Right Wing Footballers (1 Viewer)

[Luther Blissett]

Left wing players?

I hear Graeme Le-Saux reads the Guardian. All the Roma players must be right little Trotskyists too.

Lucarelli is a dyed-in-the-wool communist and recently put his earnings into a local newspaper in Livorno.

Tommasi who used to play for Roma only used to get minimum wage and then give the rest to charity.

And then there was Bayern Munich left back and Maoist Paul Breitner.

Speaking of the Guardian they have an article about left leaning footballers here: http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/sport/2007/04/25/anyone_want_to_play_on_the_lef.html

 

[Vinnie]

Pat Nevin is an outspoken socialist.

Lucarelli is a dyed-in-the-wool communist and recently put his earnings into a local newspaper in Livorno.

Tommasi who used to play for Roma only used to get minimum wage and then give the rest to charity.

And then there was Bayern Munich left back and Maoist Paul Breitner.

Speaking of the Guardian they have an article about left leaning footballers here: http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/sport/2007/04/25/anyone_want_to_play_on_the_lef.html

 

[killy kill]

Mark Bosnich is right wing, no? What about gazza, the invisible fife playing cunt? i suppose he gets away with it cos he's a mental...

All of Hamburg f.c. by default, also

 

[Lefty Frizzell]

I'm almost certain David O'Leary despises unskilled immigrants.

 

[Moods For Mallards]

Let's not have this thread going left. This is a right wing thread for footballers doing honest, decent work without scrounging or moaning.

 

[Cormcolash]

Great thread I'm obsessed with the right wing ones. I've even started creating a Pro Evo team called Nazio. So far they've got Stalin in nets (and he can dribble and take free kicks too) and Hitler (team captain of course) playing on the right wing. Franco will go on the left wing, Idi Amin will be in there with top speed and acceleration (he could run the 100 metres in under 10 seconds you know!), Pol Pot will get on as a striker, Mussolini will be there, Slobodan will be there, oh it's going to be great.

Mijhalovic is the most famous right wing footballer if you ask me. He's even been linked with Serbian genocide squads and shit, he was definitely mates with ol Slobodan. Ah Red Star Belgrade, even more nazi than Nazio.

Stoichkov is famously right wing, he once said "I excel myself against blacks" or something along those lines. Great striker though.

I'm convinced Materazzi is a Maternazzi, despite having no real evidence for this. He's still hilarious though at least. Watching him play football is like watching that fat German kid go mental at his computer.

I reckon Raul is a Franco-ist.
John Terry is bound to be a nazi or something.
More ridiculous rumours and defamatory comments here please.

 

[Luther Blissett]

Back to the Right it is then. Former AC Milan midfielder Zvonimir Boban is a vocal supporter of the Croatian ultra-nationalist, Right Wing party HDZ.

 

[Vinnie]

Really? Ah crap. Amazing player.

Back to the Right it is then. Former AC Milan midfielder Zvonimir Boban is a vocal supporter of the Croatian ultra-nationalist, Right Wing party HDZ.

 

[Moods For Mallards]

Boban started a war, which is all you can ask for from a right wing footballer really.

There has to be a fair clutch of Real Madrid legends falling into this category. I'd be surprised if Butragueno isn't involved in the People's Party, just by the look of him.

 

[Luther Blissett]

Really? Ah crap. Amazing player.

Aye he was so good. There's a good article on him here:

For his Political Football series, Simon Kuper asks: did Zvonimir Boban kick off the Balkans conflict?

Here's a scene from 1999: the car park at Milanello, AC Milan's training complex, on a foggy autumn's day. Zvonimir Boban, dressed in an outfit worth about as much as a Tranmere Rovers player, is getting into his people carrier for his commute home through the Lombardian countryside. The great midfielder looks every inch the materialist modern footballer.

He was, but he was also more than that. The Croatian nationalist may be the only footballer ever credited with kicking off a civil war. He was in at the beginning of the division of Yugoslavia in 1990. As we enter the last phase of that division, with Kosovo saying it will claim independence from Serbia within days, it's time to pick Boban for our political footballers' XI. He joins Neil Lennon, Diego Maradona and Walter Tull in midfield.

Romantic nationalist

Boban was born in the small Croatian town of Imotski, very near the Bosnian border, in the famously nationalist south of Croatia. He grew up in communist Yugoslavia, but as he reached adulthood the state was crumbling. With communism heading for the dustbin of history, many politicians turned to nationalism instead.

Boban was a receptive customer, a romantic nationalist straight out of the nineteenth century, steeped in the Croat version of history. In fact he is an obsessive reader, who says he "grew up" on Chekhov and Dostoevsky, and before one Croatia-Italy game confessed to the Italian newspaper Gazzetta dello Sport that if the match were between Croatian and Italian literary classics instead of footballers, Italy would win hands down. "Dante, Petrach, Leopardi.... It wouldn't be a contest," he said.

His chance to enter Croatian myth came in Zagreb on 13 May, 1990. Yugoslavia was then still uneasily holding its various nationalities together. Boban's team Dynamo Zagreb, from the capital of Croatia, were playing the Serb team Red Star Belgrade in a league match that degenerated into hooliganism.

Then Boban spots a policeman beating up a Dynamo fan who has tripped. The player runs up and karate-kicks the policeman in the face (see video below).

Visiting Serb fans began tearing down the stadium, while Yugoslav police stood and watched. To Croats, the scene seemed an allegory of how Serbs had been privileged and they themselves disadvantaged in Yugoslavia. On a videotape of that day, Boban, Dynamo's captain, paces the athletics track, steaming. He mutters, "Where is the police? Where is the bloody police?"

