Gheorghe Hagi (born February 5, 1965 in Săcele, Constanţa County) is a Romanian football player who played for the Romanian national team in three World Cups. Nicknamed "The Maradona of the Carpathians", he is a hero in his homeland as well as in Turkey. He has won his country's Player of the Year award a record six times, and was recently named Romania's player of the century. Most notably, he was named the best player of the 1990s by FIFA.