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We all remember the most famous football elevens, including the rock-solid centre-back pairings, right and left-sided interchanging wingers and deadly forward partnerships, but there are plenty of duos you could easily forget were teammates.<\/strong><\/p>\n

It’s hard\u00a0not to remember Daniel Sturridge and Luis Su\u00e1rez’s telepathic chemistry or Alan Shearer and Les Ferdinand during Newcastle’s ‘entertainers’ era, but these notorious combinations are not the only interesting ones.<\/p>\n

Some of these players have since developed a fierce rivalry, others have moved into punditry together and the rest make you wonder how both players were in the same dressing room with a\u00a0huge gulf in quality between the two.<\/p>\n

If you can remember every one of this select bunch then you deserve a solid handshake and a Ballon d’Or award for football knowledge.<\/p>\n

Here are the football combos you may\u00a0have forgotten were teammates.<\/p>\n\n

Cristiano Ronaldo and Gerard Piqu\u00e9 (Manchester United, 2003)<\/strong><\/h2>\n

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Gerard Piqu\u00e9 was plucked\u00a0from the famous La Masia academy in 2004 and spent four years at Old Trafford before returning to Barcelona. Prior to his signature, Cristiano Ronaldo signed for the Red Devils in 2003 from Sporting CP\u00a0and the pair were both taken under the wing of Sir Alex Ferguson.<\/p>\n

Due to Piqu\u00e9’s inability to break into the first team, they didn’t play a lot of football together and while Ronaldo flourished during his 291 appearances for the club, Piqu\u00e9 left in 2008.<\/p>\n

The Portuguese superstar departed one year later and signed for Real Madrid. After the pair left England, they became huge rivals as Madrid and Bar\u00e7a competed for the Spanish title and Champions League honours.<\/p>\n

David Ginola and Wayne Rooney (Everton, 2002)<\/strong><\/h2>\n

I mean, can you imagine this deadly connection? It’s a shame that these two once-spectacular footballers were born too far apart,\u00a0meaning we couldn’t witness\u00a0both of their A-games during their Goodison Park partnership.<\/p>\n

Ginola signed for Everton in 2002 \u2013 joining up with a youthfully charged Wayne Rooney \u2013 but only played five games for the Toffees before retiring from football. Despite being deemed not good enough by David Moyes, surely Mr Rooney picked up a few tricks from the flamboyant Frenchman?<\/p>\n

Danny Dichio and Juan Sebasti\u00e1n Ver\u00f3n (Sampdoria, 1997)<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Danny Dichio played with a number of outstanding players during his one season at Sampdoria, including Christian Karambeu, J\u00fcrgen Klinsmann and Giuseppe Signori.<\/p>\n

He also linked up with Argentine maestro Juan Sebasti\u00e1n Ver\u00f3n. Dichio, who had been on a loan spell at Barnet before moving to Italy, made just two appearances (and\u00a0scored two goals) before going back out on loan and then signing for Sunderland. Ver\u00f3n spent two years at the club before moving to a very talented Parma side in 1998.<\/p>\n

Roberto Mancini and Ade Akinbiyi (Leicester City, 2000)<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Now, we’re not sure why but Leicester decided that Ade Akinbiyi needed some support up-front during the 2000\/01 season.<\/p>\n

The striker managed nine goals during the campaign, but remarkably Roberto Mancini arrived from Lazio to help the big man out.<\/p>\n

The Foxes finished 13th in the Premier League and, to be honest, the Italian didn’t really add much to the side, making just four league appearances and failing to score.<\/p>\n

Still, the Akinbiyi-Mancini connection is a partnership to remember forever.<\/p>\n

Ian Wright and Henrik Larsson (Celtic, 1999)<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Two of the best centre-forwards ever to play the game, but did you remember they had played together?<\/p>\n

Ian Wright teamed up with the Celtic legend during the 1999\/00 season acting as a replacement for the Swedish striker after he broke his leg.<\/p>\n

He went on to play eight league games for the club and scored three goals before moving to Burnley at the end of the year.<\/p>\n

Henrik Larsson’s Scottish league record speaks for itself. The striker scored 174 goals in 221 appearances and is renowned as one of the best forwards ever to play for the club \u2013 a similar accolade that Wright holds at Arsenal.<\/p>\n

Ivan Rakiti\u0107, Mesut \u00d6zil and Manuel Neuer (Schalke 04, 2007)<\/strong><\/h2>\n

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What a connection these three would have been if they had all stayed at Schalke 04.<\/p>\n

Ivan Rakiti\u0107 spent four years at the German club and established himself as a first-class midfielder alongside Mesut \u00d6zil, who progressed through the youth academy and played for the first team between 2006 and 2008.<\/p>\n

Manuel Neuer will have overseen the whole transition of talented players come and go during his time at Schalke after spending his entire career there before moving to Bayern Munich in 2011.<\/p>\n

Pep Guardiola and Francesco Totti (Roma 2002)<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Pep Guardiola signed for Roma in 2002 and joined up with club veteran Francesco Totti. After he left Barcelona he moved to Brescia \u2013 where he played with Roberto Baggio \u2013 \u00a0before moving to Rome but left after just six appearances.<\/p>\n

Totti was the polar opposite as he spent his entire career playing at the Giallorossi and although only winning one domestic title, he played over 750 games for the club, scoring over 300\u00a0goals.<\/p>\n

