Politcally revolutionary footballers

Damiano Tommasi, holding midfielder for Roma in their scudetto-winning team of 2001, has pioneered a scheme which collects players' fines and distributes them to charity. A couple of seasons ago when he was injured and out for almost a year, he renegotiated his contract so that he received only apprentice wages for the duration of his injury. An admirable guy, especially in the scalding cauldron of financial iniquity and leftover fascism that is Serie A.

Oleguer Presis, Barcelona rightback, is a commited activist on Catalan issues, has published a book and newspaper articles criticising many Spanish political trends and decisions regarding Catalunia, and has refused to play for the Spanish national team. On receiving his medal for winning La Liga in 2005 from the Spanish president, he wrapped himself in the Catalan flag.

Gyula Grosics, goalkeeper/sweeper of Hungary's legendary Magical Magyars team of the 1950s, was convicted of treason during the revolution in 1956. I've not been able to find specific details but he was seemingly the most politically active and outspoken member of the aranycsapat ("Golden Team" in Hungarian) by some distance. That entire Hungarian team was bizarre though - in 1949 all the football teams in Hungary were nationalised after the communist uprising, and given over to be run by various institutions, such as the army, the secret police, transport unions and food workers. The country's best players were all conscripted into the army, and the army's team, Honved, formed the basis for the national side, effectively enabling the national team to play together week in, week out. I can't imagine Ashley Cole coping with this set-up.

Graeme Le Saux read The Guardian more than once.

Can you think of any other politically and/or socially revolutionary players? Camus, the existential keeper? Maradona?