THE NEW RULE COMES ON 1/9/2010

On the 1/9/2010 the new law comes into force that all clubs should announce their team f 25, twenty five players. Out of this eight have to be home grown players, that means they should have spent the last three years in england. The teams are only allowed to make a change in case a goalkeeper is injured, or they will then have to wait for the transfer market in January.

Now the reason why managers are angry and upset is that if a player is injured, let us take the case of Tottenham Hotspur and their two good players Ledley King and Jonathan Wood-gate , both are injured and will not be ready to play on 1/9/2010.So in other words both these players may not play this season, and as they do not play, they can not play for England either.

THIS IS NOT AT ALL CORECT.

Just because North Korea lost their matches at the 2010 world cup. The coach and players were very badly humiliated

They were all given six long hours of ear roasting in front of four to five hundred government people. Their coach Kim Jung Hung was sent to work at a building site. He was also expelled from the Workers party of Korea. But we must remember a few things.

1) North Korea were an average team and were in the group of death, with Brazil, Portugal and Ivory coast. They ranked 103 By F.I.F.A. They lost 2-1 to Brazil and 7-0 to Portugal.It was all over then. But Kim Jung Hung made it possible for North Korea to qualify for the world cup for the first time since 1966.

F.I.F.A should take action as they said they would with Nigeria.

WHY ARE THERE ONLY 21% ENGLISH PLAYERS IN THE E.P.L.

This year the players chosen by clubs in the E.P.L is a huge 79 percent, and so as the players are not coming from the youth team any more, the managers have to see other clubs. The other point is that the English players are costlier, for example James Milner, Scott Parker and Joe Cole. All are very costly Joe Cole wants a weekly salary of 100,000 pounds a week. but will he deliver? Because he never has been the same after his injury. Arsene Wenger prefers to get young players from France, and then develop them at Arsenal. But those he spent on have not done as expected. Like Jermaine Pennant, Theo Walcott. He paid a lot for them , another player who failed was Francis Jeffers. So England will face problems for the world cups.

MARLON KING IS RELEASED FROM JAIL.

Marlon king the former footballer at Wigan Athletic, has been released from jail after serving only half of his eighteen months behind bars. It all started after he went to celebrate in a bar after his club won a match.. He then molested a bar girl, and when she did not encourage him. he angry said Do you not know who I am . I am a millionaire. He then molested her and punched her on her nose, breaking it and cutting her lips.

Wigan tore up his contract and have now told him he would never ever play for his former club in his lifetime. He will now get a chance to join only a second division club.

FIVE THOUSAND GOLD PLATED I.PODS TO BE MELTED.

There were five thousand gold plated I. Pods which had Frank Lampards name as well as his signature on it .The Chelsea and england midfielder teamed up with DragonDen Goldgeine to make them. It would be made with 24 carat gold and costing 599 pounds each.

The anger and the back lash was so much that , now these I pods will be melted and made into a childrens cartoon series called HELLO KITTY. A T,V sources said.

FABREGAS AND BARCELONA FACE NEW PROBLEMS.

The Spanish footballer Cesc Fabriegas who is very keen to come back and play for the club he started with is having major financial problems. The former president Juan Laportapa said that Barcelona said that the club was in 9.2 million pounds in debt. But the new president of Barcelona Sandro Rosell has some thing very different to tell. after a new auditting was done , the debt of Barcelona was a huge 369 million pounds.So it is clear Fabregas will not be joining Barcelona for another two years and the club gets it books in order.

RAULS CAREER HIGHLIGHTS.

1) Raul at 17 years four months becomes the youngest footballer to debut at Real Madrid.

2) he spent 16 years and 15 full seasons at Real Madrid.

3) He scored 228 League goals. The third all time La Liga scorer.

4 323 Competitive goals. Real Madrids all time top scorer.

5) 66 Champion league goals. All time top scorer.

6) First player to score 50 goals in the champion league.

7) 550 Appearance in La Liga a Real record and second in Spain.

8) 132 . Champion league games.Second highest in Champion league.

9) And has won 16 major trophies.

PAUL SCHOLES REFUSED A WORLD CUP CALL.

Paul scholes who retired from international football way back in 2005, got a call from fabio capello second Franco Baldini if he would come out of retirement and play for England again, like jamie carragher did. But as Fabio did not call him personally and as he had plans the two weeks were far to short a time to change his plans.

But Scholes would have been a big difference at the world cup, he is a player to be feared, he is the only player in the E.P.L history as midfielder to score two hat tricks. No other midfielder has ever scored two hat trcks till now.

ENGLAND CAN NOT GO ON LIKE THIS.

It is a bit scaring now for England, that if this trend goes on at this rate England will not win a thing for ages.Previously the teams took players at a cheaper rate from the English second division or even the third division. Not now all come from the teams in Italy and Spain at a huge price.

Let us just look at a few managers.

1) Arsene Wenger of Arsenal manager has made 83 signings in 14 years and spent 250 million pounds. But only 8 % were English players.

2)Alex Ferguson. Has made 76 signings . And got 26 percent English players.

3) David Moyes. Has made 44 signing. And 26% English players.

These three are the top serving managers in England.

RAUL CARRER AT REAL MADRIDS END.

Raul Gonzales the former darling of Real Madrid , who wore the famous jersey number 7.Has finally left Real Madrid after 16 long and glorious years.He became a cult figure there, and when Luis Figo joined Real Madrid from Barcelona, he wanted the number 7 jersey which he wore there. But it was not given to him, he had to wear jersey number 10 which was worn by Clarence Seedorf., Clarence had moved to A.c. Milan.

t was Jorge Valdano who gave Raul his first game for Real Madrid, verses Zaragosa.And this season he played his last game also verses the same club.

