Ivan Zamorano (1+8)
European club Football has evloved so much in the recent couple of decands and football has become the number one money spinner sport in the world, big tv broadcasting deals, massive shirt sponsorship and suppliers contracts and the commersial side has also sky rocketed which resulted in huge salaries to players and managers alike. At the start of every season football fans are looking to buy their favourite teams shirts and often use their favourite player name and number on the shirts they buy.
Historicly players number is defined by the players position in the lineup, defenders usualy use numbers from 2 to 6, wingers and midfielders take numbers like 7 and 11 while strikers use 9 and 10. But there have been many cases when some famous players opted for unusual numbers and we take a look at some of the famous squad numbers which did not really fit in the system.
Zamorano made his name with Real Madrid scoring 77 goals in 5 seasons he played for the Glacticos, when he signed for Inter Milan his favourite numbers 9 and 10 were already taken and he was left with number 18. What do he do ? he put a small “+” better 1 & 8 which adds up to 9 mathematicaly. Improvsation !
