Footballers and their Superhero equivalents
Superheroes and footballers - two groups of people that take up a lot of our thinking space. While superheroes are a shot at fantasy, footballers are more realistic and one has a better chance at being the latter than the former. But that doesn't change the fact that most of us would like some kind of a superpower and inflate our already bloated egos.The likes of Marvel and DC Comics have been around for years and people try to relate to the characters that appear in these comics. Footballers, in a way, are superheroes themselves. The talent they have coupled with the hard work that they have put in to reach the heights they find themselves at now is a superpower in itself.But what if footballers were superhero characters? Who would they be? Here's our attempt at listing some footballers with superhero character equivalents –
#1 Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang - Quicksilver
We start off with the guy who has openly expressed his love for superhero characters multiple times during his goal celebrations.
When X-Men: Days of the Future Past hit the theatres last year, many came out of them with expressions that said a lot about the movie’s brilliance. The one scene that caught the attention of most fans was the one with Quicksilver.
While actor Ewan Peters was there for only a sequence, he stole the show with his mesmerizing performance as Quicksilver as the mutant with superhuman speed helped Professor X and Wolverine get Magneto out of the Pentagon jail.
And no-one fits the Quicksilver bill better than Aubameyang as he has the basic necessity: speed. The Gabonese international was clocked sprinting at 8.1 meters-per-second – covering 30 meters in a matter of just 3.7 seconds, quicker than Usain Bolt at the start of his world-record-inflicting 100 metres sprint.
It is of no debate, then, as to who should be Quicksilver – it is the speedster hailing from Gabon.