Jorge Valdano says Raul is the second best player Real Madrid ever had after Alberto De Stefano. Raul was complete Real player and expected everyone to give 100% to their club.

Now he may go to either Germany or England to end his playing days.

FABREGAS IS IN A HURRY TO JOIN BARCELONA.

Cesc Fabregas the Spanish and arsenal footballer is wanting to go back to his own country and childhood club Barcelona, this is but natural. but Fabregas must also remember a few things he should learn from Arsene Wenger who never breaks a contract. And Fabregas has about five years on his contract at Arsenal.

My advice to fabregas is to wait a few more years, because with xavi, Busquets, keita, and Iniesta he will be on the bench all the time.He will be bound to get frustrated then.And as Barcelona are in some financial problems as well, after two years they can pay the price Arsenal asks and Xavi wil be 33 years old then.Fabregas can then fill up the place. As we saw the 2010 world cup fabregas was on the bench only.But he is captain at Arsenal.

THREE COUNTRIES TO WIN BOTH EURO AND THE WORLD CUP

In the history of the Euro cup , and the world cup,only three countries have won both the world cup as well as the Euro cup in those four years.

1) West Germany won the Euro cup in in the year 1972, and the world cup in 1974.

2) France won the world cup in 1998 and the Euro in the year 2000.

3) Spain won the Euro cup in 2008. And won the world cup in 2010.

GUTI ALL SET TO LEAVE REAL MADRID.

Guti the former Spanish midfielder , who played his club football at the Spanish giants for the past 25 years. But now at the age of 33 years he no longer falls into the plan of the new coach Jose Mourinho. Guti joined Real Madrid away back in the year 1985. And during that time he won a total of five domestic cups and three champion league cups.

knowing very well that he will not get much playing time at the new Real Madrid side, he has now got a very good offer from the Turkish side Besiktas. And as he has a year left on his contract, the club wants to make their money on him.

MANCHESTER UNITED SELL SEASON TICKETS AS GENERAL.

Manchester United have been forced to sell over 4,000 season tickets a s general tickets,the club people say they are blaming the recession for the drop in the sale of the season tickets. this has never ever happened in Manchester United history. Oh by the way Chelsea,Arsenal, Liverpool,Tottenham Hotspur have long since sold all their tickets, and Manchester city has only a few tickets to sell all theirs.

This is a big victory for the Rebels of Manchester united who want the Glazers out.

IS F.I.F.A RACIAL?

F.I.F.A have always shown they are very much against racial attacks on players in the football world. But I would like to make a point here as I personally have my own doubts here.

When both Nigeria did very badly at the 2010 world cup, in South Africa. the Nigerian President Mr Goodluck Jonathan dissolved the entire Nigerian football team, They are called The Super Eagles, but they were called in anger as The Super chicks. F.I.F.A was quick to act and warned Nigeria that they would be expelled from all F.I.F.A games if they did it.

At the same time France did just as badly as Nigeria. The French President got involved with the French team meeting Henry and the others, but nothing is said by F.I.F.A on France. Now the entire French team are sacked. What will Mr B latter do?

LAURENT BLANC HAS SACKED THEFRENCH TEAM.

The new coach of France Laurent Blanc has sacked the entire French team for their poor showing at the world cup in South Africa in2010 world cup. the revolt also played a big part in the decision. France failed to win a single match and there was chaos in their team , with a rotten manager Raymond Domenech, as Eric Cantona said Raymond Domenech was the worst coach france had in 50 years. But in the Euro 2008, France did badly so France should have made a change before the world cup. Henry was kept on the bench in the world cup. So will France have a complete new team without any experienced player? Then do not expect wonders from Blanc.

WILL REAL MADRID BUY VIDIC?

The talk is willReal Madrids coach Jose Mourinho buy Nemanja Vidic the big Serb from Manchester United. Mourinho wants to strengthen his defence, and his attempt to get Maicon from Inter Milan has failed. Vidic wants a higher weekly salary , as he now only gets 70,000 pounds aweekand he wants somethingnearer to what Rio Ferdinand gets, and Ferdinand gets 110,000 pounds a week. Last season Ferdinand was injured often with back and groin injuries.Which was a reason manchester United failed to win the title. Ferguson has openly said ( I can not say anything about the matter now.) But the club has now come forward with a new contract and salary for Vidic.It ia 90,000 pounds a week.,or wil he want Ferdinands salaryn 110,000?As Ferdinand was injured for the world cup.Below shows how important vidic was for Manchester united.
126 games were played with Vidic. out of which 97 werewins.14 games were lost
Without Vidic64 games were played38 games won. 12 Games were lost.15 Games were drawnwith vidic.14 were drawn without Vidic. 271 goals were scored with vidic.Win. %77. Loss %54.

HOW MUCH HAS MANCHESTER CITY SPENT?

Back in the year 2008 When Manchester City was sold to the Sheikh Mansoor, the club had 31 million pounds. Now i the past years it has spent madly on far to many players, paying high salaries as well. And to add to the problem the strength of the team is made up far to many players, leading to many not getting a starting place. Either it will be talent wasted, as they prefer to take a fat pay check each week then play for a small club.. Manchester city has now spent 212 million pounds on players.

SOME STRIKERS WHO FAILED AT ARSENAL.

Over the years there have been several strikers who failed at Arsenal.They are as follows.
1) J . Alladiare. 1999 to 2007. 23 Games. 4.. Goals. Ratio. 0.26.
2) F. Jeffrs. 2001. to 2004.. 39. Games. 8. Goals. Ratio. 0.21.
3) J, A. Reyes. 2004. to. 2007. 110. Games. 23. Goals. Ratio. 0..21.
4) J. Baptista. 2006. to 2008. 35. Games. 10 Goals. Ratio. 0.29.
5) Eduardo. 2007. to. 2010. 57. Games. 22. Goals. Ratio. 0.33.

