Peter H Posted June 25, 2014 Report Share Posted June 25, 2014 You can tell alot about a guy by asking who they "were" as a kid when they played football with their mates. You know when you were young and about to start a game of footy, someone cries out "im Platini" someone else was Maradona etc. Who were you? I was always Zico or Socrates. (Depending on if someone else called Zico before me) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Romey 1878 Posted June 25, 2014 Report Share Posted June 25, 2014 Kanchelskis. I worshipped the ground that Man walked on. I even got to meet him and I couldn't say a word! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeO Posted June 25, 2014 Report Share Posted June 25, 2014 Bally every time; I've posted this photo before but that's me back row third left in about 1970 with my beloved white boots. Steve_E and MC11 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnh Posted June 25, 2014 Report Share Posted June 25, 2014 Tommy Jones, the Everton centre-half in the late 1940's. What a classy centre-half he was. I was a centre-half and modelled myself on Tommy Jones. I have a match report from when I played for Harrogate Town which referred to me as a 'stylish player'. That's the nearest I got! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rubecula Posted June 25, 2014 Report Share Posted June 25, 2014 Fred Pickering if I was an Everton player, But mostly Garincha Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lowensda Posted June 25, 2014 Report Share Posted June 25, 2014 (edited) Yeboha... Because I used to tw*t it. Broke a lad's wrist once, pummeled the ball and it flew like shit off a shovel and snapped his left wrist. Edit- spelt it wrong. Yeboah. Edited June 25, 2014 by tenaciousj Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brett Angel Posted June 25, 2014 Report Share Posted June 25, 2014 Limpar & kanchelskis Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest blueboy122 Posted June 25, 2014 Report Share Posted June 25, 2014 Figo or Zidane Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sibdane Posted June 25, 2014 Report Share Posted June 25, 2014 Zidane. In fact, the first the letters of my last name are "Sib" and my nickname used to be punned as Sibedine Sibdane. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brett Angel Posted June 25, 2014 Report Share Posted June 25, 2014 Kanchelskis. I worshipped the ground that Man walked on. I even got to meet him and I couldn't say a word! My best everton memories as a kid. Remeber waking up and seeing kanchelskis on the back of the mirror, raining at goodison with his umbrella on the pitch. That was a huge signing back then. Got morning wood. Always remember him taking the piss at anfield. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cake Posted June 25, 2014 Report Share Posted June 25, 2014 Bally every time; I've posted this photo before but that's me back row third left in about 1970 with my beloved white boots. Nice photo Mike - some serious boots on the girl on the end, the one stood in front of the teacher! I too was Bally, or Pele or Kendall or Husband or Eusebio or Lorimer or West or Bonetti depending who, what, where and when we were playing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeO Posted June 25, 2014 Report Share Posted June 25, 2014 Nice photo Mike - some serious boots on the girl on the end, the one stood in front of the teacher! That's not a girl that's Peter Harris . KId brother of Paul (front row second left) and I think they only had one pair of boots between them so Peter used to turn up wearing wellies. I remember the names of all but one of them even after all these years. And actually the "teacher" isn't a teacher, was a cub football team, not school, and he was Harry Pickup, father of Russell (front row first left) who helped my dad (behind the lens) run it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
verreauxi Posted June 26, 2014 Report Share Posted June 26, 2014 (edited) Didn't have much to go on in the USA in the mid 70's in terms of me being exposed to the international game but I somehow found my way to Mario Kempes through a Mexican soccer magazine that my mom bought me, particularly during his Rosario and Valencia years. In retrospect, not a bad choice for a know-nothing surburbanite from Chicago. Edited June 26, 2014 by verreauxi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zequist Posted June 26, 2014 Report Share Posted June 26, 2014 Didn't have much to go on in the USA in the mid 70's in terms of me being exposed to the international game but I somehow found my way to Mario Kempes through a Mexican soccer magazine that my mom bought me, particularly during his Rosario and Valencia years. In retrospect, not a bad choice for a know-nothing surburbanite from Chicago. And I had even less to go on since the NASL was in its death throes by the time I started playing schoolyard soccer in the mid 80's. Literally the only player I'd ever heard of at the time was Pele. Which was fine if I was running around trying to score, but most of the time I was the one volunteering to play keeper, and I didn't know the names of any pro keepers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Posted June 26, 2014 Report Share Posted June 26, 2014 Limpar or Zidane, but only when I was forced to choose. I always insisted on being my self in the hope that would make me grow up in the same league as the Zidanes, Ronaldos, etc... