90s Hitmen: The Divine Ponytail, Roberto Baggio
From the magic to the misfortune and several unforgettable chapters in between, the tale of Roberto Baggio is one that football will relive for…
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90's hitmen
90s Hitmen: Teddy Sheringham, a forward of enduring excellence
Teddy Sheringham’s career was one of both huge success and longevity, spanning more than two decades and including some of football’s greatest team and…
90s Hitmen: Football Italia legend, Gianluca Vialli
Wherever Gianluca Vialli took his goalscoring gifts, he most certainly left a lasting impression. From forming part of Sampdoria’s greatest era to European conquests…
90s Hitmen: Raul – Real Madrid and Champions League royalty
Expectations and pressure weigh heavier at Real Madrid than almost any other football club. The famous all-white colours, rich heritage and relentless demand for…
90s Hitmen: Selfless and Sublime, Jari Litmanen
Every so often a nation not famed for its footballing heritage produces a talent who could quite easily fit into almost any side in…
90s Hitmen: Ivan ‘Bam Bam’ Zamorano
Rarely has a footballer leapt quite like Ivan ‘Bam Bam’ Zamorano. The Chilean was a wonderful exponent of the header, a forward who flung…
90s Hitmen: George Weah, the African King who reached the very pinnacle of the game
Africa has produced its fair share of sporting superstars in the modern era, with a collection of footballers who have reached the pinnacle of…
90s Hitmen: Romario, a Brazilian goalscoring genius
Faced point-blank with the barrel of a gun and asked to provide one footballer to convert a goalscoring chance, you would be hard pressed…
90s Hitmen: A left-footed force of nature, Rivaldo
The connotations of Brazilian football is perhaps of the sport in its most joyous and unadulterated form, the South American nation held in a…
90s Hitmen: Christian ‘Bobo’ Vieri – Il Toro
Christian Vieiri earned the nickname Il Toro during a career of huge highlights in Italian football. Translated as ‘The Bull’, it is a fitting…
90s Hitmen: Juventus’ perfect number 10, Alessandro ‘Capitano’ Del Piero
The nineties was an unforgettable period in the landscape of Italian football, the nation becoming the stage on which the game’s greatest footballers demonstrated…
90s Hitmen: Andy Cole, an elite marksman criminally under appreciated
Ask any Premier League fan to name the division’s finest forwards and you will no doubt be greeted with similar answers. Alan Shearer –…
90s Hitmen: Marco van Basten – The Swan of Utrecht
Utter the name of Marco van Basten to even casual football fans and one image will instantly be conjured, a moment of exquisite genius…
90s Hitmen: Croatia’s clinical genius, Davor Suker
Croatia boast some of the most recognisable colours in international football, the infamous chequerboard red and white having lit up several major tournaments since…
90s Hitmen: A Brazilian finisher supreme, Sonny Anderson
The greatest era in the history of Olympique Lyonnais came in the first decade of the new millennium, a period of unprecedented domestic dominance…
90s Hitmen: Hristo Stoichkov – Barcelona’s Balkan bull
The art of unpredictability can be a potent weapon for forwards. Hristo Stoichkov had it in abundance. Stoichkov was so utterly unpredictable that those…
90s Hitmen: Fabrizio Ravanelli – The White Feather
The nineties was a strange time for European football, with the emergence of the Premier League as a domestic destination of choice leading to…
90s Hitmen: The King of France’s cursed generation, Jean-Pierre Papin
Until the coronation of Lionel Messi as winner of the 2021 Ballon d’Or, just one footballer had ever claimed world football’s greatest individual honour…