Tuesday, June 7, 2011

XAVI

PROFILE:
            
Full name: Xavier Hernández i Creus

                         






Date of birth: 25 January 1980 (1980-01-25)

                         






Place of birth:
Terrassa, Spain

                        






Height 1.70 m (170 cm)

                         National Team: Spain
                         Age:31 years
                         Playing position: midfielder
                         Current club: FC Bercelona
                          Number: 6
                          Weight: 68 kg
                         Mother's name: Maria-Merce
                          Likes: Choclate
                                                 Xasvier Hernández i Creus who is commonly known as Xavi by the people in the world who is  the third captain of Barcelona and Spain and is the playmaker of both teams. He is known for his technical & passing skills but also for his defensive abilities. He often appears on score-sheet and is an excellent set-piece taker.





 He is a Spanish footballer who plays as a central mid fielder for La Liga club FC Barcelona, where he has spent his entire 13 years career.He lives with a join family in terrasa(Spain).He has a brother and a younger daughter named Alex and Adriana.


BACKGROUND:
                    Xavi joined Barcelona at age of 11 and has progressed quickly. He was one of Barcelona's most important players in their successful quest for Second Division promotion. Xavi joined the first team in 1998 and scored on his debut against Mallorca. Soon, he proved that he could play any position in midfield & was Barcelona and Spain's main player ever since.Xavi's importance was best expressed by Spain's coach Luis Aragones who decided to take him to World Cup 2006 even though he has just returned from a though injury which kept him out of action for 5 months. He said: "They say that it is a gamble to take Xavi with us, but I say it would be a crazy gamble to leave him at home". He was not wrong.Xavi was named the official Man of the match of the 2011 Champions League Final as he helped Barcelona defeat Manchester United to win their third Champions League title. Xavi has been capped 101 times for the Spanish national team, with whom he won UEFA Euro 2008 & the 2010 World Cup. Xavi was named player of the Tournament by UEFA at UEFA Euro 2008.Because, of his work done he is regarded as one of the best midfielder of the whole world. 

Monday, June 6, 2011

WAYNE ROONEY

PROFILE:
      A stiker of football is Wayne Mark Rooney who was born in  24 October 1985 in Liverpool is an English footballer.Rooney currently plays for the English Premier League club Manchester United and the England national team. He normally played as a second striker to Ruud van Nistelrooy for his club team before van Nistelrooy's move to Real Madrid, although during 2005-06, he showed his versatility as a player by shifting to the midfield and playing on both flanks. Rooney wears number 8 for Manchester United and wears number 9 the English national team.
He was brought up in an urban area of eastern Liverpool called Croxteth, where he and his two brothers attended the local De La Salle Catholic School.Rooney's boyhood team was always Everton; his love for his home town club was famously bore out when he wore a T-shirt reading "Once a blue, Always a blue". However, he would end up playing just two seasons with Everton before demanding, and then executing, a transfer. This has left him on unfavourable terms with Everton fans, as they showed when he returned to Goodison Park and he was booed severely.
Although Rooney has been under an intense media spotlight since first arriving on the scene in 2002, it was not until his performances at Euro 2004 that he gained a reputation on the world stage, as he spearheaded the English attack, scoring four goals. He is also on the cover of the FIFA 07 video game in the UK.

NATIONAL TEAM CAREER: 
                                              Rooney too has  figured prominently in recent England international matches, after having become the youngest ever player to play for England, in a friendly against Australia, on 12 Feb 2003, aged 17 years, 111 days. This record has since been surpassed by Theo Walcott, who came off the bench to play in England's friendly against Hungary on 30 May 2006. England's youngest ever player previous to Rooney was James F. M. Prinsep of Clapham Rovers, who made his debut almost one and a quarter centuries before, on 5 April 1879, aged 17 years, 253 days. Rooney is also the youngest England scorer ever (17 years, 317 days). so, he is able to known by the world now.
                                          
Date of Birth: 23 September 1920, New York
Birth Name:Ninian Joseph Yule Jr.
Nickname:The Mick ,The Mickster Height:5' 2" (1.57 m)

Monday, May 23, 2011

KAKA
  Kaka is a glowing football star in present. Kaka was born in April 22, 1982 in Brasília, Brazil, Kaká, is a Brazilian footballer who plays as a midfielder for Brazil and the Serie A club A.C. Milan. He is one of the budding young stars in world football.
                  
FAMILY:
             Kaká's younger brother Rodrigo Izecson Dos Santos Leite, known as Digão, followed in his brother's footsteps and is currently on loan with Serie B team Rimini, after having spent some time in the AC Milan youth squad.

