Your Iconic Footballer as a lad?....

indeedido said:
The only foreign shirt I ever bought was an Ajax one. Cruyff was a fabulous player on another level at the time.
Souness at Boro. Frank Worthington a God.
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You beat me to it :) Souness and Frank W. Absolutely loved both as a kid. Worthington's autobiograhy is a bit of a chuckle. His brother Bob played briefly for us in the 60's
 
Rivaldo. I absolutely adored him, he was so quick and played with a smile, could beat anyone and playing for Barca in that iconic kit. I had loads of spanish knock offs with his name on the back when i was growing up.

I went to Barca ground for a tour when i was about 10,11 and he was coming out of the ground onto a coach with the rest of the squad so i shouted him and he put his bags down to look round and wave my way, i'll never forget that. Some player.
 
Bryan Robson - had everything

Boro - probably Heine Otto or Bosco, the lure of the sexy foreigner
 
VestasBoro said:
Rivaldo. I absolutely adored him, he was so quick and played with a smile, could beat anyone and playing for Barca in that iconic kit. I had loads of spanish knock offs with his name on the back when i was growing up.

I went to Barca ground for a tour when i was about 10,11 and he was coming out of the ground onto a coach with the rest of the squad so i shouted him and he put his bags down to look round and wave my way, i'll never forget that. Some player.
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We all had those knock-off Brazil/Barca kicks with Rivaldo 10 on that back :ROFLMAO:. I even think I managed a Romario one in 1994.

Controversial but I adored Shearer as a young kid. When I found out he ate chicken and beans before a match, it was all I would eat before a game too!
 
FatFrank said:
We all had those knock-off Brazil/Barca kicks with Rivaldo 10 on that back :ROFLMAO:. I even think I managed a Romario one in 1994.

Controversial but I adored Shearer as a young kid. When I found out he ate chicken and beans before a match, it was all I would eat before a game too!
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My mate had a Shearer kit in school, the weird silky blue away one he was striker and adored him, still does now if someone scores a belter hes often heard shouting SHEARERRRRRR!
 
Paolo Maldini, Giuseppe signori loved watching them on channel 4. For some reason I loved Garry Mabbut don't know why. Mustoe is my all time favourite boro player.
 
Borotommo said:
Mario Kempes - International
Spike & Souness - Boro
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It's obvously an age thing. Spike and Souness were my two favourite Boro players as well. I also used to watch Kempes 1980/81 when I lived in Valencia. He was incredibly cool - looked amazing and just strutted around the pitch. Made very little contribution until he was in the box. It might be my memory playing tricks but I recall that whenever I saw him get the ball in the box he scored. I don't think he would have had much truck with all of this modern forwards pressing and tracking back lark.

But the greatest of all, by a country mile, was Cruyff. I actually fell off the sofa when he did the famous turn at the 74 World Cup. Nobody had ever seen anything like it before - certainly not the Swedish defender who was marking him and who is probably still going the wrong way even now.
 
Paul Gascoigne, Tottenham era before the Cup Final injury. Great kits, great boots, at his peak as a player. Just looked like he had the world at his feet and made football look like fun:
 
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