Sports.

Probably many of you allready knew Gheorghe Hagi, the famous Romanian footballer, the "The Maradona of the Carpathians" has Macedonian origins. However there turned up an interesting story on his life at our friends at Jadransport.

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and read the interesting article.

For those of you who dont know Hagi, he is, as we allready said, a world famous footballer. Hagi played for some of the best football clubs in the world, like FC Barcelona and Real Madrid. Hagi led the Romanian team to its best ever international performance at the 1994 World Cup, where the team reached the quarterfinals and he is
the current Romanian National team coach. In 2004 he was named among the top 125 living footballers by Pelé.

MD: Superb article, a must read! Some say he is Macedonian and some an Aromanian (Vlach) from Macedonia, a people which are very similar to Romanians.

Posted by Macedonia Daily on Tuesday, November 28, 2006 at 10:52 am | Permalink