Tuesday, June 2, 2009

CURTAINS COME DOWN ON ILLUSTRIOUS CAREERS.

The end of the season saw the curtains being pulled down on the illustrious careers came down on the careers of some wizards of football sadly all good things come to a end.
1) LUIS FIGO of Portugal, date of birth 4/11/1972 in Lisbon.Johan Cruiff signed Figo for Barcelona from Sporting Lisbon, and that was Cruiffs last signing before he was dismissed as coach.At Barcelona he won two league cups anda Europen cup winners cup, before his controversial move to Real Madrid for a then record of 56.1 million dollars.
At Real Madrid he won two league tiles and also the 2002Champion league.
He then moved to Inter Milan in Italy in the year2005, and has won fourleague titls. He has won the Europen footballer of the year , and F.....I.F.A footballer of the year in2001.
Paulo Maldini born 26,6/1968 in Milan.Made his debut for A.C.Milan in 1985 aged 16 years. Wins five Europen cups with Milan , and seven Italian league titles, equals the record of eight chmpion league final appearances in 2007. For Italy he has 126caps, captained Italy 64 times, retired from internatiional football in 2002, so misses the world cup wi in 2006.Maldini has scored the fastest champion league goal against Liverpool.Also becomes the oldest to score in a final against Liverpool in 2007.And also the oldest captain.

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