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Cristino Ronaldo –Interview

It was your dream to play for Madrid, has it lived up to expectations?

“For sure. Real Madrid is extraordinary, and I am enjoying it a lot there. It can be hard when you come from a dissimilar league in a different country, and injuries didn’t help me to settle quickly, but I’m feeling very comfortable in Spain now. When the team plays well, obviously it helps me a lot, and I have been joined by a lot of unbelievable players in the changing room and a truly great manager too. I do believe I’m playing for the biggest club in the world. Now we need to prove that on the pitch.”

Apparently there are two Real Madrids: one with you and one without you…

“There is some talk about that in the Spanish papers, but everything depends on the results. People do figures for when I play, and when I don’t play, when there are goals and when there aren’t, and so on. But I don’t think a team should depend on just one player. It is a big club with some of the best players in the world, so I just say Madrid is a fantastic team – whether I play or not.”

Have you noticed many differences between La Liga and the Premier League?

“The Premier League is definitely quicker and more physical, while La Liga is patient and technical. In terms of standard, those at the top of each division are similar. But I think at the bottom of each separation there is a greater difference because the lower teams in England battle hard while the lower Spanish teams try to play football more. Either way, they are tough to break down.”

So have you had to adapt your game for La Liga?

“There’s not really much to adapt to. In Spain there are fewer direct balls from the defenders to the strikers and from that point of view more matches actually seem to suit my style of receiving it deep and running at defenders. But good players can play in any environment – the Champions League has shown that. Having developed in England over the six years I was at United, I feel able to cope with any physical battles. Plus, playing international football has also taught me that it doesn’t matter who I am playing for or against, or what style the match is, I can still make an impact.”

Cristiano is a more impressive physical specimen in the flesh. He is tall – every millimetre of his 6ft 1ins – without being lanky, and his top half is brimming with sculpted muscle. He’s wearing a tight tracksuit top this evening, and a pair of ripped stonewash jeans that look like they could’ve come from the sale rack at Top Man, but will almost certainly have been handmade by a notorious designer at 10-times the price.

His demeanor, too, surpasses expectation. While he can come across brash and petulant on the pitch, any sense of the marauding arrogance so many people label him with is vacant here. He talks maturely – and articulately considering English is his third language – yet, at times, he retains the youthful gaze of a mischievous kid in a playground. It’s this balance of aspiration and unpretentiousness that makes him all the more marketable for big brands such as Nike, Emporio Armani, and the Portuguese bank Espírito Santo, who ran an advertising campaign earlier this year in which Ronaldo sings in a recording studio.

”I like to sing in the shower,” he says. “So I thought it’d be a bit of fun.”

Cristiano is the very model of a modern major footballer. He’s athletic, skilful, marketable, intelligent… all these things and more. All the money, adoring fans, cars, girls and plush mansions can be overwhelming for a lad who, aged 14, left the dusty austerity of his childhood home on the island of Madeira to pursue a career as a footballer, and was named the world’s greatest less than a decade later. But while he finds time to do the showbiz thing – guest-listing at LA nightspots with Paris Hilton and rubbing shoulders with movie stars during his summer off – he still values his humble roots…

You are one of four siblings, how important is family to you?

“My family have always been important to my life. It is those closest to me who have given me confidence, and made me what I am now. For that I am thankful and really proud. Every day it helps me a lot to know that they are there for me.”

I was voted the best in the 2008 Ballon d’Or, but Messi won it last year. There are so many great players out there. I couldn’t say if it is me before them.

You left home at a young age to pursue your dream at Sporting Lisbon. At what point did you believe you were going to make it?

“In the beginning I had no idea really, I just played football because I enjoyed it. Even when I was 15 or 16-years-old, I didn’t really know if I was going to be a professional footballer. But I believed in myself, and people were always telling me good things. Then, when I started to train with the first team at Sporting, I started to realise that I could be a good player.”

‘A good player’ is something of an understatement. Are you the best player in the world?

“Right now it’s not for me to say. I was voted the best in the 2008 Ballon d’Or, but Messi won it last year. There are so many great players out there. I couldn’t say if it is me before them.”

How important are individual awards to you?

