Friday, May 30, 2014

Brazilian Ronaldo says, Neymar is great hope for Brazil

The 1994 and 2002 World Cup winner has taken the time to praise the former Santos man and has admitted the organisation has disappointed the people of Brazil.

Former Brazil international Ronaldo - the World Cup's all-time leading goalscorer and two-time winner - has big hopes for the national team at this summer's tournament and feels Barcelona forward Neymar can make the difference for the hosts.
The 37-year-old believes Brazil, who face Croatia, Mexico and Cameroon in Group A, come in with more confidence than the victorious 2002 team he was a part of and thinks home advantage will be a huge advantage.

"Brazil are entering the World Cup with much more confidence than we had when we entered the World Cup in 2002," Ronaldo told reporters.

"I believe that the squad we have for 2014 is really strong. We have a balanced team, full of a lot of talent.

"Neymar is a fantastic kid, so talented, he is our great hope for the future.

Saturday, May 24, 2014

List of footballer who will miss 2014 World Cup

The 2014 World Cup Football will miss some star footballers as world most expensive footballer Gareth Bale, prolific forwards, Radamel Falcao of Colombia, Frank Ribery of France, Zlatan Ibrahimovic of Sweden, Carlos Tevez of Argentina and Roberto Lewandowksi of Poland will miss the 2014 World Cup Football due to injury, disqualification and not qualified.

Thursday, May 22, 2014

Luis Suarez is doubtful for World Cup 2014

The Liverpool and Uruguay forward Luis Suarez is set to undergo surgery on his knee as he felt some discomfort in his knee during a training session on Wednesday and is a major doubt for the World Cup.
The Liverpool star, who was voted PFA Player of the Year by his peers after scoring 31 goals in Brendan Rodgers' title-chasing side, felt some discomfort during a training session with his international team-mates on Tuesday.

Subsequent tests have shown an issue in his meniscus in his knee, and the 27-year-old will be operated on this week, with the South American side desperately hoping that he will recover in time for this summer's tournament.

Uruguay have been placed in Group D in Brazil, along with England, Italy and Costa Rica and the news will come as a boost to Roy Hodgson's men, who are scheduled to face Oscar Tabarez's side on June 14.

However, Tabarez can also call on Edinson Cavani and Diego Forlan, with the two forwards likely to spearhead the side's attack if Suarez does indeed miss out.
The Liverpool striker was injured on Wednesday and could face surgery, but the South Americans are hopeful the 27-year-old will return in time for their clash with Costa Rica.

Wednesday, May 21, 2014

Some World Cup Football Facts

FIFA World Cup is the most popular football tournament that is followed by billions of people around the world on their Television.
There are many facts about Football World Cup and we will try to list the more relevant Football World Cup facts. Below you can find some more interesting facts about soccer so feel free to click around and find more interesting Football information.
Soccer World Cup Facts

The first FIFA World Cup was organized  in Uruguay back in 1930 and 13 countries participated in the very first World Cup tournament.

The all-time leading scorer in the World Cup is Brazil’s Ronaldo, with 15 goals

The oldest player to lead a Country to the World Cup title was the Italian goalkeeper and Captain Dino Zoff, who at the age of 40 captained Italy to their 1982 FIFA World Cup title.

Football World Cup facts continue with the oldest player to participate in the World Cup tournament and also score a goal. Roger Milla from Cameroon was 42 years old when he played in 1994 FIFA World Cup.

World Cup facts continue with German National Franz Beckenbauer who is the only player in the history of World Cup that won the title as a player and coach for Germany. He led Germany to their title in 1974 as a player and then again won the title in 1990 as the Germany coach.

First player to miss a penalty kick in World Cup competition was Valdemar de Brito of Brazil back in 1930.

After winning their 2nd World Cup title in 1938, Italy went on a 44 year drought before winning their third title in 1982.

Hungary holds the record for scoring most goals when they beat El Salvador 10:1 in 1982.

Germany and Brazil hold the top spot for most appearances in the World Cup final. Both countries made it to the finals on 7 different occasions.

Germany has also made the semi finals the most times. Germany has advanced to the final four teams in 11 different World Cups.

Scotland made the World Cup qualifications 8 different times and is the only country that was actually eliminated from the tournament during the first round on 8 different occasions.

This makes Scotland the most heartbreaking of all nations, making the world cup 8 times and being eliminated in the first round 8 times :(

Brazilian striker Ronaldo was named MVP at the 1998 World Cup final against France even though French came out of these game winners and 1998 World Cup champions.

First goalkeeper to win the Most Valuable Player award was the German goalkeeper Oliver Kahn during the 2002 FIFA World Cup.

Frenchman Just Fontaine holds the record for most World Cup goals scored when he netted 13 goals in 1958 World Cup.

Italy's Vittorio Pozzo is the only head coach to lead the nation to two consecutive World Cup titles as the head coach in 1934 and 1938.

