Showing posts with label striker. Show all posts
Showing posts with label striker. Show all posts

Monday, May 16, 2011

Cristiano Ronaldo

 




Cristiano Ronaldo dos Santos Aveiro (born in Funchal, Madeira, Portugal, February 5, 1985, aged 26 years) is a football player from Portugal. He is known as a winger from Manchester United from 2003-2009 before moving to Real Madrid on July 1, 2009 with record-breaking transfer of 80 million pounds made it as the most expensive player in football history. He usually plays as a left or right wing and center forward. He began to be called to the Portugal national team since 2003. 
Ronaldo was born in Madeira, Portugal, son of Maria Dolores dos Santos Aveiro and José Dinis Aveiro. He has a brother named Hugo, and two older sisters, Elma and Liliana Catia. Liliana Working as a singer with the stage name "Ronalda" in Portugal. [Citation needed] The second name given to Cristiano ("Ronaldo") is relatively rare in Portugal. [Citation needed] 
Ronaldo is a soccer player who can play with both feet [citation needed], which makes him able to play anywhere: right, left or through the middle. This resulted in Ronaldo and his fellow football players at Manchester United's Ryan Giggs can exchange positions. 
Ronaldo has superb technical ability. [Citation needed] In addition to the movement of multi-step-over, he also developed many other skills, makes him very agile and as a winger that can not be predicted movement. Besides the ability to process incredible ball, he is also expert in executing the dead balls, that's what made him become one of the most dangerous player for his opponent, he can score goals in any way. 



 

Wednesday, May 11, 2011

Leonel Messi


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Lionel Andrés "Leo" Messi (Spanish pronunciation: [ljoˈnel anˈdɾes ˈmesi]; born 24 June 1987) is an Argentine footballer who currently plays for FC Barcelona and the Argentina national team as a forward or winger. Considered one of the best football players of his generation,[4][5][6] Messi received several Ballon d'Or and FIFA World Player of the Year nominations by the age of 21 and won both by the age of 22. He also won the 2010 FIFA Ballon d'Or at the age of 23.[11] His playing style and ability have drawn comparisons to Diego Maradona, who himself declared Messi his "successor".

Messi began playing football at a young age and his potential was quickly identified by Barcelona. He left Rosario-based Newell's Old Boys's youth team in 2000 and moved with his family to Europe, as Barcelona offered treatment for his growth hormone deficiency. Making his debut in the 2004–05 season, he broke his team record for the youngest footballer to score a league goal. Major honours soon followed as Barcelona won La Liga in Messi's debut season, and won a double of the league and Champions League in 2006. His breakthrough season was in the 2006–07 season; he became a first teamregular, scoring a hat-trick in El Clásico and finishing with 14 goals in 26 league games. Messi then had the most successful season of his playing career, the 2008–09 season, in which he scored 38 goals to play an integral part in a treble-winning campaign. This record breaking season was then eclipsed in the following 2009–10 campaign, where Messi scored 47 goals in all competitions, equalling Ronaldo's record total for Barcelona. He surpassed this record in the 2010–11 season.