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This is The Daily Eros with Steve Crossman.

Hi there, welcome to another special edition of The Daily Eros as we continue to ramp it up ahead of the tournament.

On this edition, it's all about a legend.

Three ballon doors, they called him the Swan and he was tough, but on the pitch he was actually compared by Silvio Burlesco

to one of the world's best ballet dancers. He was a striker who could fly like nobody else,

but by the end he just wanted to walk like everybody else. A legend at Iax, AC Milan and with the Dutch national team.

A man who sadly these days can't kick a ball without being an excruciating pain, but at his best he could do anything.

So who is Marco Van Basten?

He was one who likes to play football, he likes to win. And at the same time, a pretty normal person.

The only thing was I was really enjoying playing football, I loved playing football, I was playing

football every day. So I became a good football player and I think for the rest of my life I was

quite normal. I was not very good at school but good enough. I was doing the normal things,

went to school, had normal numbers and all the things. The difference was that I was really

loving playing football every day and I became a good football player.

You say it in such a way that it sounds like you don't really see yourself as special, but many people do.

I've achieved special things because I was a good football player, but I was also part of a good

football team and I think football is a game which you play in 11 or sometimes 10 or whatever,

but normally you play 11 and you win with all together and you lose with all together.

Every player, every person has a contribute also because in a game you need the physics,

you need the intelligence, you need the technique, you need everything. And it's not possible that

one person is doing all these things together alone. So it's always I think something what you do

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