Favourite 'wild' football star....

[RichieS]

Garrincha the Brazilian footballer prob my favourite. Mad dribbling skills, raging alcoholic and womaniser who apparently slept with 10000+ women. Reputed to have a 14 inch cock and lost his virginity to a goat apparently, that's a wild man of football.

Garrincha who I personally believe is the greatest footballer of all time.

Edmundo is the best modern day example

Watching some of the old Brazilian matches with the old heavy leather football, the control he had was unbelievable. That and the bend he could put on a ball when shooting made him a unique player of that period. Even Pele could not do what he could do with a football.

Correct. Brazil were undefeated when the two played together. Plus, Garrincha went and won a World Cup almost on his own in 1962 when Pele was injured ending up as player of the tournament and top scorer. The greatest dribbler of all time, a prolific goalscorer, the inventor of the banana/swerve shot and all done whilst he was drinking over a bottle of Cachaca a day, physically impaired by his crooked legs and mentally impaired by his illiteracy and introverted life in the jungle.

For me, he is greater than Pele or Maradona.

I read somewhere that in the first attacking move of Brazil's game against the USSR in the World Cup in 1958 he put a defender on his arse, stopped and waited for him to get up, then put him down again. With skills, obviously. Something to do with the Russians being the favourites for the tournament and him wanting to prove that they weren't all that.

 

[Oscar22]

Given the years I was growing up watching football, probably Cantona for me. I was a bit young for Maradonna etc but Eric was pretty cool to me when I was growing up. That chipped goal he scores before just turning around to look at the crowd with that "you all saw that right?" Look was awesome to me as a kid.
Just liked the way he played the game with a bit of attitude. Appreciate he could be a bit of a thug at times (Hi Crystal Palace fans)

 

[ljinko888]

Marouane Fellaini

 

[Japhet]

I liked the story about Ballotelli being stopped by the Police in Manchester. When they asked him why he had 10k in cash in his glove box he answered 'because I'm a footballer and I'm extremely rich'.