WILL HODGSON SELL LIVERPOOL FLOP PLAYERS.

The big question now asked is Roy Hodgson going to sell any players ? It is quite wrong to blame Rafael Benitez for themess by the American owners of Liverpool. Yes he did buy bad players all do that but the bad ones were few like Jermaine Pennant, Robbie Keane, Lucas Levi. But you can not call Aqulani a failure.as he was injured for a long ime last year. But the good ones were more Dirk Kuyt, Jose Reina, Fernando Torres, Ryan Babel and yossi Benayoun.But all the good ones made it to the world cup teams.Robbie keane is a very good player but a lot was paid for him and no goals came.Another good player is Javier Mascherano, got by Benitez.Joe Cole is not going to do any wonders at Liverpool ,you can be sure he is a injury prone player to.Another player was Xavi Alonso who was sold to Real Madrid for 30 million pounds a Liverpool record.So it is very wrong to say that Rafael Benitez wasted the club money i five years and put the owners in debt. The truth is the two American Tom Hicks and george gillet borrowed heavily from two banks to buy Liverpool, and they did notsee the recession coming , naturally. Same story as the Glazers. But tdonotforget gerrard , Carragher are all in their 30 new youth players from their accademy must be found for both Liverpool and england.

PARAGUAY FOOTBALLER JOSE PEDROSA GETS 27 GAME BAN.

Jose Pedroza a Paraguayan footballer who plays in the second division of the Chile football league has been given a 27 match ban by the Chilean professional body. It was given because the player Jose Pedroza tried to strangle the referee in a match., it was over a retake of a penalty as the players crosed the line at the time of taking the penalty.In his anger Jose Pedroza tried to strangle referee Marcelo Miranda. He has now got the punishment for touching a referee.It is 20 game ban for choking , five more game bans for trying to do it a second time on Marcelo Miranda, and two games for the red card, so 27 games in all. But the player Jose Pedroza has resigned from his club in Chilean club called Rangers and has gone back to Parugay.

MANCHESTER CITY WANT MARIO BOLETELLI.

Manchester city want Mario Boletelli, the troublesome striker at Inter Milan for 23 million pounds. Boletelli has had trouble with all his coaches Roberto Mancini . Jose Mourinho as well and with Rafael Benitez joining the club this year.Inter Milan want 34 million pounds for him and not 23 million pounds that is offred now. If it works out Manchester city would have spent 100 million pounds by july.That is a great deal of money.
But who is Mario Boletelli? he is a black player sadly attacked racially by chants like Italy does not have any black footballlers.< /> But let us look at his football, which is good. He has scored more goals compared to Roberto Baggio, Fransesco Totti, Alezandro Del Piero by the age of 21 years. But as a good and genius footballer has his trouble with team mates and coaches as well.

FRANK RIBERY AND KARIM BENZEMA FACE SEX CHARGES.

Both french footballers Franck Ribery and Karim Benzema, were both placed under judicial investigation, in connection with having sex with a under age prostitute. the girl Zahia Dehar did not tell them that she was underage, according to their lawyer . And in France having sex with a underage girl could lead to three years in jail and 45,000 Euros.Zahia worked in a Paris in a night club calledChamp Elysees Night Club, also called Zaman Cafe, itwas raided by the police and 18 girls were taken for questioning.Zahia was not with them.As the phonewas tapped of the manager, of zaman Cafe for some time.
Zahia also said that she was taken to Munich for a Birthday present for the Bayern Munich club. Then who pa id the ticket and hotel money for a minor then?
This came up in 1/5/2010. But the French football federation said that they would look into it after the world cup was over.A third players name was there t was Sydney Govou. The F.F.F. have said the french Jersey is sacred and no such players can wear the Blue jersey of France.

WILLJOE COLE BE MISED BY ARSENAL?

Now that Liverpool have Joe Cole , on a 90,000 pound a week salary, Arsenal had a oral agreement with Cole for 80,000 pound a week.It was to be settled at Arsenal after the world cup aswell as a complete medical check up, on his knee as well. It is not secret that Joe Cole has never been the player he was three years ago. after the knee peration las year he started in 14 games and scored two goals. But over the years we have seen players who have never been the same after under going a operation. Take Michael Owen, Fernando Torres, Harry Kewell and Robin Van Persie. anotherthing Joe was 28 years old Arsenal are all youngsters.
Another thing where would Wenger play him, with Arshavin, Denilson, Song Rosicky, and walcott all there. And Jack Wilshere waiting to enter the main team. He was wanted for the homegrown player rule mainly.
I personally do not think Cole joined Liverpool for the money, he joined because he knew he will get a starting at Liverpol, with both Reira and Yoosiy Benayoun gone. And he knew very well in his heart that like me he would not pass the medical check up .

IN THE E.P.L , 79% PLAYERS ARE FOREIGNERS.

In the E.P.L. in the new season there are atotal of 79 percent f footballers who are foreigners, and with 21 percent only English footballers we see the problem England has.
1) Arsenal signed 2 players. English 0.
2)Birmingham signed 3. English 1.
3) Bolton wanderers . signed 2, English 1.
4)Chelsea signed 3. English 0
5) Everton signed 4 English 1.
6)Fulham. Signed 2. English 1.
7) Liverpool. Signed 3. English 2.
8) Manchester City. signed4. English 1.
9) Manchester United.Signed 2. English 1.
10Newcastle. Signed 1. English 1.
11)Stoke. signed 1. English.0
12)Sunderland . signed 2. English 0.
13) West Brom. Signed 3. English 0.
14)West Ham.. Signed .3 English
15Wigan. signed 2. English 0.
16) Wolves. Signed4. english 0.

