By Ollie Irish
I would not mess with any of this lot…
Anyone I missed?
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Loving the Tevez shot… Durrrrrrrr
MASCHERANO !!!!!!
how could you possibly miss him ?
Giorgio Chiellini! Simply a butcher!
And also Mark Van Bommel, quite always booked
Not too sure about Mokoena, I think Booth, Sibaya and possibly even Letsholonyane are harder
HELLO!!! Mary Shelley’s FRANCK RIBERY!!!!
Evra is also the size of a tree elf.
Ah, but Evra is around 5ft9 – not as short as he looks.
@PR: Ribery is merely hard to look at.
So Daniel Alves plays for the country known as Barcelona?!?
And Tim Cahill Everton…..yep I’m a clever shoite
Bocanegra?! I like Boca, but if you’re going to pick someone from USA, I’d go with Onyewu (huge and ripped), Demerit (scrapper), Bradley (super-intense and physical) and Clark (just plain reckless) first.
carra
yeah Clark is the guy you don’t want to mess with on the USMNT
KP Boateng: As hard as a baby.
A. Mokoena: Now see above.
P. Evra: Again, just see above.
How can you miss
Javier Mascherano: Lunatic
Giorgio Chiellini: Huge
Douglas Maicon: Huge
Gokhan Inler!?
I think Sergio Ramos is missing – he’s a tank at right back, ripped, strong and tough as nails, never seen him on the pitch agonising after a foul commited on him, doesn’t take prisoners whilst either tackling or battling it in the air; a battering ram on offense, basically gets where he wants to go with the ball.
Johnny Heitinga, he’s savage and a proper lad
Kinda surprised to see Dani Alves on there…and not Drogba. I have too many views of Alves diving in the box like a wet noodle to remember the times where he’s tough. Drogba might play with a broken arm if cleared…that’s quite a long step in the badass/tough direction.
I would go with Rico Clark. He’ll kick you in the face if you get on his bad side.
You definitely missed Italy’s DeRossi. He’s the new enforcer in that camp.
you left out oguchi onyewu, alex song, and sthephane mbia
oh yea and chiellini
if you removed his hair, puyol would look exactly like ted from scrubs.
teves looks like jack nicholson at the end of ‘one flew over the cuckoo’s nest’
and skrtel does look like a bond villain henchman, specifically the one that wants to poke around in bond’s joy department with a set of oriental torture instruments.
Diego Lugano of Uraguay. Mad as a bag of spiders
Dider Drogba? Hardman? More like thespian man child…..
dutch team look tasty they have also got ooijer who is a nutter and they did’t even bother sending their arch psyco witsel
Vinnie Grella, absolute nutter
Mark van Bommel, as said. Most hated player in Bundesliga outside Munich. Smart and mean, contract killer-quality.
[...] has a guide to the 25 hardest players at the World [...]
Michael Essien !!
Liverpool’s Greek defender Kyrgiakos: http://img.skysports.com/09/09/218×298/Sotirios-Kyrgiakos-Liverpool-Premier-League-P_2356283.jpg
makes uruguay’s defenders look like little barbies..
Aaron Lennon ……. He’s well ‘ard !!!
A bit biased towards well-known footballers who play in Europe in my opinion. What about South Korean toughman Cha Du Ri?
Cuauhtemoc Blanco
[...] Who Ate All The Pies [...]
Ivanovic is surely missing. Pepe is not a hard man.
Ivory’s lunatic Didier Drogba
I think you should change the title of the post to “Top 25 Hard and UGLY Man At The 2010 World Cup”
Lucio’s eyebrows should be #26 and #27.
@Jason: Cha Du Ri is more german than korean. born in Germany (Father is korean and Bundesliga-legend Cha Bum-Kun) and as far as I know he still plays over here in Frankfurt.
Felipe MelO!
Jonas Gutierez (Argentina) is HUGE
Muntari
You missed Van Bommel. Gattuso is right on.
Puyol should not have been there. He looks hard metal and all stuff but have you ever read about his personality before compiling the article
You definetly missed Manuel Neuer, German GK. I know he looks like a goddamned baby and all, but that kid is 194 cm tall, weighs in at 91 kilograms, and has upper legs like Roberto Carlos. And in the local Derby of his club Schalke 04 vs. arch-enemies Borussia Dortmund, he usually goes kicking and strangling opposition players, ’cause he hates them so much, being a Schalke member since age 4.