“The most beautiful football player in the world”: Watch my game, not my appearance

Croatian footballer Anna Maria Markovic has expressed her dissatisfaction with her description in the media, as "the most beautiful football player in the world", calling for focusing on her performance on the field rather than her external appearance.

Anna is 22 years old and plays for the Grasshopper Club Zürich in Switzerland.

Although she has very strong professional qualities in her career, the Croatian's appearance is what most of the media coverage surrounding her has so far in her career has focused on and she is not a fan of some of the things that have been said about her.

Markovic says she is not happy with nicknames that focus on her attractive looks, and that rather than "the most beautiful female footballer in the world", Markovic prefers to say that she is the "best female footballer in the world".

 Speaking to the Swiss website 20 Minuten, Markovic said: "I loved the articles that described me as the most beautiful football player or one of the most beautiful because it makes me happy to hear that I am beautiful, but then annoying newspaper articles appeared and I did not like that also because of my family .. But in general I did not It was not that bad.”

Markovic was crowned five times in Croatia and moved to the first team in Grasshopper after playing in the youth ranks of "FC Zurich", and the striker added, "She prefers to judge her performance on the field" rather than her appearance.

 She said some people had contacted her under false pretenses.

"Many people pretending to be managers have written to me that I find it very unfortunate."

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