“Of course I want to win more of these individual awards but the decision is out of my hands. I can only continue to play at my best level. The priority is always the collective trophies – the team is the most important thing to me. But personal awards provide a different kind of success, a sense of pride in my own achievement. It’s always nice to show these awards to my family, they can recognise it’s something special.”

Which fellow footballers have you looked to for inspiration during your career?

“I do not look to anyone. Of course there are players I enjoy watching and playing with: Rooney, Messi, Torres, Ribery, Cesc, Kaka and Benzema are some of my favourites. They are all great players. But I don’t copy people. I am my own man and my own player.”

You mentioned Wayne Rooney. You and him had a great partnership at United, do you keep in touch with him?

“Yes, I still stay in contact with a lot of friends in Manchester. Rooney is a great player; I have always known how great he is. He has a winning mentality and you never lose that. I would like to play with him again some day if possible.”

Who in particular do you stay in contact with at United?

“I speak to Rooney, and call or text Rio, Vidic, Evra and Nani. Just because I left the club does not mean my relationships with these guys ended. I spent many years playing with them and they are still my friends. In fact I still speak with Alex Ferguson, too, but what I talk to the boss about is private!”

You were used to a fair bit of stick from opposition fans in England, but how have you been treated in Spain?

“It has not been on the same scale to be honest. In England – not in every stadium but in most of them – they would boo me every time I got the ball. But I think people have started to learn that when they boo it only spurs me on and gives me more confidence and power. So if people in Spain want to start, then this is not a problem for me at all!”

You could take away the money, the crowd, the fame and everything like that, but I would still play football because I love it. I have been in love with the game since a very young age. Even now, if I see a ball or a pitch or a goal, I can’t help myself wanting to have a kick around.

In spite of abuse from the terraces and criticism from pundits, journalists and – more often than not in the last year or so – FC Barcelona officials, Cristiano’s performances are invariably brilliant. And you can’t take that away from him.

After setting the Premier League alight for the best part of five years, the new king of Madrid had the pressure of a world record £80million price tag and 100,000 passionate Madrileños, who turned up to his coronation last July. But unlike Zidane before him, the latest chief Galactico eased into life in La Liga effortlessly. After notching 20 goals in 18 games of an injury-interrupted debut season, Ronaldo is again operating at a ratio exceeding a goal-a-game since welcoming fellow Portuguese Jose Mourinho to the Santiago Bernabeu in the summer. Aside from a blip against an imperious Barcelona side in the recent El Classico, Cristiano has been the heartbeat of Mourinho’s formidable new generation, constantly breathing fresh, vibrant life into the Los Galacticos cause.

In an era of elite athleticism in football, and in a league that demands the industrious to win the ball and the playmakers to create, Ronaldo not only carries the piano for his team, he plays a concerto on it as well. The fact that Real fans had a 10-metre silver statue of him erected in a busy Madrid city centre square earlier this year, is indicative of the love affair the locals have with their latest Rey Supremo.

You’re now 25, have you hit your peak? Or is there more to come from you?

“I try to improve every day. I have my own goals and I work hard, train hard and believe that I can continue to get better. Like you say I am only 25. I am not perfect; there is a lot more to come from me, and I think I am at the right club to develop at this stage of my career.”

So what do you need to improve, then?

“I don’t think I am a complete player. The moment I start thinking that will be the day things go wrong. I can improve my free kicks, my dribbling and my left-foot shooting in particular. In training, I try to work with the same intensity I had when I first started to learn football, because a major part of being the best footballer I can be is practice.”

Do you love football?

“Of course. You could take away the money, the crowd, the fame and everything like that, but I would still play football because I love it. I have been in love with the game since a very young age. Even now, if I see a ball or a pitch or a goal, I can’t help myself wanting to have a kick around. The extra things that football has given me and allowed me to experience have been wonderful, but essentially I play because I love the game.”

What would you like your legacy to be?

“I want to be one of the legends of football history. When I finish my career I hope people will look to me and say ‘Cristiano is a fantastic player and a great example to kids.’ I am an entertainer and I believe football should be entertainment, so I hope that deep down people who really love football will love me too.”

Cristiano Ronaldo motionless loves to win. After countless trophies and individual accolades, the 24 year old could be excused for session back and being happy with what he has got. However, Cristiano Ronaldo is no mere mortal, and is driven by achievement.

