Definition of galactico in English:
galactico
nounPlural galacticos ɡəˈlaktɪkəʊ
informal An exceptionally skilled and celebrated soccer player.
Example sentencesExamples
- Certainly the glowing reviews he has received would not have discouraged the England captain and Real Madrid galactico from believing that this might at last have been his year.
- Samuel is lucky nobody has yet stuck the label galactico on him.
- When results go against the team, supporters speak of the club being a galactico retirement home.
- Also from sport comes the word ' galactico ' to describe a top-class footballer playing as part of a star studded team.
- Age is still on the side of the other galactico who may find his way out of Madrid, Michael Owen, who is only one year into his contract.
- Our new galactico kicks off his new column with a look at one manager's fashion sense
- Long before his incarnation as a Real Madrid galactico, David Beckham spent a couple of months as a 19-year-old playing for Preston North End.
- Envious minds in Madrid who fumed at the performances of the galactico last season will be praying for a revolution.
- In Spain, there is a word, ' galactico ', which means 'comes from another planet '.
- Beckham, in contrast, is a galactico, a man around whose appearances television deals are struck and who has helped to sustain his club's global image and fame.
- " You can read too much into things: I don't think we'll ever go in the galactico direction; if we did, it wouldn't be a good sign for Chelsea.
- Another season without a trophy, which is a very real, pun intended, possibility, and Florentino Perez may be looking for something besides the next galactico, like a new job.
- Over here in England, Thierry Henry is certainly another galactico.
- We have all been thoroughly entertained through the age of the ' galactico '.
- When he was signed from Valladolid by John Toshack in 1989, the key phrase at the Bernabeu was not galactico but " Quinta del Buitre ".
- Whereas a ball-breaker like Camacho bellowed to get his message across, his unheralded successor puts a comforting arm around a galactico and whispers encouragement.
- Is there a Real galactico actually performing well in the World Cup?
- Now that the galactico era is ending the club are unlikely to ditch such useful performers.
- Not quite a suitable role for a galactico.
- At Madrid, he joined the galactico, literally a galaxy of stars.
Origin
Early 21st century: Spanish galáctico, literally 'galactic person' (i.e. bigger than a ‘star’).