Adriano Correia Claro (born 26 October 1984), simply Adriano, is a Brazilian footballer currently playing for FC Barcelona in La Liga.
One of few players in the world who is genuinely two-footed, he is capable of playing as a defender,midfielder, or winger, on both sides of the pitch.
Full name: Adriano Correia Claro Date of birth: 26 October 1984 Place of birth: Curitiba, Brazil Height: 1.72 m Playing position: Defender / Midfielder / Winger Club career: Coritiba / Sevilla / Barcelona National team: Brazil: 8 = (0)
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Sevilla: Born in Curitiba, Paraná, Adriano started professionally for his hometown club, Coritiba Foot Ball Club, making his first team debuts at not yet 18. In January 2005, he joined Sevilla FC in a four 1/2-year deal, his La Liga debut arriving on the 29th, a 0–4 home loss against eventual champions FC Barcelona – the Andalusians did finish sixth and qualified for the UEFA Cup.
In the following seasons, Adriano continued to feature in several positions for Sevilla with equal success, as it won back-to-back UEFA Cups, with the player contributing with 25 matches and four goals in both editions combined. In the final of the latter edition, he opened the score against RCD Espanyol, in an eventual penalty shootout win; previously, in late September 2006, he had added a further five years to his link.
Adriano struggled with some injuries during the 2009–10 season, but still contributed with 27 games (no goals) as Sevilla finished fourth and returned to the UEFA Champions League.
Barcelona: On 16 July 2010, Adriano signed a 4+1 deal with Barcelona, for €9.5 million plus a conditional fee of €4; it also included a buyout clause of €90 million. He was awarded the #21 shirt, vacated by Ukrainian Dmytro Chygrynskiy, departed after just one season
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Barcelona, Sevilla player, Brazilian Adriano Correia was transferred. Barcelona Club, which can serve in the defense and midfield with 25-year-old Adriano has been told four-year contract.
Francesco Totti, Cavaliere Ufficiale OMRI,(born 27 September 1976 in Rome) is an Italian World Cup-winning footballer who is the current captain of Serie A club Roma. His position is that of a striker or an attacking midfielder, though he is best known for playing as a second striker. Totti has spent his entire career at Roma, is the number-one goalscorer and the most capped player in the club’s history. “Er Pupone,” as he is commonly nicknamed, is considered one of the greatest players in his generation and also one of Roma’s greatest players ever.
Francesco Totti
Full name: Francesco Totti
Date of birth: 27 September 1976
Place of birth: Rome, Italy
Height: 1.80 m
Playing position: Striker / Attacking midfielder
Youth career: Fortitudo / Smit Trastevere / Lodigiani / Roma
Club career: AS Roma (1992 – ….)
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Totti has won several awards in Italy during his career including a record five Italian Footballer of the Year awards and two Serie A Footballer of the Year awards.He was named by Pelé as one of the top 125 greatest living footballers in March 2004.
Totti is currently the top active Serie A goalscorer, and sixth all-time in league history with 192 goals.
International: Totti first came into international prominence while playing in the UEFA youth tournaments and won the UEFA under-21 championships in 1996. After starring with the Azzurrini in Italy’s Under-19 and Under-21 sides, he earned his first cap for Italy during a Euro 2000 qualifying victory against Switzerland on 10 October 1998.
Euro 2000: Italy went to Euro 2000 with Totti and he was in excellent form. He scored 2 goals during the tournament. The first goal against co-host nation Belgium in the first round and the second goal against Romania in the quarter-finals. Though Italy lost to France in the final, Totti was named the man of the match and he was selected for the 22-man Team of the Tournament.
2002 World Cup: Disappointment followed at the 2002 World Cup, with Totti failing to make a significant impact and then being sent off during Italy’s second-round loss to South Korea after being handed a controversial second yellow card by Byron Moreno for an alleged dive in the penalty area.
Euro 2004: Totti acquired a measure of infamy at Euro 2004 after he spat at Danish midfielder Christian Poulsen in a goalless draw on 14 June 2004. He was subsequently banned until the semifinals, but never made it back to action and finished the competition scoreless due to Italy’s elimination in the first round.
