The Joy of Six: footballers who can take or leave football | Nick Miller
(The Guardian Sports News)

Some players are happy to live their lives and not let careers on the pitch dominate their existence. Here are a few of themOf all the players who seemed to play football with a passion and joie de vivre, Batistuta seemed among the most passionate and joiest de vivrest. Those lusty shots, those screaming celebrations, those goals. But, it seems, he wasn´t especially keen on football. `I do not like football, it is just my profession,` he once said in an interview with Argentinian TV. Continue reading...