SEPP BLATTER GOES BACK ON HIS WORD.

Sepp Blatter the F.I.F.A president , told the world at the world cup 2010 in a shameful way that goal line technology must come into the game of football.The reason being that goals were not given to countries like England , U.S.A and wrong goals were given to Argentina, the carlos Tevez offside goal which was allowed. Let me remind you readers that a total of seven or eight referees were told to pack their bags and leave South Africa . As they had brought disgrace to F.I.F.A and killed the beautiful game of football.
But on 21/7/2010 F.I.F.A are having their meeting in Cardiff Wales. This topic is n0t on their agenda at all. It should have been the top point, but instead they want to talk on keeping a referee behind each goal. Another pear of blind bats or cheats. They will always agree to what the main referee says. Same old story , with goalsnot given. Are these matches rfixed I often wonder. It happens in cricket. So it has long last come to football. F.IF.A should hang their heads in shame.

THIS WAS CAPELLOS BIG MISTAKE.

I strongly feel that the mistake with Fabio Capello and the selection of the english team was that he left out striker Darren Bent from the English team. As Darren Bent was in very good form and scored over 20 goals last season, he would have done the trick for England. He is a poacher as well.So the odd goal would be got by him. And Darren Bent scored more goals then Emile Heskey last year. Heskey is also 31 years old.

I FAIL TO UNDERSTAND ROBERTO MANCINI.

I just fail to understand Roberto Mancini and Manchester city, all the footballers want to join Manchester City, they have already spent a total of 75 million pounds on players this summer. But how many players have they sold? Only Craig Bellamy and some small players. The surplus players will be far to many, and they will get frustrated after all how many can play or sit on the bench at a time? The loss last year was huge and this year it will be much more time will tell.
After all money does not get trophies , look at Real Madrid last year they spent 226 million pounds on Kaka, Ronalaldo,Alaonso and Benzeema, they also did not win the cup.

IN THE 2007LADIES WORLD CUP GERMANY SCOED 11 GOALS>

In the 2007 Ladies world cup held in China. Germany scored a total of eleven goals against the Argentina team. Out of these eleven goals that went in the net , two of the goals were tapped into the net by the Argentinean goalkeeper herself. This certainly must be some sought of a record where the ladies world cup is concerned.

REAL MADRID DEBT IS 296 MILLION POUNDS.

This year Real Madrid debt is 296 million pounds. Last year it was 100million pounds. Last year they spent a total of 226 million pounds on four players 0nly, kaka, xavi Alonso, Christiano Ronaldo and kareem Benzeema. Real has a budget that is 20 percent more then the other Spanish giant Barcelona. , the amount is a total of 361 million pounds.
While the clubXerrexes which lies at the bottom of the Spanish league has a total budget of 8 million pounds. Which is less then the salaries of both Kaka and Christiano Ronaldo.

BARCELONA HAVE TAKEN 197 MILLION DOLLAR LOAN.

the Spanish Giants Barcelona have also felt the recession pinch, and have failed to pay their players last month. They sold Yaya Toure and another player to generate funds. The trouble was a little bit of over spending by them, and the collapse of the economy of Portugal,Spain and Greece. These three were the worst affected in Europe.Even the the company which gave them money yearly in T.V. Rights it was over 100million Dollars has now gone bankrupt. Which added to the financial problem.Barcelona also released Theirry Henry, to save on his weekly salary money.And there is talk that Zalatin Ibrahimovic is also on his way out , with Manchester City being his destination.
But there is not all gloom and doom at Barcelona, when the season startsand money will come with ticket sales, and other things.
They took the loan from two banks, the amount is 197 million dollars.

2010 F.I.F.A ALL STAR TEAM.

Out of a total of 736 players who took part in the 2010 world cup in south Africa , only Eleven players made it to the all Star Tea.
1) Iker Casillas. Spain. Goalkeeper and captain.
2) Philipp Lahm. Germany . Right Back.
3) Sergio Ramos. Spain . Left Back.
4) Carles Puyol. Spain. Centre Back.
5) Maicon. Brazil. Centre Back.
6) Wesley Sneijder. Holland. Attacking Midfielder.
7) Bastian.Schweinsteiger. Germany. Central Mdfielder.
8) Andres Iniesta. Spain. Right Wing.
9) Xavi. Spain. Midfielder.
10) David Villa.Spain. Striker.
11) Diego Forlan. Uruguay. Striker.

Best coach of the world cup, went to the Spanish coach Vicente Del Bosque.

TO MUCH NOISE OVER A JERSEY.

There was far to much noise made recently after the world cup 2010 ended , over a incident in which the arsenal captain Cesc Fabregas was forced to wear a Barcelona jersey . But we must remember who put that Jersey, it was not a Barcelona player it was Jose Pepe Reina, a Liverpool player.And as there are about seven Barcelona players in that victorious Spanish team, Fabregas had no chance to have it out. But we must remember that fabregas has a contract with Arsenal for a five year period. So lets not make to much noise over it.

THEY WERE ABOVE THE REST 2.

