Javier Zanetti Appreciation Thread

[Albiceleste]

At 38 years young, led Inter to another derby win. The man oozes class. Pupi for 2014 WC

[The Messiah]

Future world-cup winning fullback.

[Ganso]

Future world-cup winning fullback.

kind of hard winning a world cup when youre not even in a NT squad

[Zealous]

Legend Nuff said.

[RobbyV]

LOL ANYONE SEE THIS???



@carlogarganese:
In the history of football there has never been an outfield player as good at the age of 38 as Javier Zanetti is now

[Le Samourai]

Independiente unwittingly made a milkman out of a young Javier Zanetti. “That was the year in which I did everything,” he said. “They let me go just when I’d closed my books at school and there was no chance of going to another club. So I started to work with my cousin Carlo who delivered milk for a dairy company. I would get up at four in the morning to go pick it up and then take it to the supermarkets. I had to arrive early. When we got out, we’d have lunch and then I’d go train with Talleres.”
[color=red]
A hard worker by nature who had to be persuaded to down tools and leave work on building a wall at the family home to play football with his friends in the Dock Sud barrio of Buenos Aires, it’s often forgotten that, as a child, Zanetti suffered from the same growth problems as Lionel Messi.

Indeed, many - not least Independiente, the club he still supports - wrote him off simply because of his size. “I was skinny,” he recalled. “We saw a lot of doctors. Some said that I wouldn’t grow. Others said that I would. One of them recommended that I eat lentils and potatoes. It traumatised me. I am incapable of swallowing one or the other to this day.[/color]”

What Zanetti did do, however, was drink half a litre of milk every day. The rounds with his cousin proved he certainly had stamina and it wasn’t long before he made it as a professional. “I still remember the face of my father, Ignacio Rodolfo at our house the night before my debut. September 1992, Buenos Aires, the third week of the season in National B at five o’clock in the afternoon: We were playing at home in a small ground – 5000 people more or less – Talleres against Instituto Cordoba. It finished 2-1 to us. I played 90 minutes on the right of a three-man midfield.”

[chinomaster182]

Il Capitano

[guest7]

It's funny how he is 38 yet manages to have some speed

That run today btw

[Albiceleste]

[SoloInter]

Il Capitano

[mr.galliani]

He was brilliant today.

[zarola]

He was brilliant today.

so was nesta

[arabprince]

The man is class. No debating that.

[baresi]

Amazing player, never had a bad gesture can't think of anyone that doesn't love this guy. hats off

[baresi]

didn't he go to training on his wedding day?

[red&blacklegion]

The man is a Tractor.Respect.

[Pedram]

GOAT player is GOAT.

[Le Samourai]

The man is a milkman.Respect.

[Sushi Master]

I can't see the day he'll retire with all these kick ass performances.

Legend.

[ijomer]

he single handedly blcoked messi

[Interista809]

He's playing because he deserves it not because he's a legend or anything. He plays because he is one of our 11 best players and it doesn't say a bad thing about Inter or any of the other players.

The man is a Legend. After the game he was jumping and celebrating with the fans, just legendary. I can't see when he will retire, he may retire and not show any signs that he should have left.

Grande Capitano!!!

[andiii]

[eltractor]

CAPITANO i really cant see inter without him, he is a true legend, i have never loved a player that much

[mizG4Lyf]

is there a chance that any person who sincerely loves soccer can hate this guy. and aparently his life off da pitch is just as classy(decent). wat a man!

[S]

I believe he should lead Argentina at the 2014 world cup i really do.He's way better than all Argentinian FB's out there.He deserves the captain's armband more than that NT flop.

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