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#8 Gheorghe Hagi
Although he was undoubtedly one of the best of his era and nothing short of a cult figure back in Romania, Hagi just doesn’t seem to be mentioned nearly as much as he deserves today, which is a shame.
Having been one of the most technically gifted players football has ever seen, it wasn’t a rare sight of the ‘Maradona of the Carpathians’ firing a cross-field pass with unbelievable accuracy, or scoring from just about anywhere on the pitch.
After an amazing career playing for the likes of Real Madrid, Barcelona, and Galatasaray, and dragging Romania to the quarter-finals of the 1994 World Cup, Hagi is still making history today as he’s taking Viitorul Constanta, a club founded by himself in 2009, to the top of Romanian football with an extremely young squad.