It will be interesting to see if\u00a0Totti performs as well as Guardiola should\u00a0he one day try his hand at management.<\/p>\n

Ronaldinho and Jay-Jay Okocha (Paris Saint-Germain, 2001)<\/strong><\/h2>\n

After being noticed for his outrageous skills at Gremio, Ronaldinho moved to Europe in 2001 and signed for Paris Saint-Germain.<\/p>\n

He joined up with Jay-Jay Okocha \u2013 a player who possessed many of the same tricks and skills the Brazilian had in his locker — who played for the French side for three seasons. Imagine the skill moves that were going on in the dressing room? Woof.<\/p>\n

Despite both players being blessed with jaw-dropping control and dribbling skills, one of them moved to Barcelona while the other signed for Bolton Wanderers \u2013 we’ll let you tell us which.<\/p>\n

Toni Kroos and Arturo Vidal (Leverkusen 2009)<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Toni Kroos and Arturo Vidal both played together at Bayer Leverkusen before moving onto bigger things.<\/p>\n

During the 2009\/10 season, the pair combined \u2013 with Sami Hyypi\u00e4 at centre-back \u2013 and finished fourth in the Bundesliga. Kroos, who was on loan at the club, moved to back to Bayern Munich at the end of the season before earning a move to Real Madrid in 2014, while Vidal sealed a big-money move to Juventus. The Chilean went on to play in Munich at Kroos’ former club but agreed to sign for Los Blancos’ fierce La Liga rivals, Barcelona, in 2018.<\/p>\n

Nigel Quashie\u00a0and Javier Mascherano (West Ham, 2007)<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Javier Mascherano’s 2007 move to West Ham came as a big surprise and the talented central midfielder linked up with a number of wide-eyed Hammers as they looked to maintain their Premier League status.<\/p>\n

Remarkably, Alan Pardew didn’t quite understand the Argentinian’s masterful ability and decided to start journeyman Nigel Quashie (and sometimes Hayden Mullins) ahead of him.<\/p>\n

Mascherano went on to play just seven games for the club while Quashie just pipped him with eight.<\/p>\n

Jamie Vardy and Harry Kane (Leicester, 2012)<\/strong><\/h2>\n

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Two of the Premier League’s best strikers in recent seasons, Harry Kane and Jamie Vardy performed above all expectations for Leicester and Tottenham in 2015-16, but did you know the pair played together during the 2012\/13 campaign when Kane spent time on loan at the King Power Stadium?<\/p>\n

Kane was a shadow of the first-rate player he so quickly became after leaving Leicester and only managed two goals in 15 appearances for the club.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Vardy spearheaded the club’s return to the Premier League and scored 16 goals as Leicester finished first in the Championship. A Premier League title followed in 2016.<\/p>\n

Of course, the pair have since shared the pitch on a number of occasions with England.<\/p>\n

Neymar and Felipe Anderson (Santos, 2009)<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Neymar is one of the many talents that has come through the Santos academy and sometimes it\u2019s easy to forget about the players who helped to get him noticed on his way to football stardom.<\/p>\n

Talented midfielder Felipe Anderson was one of those players and linked up with the Barcelona man before the pair left for Europe.<\/p>\n

Anderson made 68 appearances for the Brazilian side and scored seven goals. He moved to Lazio in 2013 \u2013 the same year Neymar signed for Bar\u00e7a \u2013 and went on to play a starring role in Serie A before moving to West Ham in 2018. Neymar, on the other hand, has turned into one of the best footballers in the world and is now the most expensive footballer ever having completed a \u20ac222m (\u00a3198m) switch to Paris Saint-Germain in 2017.<\/p>\n

Jermaine Pennant and Ander Herrera (Real Zaragoza, 2009)<\/strong><\/h2>\n

After trying his luck with seven English clubs, Jermaine Pennant decided that it was time to give Spain a go and signed for Real Zaragoza in 2009.<\/p>\n

He was joined by a youthful playmaker in Ander Herrera, who had just established himself as a first-team player after developing through the Spanish side\u2019s youth academy.<\/p>\n

Pennant went on to play 26 times for Zaragoza but only managed two assists and no goals and swiftly moved back to the English league, signing for Stoke in 2010 and eventually joining non-league outfit Billericay Town in the summer of 2017 for a trial period. He has since retired and spent time in the Celebrity Big Brother house in 2018…<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Herrera impressed during his time at the club and signed for Athletic Bilbao, where his midfield performances prompted Manchester United to pay big money to bring him to Old Trafford.<\/p>\n

The Spaniard made 189 appearances for United, scoring 20 goals and winning the League Cup, the FA Cup and the Europa League, helping him to pick up two caps for Spain, before moving to PSG in 2019.<\/p>\n

David Beckham and David Moyes (Preston, 1995)<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Yes, amazingly, Moysie and Becks actually played together at Preston during the 1994\u201395 season while the young midfielder was on loan from Manchester United \u2013 who Moyes would later manage.<\/p>\n

In his second of two goals for Preston \u2013 the first coming directly from a corner on his debut \u2013 Beckham scored what would become a trademark freekick against Fulham.<\/p>\n

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DID YOU KNOW: David Moyes and David Beckham were teammates at Preston in 1994-95. pic.twitter.com\/lQ7PuzwQ0g<\/a><\/p>\n

— 10 Football (@10appfootball) August 6, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n