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He could have been a tennis player, but, luckily for lovers of the world game, Kaka chose football, and the rest is recent history. There are those who say that Argentina_s Lionel Messi is the best of his generation. Wayne Rooney is the shining star for Manchester United as well as England and the fans love him. Thierry Henry - like many of the greats, football was his ticket out of a tough life in a tough suburb of Paris. Samuel Eto is another football great who has been the subject of racism on the field in his career. But this has not stopped Eto becoming arguably the greatest Cameroonian footballer of all time. With his matinee idol looks and sublime yet precocious talent, Christiano Ronaldo may yet be the greatest ever gift to the game of football.