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The ultimate Hibs Masters team as legends six-a-side tournament returns this summer

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The Masters is back this summer after a decade off the air.Selected teams of club legends will go head-to-head in the sixa-sie- format on the iconic blue indoor pitch.

Celtic and Rangers are the only Scottish Premiership clubs taking part, but Hibs featured when the tournament was a regular on the Sky Sports schedule back in the early 2000s.

The Hibees boast a number of former stars who would no doubt still do a job in the small-sided version of the game. With that in mind, Record Sport has come up with the ultimate Masters team made up of Easter Road favourites.

The only criteria is that players must be 35 or over in the year of the tournament and have played for the Leith outfit.Even Hibs fans will admit, picking a goalkeeper to feature in this team was always likely to be a struggle.The Hibees have had a few between the sticks who have failed to perform with high profile derby errors plaguing more than one.But Swede Andersson was a popular figure at Easter Road and was a fairly consistent performer during his one season in Leith, helping Hibs reach the League Cup final that year.The first name on the Hibs Masters team sheet.The France international arrived under Alex McLeish to lead Hibs’ promotion push back to the top flight in 1998, and was a revelation.The former Marseille midfielder was deployed as a sweeper in the back three, but ran the show from there.A class act on and off the pitch, Sauzee was a cut above the rest even after promotion, and there’s a reason why fans christened him ‘Le God’.Made a long-awaited to return to the capital earlier this year to appear at a hanlon Stevenson Foundation charity dinner, and punters would love to see him pull on the green and white for the six-a-sides.The braun to

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