2006 World Cup: Though Totti recovered in time to join the national team for the 2006 World Cup, he was not completely in game shape after three months on the sidelines following his injury against Empoli, and played with metal plates in his ankle that had yet to be removed. He nonetheless was a regular fixture in the Marcello Lippi’s side. During the tournament he played behind the lone striker Luca Toni rather than as a pairing, notably scoring the controversial goal via a penalty in Italy’s 1–0 win over Australia on 26 June, and starting in the final against France until being substituted in the 61st minute. Italy went on to win the World Cup, and Totti was selected for the 23-man All-Star Team.
Retirement: Totti intended to retire from the Azzurri after the end of the World Cup, but reneged on his decision and remained undecided on his future for over a year and was never called up in the meantime. He made his retirement official on 20 July 2007, at the beginning of the 2007–08 Serie A season in order to focus solely on club play with Roma. The current Italy coach, Roberto Donadoni, attempted to get Totti to change his mind for the remaining Euro 2008 qualifiers but was not successful.
After the national team reunited with Marcello Lippi, Totti announced that he would like to play in the 2010 World Cup Finals in South Africa if he got called up, however, no official statement release from both Totti and Lippi about possible comeback. In the event, Totti was not named in the final squad, and Italy was subsequently eliminated as a bottom place in their group, their worst ever group stage results in the history of the World Cup. Diego Maradona and former national teammates Fabio Cannavaro and Gianluigi Buffon commented one of the reasons for Italy’s early exit is that the Azzurri lack creative players like Totti.
José María Gutiérrez Hernández, commonly known as Guti (born October 31, 1976), is a Spanish footballer who currently plays for BesiktasJK. (Beşiktaş J.K.). Besiktas with Spanish star Guti has signed a two-year contract.
The attacking midfielder serves as vice-captain, and, alongside Raúl González and Iker Casillas, has played at the club his entire career, helping it to 15 titles, namely three UEFA Champions League and five La Liga championships.
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Full name: José María Gutiérrez Hernández
Date of birth: October 31, 1976 Place of birth: Madrid, Spain Height: 1.83 m Playing position: Midfielder Club career: Real Madrid C / Real Madrid B / Real Madrid / Besiktas JK. (Beşiktaş J.K.)
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Luis Alberto Suárez Díaz (born 24 January 1987 in Salto) is a Uruguayan footballer who currently plays as a striker for AFC Ajax, where he is captain, and for the Uruguayan national team.
Suárez grew up alongside seven brothers, with a single mother. He was a troublesome teenager, involved in drinking and partying, instead of focusing on football. At the age of 14, however, he was given an ultimatum by his youth team coach, and started to work hard in practice.
Full name: Luis Alberto Suárez Díaz Date of birth: 24 January 1987 Place of birth: Salto, Uruguay Height: 1.81 m Playing position: Striker Club career: Nacional / Groningen / Ajax
Suárez began his career at Nacional. He moved to Groningen in 2006, before transfering to Ajax in 2007. At Ajax he mainly played as a supporting striker with the main striker initially being Klaas-Jan Huntelaar and later Marko Pantelić. Following the arrival of manager Martin Jol at Ajax in 2009, Suárez was made the club captain following the departure of Thomas Vermaelen. In 2010, Suárez was named Dutch Footballer of the Year, having ended the season as top scorer in the league with 35 goals (49 goals in all competitions).
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2010 FIFA World Cup: On 2 July 2010, during the quarter final match against Ghana, Suárez intentionally handled the ball on the line in the last minute of extra-time and denied Ghana a goal that would have won them the game.He was subsequently given a direct red card and sent off the field. The resulting penalty was however missed by Asamoah Gyan and Uruguay went on to win 4–2 in the shootout and progress to the semi-final. His subsequent boasting about manipulating the rules of the game to keep Ghana out of a semi-final appearance has made him seem to be an international villain to some partisans. He was quoted saying “I think I made the best save of the tournament” and was seen cheering when Gyan’s penalty hit the crossbar.Due to this, he was audibly booed by members of the crowd each time he touched the ball in his next appearance, the 3rd place game of the World Cup 2010 against Germany. However, some football commentators point out that because Suarez intentionally committed an illegal act to deny the opposing team an obvious goal, he compromised the sporting integrity of the match itself, thereby cheating the game of football.Others have explained the booing as mainly a reaction to the elevation to hero status of Suarez by Uruguay’s fans.
