Robin Van Persie. A guy with more worldwide recognition than any football player stateside.

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I'm trying to count how many people in this thread maybe haven't been to Deadspin since its creation. I'm up to 5.

I was about 6 or 7 and living in Greece. There's 3 times around Christmas that kids go out caroling and make some decent change from it. It's a door-to-door thing and people give loose change to kids. Well my cousin (about 3 or 4 years older than me) and I decide we're going south of the main street to the rich…