My favourite footballer, Zinedine Zidane. It is amazing that someone as big as he is, moves like Mikhail Baryshnikov. Zidane's pirouette like trick is simply sublime. I suspect that his wife, a dancer herself, must have played apart in Zidane's ability to perfect the technique. His quiet and soft spoken demeanour added to the charm that is simply Zidane. Someone once remarked that he has the face of an assassin and the smile of an angel !