Germany has played 99 World Cup matches as of 2012, making them a Nation to have played the most World Cup matches.

Brazil has scored 210 goals in all World Cups making them a record holder for most goals scored in World Cup tournament.

Record number for most World Cup appearances is held by German soccer player Lothar Matthaus with 25 appearances.

Fastest goal in World Cup history was scored by Turkey's Hakan Sukur, 11 seconds into the game against South Korea during the 2002 World Cup.


I found this World Cup soccer fact surprising. Mexico holds the record for most defeats in World Cup history, losing 22 matches.

Very first hat trick was scored by an American Bert Patenaude during the 1930 World Cup.

Sir Viv Richards is the only person to have played both World Cup Football and World Cup Cricket.

World Cup is played every 4 years and that is a World Cup Fact

World Cup soccer facts continue with highest attendance at the World Cup game during the 1950 World Cup final between Brazil and Uruguay. It is reported that 199,854 people attended this final match played at the famous Marakana stadium in Rio de Janerio.

Tuesday, May 20, 2014

List of Leading goal scorer in World Cup

Football is the popular game in the world and there are many football tournaments in the world. Among them world cup football is the most popular tournament. World Cup was started from the year 1930 and Uruguay was the first world cup winner and Argentina was the runner of the year. Spain was the latest world cup winner. Brazil won five times record holding world cup. Brazilian player Ronaldo was the leading highest goal scorer of the world cup he played in 1998 and scored 4 goals, in 2002 he scored 8 goals, in 2006 he scored 3 goals. Though he was in world cup winning team in 1994 he did not play a single game. Ronaldo broke all time 14 goals record set by Gurd Mular of Germany in 2006 world cup. Miroslav Klose of Germany may break the record in upcoming world cup 2014 he scored altogether 14 goals in  three world cup appearances if he is fit and fine in upcoming world cup he have the chance to break all the record set by Ronaldo.  We have listed following world cup winners, runner up, first runner up and  second runner up.

Sunday, May 18, 2014

World Cup 2014 Preliminary squad

Every national coach across the world has announced their provisional 30 man squads for upcoming world cup 2014. Here are the lists of every participated nation in world cup.
Group A
Brazil:
Goalkeepers: Julio Cesar, Jefferson, Victor.
Defenders: David Luiz, Dante, Thiago Silva, Henrique, Maicon, Dani Alves, Marcelo, Maxwell.
Midfielders: Luiz Gustavo, Paulinho, Fernandinho, Ramires, Oscar, Willian, Hernanes.
Forwards: Hulk, Bernard, Neymar, Jo, Fred.
Croatia:
Goalkeepers: Stipe Pletikosa, Danijel Subasic, Oliver Zelenika.
Defenders: Darijo Srna, Dejan Lovren, Vedran Corluka, Gordon Schildenfeld, Danijel Pranjic, Ivan Strinic, Domagoj Vida, Sime Vrsaljko, Igor Bubnjic.
Midfielders: Luka Modric, Ivan Rakitic, Niko Kranjcar, Ognjen Vukojevic, Ivan Perisic, Mateo Kovacic, Milan Badelj, Ivo Ilicevic, Marcelo Brozovic, Ivan Mocinic, Mario Pasalic, Sammir.
Forwards: Mario Mandzukic, Ivica Olic, Eduardo da Silva, Nikica Jelavic, Ante Rebic, Duje Cop.
Mexico
Goalkeepers: Jesus Corona, Guillermo Ochoa, Alfredo Talavera.
Defenders: Paul Aguilar, Andres Guardado , Miguel Layun, Rafael Marquez, Hector Moreno, Diego Reyes, Francisco Javier Rodriguez, Carlos Salcido.
Midfielders: Isaac Brizuela, Marco Fabian, Hector Herrera, Juan Carlos Medina, Luis Montes, Carlos Pena, Jose Juan Vazquez.
Forwards: Giovani Dos Santos, Javier Hernandez, Raul Jimenez, Oribe Peralta, Alan Pulido.
Cameroon:
Goalkeepers: Charles Itandje, Ndy Assembe, Sammy Ndjock, Loic Feudjou.
Defenders: Allan Nyom, Dany Nounkeu, Cedric Djeugoue, Aurelien Chedjou, Nicolas Nkoulou, Armel Kana-Biyik, Henri Bedimo, Benoît Assou-Ekotto, Gaetang Bong.
Midfielders: Eyong Enoh, Jean Makoun, Joel Matip, Stephane Mbia, Landry Nguemo, Alex Song, Cedric Loe, Edgar Sally.
Forwards : Samuel Eto’o, Eric Choupo Moting, Benjamin Moukandjo, Vincent Aboubakar, Achille Webo, Mohamadou Idrissou, Fabrice Olinga.