Edinson Roberto Cavani Gómez (born February 14, 1987 in Salto) is a Uruguayan football striker.
FIFA World Cup 2010 (South Africa): He scored against Germany in the 3rd place match in the 2010 FIFA World Cup making the game 1-1, which Germany were later to win 2-3.
Edinson Cavani
Full name: Edinson Roberto Cavani Gómez Nicknamed: El Matador Date of birth: February 14, 1987 Place of birth: Salto, Uruguay Height: 1.84 m Playing position: Striker Club career: Danubio / Palermo / Napoli
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Wesley Benjamin Sneijder (born 9 June 1984, in Utrecht) is a Dutch footballer who currently plays for Italian Serie A club Internazionale as a midfielder. In 2004, Sneijder was awarded the Johan Cruijff Award for Young Player of the Year in the Netherlands.
A product of the Ajax Academy, he previously played for AFC Ajax and Real Madrid, before signing for Internazionale in 2009. In his first season at the Italian club, Sneijder won the European Treble, consisting of Serie A, Coppa Italia and UEFA Champions League.
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Wesley Sneijder
Sneijder previously represented various Youth squads for the Netherlands. He is now a regular player for the Dutch national team, having made his debut in April 2003 at the age of 18, and having represented his country at the 2006 World Cup and at two European Championships (2008 and 2004). He is representing the Netherlands at the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa.
Full name: Wesley Benjamin Sneijder Date of birth: June 9, 1984 Place of birth: Utrecht, Netherlands Height: 1.70 m Playing position: Attacking Midfielder Club career: Ajax – Real Madrid – Internazionale
2010 World Cup: Sneijder was in the starting line-up for their first match in the competition, a 2–0 victory over Denmark. Sneijder scored the winning goal in a 1–0 victory over Japan. In the first two matches of the group stage at the FIFA World Cup he was selected as the man of the match in both of them.In the Netherlands’ round of 16 match against Slovakia, Sneijder scored in a 2–1 victory. He also provided what was at first thought to be an assist for the first goal against Brazil in the quarter finals, but was later credited with the goal. He then scored a header direct from a corner and consigned Brazil to a 2–1 defeat, bringing his goal total in the tournament to four. Sneijder was again named man of the match on FIFA’s website. In the semi final against Uruguay, Sneijder scored in the 70th minute, taking his total in the competition so far to five, raising him to first place in terms of goals scored, along with David Villa. The Netherlands won the match 3–2 and progressed to the final. Sneijder was yet again named on FIFA’s website as the Budweiser man of the match according to the public on line vote.
Dirk Kuijt, ”Dirk Kuyt’ ‘(born 22 July 1980) is a Dutch professional footballer who currently plays for English club Liverpool. His primary position is as a striker, but now he is more often deployed as a winger for both Liverpool and the Netherlands national team.
Full name: Dirk Kuijt Date of birth: 22 July 1980 Place of birth: Katwijk aan Zee, Netherlands Height: 1.84 m Playing position: Winger / Striker / Second Striker Club career: Utrecht – Feyenoord – Liverpool
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Kuyt began his professional career with FC Utrecht in 1998 and quickly became part of their first team. He spent five years at the club and in his final season he won his first senior honour, the Dutch Cup, and was chosen as the season’s Dutch Golden Shoe Winner. Following this, he left Utrecht in a €1 million transfer to Feyenoord. He became the club captain in 2005 and was a prolific goalscorer at the Rotterdam club; he was the club’s top scorer for three consecutive seasons, the top goalscorer in the 2004–05 Eredivisie season, and the 2005–06 Dutch Footballer of the Year. Kuyt missed only five games over seven seasons from 1999 until 2006 and appeared in 179 consecutive matches between 2001–06.
He left Feyenoord after three years, having scored 71 league goals in 101 appearances, and joined Premier League side Liverpool for £10 million.He made his Premier League debut late in 2006 and immediately became part of the first team squad. He scored in his first ever UEFA Champions League final with Liverpool against AC Milan, with Kuyt offering late hope for Liverpool although eventually losing 2–1.
He made his international debut in 2004 and has represented the Netherlands at three major international tournaments, the 2006 FIFA World Cup, UEFA Euro 2008 and the 2010 FIFA World Cup.