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hafnia Posted June 26, 2014 Report Share Posted June 26, 2014 Maradona, always shorter than kids my own size but I was a nippy and pretty ace dribbler. I stayed like that till 13 when I jibbed footy off, never got picked due to size which was a joke, I was far better than most but a lot smaller. Didn't really play teenage years, focussed on golf, shot up and when I played again at 18 it was a different player. Physically so much stronger, good in the air, but I don't care what anyone says, low centre of gravity when running with a ball feels like cheating. Played at west Cheshire one level and really I think that if I stuck at it properly at 21 the Welsh league would have been my level, but I played half pissed from night before. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MC11 Posted June 26, 2014 Report Share Posted June 26, 2014 Haf would be Lukaku now. BlueBlood81, StevO, Steve_E and 1 other 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marcopaulo Posted June 26, 2014 Report Share Posted June 26, 2014 big nev when i was in goal dave watson at the back joe parkinson in the middle and dunc when i was up front can you guess my style rubecula 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
verreauxi Posted June 26, 2014 Report Share Posted June 26, 2014 And I had even less to go on since the NASL was in its death throes by the time I started playing schoolyard soccer in the mid 80's. Literally the only player I'd ever heard of at the time was Pele. Which was fine if I was running around trying to score, but most of the time I was the one volunteering to play keeper, and I didn't know the names of any pro keepers. Wasn't there a player called "Kyle Rote Jr." That never rolled off the tongue very well. "i'm Kyle Rote Junior!" (and trips over the ball). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StevO Posted June 26, 2014 Report Share Posted June 26, 2014 Ronaldo, the original one! And big Dunc, only I couldn't head a ball. I did take a decent penalty though, I was the only lad near us who could hit a controlled penalty with my laces rather than my instep. Other than that I was shite. Actually I was probably ahead of everyone, I used to wait in space for the ball, managers wanted me to be in the mix of things coz I was tall. I thought I'd be better off waiting in space to cause more damage. My mum and dad thought I was just scared of the ball haha maybe scared of one of the other lads breaking my legs more like! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quinn31 Posted June 27, 2014 Report Share Posted June 27, 2014 Vinnie Jones. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mogsy Posted June 27, 2014 Report Share Posted June 27, 2014 Always Lineker, and big nev when I was in goal! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rubecula Posted June 27, 2014 Report Share Posted June 27, 2014 big nev when i was in goal dave watson at the back joe parkinson in the middle and dunc when i was up front can you guess my style Shy and retiring? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bailey Posted June 27, 2014 Report Share Posted June 27, 2014 Always big Nev! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zequist Posted June 28, 2014 Report Share Posted June 28, 2014 Wasn't there a player called "Kyle Rote Jr." That never rolled off the tongue very well. "i'm Kyle Rote Junior!" (and trips over the ball). Yep. Actually a cousin of Tobin Rote, the former Green Bay Packers/Detroit Lions quarterback. I never imagined playing as either of them, though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cornish Steve Posted June 28, 2014 Report Share Posted June 28, 2014 When I was in primary school, there was a Beano annual (I believe) with a cartoon story about "Wing Wizard". Playing inside left for the school team, I used to call myself "Tackling Wizard" - but no one else did! The most fun thing at that age was playing away games against Calstock school. If you kicked the ball hard enough, it would be in the Tamar. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NyarkosLeftToe Posted July 2, 2014 Report Share Posted July 2, 2014 When I was really young I would always be Ian Wright, thought he was brilliant. I met him a couple of years ago and told him how I loved him when I was a kid, he's a proper sound fella actually. When I got a bit older and started playing properly, I was always Zidane. Best player to play the game IMO. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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