View Full Version : The most grizzly footballers?
JoBeck
21 Dec 2002, 12:46 PM
I'm watching the Chelsea-Aston Villa game, and I've noticed that Olof Mellberg is one of the few footballers around who's got a beard. Also, if I recall correctly, he didn't have it at the beginning of the season.
Which led me to wonder: who has the most grizzly appearance in all of soccer? Not necessarily just anyone who's got a beard, but maybe I'm looking for the player with the most unkempt and intimidating style.
Scotty
21 Dec 2002, 01:06 PM
http://www.sporting-heroes.net/files_footballworldcup/BATISTA_S_1986_JM_R.jpg
Sergio Batista of Argentina
World Cup Champion 1986
skipshady
21 Dec 2002, 04:25 PM
Abel Xavier
http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/1850000/images/_1853800_xavier_150.jpg
footfetish
21 Dec 2002, 04:50 PM
Originally posted by skipshady
Abel Xavier
http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/1850000/images/_1853800_xavier_150.jpg
we're not talking about the goofiest...
Scotty
21 Dec 2002, 04:58 PM
That guy looks like a photo negative of Abraham Lincoln.
skipshady
21 Dec 2002, 05:19 PM
Well, if you want scruffy and not necessarily long, Damiano Tommasi deserves a nod:
http://www.uefa.com/ImagesContent/Competition/Players/129X194/31731.jpg
Nobby
21 Dec 2002, 08:25 PM
http://www.uglyfootballers.com/images/footballers/world_cup/ivanov/images/ivanov01.jpg
Trifon Ivanov, Bulgaria
footfetish
25 Dec 2002, 04:10 AM
Originally posted by Nobby
http://www.uglyfootballers.com/images/footballers/world_cup/ivanov/images/ivanov01.jpg
Trifon Ivanov, Bulgaria
jeeeeeesus christ. we have a winner.
he looks like the inbred love child of two ukranian judo champions.
eric515
25 Dec 2002, 07:03 AM
It's time to play Who's More Grizzled? :P
Please tell me someone else has seen this SNL skit with Robert Duvall and Garth Brooks.
Duvall (in the Lightning Round): The day I took the beach in Normandy, I never prayed more that there was a God in Heaven, and I was never more sure that there wasn't.
Brooks (Done up like a bearded mountaineer): Damn! You are grizzled!!
Norm: (hosting) We have a winner!!
eric515
25 Dec 2002, 07:04 AM
Originally posted by footfetish
jeeeeeesus christ. we have a winner.
he looks like the inbred love child of two ukranian judo champions.
Nice mullet.
nicodemus
31 Dec 2002, 05:39 PM
I would also suggest Feyenoord alum John de Wolf
http://216.147.86.129/archive/w_fotos_wolf_de_john.jpg
Red Star
31 Dec 2002, 10:17 PM
Gerd Muller, sorry can't find a picture tonight. I bet the beard was hot in Fort Lauderdale
GoFireGo
01 Jan 2003, 07:55 PM
from an MLS perspective i would say that Adin Brown from the Revs