Hagi at the heart of golden era

Gheorghe Hagi in full flow for Romania

To help mark UEFA's Jubilee, each national association was asked to nominate its most outstanding player of the past 50 years. In the latest of a series of articles looking at the Golden Player selected by the nations who have qualified for UEFA EURO 2008™, uefa.com remembers the career of Romania's Gheorghe Hagi.

"Football is my life. It means everything to me and has made me the person I am today," is what Gheorghe Hagi has always said. And that's why Hagi, recently crowned Romania's player of the 20th century, has always wanted to give something back to the game.