s why I go to Coutinho.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jesus picked Sergio Aguero as the striker for his side. Ferdinand asked Jesus to speak more about Aguero, admitting the former Manchester City striker was one of the top five forwards he played against during his own career.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe can attack your back, he can keep you on his toes,\u201d Jesus said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere was one game, against Chelsea, he missed a tap-in from half a metre. No goal, he missed. Next action, from outside the area, top corner. Hat-trick this game. He\u2019s the type of striker that can miss chances but score three, easily.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Read \u2013\u00a0Jesus \u2018very confident\u2019 Arsenal will win Premier League title<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>See more \u2013\u00a0Premier League players who shone in the international break<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Follow the Football Faithful on Social Media:<\/strong><\/em><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/FootyFaithful\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/thefootballfaithfull\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Instagram<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FootyFaithful_\">Twitter<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCUgN0WQEhxRbfTdlbkEG7zQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">YouTube<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gabriel Jesus has named his best five-a-side team from players he\u2019s played alongside, with no<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":626,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arsenal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/disport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/disport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/disport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/disport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/disport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}