Archive for the ‘Players’ Category
Tuesday, December 6th, 2011
Brazil 1982 have the unfortunate title of being most commonly labeled the best side not to win the World Cup. We all know what happened that day in July 1982. Paulo Rossi netted a hattrick in one of the greatest most remarkable matches the World has ever seen. Rossi was awful in matches prior to this one, but against all odds the man from Juventus scored three goals. Socrates may not have won a World Cup, but his style, technique and vision of how the game should be played will always leave a lasting legacy.
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Monday, December 5th, 2011
The young Brazilian superstar, Neymar, was featured in a Sunday Telegraph pullout that focused on the forward’s “dream” to win the World Cup in front of a home crowd in 2014. Although the article informs the reader about Neymar’s brief professional career and a rather short insight into the history of Santos, the piece focuses on the image, character and brand that is Neymar – the new superstar of Brazilian football.
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Monday, December 5th, 2011
FIFA and France Football’s separate ‘world player’ awards merged in a startling union of cooperate filth-slinging last year and we’ve had to come to terms with it over the last 12 months. Surely now, we’re all over it. In fact we should be over lots of things. Maybe Joey Barton being a footballer will settle in at some point. Maybe England being rubbish at penalties will be taught in schools and maybe, just maybe,Barcelona’s Lionel Messi won’t win everything this year. Of course, some things we do not accept and I should think because of that universal condition, the little Argentinian will. Of course that is just one award and this year, Messi, his team-mate Xavi and Real Madrid’s Cristiano Ronaldo have been nominated. Who will be crowned ‘The Best Player in The World EVER… for a year until next year when we’ll choose another one who will probably just be one of these three again!’
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Monday, February 14th, 2011
Ronaldo Luís Nazário de Lima, or should I say ‘Il Fenomeno’ has retired from the game of football aged 34 years old. The 2002 World Cup winner and former World player of year has decided to hang up his boots following elimination in the 2011 Copa Libertadores.
Ronaldo scored 62 goals in 97 games for Brazil, trailing Pele who scored 77 goals in 92 games, to become the countries second top goalscorer of all time. In 2006 Ronaldo became the leading scorer, with 15 goals, in World Cup history when he scored in the 3-0 victory over Ghana. We take a look back at the career or a true great and wonder what could have been if he hadn’t endured so many injuries.
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Monday, February 7th, 2011
The playmaker. Yeah, that guy. He’s the one who operates in behind the forwards or striker/s, pulling the strings and using an almost ethereal view of the football field in order to make himself available for a pass and in return, he then feeds the attack. Does it sound easy? Well, it isn’t. In fact this is the position that is so difficult to fill lots of teams don’t even bother to have a playmaker.
You can have attacking midfielders, you can have central midfielders, you can have defensive midfielders, you can have wide midfielders – which is different from a winger, wing-forward and a chicken wing thrown on the pitch by an aggrieved fan – but a playmaker is a genius, and a genius is hard to find.
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Monday, January 10th, 2011
Lionel Messi has won the 2010 Ballon d’or award, beating team mates Xavi and Andres Iniesta. The last player to win two awards was Brazilian Ronaldo in 1997 and 2002, but you have to go as far back as the late 80′s when Marco Van Basten won back to back awards (he actually won three all in all). Messi scored a remarkable 60 goals for club and country in 2010 and is widely regarded as a genius and one of the most gifted footballers of his generation.
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Friday, October 29th, 2010
Former World Footballer of the year Ronaldinho has been called upto the Brazilian national team after an eighteenth month absence. Brazil’s new coach, Mano Menezes, has decided the time is right to recall one of the most gifted players of the past twenty five years. The AC Milan forward has failed to find the back of the net in seven Serie A games so far this season, but has three assists to his name so far.
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Sunday, July 11th, 2010
This tournament has been historic. It will always be remembered as the first World Cup to go to Africa, in particular, to South Africa – a country that has suffered so much oppression, that has fought to show the world that it is safe and that has shown the world that white people and black people are co-existing in peace.
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Tags: Argentina, Brazil, Doron, England, France, Germany, Ghana, Holland, Italy, Netherlands, South Africa 2010, Spain, Uruguay, World Cup 2010
Posted in Africa, Europe, FIFA, International, Match Report, Opinion, Players, Reviews, South Africa 2010, South America, World Cup | 2 Comments »
Monday, July 5th, 2010
The semi finals start tomorrow and are heavily dominated by Europe. Having suggested only a week ago that the South American teams were doing so well the dominance by one continent at the World Cup has again shifted.
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Tags: Argentina, Brazil, Doron, Espana, Germany, Ghana, Holland, Netherlands, Paraguay, South Africa 2010, Spain, Uruguay, World Cup 2010
Posted in Europe, Match Report, Opinion, Players, South Africa 2010, South America, WCQ | 3 Comments »
Saturday, July 3rd, 2010
Once again, the result of Germany vs. Argentina has sided with modern history. I eluded briefly to the history behind this fixture in a preview to the quarter finals and like in 1990 and 2006 it’s the Germans who have emerged victorious. Germany continued their superb form through to the quarter final match and won 4-0 with goals from Muller, Klose (x2) and Friedrich. Germany seem to have the game one in every area of the pitch.
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Tags: Argentina, Doron, Germany, Maradona, South Africa 2010, World Cup 2010
Posted in Bundesliga, Europe, Managers, Match Report, Opinion, Players, South Africa 2010, South America, World Cup | 4 Comments »