1) Wesley Sneijder. Holland. Wesley scored 5 goals. Created two chances for arjen Robben i the final.And is rumoured to join Real Madrid . Matches 7. Minutes652. Goals 5. Total shots.27.shots on Target 11. Passes371. Passes completed 70%.
2) Carles Puyol. Spain. Centre Back. Puyol scored a header to knock out Germany from the final.But his defence work withgerrard pique was absolute water tight . Not a single goal went in.Matches7. Minutes654.. Goals 1.Total shots4.Shots on target 1.Paasses335.Passes completed 88%
3) Fabio Caentrao. Portugal. left Back.Matches 4.Minutes360.Goals0 Total shots 1.Shots on target 0.Passes 220. Passes completed76%.
4) Diego Forlan. Uruguay. won the Golden ball award.Even as the other strikers had trouble with the Jabulani ball, forlan had none ,hescored 5 goals.. Matches 7. Minutes654.Goals5. total shots32. Shots of Target15. Passes 309. passes completed 54%.
JorisMathijsen. Holland. Centre Back. Let in only two goals at the cup. matches 6. Minutes570. Goals 0. Total shots3. Shots on target.1. passes 335. passes completed 77%.

THESE WERE ABOVE THE REST. 1

These realy played very well.
1) Iker casillas. goalkeeper Spain. He let in only 2 goals at the cup.Matches7. Minutes660. Passes 180. saves 17.passes complete 77%.
2)Thomas Mueller.Right Wing. Germany. this 20 year old scored 5 goals, and won the golden Boot. Called a ball boy Maradona in a pretournament, also won the Best Youngest player.Matches 6.Minutes 475.Goals 5. Total shots 13. Shots on Target5. Passes 241. Passes complete61%.
3) Xavi Hernandes. spain.central midfielder. He was outstanding, his composure and calmness was second to none. His moves were a sight to behold. Hehas written his name in this world cup for his flawless passes.Matches 7. minutes636. goals0.total shots7. Shots on goal0Passes 669.Passes complete81%.
B. Schweinsteiger. Germany.Central midfielder. played with discipline verses England and Argentina..Matches7. Minutes621.. Goals0.Shots12. shtts on target 3.passes 565.passes completed75%.
David Villa Spain. Left wing.Scored 5 goals.matches7. Minutes635. Shots 32. shots on target17..Passes244.Pases complete.66%.

HOW MUCH DID THE TEAMS EARN.?

At the 2010 world cup ,the money was awarded the following way.
1) Spain got 30 million dollars, as winners.
2) Holland got 24 Million Dollars. As runner ups.
3)Germany and Uruguay got 20 Million Dollars as Semi Finalists.
4) The quarter finalists got 18Milion Dollars each.
5) The group of 16 looser got 9 Million Dollars each.
6) The first round looser got 8 Million Dollar each.

THE FAILURES AT THE WORLD CUP.

1) The goalkeeper. Robert Green. England.
2) The defenders. William Galas, Patrice Evra, Fabio Cannavaro,Nicolas Otamenddi.
Midfielders. Genaro gattuso, Felipe meola, Franck Ribery and Christiano Ronaldo.
Forwards Wayne Rooney Nicholas Anelka..

F.I.F.A PLAYERS OF THE WORLD CUP.

Player of the Tournament. Diego Forlan. Uruguay.
Golden boot of the Tournament. Thomas Mueller Germany.
young Player of the tournament. Thomas Mueller. Germany.
Best goalkeeper of the tournament. Iker Casillas. Spain.
Fair Play award of the tournament. Spain.

ENGLAND FALLS TO ITS LOWEST RANKING EVER.

At the 2010 world cup England fell to its lowest ranking ever at a world cup. In 2010 they have fallen to the 13th rank, the lowest ever. Even in the year 1950, when there were only 16 teams taking part, they did not fall down so much in their ranking, 13 out of 32 teams at the world cup is bad.

THE DUTCH TEAM WERE TERIBLE.

The Dutch team were plain terrible, they forgot that they were in the world cup final, and would be watched by millions around the world. They forgot that they were role models for all . They forgot their total football , which Holland is so famous for. while on the other hand Spain stuck to their silky passing football. It was just horrible beside the goalkeeper and Wesley sneijder and dirk kuyt did not get a card. A total of 15 cards were shown , a record in world cup. the previous is 5 in 1986 in thegame between Germany and Argentina.And Nigel DeJong used a karate kick on the chest of Xavi Alonso, all studs were showing, it is a red card by F.i.F.A rules. Even Van Bommel escaped a red card. Van Bommel was the dirtiest player of the 2010 world cup. John Heitinga got a second yellow followed by a red. What would the score be if Holland had 3 men down? the match went into extra time and all was set for penalties, but then the two sustitutes played a big part in the win,Jesus Navas passed the ball to Cesc Fabregas with 2 minutes remaining, Cesc made one of his passes to Andrea Inestia to score the winner with 2 minutes remaining. But both goalkeepers made big saves.,

FIGURE THIS WILL YOU.

1) Spain become the first country to win a world cup after loosing their opening match.
2) 8 The number of goals scored by Spain , and still win a world cup.This is the loast ever.
3) 107 the attacks Spain made. The most by any country in the 2010 world cup.
4) 121 The shots attempted by Spain, the most by any country in 2010 world cup.
5) 134 the number of fouls suffered by Spain. The most by any team at the 2010 world cup.
6) 4572 the number of passes made by Spain. the highest by any team in the 2010 world cup.

IT IS ALL ABOUT NUMBERS.

1) The fewest goals conceded were by Portugal and Switzerland. one goal only.
2) Most goals conceded was by North Korea, 12 goals in all.
3) 37 years old Blanco of Mexico was the oldest plyer to score a goal.
4) 20, year old Thomas Mueller of Germany was the youngestgoal scorer.
5) fastest goal was scored in 3 three minutes by Thomas Mueller verses Argentina.
6) Latest goal was in the 90+5 minutes , scored by Alverao Perierra of Uruguay.
7) 2.4 goals scored at an average per match. Usually it is 2.9. average of goals scored.
8) Germany scored the most goals 16 in all.
9) Honduras and Algeria failed to score a single goal.

