Cristiano Ronaldo

You often hear peo­ple talk­ing about how soc­cer play­ers should use their head when play­ing the sport. But you sel­dom hear or see them talk­ing about using their neck. How­ever, that’s exactly what Por­tu­gal mae­stro Cris­tiano Ronaldo did Mon­day dur­ing his team’s 7–0 maul­ing of North Korea when he rolled the ball off the back of […]

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Best Starting 11 Today

by Rami Soufi on November 16, 2009 · 10 comments

A num­ber of play­ers can stake a claim for being part of the best team in the world at this early period of the Euro­pean domes­tic leagues. How­ever, very few play­ers stand­out the way those listed below have in terms of their con­tri­bu­tion to their team, their role as lead­ers, and cer­tainly their cru­cial involvement […]

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The Best Players To Miss On South Africa 2010

by Rami Soufi on November 10, 2009 · 13 comments

The World Cup is almost set in terms of the teams that will qual­ify and once the play-offs are com­pleted it will be clear whether the likes of Cris­tiano Ronaldo, Thierry Henry and Franck Ribery will be present or miss­ing. In the mean­time, Sweden’s tal­ented for­ward Zla­tan Ibrahi­movic will cer­tainly not be going to the […]

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Will Portugal Overcome Bosnia Without Ronaldo?

by Rami Soufi on November 5, 2009 · 3 comments

Por­tu­gal will most likely be miss­ing Cris­tiano Ronaldo when it hosts Bosnia-Herzegovina on 11/14/09 as it looks to build some momen­tum prior to the return leg in Bosnia on the 18th of Novem­ber. Unfor­tu­nately for the Por­tuguese the lat­est report claims Ronaldo will be out for about a month which means he will not feature […]

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Messi in line for double scoop

by Gareth Freeman on October 30, 2009 · 0 comments

Argen­tine ace and Barcelona star Lionel Messi has had quite a year.  After lead­ing Barcelona to an unprece­dented tre­ble in the Cham­pi­ons League, La Liga and Copa del Ray he is now up for both the Bal­lon d’Or (Euro­pean foot­baller of the year) and the equally pres­ti­gious FIFA World Player of the Year. Last year Messi […]

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Now that Argentina has qual­i­fied to the World Cup ensur­ing the pres­ence of star player Lionel Messi, bar­ring any injury or out­landish suspension,  how does one eval­u­ate the com­ments made by FIFA Pres­i­dent Sepp Blat­ter? Prior to the deci­sive qual­i­fiers which yielded  Argentina’s qual­i­fi­ca­tion to South Africa as well as Portugal’s oppor­tu­nity to do so through a  two-legged play­off clash […]

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XI — Part II">2008 World Football XI — Part II

by George Metellus on January 3, 2009 · 5 comments

Part II of WCB’s World XI will reveal the attack­ing por­tion of the team as well as the coach that puts it all together or keeps it together. Let us begin with the right side of the for­ma­tion. FORWARDS: On the right side, Cris­tiano Ronaldo. Every­one knows about the year he had with Man­ches­ter United […]

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