"The extra professional you are, the stronger you have to be to be regular on the pitch. I've already won it all, but I will never exhaust of winning. Not till the day I retire. That's just how I am. I would like people to remember me as a player who won completely everything."

"I think football should take care of those players who try to make people have fun, to create, to put on an more and more attractive show. None of this would happen devoid of the fans."

"I play for the best club in the world and I am surrounded by wonderful team-mates. I feel loved here and I'm judgment the right balance between for my part and the whole thing that background me."

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                              Fifa Ballon d'Or Win- Messi

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Lionel Messi may have been taken aback to maintain the Fifa Ballon d'Or but the bookmakers undoubtedly won't be if he walks away with the prize another time in 12 months time.

Only hours after winning his second successive honour the Barcelona superstar has been priced as short as 2.75 to make it three in a row next January. Only Michel Platini has won the impressive individual prize three years in a row (1983, 84, 85) and so confident are the bookmakers that Messi will victory that they have a price of 1.65 of anyone other than the Argentinian scooping the honour!Cristiano Ronaldo is the leading contender to challenge Messi and reclaim the crown he won in 2008. Despite scoring goals for fun in La Liga the Real Madrid ace is still a long 7.0 to earn a second Ballon d'Or.Next up are Messi's Barcelona team-mates Andres Iniesta and Xavi who are both trading at 11.0. David Villa is the next contender at 17.0 with Wayne Rooney considered to be the most likely English winner at 17.0.