A nation is born

According to one serious Croatian historian, that kick was "the symbol of the uprising against the 70-year Serb domination in Yugoslavia." Many Croats feel that with that kick their nation was born. Erik Brouwer, a Dutch writer who has written beautifully on the match, notes that when the victim of the kick was dredged up in 2005, he turned out to be not a Serb at all, but a Bosnian Muslim. The man said he "totally understood" Boban's act.

Soon after the kick Boban went off to the Serie A, but many Croat and Serb men of his age went to war. Football hooligans in particular volunteered for the armies of both sides. The psychopath Arkan, who had led Red Star's hooligans at the match in Zagreb, and became a brutal Serb paramilitary leader in the war, subsequently recalled: "After that game we immediately began to organize ourselves."

Here's the video:

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[Jerry Twig]

Simon Kuper's 'Football against the Enemy' is a great book.
oh, back on track

 

[Hector Grey]

pretty shit kick, and he runs away afterward too. total right-winger.

 

[Luther Blissett]

George Weah gave an interview in the Italian press a while back saying how he should have tried to emulate his old boss Berlusconi in the political stakes.

Also during his unsuccessful campaign to become president of Liberia back in 2005 his critics accused him of surrounding himself with many people who had been involved in military dictator Samuel Doe's regime.

 

[Unicron]

Possibly the greatest right wing footballer ever.

 

[Cormcolash]

Haha yeah, can't believe I forgot Boban! I love that story too!!!

Aye he was so good. There's a good article on him here:

For his Political Football series, Simon Kuper asks: did Zvonimir Boban kick off the Balkans conflict?

Here's a scene from 1999: the car park at Milanello, AC Milan's training complex, on a foggy autumn's day. Zvonimir Boban, dressed in an outfit worth about as much as a Tranmere Rovers player, is getting into his people carrier for his commute home through the Lombardian countryside. The great midfielder looks every inch the materialist modern footballer.

He was, but he was also more than that. The Croatian nationalist may be the only footballer ever credited with kicking off a civil war. He was in at the beginning of the division of Yugoslavia in 1990. As we enter the last phase of that division, with Kosovo saying it will claim independence from Serbia within days, it's time to pick Boban for our political footballers' XI. He joins Neil Lennon, Diego Maradona and Walter Tull in midfield.

Romantic nationalist

Boban was born in the small Croatian town of Imotski, very near the Bosnian border, in the famously nationalist south of Croatia. He grew up in communist Yugoslavia, but as he reached adulthood the state was crumbling. With communism heading for the dustbin of history, many politicians turned to nationalism instead.

Boban was a receptive customer, a romantic nationalist straight out of the nineteenth century, steeped in the Croat version of history. In fact he is an obsessive reader, who says he "grew up" on Chekhov and Dostoevsky, and before one Croatia-Italy game confessed to the Italian newspaper Gazzetta dello Sport that if the match were between Croatian and Italian literary classics instead of footballers, Italy would win hands down. "Dante, Petrach, Leopardi.... It wouldn't be a contest," he said.

His chance to enter Croatian myth came in Zagreb on 13 May, 1990. Yugoslavia was then still uneasily holding its various nationalities together. Boban's team Dynamo Zagreb, from the capital of Croatia, were playing the Serb team Red Star Belgrade in a league match that degenerated into hooliganism.

Then Boban spots a policeman beating up a Dynamo fan who has tripped. The player runs up and karate-kicks the policeman in the face (see video below).

Visiting Serb fans began tearing down the stadium, while Yugoslav police stood and watched. To Croats, the scene seemed an allegory of how Serbs had been privileged and they themselves disadvantaged in Yugoslavia. On a videotape of that day, Boban, Dynamo's captain, paces the athletics track, steaming. He mutters, "Where is the police? Where is the bloody police?"

A nation is born

According to one serious Croatian historian, that kick was "the symbol of the uprising against the 70-year Serb domination in Yugoslavia." Many Croats feel that with that kick their nation was born. Erik Brouwer, a Dutch writer who has written beautifully on the match, notes that when the victim of the kick was dredged up in 2005, he turned out to be not a Serb at all, but a Bosnian Muslim. The man said he "totally understood" Boban's act.

Soon after the kick Boban went off to the Serie A, but many Croat and Serb men of his age went to war. Football hooligans in particular volunteered for the armies of both sides. The psychopath Arkan, who had led Red Star's hooligans at the match in Zagreb, and became a brutal Serb paramilitary leader in the war, subsequently recalled: "After that game we immediately began to organize ourselves."

Here's the video:

YouTube - Zvonimir Boban Kicking Yugoslav Police

 

[Hector Grey]

buffon, of course, was told to change his squad number at parma when he was a whelp. 88 he had, neo nazi numerology for heil hitler. he claimed ignorance of this, but the only book he brought to the world cup in 02 was a massive tome on the 3rd reich.

 

[Vinnie]

I knew Boban was the footballing face of the Croat revolution but I always assumed that because they kicked off against the Serbs that they must have been lefties by default. This is all very disappointing.

 

[gtm]

All of these:

 

[Luther Blissett]

buffon, of course, was told to change his squad number at parma when he was a whelp. 88 he had, neo nazi numerology for heil hitler. he claimed ignorance of this, but the only book he brought to the world cup in 02 was a massive tome on the 3rd reich.

I'd forgotten about old Gigi. He also once wore a t-shirt with the fascist slogan credere, obbedire, combattere (believe, obey, fight) on it during training.

 

[Hector Grey]

bob wilson is the pope??