GOLDEN BALL AWARDS.

The golden ball is given at the end of each world cup to the outstanding player of the world cup. Usually strikers and midfielders get it due to the number of goals scored. But the German goalkeeper Oliver Kahn is the only goalkeeper to get it.
1982. Paulo Rossi. Italy.
1986. Diego Maradona. Argentina.
1990. Silvatore. Schillichi. Italy.
1994. Romario. Brazil.
1998. Ronaldo. Brazil.
2002. Oliver Kahn. Germany.
2006. Zinedine zidane. France.
2010. Diego Forlan. Uruguay.

2010 GOLDEN BALL WINNER.

1) GOLDEN BALL . Diego Forlan. Uruguay.
2) Silver Ball. Wesley Sneijder. Holland.
BRONZE BALL. David Villa. Spain.

WEBB SHOWED 1 5CARDS AT THE 2010 FINAL.

The English referee Howard webb showed a total of 15 cards in the 2010 world cup final. which included a total of 14 yellow and a red card. This is the most number of cards shown out in a world cup final. it breaks the record set by the Brazilian referee Ramould Arppi Fillino. in 1986, in the match between Argentina and West Germany.He showd 6 sis cards in that final..
Mr Webb was helpless as the Dutch decided to play dirty football, their tackles were very bad. a spanish player was kicked by de Jong in the chest and it should have been a straight red.But John heitinga was shown a second yellow , followed by a red.

THE 2010 AWARD WINNERS.

1) Diego Forlan wins the Golden Ball award..
2) Iker casillas wins the Golden Glove Award.
3) Thomas Mueller wins the Young Player Award.

THIS YEAR TOPSCORERS.

At the end of the 2010 world cup and after a total of 145 goals were scored. This tine again the top scorers have scored only 5, five goals down from the usual six goals from 1978. But those figure of 16 goals in 1958 are long past and are only history today. But this year we saw a rare thing , there was no clear winner. Infact there were a total of 4 four players for the golden boot award.
1)David Villa. Spain.
2) Wesley Sneijder. Holland.
3) Thomas Muller. Germany
4) Diego Forlan. uruguay.

THE THREE FASTEST GOALS AT 2010 WORLD CUP.

There were a total of 145 goals scored at the world cup 2010.And the fastest three goals are as follows.
1) Thomas Muller of Germany. He scored his goal in 3, three minutes.
2) Steven Gerrard of England. He scored his goal in 4 four minutes.
3) Asamoah Gyan. of Ghana. He scored his goal in 5 five minutes.

THIS IS THE MONEY SPAIN AND HOLLAND PLAYERS GET.

As both Spain and Holland have reached the final of the 2010 world cup. Their countries have decided on the bonus that will be given to them.
Holland will get a smaller amount , they will get only 250,000 pounds each. While the the dutch coach will also get the same amount, that is 250,000 pounds, only if they win..
But Spain will give their players a much larger amount after they win the final. It will be 414,000 pounds.

ENGLAND NEED NOT WORY>

England need not worry after doing so badly at the 2010 world cup. Back in 2004 Euro cup Germany were in the bottom of their group, even after winning the 1996 Euro cup.But then the aged players were removed by Klinsman and Mr Jochaim Leow, and germany decided that they wil have to spend big ammount of money on their outh accademy, they did it and now they, the youngsters are showing it in the 2010 world cup. But the main problem in england the clubs choose players from abroad so the youngsters do not get a chance.Look at Chelsea, Liverpool and Manchester city? Only Arsenal does have a young team and Arsene Wenger always plays these youngsters in the Carling cup, as he says then when will they play a game and learn.
Capello will have to knock out te 30 years old players like James, Lampard Ferdinand and Terry. Once this is done then only will England have hope.

THIS SPANISH ARMADA.

1) David Villa has been involved in all six goals for Spain scoring 5 and assisting in one.
2)Xavi Hernandes has touched the ball every 46 seconds on an average so far, more frequently then any other player.
3) Xavi Hernandes has had 60 more touches of the ball , more then German Miraslav Klose in the first half semi final.
4) 100 % all the seven Spanish goals came from Barcelona players.
5) 939 is the difference in the number of completed passes between Spain and Holland. Spain leads with 4206 passes.
5) 24 the number of chances created by Xavi Hernandes more then any player till date.
6)26 the minutes it took for the first foul to be committed, Sergio Ramos brought down LukasPodloski.
7) 6 The number of consecutive clean sheets in a knock out stage of a world cup or a Euro Cup.

FOOTBALLER TO A SAVAGE.

Mr Bruno fernandes the goalkeeper of top Brazilian club Flamengo has been arrested for the kidnapping and murder of his girl friend , Eliza Samudio 25 years old. He has surrendered to the police aafter a warrant was issued for his arrest a month earlier. He claims that his concience is clear. Eliza Samudio was strangled and then parts were fed to the dogs. The rest were then burried under concrete. But his teenage cousin has given evidence, which has lead to the arrest of Bruno Fernandes, his wife Dayane Sousaand some of his friends. during investigation things matched the cousins evidence.
The real problem appears that Eliza Samudio had a baby from Bruno Fernandes.
The top Club in Rio de Janeiro Flamengo have suspended him, and the club lawyers have said that they will not defend him. He joined the club in 2006 and last year won the Brazilian title with Flamengo. But now Bruno fernandes feels this has damaged his chances for playing in the 2014 world cup for Brazil.

