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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)

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.

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 Besiktas JK. (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.

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.)

Guti Hernández News: Mourinho (coach of Real Madrid) said he did not think staff Guti’s.

Developments are expected in Besiktas. Black and white in the months since they are chasing Real Madrid’s star connected Guti’yi colors.

Besiktas with Spanish star Guti has signed a two-year contract.

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Egidio Arévalo Ríos is a Uruguayan footballer who plays for C.A. Peñarol and the Uruguay national football team.

Arévalo previously played for Monterrey and San Luis in the Primera Division de Mexico.

Full name: Egídio Arévalo Ríos
Date of birth: January 1, 1982
Place of birth: Paysandú, Uruguay
Height: 1.68 m
Playing position: Midfielder

After a succesful performance at the 2010 FIFA World Cup, it was announced that Peñarol and Cagliari Calcio had reached an agreement for Arevalo Ríos to play in the Sardinian club. The transfer fee was close to 3 million dollars.

Diego Fernando Pérez Aguado (born May 18, 1980, in Montevideo) is a Uruguayan footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder for AS Monaco in Ligue 1 after signing in 2004 from Peñarol. He played for Uruguay at the 2010 FIFA World Cup.

Full name: Diego Fernando Pérez Aguado
Date of birth: May 18, 1980
Place of birth: Montevideo, Uruguay
Height: 1.78 m
Playing position: Defensive midfielder
Club career: Defensor Sporting / Peñarol / Monaco

At the age of 19, Pérez joined one of the clubs of his hometown, Defensor Sporting, soon becoming a first-team regular. He joined a larger club from Montevideo, CA Peñarol, in 2003 but only played 13 games with them before being shipped off to play for Didier Deschamps’ AS Monaco. During his time at Monaco he has had to battle for his place in the defensive midfield spot against Lucas Bernardi, Akis Zikos and Gerard López and was especially favored by the manager Francesco Guidolin during the Italian’s reign in the 2005–06 season.

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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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.

Demy Patrick René de Zeeuw (born 26 May 1983 in Apeldoorn, Netherlands) is a Dutch footballer who currently plays for Eredivisie club Ajax and the Netherlands national football team. He is a defensive midfielder described as a good tackler and a gifted passer of the ball. He previously played for AGOVV, Go Ahead Eagles, and AZ. While at AZ he was a key player in the squad that won the 2008–09 Dutch league, the club’s first championship victory in 28 years. Following this success he was rewarded with a move to Dutch giants Ajax.

Full name: Demy Patrick René de Zeeuw
Date of birth: 26 May 1983
Place of birth: Apeldoorn, Netherlands
Height: 1.74 m
Playing position: Defensive midfielder

Club career: Go Ahead Eagles – AZ – Ajax

2010 World Cup: De Zeeuw 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.The player came on as a substitute for their first match in the competition, a 2-0 victory over Denmark. De Zeeuw was in the starting line-up for the semi-final match against Uruguay. However, the player had to be replaced by Rafael van der Vaart at half time after an incident where he was kicked in the face by Martín Cáceres.

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Ángel Fabián di María (born 14 February 1988 in Rosario, Argentina) is an Argentine footballer…

Rosario Central‘s football career began in 2001. Professional football team to Rosario Central in 2005 began.In the year 2007 was transferred to Benfica. Over the years, the 2007 FIFA U-20 World Cup tournament has attracted the attention of many clubs in the performance.On June 29, 2010 with Real Madrid has signed a six-year contract.

Full name: Ángel Fabián di María
Date of birth: 14 February 1988 (1988-02-14) (age 22)
Place of birth: Rosario, Argentina
Height: 1.80 m
Playing position: Left Winger / Midfielder

Club Career: Di María started his professional football career in 2005 when he made his debut for Rosario Central. In January 2007, he had an opportunity to play in the Russian Premier League when Rubin Kazan offered him a contract. At first, he agreed, but soon afterward, he changed his mind and turned down the offer.  After putting up a remarkable performance in the 2007 FIFA U-20 World Cup, playing for Argentina, di María caught the eye of several European teams and in the end, Benfica signed him.

So highly regarded was di María by Benfica that team president Luís Filipe Vieira, when presenting the young Argentine, told the club’s supporters he had bought the perfect replacement for Benfica’s departing captain, Simão, a talismanic figure for Benfica for over five seasons.

During the first months of his tenure in Lisbon, di María showed that he was not in the least weighed down by the expectations, and the fans quickly took to the exciting talent.

On 27 February 2010, di María scored his first hat trick in a classic 4–0 win against Leixões. The next day, he made the headlines as “Magic Tri María” of all sports newspaper in Portugal.

Philipp Lahm (born 11 November 1983 in Munich, Bavaria, Germany) is a German professional footballer who plays as a defender.The intermn captain of the German national team.

Philipp Lahm has played for VfB Stuttgart and Bayern Munich in Bundesliga and for Germany at Euro 2004, the 2006 FIFA World Cup and Euro 2008, and scored the opening goal of aforementioned World Cup. He is considered one of the best full backs in the world, as is shown by his inclusion in the Mastercard All Star Team in 2006 and the UEFA Team of the Tournament in 2008. He is well known for his pace, dribbling and crossing abilities as well as his small stature. Although Lahm is right-footed, and while he played as a right back as a youth, he has also been played effectively at left back.

Date of birth: 11 November 1983
Place of birth: Munich, Germany
Height: 1.70 m
Playing position: Right wingback / Right winger

Lukas Podolski (born as on 4 June 1985) is a Polish-born naturalized German footballer who plays as a striker for Köln and for the German national team. He joined 1. FC Köln in 1995 where he broke into the first team in 2003 and made 81 appearances for the club before moving to Bayern Munich. After three years in Munich with mixed success, Podolski returned to Köln. Although he was eligible to play for Germany and Poland, Podolski chose to play for Germany. He was first capped in 2004 and has been part of the squad in all major tournaments since then.

Full name: Lukas Podolski
Date of birth: 4 June 1985
Place of birth: Gliwice, Poland
Height: 1.82 m
Playing position: Forward / Winger