Who was your first soccer hero?

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Who was your first soccer hero? 

Post#1 » by SNL365COM » Mon Nov 7, 2011 10:03 pm

Who were the players that you idolized when you first started watching soccer?

Mine...

Roberto Baggio
Gianluca Vialli
Alan Shearer

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Post#2 » by Le Roi » Mon Nov 7, 2011 11:10 pm

Sinisa Mihajlovic
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Post#3 » by edfmx86 » Mon Nov 7, 2011 11:29 pm

Gustavo Napoles (Chivas) and Carlos Hermosillo (Mexican National) were mine
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Post#4 » by magik9113 » Tue Nov 8, 2011 12:52 am

Del Piero,
Baggio, Totti, Montella
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Post#5 » by and1GS » Tue Nov 8, 2011 1:12 am

Ronaldo, he's the reason I'm an Inter fan :)
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Post#6 » by BC_ » Tue Nov 8, 2011 1:26 am

Kanu :lol:

I was 13 and annoyed he wasn't getting a game because of this new guy called henry...
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Post#7 » by BC_ » Tue Nov 8, 2011 1:34 am

Oh, and Bergkamp; much more fitting.
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Post#8 » by SNL365COM » Tue Nov 8, 2011 1:42 am

Bergkamp...... the guy who was TERRIFIED of flying

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Post#9 » by Boognish » Tue Nov 8, 2011 2:20 am

Beckham, no homo
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Post#10 » by 5DOM » Tue Nov 8, 2011 2:22 am

Ronaldo and Seedorf for me
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Post#11 » by Slava » Tue Nov 8, 2011 3:05 am

Rudy Voeller in mid 90s.

Ruud Van Nistelrooy and Ole Solskjaer once I started following club football.
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Post#12 » by bryant08 » Tue Nov 8, 2011 3:08 am

Becks
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Post#13 » by diogo_pt » Tue Nov 8, 2011 3:10 am

Vitor Baía and Jorge Costa probably
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Post#14 » by Massimo » Tue Nov 8, 2011 3:17 am

Hagi
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Post#15 » by Trilogy » Tue Nov 8, 2011 3:19 am

Gianfranco Zola.
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Post#16 » by SNL365COM » Tue Nov 8, 2011 3:23 am

the mid-90s Chelsea teams were great to watch. Vialli, Zola, Petrescu, Flo

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Post#17 » by IronChef » Tue Nov 8, 2011 3:32 am

Dennis Bergkamp for me. Still might be the best player I've ever seen in the EPL.
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Post#18 » by J-Mezzy » Tue Nov 8, 2011 4:10 am

Andres Escobar



Faustino Asprilla
Carlos Valderrama
Rene Higuita
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Post#19 » by edfmx86 » Tue Nov 8, 2011 5:15 am

also El Pibe!
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Post#20 » by Captain_Obvious » Tue Nov 8, 2011 8:38 am

Oh, long time ago:
Matthäus, Baggio, and Andreas Möller
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