F.I.F.A. SAYS THIS IS THE LAST TIME REFEREE WILL USE THE OLD METHOD.

F.I.F.A has admitted that this 2010 world cup will be the last time that the old method of refereeing will be in use during a world cup . So chances are very bright that goal line technology will come into force very soon. As there were far, far to many mistakes made in the 2010 world cup. And eight referees and their linesmen were told to pack their bags and leave South Africa for home. Refereeing standard was a big disgrace this year.

BARCELONA HAVE FAILED TO PAY PLAYERS IN JUNE.

The new president of Barcelona has admitted that the club has not been able to pay the players in the month of june. The presisent Sanatro Rossell , has said that Yaya Toure and Dymtro Chygrnsky to generate funds. And they have asked the bank for a loan of 135 million pounds. So this puts the Cesc fabregas and Fernando Torres buy ,which will now ne delayed. But all is not as bad as it seeems the Telivision channel has gone bankrupt , which was paying Barcelona. Another problem was the economic proplem facing Spain, Greece and Portugal. But the new season starts and new shirts money will come. as well.

HANDSOMEST AND UGLIEST AT 2010.

The votes are out. To choose the ugliest, handsomest and the most ugliest team of the 2010 world cup.
1) Wayne Rooney was declared the ugliest footballer at world cup 2010.
2) Fabio Canavaro was declared the most handsomest player at the 2010 world cup.
3) The ugliest team at the 2010 world cup was Algeria.
4) David james was the only English player to win any votes.

SPAIN HAVE REACHED THE 2010 FINAL.

Spain a country with big clubs such as Real madrid and Barcelona have never reached the semifinal surprisingly in its history. But the 2010 world cup would be different. As they are a very young team and they come to world cup as Euro 2008 champions, great things were expected from them. This time they reached both the semi final as well as the final they will now play Holland in the final on 11/7/2010. It will be a mouth watering game to watch.

THE. REFEREE MAKES A BLUNDER IN THE HOLLAND VERSES URUGUAY GAME.

The referee from Uzbekistan, who also is the youngest referee in the 2010 world cup made a blunder in the semi final match played between Holland and Uruguay. In the 18th minute of the game Givane Bronchurst the Dutch captain scored a beutiful goal from a long distance shot. But a few seconds earlier to that shot a dutch player had raised his foot high and it landed on the thigh , a very clear fowl according to F.I.F.A rules and the referee was standing a few feet away. sothat goal should not have stood. Shebby Singh and Paul Masefield saw it and it was shown clearly to us all on T.V. as a fowl. But only F.I.F.A referees can not see it. Mind you these referees are getting 500 pounds a game.
So actually the game should have gone to extra time and then penalties. And van Bommel should have got a red card for a leg breaking tackle on a Uruguay player.

FORLAN EQUALS 1990 RECORD.

The Uruguayan captain and striker Diego Forlan , has now equalled the 1990 record set in Italy, by the German Lothar Mathaues . They have both scored three goals i the world cup well out of the ox, some came from 35 metres or even more.But one thing was clear they were all six wonderful strikes.

ALL TEAMS WITH BLUE JERSEYS LOST.

In the 2010 world cup all the teams who wore blue jerseys lost their matches .
1) ITALY.
2) FRANCE..
3) ARGENTINA.
4) URUGUAY.
5) BRAZIL.

FAMOUS WORLD CUP COACHES.

1) Helmut Schoen. Of West Germany. has coached the most matches 25 of them. From 1966 to 1978. won most matches for West Germany 16 . From 1966 1978.
2) Vitorio Pozzo . This Italian is the only coach to win two world cups 1934 and 1938. For Italy.
3) Carlos Parreira. This Brazilian holds the record for taking six countries to the world cup as their coach. 1982, 1990,, 1998, 2006 and 2010.
4) Luiz felipe Scolari. This Brazilian coach holds the record for most games without a loss. 12 in all. 7 for Brazil, in2002 and 5 for Potugal in 2006.
5) Otto Rehagel. The Gereman coach is the oldest coach to be at a world cup. He was 71 years and 317 days old. He was the Greece team manager. his biggest moment came when Greece won the Euro Cup in 2004.

WHO PLAY WHO AT THE SEMI FINALS.

1) Holland will play Uruguay.
2) Spain will play Germany.

THE 2010 WORLD CUP SEMI FINALS.TEANS.

The four teams that reached the semi finals are as follows.
1) Germany.
2) Holland.
3) Uruguay.
4) Spain..

JULIO CEASAR CRIED BUT WHATABOUT THE FRENCH AND ENGLISH PLAYERS?

Julio Caesar the Brazilian goalkeeper cried and said he was sorry for a blunder in the quarter final match verses Holland , where he failed to let Meola know he went for the ball. these things happen in football.
But the big question I would like to ask is did the French footballers and the English footballers say sorry to their fans , who came from far and spent so much of their money.I do not say that they should have won the world cup, but at least the French should have done better. Since they failed in the first round they should have said sorry long ago. But their egos and infighting destroyed their world cup. England had injured players taken there and their injuries returned ledley King and Rio Ferdinand.

HOW UNITED WAS AFRICA AT 2010 WORLD CUP.

What we saw in Africa was something really wonderful only if you noticed it.As the world cup was played in the African continent , people were not sure how it would go.
But as one African country after the other went out, it was left Ghana to show their skill at football and also their dance foot steps.
But in the quarter final verses Uruguay every African in the stadium supported Ghana. The whole quantinent was united with Ghana for those 90 minutes. Mind you this has not happened when two countries from Europe , South America or Asia played . They have yet to be united like the whole of Africa was united.

WHEN THE PLAYER WITH TEN FAILED.

