Which footballer was the reason you started watching/loving football?

[ARIAGA II]

Same for McMananam, plus he could dribble. I know I liked Totti, Maldini, Tommasi, Ronaldo (the god), Zanetti, Henry, Ljunberg and Kluivert. I also thought Vieiri was the coolest person because of his jersey number.

Also those Deportivo teams of the early 2000s were some of my favorite teams to watch Mauro Silva, Fran and Makaay!

 

[Xifio]

Kalusha!! wow, didn't expect to see his name being mentioned in here by anyone but me ... awesome!

he's the first on my list of players who made / still make me watch football:

Kalusha Bwalya
Patrick Kluivert
Jari Litmanen
Ronaldo
Luis Figo
Francesco Totti
Antonio Cassano
Rafaël van der Vaart
Zlatan Ibrahimović
Mario Balotelli
Marco Verratti

Verratti

I give up watching football daily before going to sleep, and pick up the habit again the next day ... that list is in chronological order (1994-present) ...

 

[regularcat]

gerrard & ronaldinho.

 

[theo]

Hagi, Del Piero, Zidane, Davids and (lol) Overmars.

 

[synopt1k]

Francesco Toldo - Euro 2000 , Semi-finals against Holland influenced on me a lot , I become a goalkeeper , ))

 

[Zlatan]

Jari Litmanen

 

[Jaboldinho]

The king!

 

[theo]

funny that Litmanen has still been listed as a free agent for the past two or three FM versions.

 

[Jaboldinho]

He hasn't retired. And never will.

 

[Mus]

He should come holiday with Heskey and Del Piero

 

[WinCool]

Cristiano Ronaldo and Real Madrid is the reason why i watch and play football!

 

[theo]

what are you, 11?

 

[newbie original]

Jari Litmanen

The king!

The Liverpool legend.

 

[chygry]

Just for one season though, and he didn't achieve much.

 

[Seán D]

Paul McGrath vs Italy in USA '94

What a performance.

 

[chygry]

what are you, 11?

Sorry about that stupid post, i was under the influence.

Looking back at it now it makes no sense.

(sorry about a little bit of offtopic talk, i just aswered a question)

 

[Mandieta6]

chygry, I will ban you if you keep purposefully mis-reading comments in a bid for attention. Shape up or ship out.

 

[Chacarita Juniors]

Javier Zanetti & Antonio 'el turco' Mohamed.