galactico

plural galacticos

1. ball gamesA football superstar.

   Perez has promised a return of the "galactico" era at Madrid after initiating the original one from 2000-06 with the blockbuster signings of Zinedine Zidane, Beckham, Luis Figo and Brazil's Ronaldo.

   2009 July 7, “Ronaldo rocks 80,000 fans at Bernabeu”, in Toronto Star

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   The danger about each of Mr Brown's weekend initiatives - his appearance as a galactico in Team Europe and his robust hostility to excessive lending - is that each may be more tactical than strategic, more appearance than reality.

   2009 February 23, “Editorial: Brown in Berlin, image and reality”, in The Guardian