Childhood Of Celebrities : Luis Figo

Luis Filipe Madeira Caeiro Figo was born November 4, 1972, in Almada, Portugal, near the capital Lisbon. Growing up in a rather poor family, Figo displayed his football (European soccer) skills at a young age as a member of a local soccer team called Unio Futebol Clube Os Pastilhas.

By the time he was 10 years old, Figo was honing his skills as a player for Sporting Lisbon (one of Portugal’s 3 best teams), where he was already beginning to show his talents on the soccer field. At age 17, he was a European champion (after winning the FIFA World under-16 championship), and a champion yet again at 19, after taking home the FIFA World Under-20 championship.

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Childhood Of Celebrities : Gianluigi Buffon

Gianluigi Buffon was born in Carrara, Italy on 28/01/78 into a Sporting family: his mother, Maria Stella, was a disks thrower, his father, Adriano was a weight lifter, his two sisters, Veronica and Guendalina, play volleyball and his uncle, Angelo Masocco, played basketball. He is also a nephew of former Milan and Italy goalkeeper Lorenzo Buffon.

As a young boy growing up in Italy, Gigi played as a midfielder. However he decided to change his position to goalkeeper after he lost the will to run, this proved to be a great decision as Gigi is now one of the greatest goalkeepers in the world.

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Childhood Of Celebrities : Gabriel Batistuta

Gabriel Omar Batistuta is, was and forever will remain in history as one of the best strikers in the world. He’s rich, handsome, famous, envied by men and desired by women. But like everyone else, he was once young, unknown and penniless. He, like most of us have had difficult moments, periods of suffering and uncertainity which he faced with dignity.

Gabriel never gives up, he always wants to live life to the fullest, knowing full well all the obstacles that will be thrown at his feet. He sees the unknown as a challenge, something to conquer. Everything Gabriel is and possesses today is due to his work, dedication and sacrifice.

Bati was a beautiful, happy, chubby child. He enter this world voicing his joy at being born, the first of February, l969. The city of Avellaneda did not know that the greatest soccer star of the nineties had been born. From this small town and not from Reconquista, even though this city has followed Bati’s life very closely, the legend emerged.

A childhood lived under the close watch of “Nonno” Melchor and his father Osmar. “Nonno” Melchor an important, dignified, loving figure in Bati’s life. “Nonno” Melchor was the head of the Batistuta family. Bati’s life has always been inmerse in love and caring given to him by his mother Gloria with whom he has a very special and close relation. The carefree, happy childhood of “el gringo”, name given to him because of his coloring, was not marred by the hard times his family lived through at this period of his life due to economic crisis. The joy and the love for life has always been part of Bati’s being. Even though things were tight, Bati was happy just going fishing, playing ball or day-dreaming. But his imaginings fell short to his ambitions. “Il gordo”, the fat one, another name given to Bati because of his two or three extra pounds, knew things would happen, his life was like an unwriten book just waiting for the day when his luminous future would be written.

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Childhood Of Celebrities : Fredrik Ljungberg

Karl Fredrik Ljungberg (born 16 April 1977 in Vittsjö, Hässleholm) is a Swedish footballer who currently plays for Arsenal in the English Premiership.

Ljungberg joined Halmstad in Sweden as a youth player at the age of five. He played several other sports including ice hockey and handball for which he was called up to the national squad. He made his senior debut for Halmstads on 23 October 1994 in the Swedish First Division against AIK. He went on to make 139 appearances and score 16 goals for the club. He won both the Swedish Cup and League title with the club.

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