       Fifa Ballon d'Or 2011 Odds

Ø      Any other player than Lionel Messi @ 1.65

Ø      Lionel Messi @ 2.75

Ø      Cristiano Ronaldo @ 7.0

Ø      Andres Iniesta @ 7.0

Ø      Xavi @ 11.0

Ø      David Villa @ 17.0

Ø      Wayne Rooney @ 21.0

Ø      Carlos Tevez @ 26.0

Ø      Didier Drogba @ 26.0

Ø      Carles Puyol @ 34.0

Ø      Cesc Fabregas @ 34.0

Ø      Fernando Torres @ 34.0

Ø      Kaka @ 34.0

Ø      Dani Alves @ 41.0

Ø      Dimitar Berbatov @ 51.0

Ø      Steven Gerrard @ 51.0

Ø      Iker Casillas

 2010-2011 Season Of Messi 

      On 10 January 2010, Messi scored his first hat-trick in 2010 and his first hat-trick of the season against Tenerife in the 0–5 victory and on 17 January he scored his 100th goal for the club in the 4–0 victory over Sevilla.Messi then started an imposing run scoring 11 goals in five games. First he scored on the 84th minute against Málaga for a 2–1 win, then he scored two goals against Almería in a 2–2 tie. He continued his spree with an impressive week where he scored eight goals; he started by scoring a hat-trick against Valencia in a 3–0 home win, then he scored two goals against Stuttgart, in a 4–0 win that secured Barcelona's qualification to the quarterfinals of the Champions League,and finally he scored another hat-trick against Zaragoza in a 4–2 away win, becoming the first Barcelona player to score back-to-back hat-tricks in La Liga.He played his 200th official match for Barcelona against Osasuna on 24 March 2010.On 6 April 2010, for the first time in Messi's career he scored four goals in a single match, netting the lot in a 4–1 home win over Arsenal in the Champions League quarter-final second leg. This also saw him overtake Rivaldo as Barcelona's all time greatest scorer in the competition. On 10 April, Messi scored his 40th goal of the season when he netted the first goal in a 2–0 away win against title-rivals Real Madrid in El Clásico. On 1 May, Messi played his 50th game of the season and scored two goals on a 4–1 away win against Villarreal. Just three days later, on 4 May, Messi scored two goals in another 4–1 win at home against Tenerife.[107] Messi scored his 32nd goal of the La Liga season on 8 May, during an away win against Sevilla, and in the final match against Valladolid, he scored two goals in the second half to tie Ronaldo's club record of 34 goals in a single league season, set in 1996–97, and to finish four goals behind the all-time record held by Telmo Zarra. He was named La Liga player of the year for the second year in a row on 3 June 2010.On 21 August 2010, Messi scored a hat-trick in his first start of the season in a 4–0 victory over Sevilla in the Supercopa de España, helping Barcelona secure their first trophy of the season after a 1–3 first leg loss. He also began his league season with a goal, scoring after just three minutes against Racing Santander on 29 August 2010. He then continued his excellent form into the UEFA Champions League group stage match against Panathinaikos where he scored two goals, assisted another two and also hit the goal-frame on 2 separate occasions. He also missed a penalty, though. Barcelona won the match 5–1.On 19 September 2010, Messi suffered an ankle injury due to an ill-advised tackle by Atlético Madrid defender Tomáš Ujfaluši in the 92nd minute of their Round 3 match at the Vicente Calderón Stadium. At first sight it was feared that Messi suffered a broken ankle that could have kept the star player away from the pitch for a minimum of six months but MRI performed the next day in Barcelona showed he suffered a sprain in the internal and external ligaments of his right ankle. Team-mate David Villa stated "the tackle on Messi was brutal" after watching the video of the play and also added that he believed the Atlético defender "didn't go into the tackle to hurt". The incident caused widespread media attention and brought up the debate of equality in protecting all players in the game.When he recovered he scored in a 1–1 tie against Mallorca. He then scored another brace on the UEFA Champions League against København and helped the team to a 2–0 home win. He continued his impressive scoring run with braces against Zaragoza and Sevilla. After a prolific October, he started November scoring on an away 1–1 tie against København and an away 3–1 win against Gestate where he also assisted team-mates David Villa and Pedro Rodríguez. In the next fixture against Villareal, he scored an amazing goal combining with Pedro, which gave Barcelona a 2–1 lead. He scored another goal and Barcelona won 3–1. This was the 7th consecutive match in which Messi scored, breaking his own previous record of 6. He also achieved the feat of scoring 50 goals in the calendar year of 2010 with the 1st goal, while with the second goal, he achieved the same feat again, this time considering the goals he scored wearing a Barcelona shirt in the year 2010. Against Almería he scored his second hat-trick of the season in an impressive 8–0 away win, the second goal was his 100th La Liga goal. He scored on his ninth game in a row (10th including a friendly against Brazil) on a 3–0 away win against Panathinaikos.His goalscoring run ended on 29 November at El Clásico but Barcelona still managed to win 5–0 with Messi assisting Villa twice. The next match day he scored a brace and gave an assist against Osasuna. He followed with another brace against Real Sociedad. In El Derbi, a match Barcelona won 1-5, he assisted teammates Pedro and Villa to score one goal each.His first goal in 2011 came against Deportivo La Coruña with a free kick on a 4-0 away win, where he once again assisted both Pedro and Villa.He won the 2010 FIFA Ballon d'Or, beating his Barcelona teammates Xavi and Iniesta. Messi had been nominated for the awards for the fourth consecutive year. Only two days after he won the award he scored his first hat-trick of the year and third of the season against Real Betis. He began the second round of the league with a goal, scoring his second penalty against Racing Santander. After scoring the penalty kick, Messi revealed a message on his undershirt that said, "Happy birthday, mami.". He continued his goal scoring form with a brace against Almería in the Copa del Rey semifinal, and followed it up with another brace less than a week later against Hércules.

Wayne Rooney Bio-Data

Personal information

• Full name : Wayne Mark Rooney

• Date of birth : 24 October 1985 (1985-10-24) (age 25)

• Place of birth :  Croxteth, Liverpool, England

• Height : 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)

• Playing position  : Forward

Club information

• Current club: Manchester United

• Number :10

Youth career

• 1996–2002      Everton

Senior career

• Years   Team    Apps† (Gls)†
• 2002–2004      Everton            67        (15)
• 2004– Manchester United       206      (96)

National team

• 2002    England U19    1          (0)
• 2003– England            67        (26)

Rooney Honours

Club

Manchester United

·        Premier League (3): 2006–07, 2007–08, 2008–09

·        League Cup (2): 2005–06, 2009–10

·        FA Community Shield (2): 2007, 2010

·        UEFA Champions League (1): 2007–08

·        FIFA Club World Cup (1): 2008

Individual

·        PFA Players' Player of the Year (1): 2009–10

·        PFA Young Player of the Year (2): 2004–05, 2005–06

·        PFA Fans' Player of the Year (2): 2005–06, 2009–10

·        PFA Premier League Team of the Year (2): 2005–06, 2009–10

·        Goal of the Season (2): 2004-05, 2006–07

·        Goal of the Month (5): October 2003, January 2005, April 2005, January 2007,     March 2007

