A list of favorite people in sports

So this is the aforementioned giant (check) list of various all time favorite people in sports.

If I eventually get around to make entries about even half of these all very deserving people I'll be satisfied, but for now here is just the list itself.

Tomorrow the goal is to have some Roddick-Federer Wimbledon final preview stuff.
Maybe some Tour de France "prologue" thoughts (it's too long to be an actual prologue) AND maybe some transfer market rambling
OR what about some Confederations Cup stuff which I spent probably way too much time posting about on my favorite sports forum.

Everyone on the list is in no particular order and especially the soccer one seems to be constantly growing while the people in a lot of other sports, sometimes obscure sports, are often various childhood heroes:




Football/Soccer:

Andrea Pirlo
Ciro Ferrara
Dejan Savicevic
Roberto Mancini
Alessando Del Piero
David Ginola
Pep Guardiola
Cech Fabregas
Andres Iniesta
Emilio Butragenio
Ariel Ortega
Patrik Vieira
Giuseppe Giannini
Jürgen Kohler
Fernando Hierro
Aleksandr Zavarov
Zinedine Zidane
Michael Laudrup
Fernando Redondo
Raul
Preben Elkjaer
Vladimir Jugovic
Jorginho
Gian Piero Gasperini
Robert Lee
Jose Mourinho
Simone Perrotta
Giorgio Chiellini
Iker Casillas
Gianluca Buffon
Sergio Arguero
Marcello Lippi
Martin Jorgensen
Gheorge Hagi
Gianluca Vialli
Javiar Zannetti
Alessandro Nesta
Gianluca Zambrotta
Alan Shearer
Mikael Essien
Wayne Rooney
Carlos Tevez
Davide Santon
Salvatore Bochetti
Lilian Thuram
Didier Drogba
Zlatan Ibrahimovich
Domenico Criscito
Frank Lampard

Ginola



and

Preben Elkjaer


Sumo:

Takanohana





Boxing:

Kosta Tszyu
Julio Cesar Chavez
Pernell Whitaker
Mike Tyson
Chris Eubank
Marco Antonio Barrera
James Toney

I feel like I've mistakenly left out a few here hmmmmm?






















Alpine Skiing:

Pirmin Zurbriggen
Alberto Tomba





















Cycling:

Gianni Bugno (of course my all time favorite everything)
Laurent Jalabert
Marco Pantani
Johan Museeuw


Gymnastics (and this is where I lose all credibility...):

Dmitri Bilozerchev
Maria Petrova
Vitaly Scherbo




















Ice Hockey:

Igor Larionov
Alexander Mogilny
Sergei Fedorov














Tennis:

Sergi Bruguera
Pete Sampras
Boris Becker (a note on Boris the commentator. I watched some of the Tennis today on BBC instead of the danish broadcast and it was my first experience with Boris Becker the announcer and sadly it wasn't a positive experience.
On court Boris had the ability to always come up with an ace when most needed.
In the booth Boris has the ability to at all times say whatever at any given point is far and away the most obvious thing ever.
At first it was funny. But it was so inane that it quickly became annoying.

I blame the BBC of course. Boris is one of the most charismatic personalities ever to step on a tennis court as well an opinionated guy. He loves fun. He loves women. He lovs pokah. He loves grass. He loves Wimbledon! BBC I urge you, get more out of Boris!

















Maret Safin
Monica Seles
Yevgenij Kafelnikov
Goran Ivanicevic






















Chess:

Garry Kasparov














(The Stars of) Track and Field:

Said Aouita
















Snooker:

Alan Mcmanus

Badminton:

Morten Frost


Basketball:

John Starks
Tim Duncan
Manu Ginobili
Greg Popovich


































Formula 1:

Alain Prost

Handball:

Dmitri Torgovanov

Wrestling:

Alexander Karelin

Swimming:

Alexander Popov





















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