Post your favourite footballer ever, and a random Youtube vid of him/her (I doubt if anyone has a female favourite though lol) would be also cool.

I'll decide the winner by using Random.org on Friday.

Actually you are wrong I do like female football and I think Marta(Brazil captain) is quite a good player:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTGWlCjEPTM

and one my favourite old timers in football is this guy :http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCxe4r6SjH0

I have this game and will not be entering, but thanks for the giveaway!
This is a great little game that I've been playing a few hours every week. Much better than it first looks. :)

No one can beat the Iceman

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drScL8q956o

He's one of the three Arsenal players I have ever liked :)

Not entering, only mentioning Antonín Panenka, who won the victory for Czechoslovakia on UEFA Euro 1976.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4_7PKgxRs4;t=0m32s

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonin_Panenka#Panenka_Penalty
"Nobody had ever taken a penalty like that before. I came up with the idea because I used to practice penalties after training at Bohemians with our goalkeeper Zdeněk Hruška. To make it interesting, we used to wager a beer or a bar of chocolate on each penalty. Unfortunately, because he was such a good keeper, I ended up losing money as he kept saving more shots than I could score. As a result I ended up lying awake at night thinking about how I could get the upper hand. I eventually realised that the goalkeeper always waits until just before the last moment to try and anticipate where the ball is going and dives just before it's kicked so he can reach the shot in time. I decided that it was probably easier to score by feinting to shoot and then just gently tapping the ball into the middle of the goal. In this way the keeper had always dived by the time the ball was kicked and had no chance of recovering in time to save the shot. I tried it out on the training ground and it worked like a charm. The only problem was that I started getting a lot fatter because I won back all those beers and chocolates."

Pele

I am not into watching Football as an actual sport, but i like it in games and movies, and so Pele is the first name of a Footballer that my brain assimilated - because of the movie "Victory".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jzlc4KVlw0

I only watch soccer with pals, not so much out of interest for the sport, but if I have to give an example, it'd be Rooney, if only because he's managed to pull of some pretty sweet goals before.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVMWgmQA4Ig

Dennis Bergkamp introduced me to football. But i would like to promote Malaysian most famous footballer at the moment:

Khairul Fahmi Che Mat (GK)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqJAW9CCMsw&feature=related

Safee Sali (ST)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpgtT7o8kug
Goal vs Liverpool FC, Brad Jones as GK.

There are _way_ too many great footballers to pick out one "favorite". Can't do, sorry. However, since we were already talking about Panenka penalties, here's a video of the famous Cruyff penalty. It also demonstrates two things that helped Cruyff becoming one of the very best: his ability of thinking out of the box (and coming up with ideas and tactics that no one else would have considered), and a certain joy in dominating through superior skill.

Soccer fans will already know this one, of course. :)

Cruyff penalty

Also, I fully realize that I will probably be killed by fellow German fans for answering the question with a link to a dutch footballer. But let's face it, he was much more skilled than any of ours ... he just never managed to win the world cup.

Peter Osgood

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22Q9Gsfhojs

Romario was one of the best striker inside the area, but not much disciplinated. He played like a animated cartoon. Here some videos:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVNG8zi5Cuw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UHFIu6aikk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9p_BR8u0MvM

Thank you, but not entering

Bergkamp was really extraordinary. This is probably the best football trick ever.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRvOeLEbIbE

Btw I still don't understand how Sir Alex Ferguson can keep my countryman Berbatov as a reserve:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efTrsaF23IE

Silly question...

The greatest footballer of my lifetime - Eric Cantona.

My heart would say any player from Genoa season 1990/91 :-)

However, I think the player i really liked the most was Roberto Baggio: a great champion and a really classy guy
http://youtu.be/RPFhR7iptkg