2010 World Cup: Kuyt was included in the preliminary squad for the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa. On 27 May 2010, Netherlands manager Bert van Marwijk announced that the player would be part of the final squad of 23 participating in the competition.
Kuyt scored Holland’s second goal in the 85th minute of their 2-0 win over Denmark in their opening group match on a tap-in after Eljero Elia’s shot hit the post. In the July 2 quarterfinal match against Brazil, Kuyt flicked a corner on to Sneijder who headed the ball into the net, effectively giving the Dutch a 2-1 lead. He also assisted the goal scored by Arjen Robben against Uruguay in the semi-finals.
Diego Forlán Biography, Video, Profile: Diego Martín Forlán Corazo (born 19 May 1979 in Montevideo) is a Uruguayan footballer…
Forlán was born into a family of footballers, his father Pablo having played for Uruguay in the 1966 and 1974 FIFA World Cups and his grandfather, Juan Carlos Corazo, for Independiente in Argentina. Forlán joined Independiente after rising through their youth team, and after a successful four year spell signed for Manchester United. Forlán’s two-year stint in the Premier League saw him fail to achieve the form he held at Independiente, and he was signed by La Liga side Villarreal.
In his first season in Spanish football, Forlán scored 25 league goals and won the Pichichi Trophy. After two more successful seasons with Villarreal, Forlán joined Atlético Madrid, where he once again became the league’s top scorer, and became the first player to win the Pichichi Trophy twice since Ronaldo achieved this feat in 2003-04.
Forlán also has a successful international career, in which he has scored 28 times for his country. He has scored at both the 2002 FIFA World Cup in Japan and South Korea, and the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa, in which he scored twice against the host nation, once against Ghana and once against the Netherlands in the semi-final. Uruguay 2 – 3 Netherlands (Semi-Final) Match Highlights and Diego Forlan Goal Video.
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Full name: Diego Martín Forlán Corazo Date of birth: 19 May 1979 Place of birth: Montevideo, Uruguay Height: 1.80 m Playing position: Striker
Diego Forlán Biography
Club career: Forlán, son of former player and Uruguayan international Pablo Forlán, was a promising tennis player in his youth, but he decided to follow the family tradition and concentrate on football when his sister Alejandra was involved in a car accident, which killed her boyfriend and left her in intensive care for five months. He played for several South American clubs, including Argentine side Independiente, where he made his name in football as a goalscorer, before attracting European attention and transferring in January 2002 to play for Manchester United in England for a fee of £6.9 million.
Manchester United: Diego Forlán endured a difficult time at Manchester United. Although he made his debut for the club on 29 January against Bolton Wanderers, he did not score his first goal until 18 September, a penalty in a Champions League game against Maccabi Haifa. This goal drought, which lasted for 27 games during an eight month period, saw him dubbed “Diego Forlorn” and “Diego Birtles” (after Garry Birtles, a former United striker who had flopped) by some quarters of the English press.
Forlán enjoyed the occasional purple patch of scoring, though. He was noted for scoring important goals, such as the late equaliser at home to Aston Villa and the remarkable volleyed winner in the last minutes of the home game against Chelsea during United’s Premiership-winning season of 2002–03, and he became a fan favourite when he scored two goals against Liverpool in a 2–1 victory at Anfield. During this period, Forlán became known for removing his shirt and baring his torso in celebration of his goals. The first such example of this resulted in quite an amusing incident: Forlán whipped his shirt off in excitement after scoring an 85th minute winner against Southampton in November 2002 but struggled to get it back on in time for the re-start of play, resulting in the spectacle of Forlán briefly running around the Old Trafford pitch bare-chested, with his shirt still in his hand, then recovering the ball for his team. The referee soon stopped play and ordered Forlán off the pitch to get dressed.
Forlán’s record of 17 goals from 95 appearances for the club does not compare favourably to his former teammate Ruud van Nistelrooy’s 150 goals in 210 games, and it was widely thought that he would not start the 2004–05 season in the Red Devils’ team colours. That eventually proved true after signing for Villareal in August of 2004, the same month Manchester United signed Wayne Rooney.
