Paul Gascoinge aka Gazza was the one who got me interested. Later on I started following Maradona, Roberto Baggio, etc.

Malaysian players: Started off with Azman Adnan, then the Zainal Abidin Hassan-Dollah Salleh combo, later on Indra Putra and now we have a few names which I don't need to mention here, since they are all well known now