Anime is one of the most popular forms of entertainment currently and for very good reason. People all across the globe are fans of anime and they thoroughly enjoy watching the stories of various characters all told differently. There are various celebrities and singers who are big fans of different anime. Football is a thing that is loved all across the world and is quite wonderful.
In good news for people who are both anime and football fans, you are not the only ones. There are many football players who are big fans of anime. Here are the top 10 football players who are huge anime fans.
10) Eden Hazard
Eden Hazard plays for Real Madrid and is a Belgian football player. He is a wonderful football player and is loved by fans. Eden is also a proven ‘Naruto’ fan. He was once caught on a plane watching ‘Naruto’ on his laptop. This makes him one of the 10 football players who are huge anime fans.
9) Michy Batshuayi
It seems like quite a few Belgian football players love anime as Michy is also Belgian. He currently plays for Crystal Palace football club. He is a known ‘Dragon Ball’ and as it seems, can be called a hardcore fan. Michy not only wears Goku hoodies in public, he also has a statue of Goku in his house.
8) Pierre Emerick
Pierre is a Gabonese striker and is quite good at it. It seems that he’s not only good at that, but he’s also a wonderful anime fan. He has shown his love for anime on multiple occasions and isn’t shy about his liking. However, the most popular one is when he did Goku’s pose in his match against Real Madrid.
7) Ibrahima Konatè
Konatè is a defender for Liverpool and is known for being easygoing. This easygoing guy however is a huge fan of anime. Similar to Emerick, he has shown his love for anime multiple times, but one instance went viral. During his match against Manchester United, he did the viral pose from ‘Attack On Titan’. This makes him one of the 10 football players who are huge anime fans.
6) Kurt Zouma
Kurt is a West Ham defender and is known to not like cats. Another known fact about him is that he is a huge fan of anime. In addition to liking ‘One Piece’, the amazing football player also seems to like ‘Dragon Ball’. He likes ‘One Piece’ to the extent that his teammates recreated a scene for him.
5) Bakary Sako
It seems Crystal Palace is also filled with otakus. Bakary used to play for Crystal Palace and he loves anime. In addition to expressing his love for the animated shows verbally, he even got his shoes customized to show various scenes from different anime. This makes him one of the 10 football players who are huge anime fans.
4) Geoffrey Kondogbia
Geoffrey is a football player and is quite good at his sport. Another thing that he is supposedly good at is watching anime. He seems to have a huge liking towards ‘One Piece’. He even has multiple figurines of different characters from the series. Geoffrey even arranged a meeting with Eiichiro Oda and that is enough to say that he is a big anime fan.
3) Paul Pogba
Paul is a French football player. He unveiled a hairdo a couple of years ago that was blue. It was apparently inspired by Goku and his super Saiyan forms. In addition to that, he is also a known fan of ‘One Piece’ and its creator Eiichiro Oda. This makes him one of the 10 football players who are huge anime fans.
2) Kylian Mbappe
Mbappe has openly shared his love for the Japanese anime ‘Captain Tsubasa’. He has mentioned many times that he has been a fan of that anime ever since he was a child. He was even given a portrait by Yoichi Takahashi, the creator of ‘Captain Tsubasa’. Mbappe seemed to have loved the gift.
1) Neymar
Neymar also loves ‘Captain Tsubasa’. He has visited Japan multiple times and has appeared on their programs as well. In addition to liking ‘Captain Tsubasa’, Neymar also loves the immensely popular ‘Dragon Ball‘ series. His love for the series is quite deep as he got some scenes from it tattooed on his back. This makes him one of the 10 football players who are huge anime fans.
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