Villareal CF: Forlán was strongly linked to a move to Spanish club Levante UD, but signed on 21 August 2004 with another Spanish club, Villarreal CF, where he became the Spanish 2004–05 season Pichichi Trophy winner with 25 goals, helping Villareal to their first ever UEFA Champions League spot. He also jointly won the European Golden Boot award with Thierry Henry. His form dipped in the 2005-06 season as Villareal underwent several changes, but in 2006-07 he began to hit form again, and ended the season high in the scoring charts again.
Atlético Madrid: Forlán was linked to transfer with Juan Román Riquelme to Atlético Madrid in exchange for Luis Perea and money in June 2007. On 30 June 2007, following the departure of their captain Fernando Torres to Liverpool, Atlético Madrid confirmed that they had agreed a fee of around €21 million. He returned to England in February 2008 to take part in Atlético’s UEFA Cup clash against Bolton Wanderers (the club against whom he made his Manchester United debut), but the side lost out 1–0 on aggregate. For the 2008–09 season, he was once again the recipient of the La Liga Pichichi Trophy award, with 32 goals in 33 matches, as well as the European Golden Boot for a second time.
On 22 April 2010, Forlán scored the only goal of the game in Atlético’s Europa League semi-final first leg at home to Liverpool. A week later, Liverpool took the tie to extra time before taking a 2–1 aggregate lead. Forlán then scored again to make it 2–2 on aggregate, giving Atlético the away goal they needed to reach the final, in which they played against Fulham at Hamburg’s HSH Nordbank Arena on 12 May. Forlán scored twice against Fulham in the Final, in a 2–1 win.
2010 FIFA World Cup: On 16 June 2010, during Uruguay’s second group game in the 2010 FIFA World Cup against South Africa, Forlán opened the scoring with a long range effort. Later on in the game Forlán scored from the penalty spot for his second and also had a hand in Uruguay’s third, ending in a 3-0 win over the host nation. On 2 July 2010, Forlán scored a free kick against Ghana to equalise during the quarter-finals. The game ended 1-1 and Uruguay advanced through to the semi-finals after defeating Ghana 4-2 in the penalty shootout. On 6 July 2010, Forlán scored another long range goal, this time with his left foot to equalise againt the Netherlands in the semi-final. Despite a half-time score at 1-1, Uruguay eventually lost 3-2 as the Dutch advanced to the final. Forlán became the first player since Lothar Matthäus in 1990 to score three goals outside the penalty area in one tournament
David Villa Sánchez (born 3 December 1981), nicknamed El Guaje (The Kid in Asturian), is a Spanish footballer who plays as a striker for Spain.
David Villa
Club Career: Despite sustaining a serious injury as a child, he started his professional career with Sporting de Gijón and made his debut in 2000 in Spain’s Segunda División. He moved to Real Zaragoza after two seasons, after a total of 38 goals and 80 appearances for Gijón. He made his La Liga debut at Zaragoza and scored 31 goals in 73 appearances in the next two seasons, winning the Copa del Rey and Supercopa de España, his first senior honours. He joined Valencia in 2005 for a transfer fee of €12 million. He was the second highest scorer in the 2005–06 season with 25 goals, and was part of the Valencia team that won the Copa del Rey for a second time in the 2007–08 season. In 2010 he moved to Barcelona for €40 million.
Full name: David Villa Sánchez Date of birth: 3 December 1981 Place of birth: Langreo, Spain Height: 1.75 m Playing position: Striker
Miloš Krasić born 1 November 1984 in Kosovska Mitrovica) is a Serbian professional footballer…
Early Career: After starting out with the hometown side FK Rudar Kosovska Mitrovica, Krasić was noticed by FK Vojvodina in 1999 and he made a switch northwards at age 14. He spent the next 4 and a half seasons in Novi Sad where he further raised his level and became the team captain.
Milos Krasic
Full name: Miloš Krasić Date of birth: 1 November 1984 Place of birth: Kosovska Mitrovica, SFR Yugoslavia Height: 1.85 m Playing position: Winger / Attacking Midfielder
CSKA Moscow: In January 2004, Krasić was on his way to Moscow where he featured in three games during the club’s UEFA Cup 2004–05 winning run, including a cameo appearance in the final. He also helped them win the Russian title in 2005 and 2006, the Russian Cup in 2005, 2006, 2008 and 2009, and the Russian Super Cup in 2006, 2007 and 2009.