Each year at the world cup the footballers with the jersey number 10 are always the best and most talented in their teams. But it was not so this year , they just failed and forgot to wear their shooting boots on.
1) Wayne Rooney. England . Goals scored . 0
2) Kaka. Brazil. Goals scored. 0.
3) Cesc Fabregas. Spain. Goals scored. 0
4) Lionel Messi. Argentina. Goals scored. 0
5) Sydney Govou. France. Goals scored. 0
6) Antonio di Natalie. Italy. Goals scored. 0

WHAT DID DUNGA DO WRONG IN 2010 WORLD CUP.

What were the major mistakes made by Dunga in the 2010 world cup? The main mistakes done was selecting players who failed for their clubs in the past two years.
1) Felipe Meola should not have been there as he was a utter failure for his club Juventus. It was not the red card or the own goal that went against him he has contributed so little .
2) Julio Batista known as the Beast. was not at alla regular for his Italian club A.S. Roma. He looked lost.And did nothing.
3) Kleberson what was the need of him in the group of 23 players. He played at Manchester United where he was a super flop. Here to he waschasing shadows only.
The big mistake was leaving out Ronaldhino, when Elano got injured Ronaldhino would have fitted better. And a strike partner of Adriano would have helped Robhino a great.
Anyway Carlos dunga was going to step down in 2010 after his four year period.

THE GREAT EUSIBIO HAS SAID THE RIGHT THING.

The great Eusibio has said the very correct thing, that the reason for the very big stars that failed to shine in the 2010 world cup was that they all were paid far, far to much money. and money had gone to their heads I would say. Not one from any country did well or score any goals like, Messi, Rooney, Ribery, while Ronaldo and Drogba scored lucky goals just one. Henry also failed.

WHAT MUST ENGLAND AND ITALY DO?

The 2010 world cup was a bad one for England and Italy , great things were expected from the teams by their fans.The main reason being that in both these countries their clubs are all crowded with players from other countries it is also in Spain and germany. But Spain and Germany realised that, and have developed youngsters in their clubs like Barcelona did. England to must wake up and look for kids aged ten and twelve years , for their future. Italy also had players in their thirtys.
And Fabio Canavarro has clearly said Italy will not find young footballers like they did in my time, at least not in this generation. Let us see how Canavarro started out. He as a very smallboy was ball boy on the line for his home club Napoli. Pele was a shoe shine boy at Santos.
Germany after the Euro 1996 found they had the same problem as England and Italy have.Today Germany is s[pends most from all the countries in Europe. The result in the 2010 world cup they had a well oiled and greased young team. They beat Argentina , England and australia , not small teams by a total of 4-0 scores n each game. Imagine that. If they are good theytake them, they have two Turks, a Brazilian and a player from Ghana and they all did shine in 2010 world cup.

WHY DID F.I.F.A.. CHOOSE JORGE LORRANDIS AS A REFEREE.

I would very much like to know why F.I.F.A allowed to have the Uruguayan referee Jorge Londarris on the panel of referees in the 2010 world cup? As he is the same referee who was not chosen by F.I.F.A to be a referee in the 2002 world cup. The reason then was that he had clearly disallowed a very clean goal to stand scored by Adriano for Brazil in a world cup qualifier. Now after a period of eight years Mr Jorge Lorrandis is older and his vision may be weaker. So please we do not want to see him in a world cup again or the matter as a referee again. As he is the same referee who disallowed the clear goal scored by Frank Lampard in the 2010 world cup. He was sent packing back home after the match and Sepp Blatter had to apologiese to England.

ENGLISH FOOTBALLERS EMBARASE CAPELLO.

It was reported that a photograph taken by defender Ledley King and which as circulated shows things that should alarm the F.A. and Capello. The picture shows Aron Lennon,Shawn wright Philips, Jermain Defoe, Michael Dawson. and Stephen Warnock, all in a bar with a bottles of champagne or wine and empty glasses.Aron Lennon was seen smoking a Cuban cigar..This clearly shows why the english did not win the world cup.

THE JABULANI BALL IS NOT PERFECT.

The jab
ulani ball made by Adidas and used by F.I.F.A for the 2010 world cup was a bad ball. even when both said it was the best one for the world cup.
The test was done in France and Adelaide university. Mr Eric Berton the deputy director,institute of the science of motion has this to say. The ball has internal stitches, it is a sphere shape. So because of the shape the time on the contact is reduced.As a consequence the ball does not spin at all.The ball also rvels less far and will have afloating and unpredictable trajectory, whether for a striker or a goalkeeper. Even when a player wanted to head the ball it went the other way. There were only three free kicks that went in the net till the quarter finals.Goalkeeper call it a beachball.
In the end F.i.F.A had to admit that the ball was a bad one , but nothing could be done halfway in a world cup.

WHEN THE BRIGHT STARS FAILED TO SHINE.

In the 2010 world cup, a great deal was expected from many rich and famous footballers from around the world but they failed us The list is as follows.
PLAYER . MATCHES. MINUTES. GOALS. WIDE. SHOTS BLOCKED.
1) C. Ronaldo. 4. 360. 1. 9. 3.
2) W. Rooney. 4. 342. 0. 5. 2.
3) F. Torres. 4; 212. 0. 9. 2.
4 S. Etoo. 3. 270. 2. 1. 2.
5) D. Drogba. 3 304. 1. 7. 0.
6) Kaka. 3. 247. 0. 2. 1.
7) L. Messi. 4. 360. 0. 6. 4.
A name to be added in the list of the famous failures of the world cup is th french man Franck Ribery who also failed to score a single goal.So it is clear high paid footballers need not get you goals on the world cup stage.