·        FWA Footballer of the Year (1): 2009–10

·        Sir Matt Busby Player of the Year (2): 2005–06, 2009–10

·        BBC Young Sports Personality of the Year (1): 2002

·        Bravo Award (1): 2003

·        UEFA Euro 2004 Team of the Tournament

·        FIFPro World Young Player of the Year (1): 2004–05

·        FA Premier League Player of the Month (5): February 2005, December 2005,  

·        March 2006, October 2007, January 2010

·        Barclays Player of the Season (1): 2009–10

·        FIFA Club World Cup Golden Ball (1): 2008

·        England Player of the Year (2): 2008, 2009

Lionel Messi's 5 goals set Backers record

The preserving champions already led 3-1 after the first leg and the three-time world player of the year put the result beyond doubt by counting twice in the first half. Messi scored three after the break, while substitute Cristian Tello added a brace as the Spanish champions advanced 10-2 on aggregate.

"I can't remember the last time I scored five goals, so I'm very happy," said Messi, whose 49 career Champions League goals tie him with Alfredo di Stefano for for fourth on the all-time European Cup list. "It's nice to score five goals."Messi, 24, took his overall season tally to 48 goals and is now seven away from matching Cesar Rodriguez's all-time club record of 235."He's the best (ever). There is no additional like him," Barcelona coach Pep Guardiola said. "The numbers speak for themselves. One day he'll score six. We're very fortunate to have Messi, so we have to take advantage of him."

Messi is the fourth player to score five goals in a European Cup match — and the first since the 1978-80 season. It was the first time in his career that he succeeded the feat in any opposition. "His class is just extraordinary — there's no conversation," Leverkusen coach Robin Dutt said. "Without Messi, Barca is the best team, and with him, they are in another galaxy.

"Despite Leverkusen's best intentions, the result was never really in doubt Wednesday as the defending champions recorded their most lopsided Champions League victory."What was important was to win," Messi said. "That's what we wanted to achieve. Now we're in the quarterfinals and we did it impressively."Messi marked another astonishing night by testing goalkeeper Bernd Leno early before his 25th-minute opener. Xavi timed a long ball perfectly for Messi, who beat the offside trap to come one-on-one against Leno and sent an almost playful chip over the goalkeeper.The second came after Messi received a pass from Andres Iniesta at the right corner of the area before avoidance toward the center to curl a left-footed shot through a crowd of defenders and past bewildered Leno in the 42nd.

Messi continued in the same vein four minutes into the second half as he timed his run to beat the offside trap and met Cesc Fabregas' long pass in the area, where the diminutive Argentine nicknamed "The Flea" held off defender Daniel Schwaab to complete a hat trick with another chip — this time from his weaker right foot."We'll never see a player like him again," Guardiola said. "He is one of a kind."Tello replaced Iniesta and showed attractive control as he headed Fabregas' pass forward before curling the ball around Leno for a 4-0 lead in the 55th minute.Three minutes later, Leno let a ball into his box slip away and Messi was flawlessly placed to become the first player to score four goals twice in the knockout stages of the competition. Messi scored four against Arsenal two years ago."Messi is a joke. For me the best ever," Manchester United striker Wayne Rooney wrote on Twitter.Leno was to blame in the 62nd as he let Tello's curling shot from the left slip under his right hand in the 62nd. Tello joined former Barcelona player Txiki Beguiristain as the only Spaniard to score two goals in his Champions League debut.Even Guardiola could only shake his head in disbelief as Messi added a fifth, curling an unstoppable left-footed shot out of Leno's reach in the 85th. Messi's 12-goal tally in the competition matches his total from last season, which had also tied Ruud van Nistelrooy's record for a single season from 2002-03."The important thing was to advance," Guardiola said, as his team joined AC Milan, Benfica and APOEL in the last eight. "The result after that was a significance of our play."Karim Bellarabi scored a support goal in injury time for the Germans, who managed all four of their shots on goal after the restart, as Barcelona overextended its unbeaten run at the Camp Nou to 50 games."We don't even need tonight to know they are the best team ever," Dutt said.