10 Championship Manager Cult Heroes

3. Kennedy Bakircioglu

Championship Manager Freddy Adu
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Like many others, I had something of an obsession with purchasing players who played across the attacking midfield positions, and none were more versatile than Kennedy Bakircioglu. Nobody could pronounce his surname but that didn't matter, as the man called Kennedy banged in goals from behind the strikers with gay abandon. Starting off at Hammarby, he was frequently my very first purchase in the game and never, ever let me down. 

In the real world, Bakircioglu hasn't really done too badly. He has represented Sweden on 14 occasions and played for Ajax and Racing Santander among others. Kennedy is back at Hammarby now, but he also had a trial for Manchester United when he was but a young buck. He has since admitted to have played the game and put himself in Utd and Barcelona, to see what might have been. 

Kennedy Bakircioglu was named after John F. Kennedy, and I can honestly say that the Swedish goal machine has had more of a mark on my life than the former US president.

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