NICK NAME:
                         The nickname Kaká, from his native Portuguese, is pronounced as it is spelt. The accent would signify that the stress is on the second syllable. In Italian, the language of his current team, the phonetic equivalent is written as Kakà, which is used for Italian television graphics. However, the player's shirt name is spelt KAKA' (with an apostrophe, rather than an accented 'A') for both Brazil and Milan.  An internet discussion forum explains the nickname as a commonly used shortened form of "Ricardo" in Portuguese. Kaká is supposed to have got his nickname because his little brother Rodrigo could not pronounce the word "Ricardo" when they were young. Rodrigo called his older brother "Caca\ Kaká suffered an accident when he made a faulty jump off a diving-board, resulting in a vertebra fracture. This could have meant the end of his football career, but he believes that Jesus allowed him to recover and become the successful footballer he is now. When AC Milan won the Serie A title in 2004, Ricky, as he is called by his team-mates, sported a shirt with an "I Belong to Jesus" slogan. 

Sunday, May 15, 2011

DAVID BECKHAM

PROFILE:
 Nicknames: David Beckham
Birth Date: 2 May 1975
Birth Place: Leytonstone, London, England, UK
Height: 6'
Weight: 74Kg
Eyes: Dark Blue
Hair: Light Brown
Sign: Taurus
Nationality: British
Position: Right Midfield
Profession: Actor, Member Of Real Madrid Football Club, Model
                                                                              
                                                        David Robert Joseph Beckham known as David Beckham is an English football player. He is widely regarded as most famous player in the world signed with Manchester United in 1993 and Real Madrid in 2003. He is now playing for Real Madrid as a captain of English National team and widely known for his crossings, long-range free kicks and corner hits.
David Beckham typically plays as a midfield for various teams. His popular nickname is Becks. In 1995 United manager Alex Ferguson selects Beckham as one of the team player when three of his first-team players left the club at the end of the 1994-95 seasons. In August 1996 Beckham become popular when he scored a spectacular goal in a match against Wimbledon F.C.
In the summer of 2003, his name was used as the title in the sleeper hit Bend It Like Beckham. Soon, he will star in a documentary drama film about Real Madrid, Real: The Movie, along with the club's superstars Zinedine Zidane, Ronaldo and Raul. The film is scheduled to premiere this summer to tie in with the Spanish team's worldwide tour.



LIONEL MESSI

ABOUT LIONEL MESSI:
Full name: Luis Lionel Andrés Messi
Birthday: June 24, 1987
Birth place: Rosario, Argentina
Country: Argentina
EU passport: Yes
Height: 169 cm
Weight: 67.5 kg
Club: FC Barcelona
Position: Forward

 Lionel messi is an Argentine football  player. He started playing football at a very early age in his hometown's Newell's old Boys. From the age of 11, he suffered from a hormone deficiency and as Lionel's parents were unable to pay for the treatment in Argentina, they decided to move to Barcelona, Spain.  At the age of 11, he was diagnosed with a growth hormone deficiency. River Plate showed interest in Messi's progress, but did not have enough money to pay for the treatment of the illness, which cost over £500 a month. As Argentina's economy was collapsing, Carles Rexach, then sporting director of FC Barcelona, was made aware of Messi's talent, and Barcelona signed him after watching him play, offering to pay for the medical bills if he was willing to move to start a new life in Spain. His family moved with the young player to Europe and he starred in the club’s youth teams.
                          On September 25, 2005 Messi obtained a Spanish citizenship and was finally able to make his debut in this season's Spanish First Division.Messi's first outing in the UEFA Champions League at the Nou Camp was on Sept 28 against Italian club Udinese.
                                                                             His first appearance with Barcelona is the 2004-2005 season and a record as the youngest player to play and score goals in La Liga.
                                                                 In his first season at Barcelona, Messi helped lead El Barça won La Liga, and double winner that is La Liga and Champions League. In the 2006-2007 season, Messi scored a hat trick to Real Madrid in the match wicket 'el classico' and scored 14 goals in 26 matches.
              In the Argentine national team, Messi won the Junior World Cup title in 2005 and in 2008 won the Olympics in Beijing. Joint team of senior Tango, the first appearance on August 17, 2005 at the age of 18 years 54 days.
Lionel Messi – World Cup 2006
                                                            The injury that kept Messi from playing for two months at the end of the 2005/06 league, jeopardized his presence in the 2006 FIFA World Cup. Nonetheless, Messi was selected in the Argentina squad for the 2006 FIFA World Cup on May 15, 2006. He also played in the farewell match against the Argentinian U-20 team and a friendly against Angola. Messi witnessed Argentina’s opening match win against Ivory Coast from the bench. In the next match against Serbia and Montenegro, he came on as a substitute for Maxi Rodríguez in the 74th minute. In doing so he became the youngest player to represent Argentina at a World Cup. He assisted Hernán Crespo’s goal within minutes of entering the game and also scored the final goal in the 6-0 victory. This goal made him the youngest scorer in the 2006 World Cup and the sixth youngest scorer in World Cup history.So, today messi is known by the world.