Legendary footballers having brief time with our team (6)
I believe the answer is:
famous
'legendary' is the definition.
(thesaurus)
'footballers having brief time with our team' is the wordplay.
'footballers' becomes 'FA' (Football Association abbreviation).
'having' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'brief time' becomes 'mo' (short for moment).
'with' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'our team' becomes 'us' (the team with both of us).
'fa'+'mo'+'us'='FAMOUS'
(Other definitions for famous that I've seen before include "Illustrious" , "Known-of widely" , "Acclaimed" , "Known to very many people" , "Renowned, noted" .)