Group B
Spain:
Goalkeepers: Iker Casillas, David De Gea, Pepe Reina.
Defenders: Sergio Ramos, Gerard Pique, Raul Albiol, Juanfran, Jordi Alba, Cesar Azpilicueta, Daniel Carvajal, Alberto Moreno.
Midfielders: Xavi, Javi Martinez, Xabi Alonso, Andres Iniesta, Koke, Sergio Busquets, Santi Cazorla, Ander Iturraspe, Cesc Fabregas, Thiago Alcantara, Juan Mata, David Silva, Pedro, Jesus Navas.
Forwards: Diego Costa, David Villa, Fernando Torres, Alvaro Negredo, Fernando Llorente.
Netherlands:
Goalkeepers: Krul, Cillessen, Vorm, Zoet.
Defenders: Verhaegh, Van Aanholt, Rekik, De Vrij, Martins Indi, Kongolo, Blind, Veltman, Vlaar, Janmaat.
Midfielders: Sneijder, Fer, Nigel de Jong, Clasie, De Guzman, Van der Vaart, Vilhena, Wijnaldum.
Forwards: Depay, Boetius, Lens, Van Persie, Kuyt, Huntelaar, Promes, Robben
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Chile:
Goalkeepers: Bravo, Herrera, Garcés, Toselli.
Defenders: Andía, Marcos González, Rojas, Medel, Albornoz, Mena, Fuenzalida.
Midfielders: Hernández, Gutiérrez, Millar, Silva, Carmona, Aránguiz, Vidal, Jara, Fernández, Valdivia, Díaz, Beausejour, Isla.
Forwards: Paredes, Canales, Sánchez, Pinilla, Orellana, Vargas.

Australia:
Goalkeepers: Mat Ryan, Mitch Langerak, Eugene Galekovic.
Defenders: Ivan Franjic, Matthew Spiranovic, Curtis Good, Bailey Wright, Jason Davidson, Luke Wilkshire, Alex Wilkinson, Ryan McGowan.
Midfielders: Mile Jedinak, Mark Milligan, James Holland, Massimo Luongo, Adam Sarota, Oliver Bozanic, Matt McKay, Mark Bresciano, Josh Brillante.
Forwards: Tim Cahill, Josh Kennedy, Tom Rogic, Dario Vidosic, Tommy Oar, James Troisi, Ben Halloran, Adam Taggart, Matthew Leckie.

Friday, May 16, 2014

About World Cup

Football is the popular game in the world. The FIFA World Cup or World Cup is an international association football competition participated by the senior men’s national teams of the members of Federation International Football Association (FIFA). The championship takes place every four years and it was first played in 1930. Spain is the defending champion of the tournament in South Africa 2010. There are 32 teams who are participating for the title it was just 13 teams in 1930 world cup and it became 16 in 1934 world cup the number of participating team increased from 16 to 24 in 1982 world cup and from 1998 it became 32 till now.  Brazil is the host country in 2014 world cup. Total 19 world cup tournaments have been held and there are 8 different countries who won the title. Brazil is the most successful country with five titles and they are the only team to participate in every tournament. Italy won four times, Germany won three times, Uruguay and Argentina won two times and England, France and Spain won one time each.

Monday, May 5, 2014

Manang Marshyangdi Club in Semi Final

2014-05-5
Nepal’s League champions Manang Marshyangdi Club (MMC) on Monday entered the finals of the last edition of the AFC President’s Cup with a goalless draw with Erchim FC (EFC) of Mangolia. MMC, who had defeated Svarieng FC of Cambodia 6-3 in their tournament opener on Thursday, needed Erchim FC to defeat Svarieng FC on Saturday and the Mongolian club returned with a 3-1 victory. The result saw both MMC and Erchim secure their berths for the finals offered from the group.
MMC’s qualification for the finals also helped them secure a spot in the 2015 AFC Cup playoffs, becoming the first Nepali team to do so. The AFC Cup will be participated by the bottom 23 teams out of 47 Asian Football Confederation members. The outcome of the match between MMC and Erchim on Monday will determine the group winners. Nabin Neupane of MMC was happy with the desired outcome. “This is exactly the result we had been waiting for. To reach the finals is a gift for Nepali football. We had headed for the tournament without getting any match exposure but we gave our best here to qualify for the finals,” said Neupane.

Friday, May 2, 2014

Manang Marshagdi Club beat Svay Rieng Club

2014-05-1
In the group C match, Nepali league champion Manang Marshagdi Club (MMC) beat Svay Rieng Club (SRC) of Cambodia by 6-3 goals to register an important victory in AFC President Cup 2014 played on Thursday at Cambodia. SRC started the match in good note but free kick taken by Cambodian players did not utilize well in the 2nd minute of the match. MMC looked aggressive in the 3rd minute and Biraj Maharjan’s superb free kick went inch above the wall. MMC took an early lead in the 6th minute when Deepak Rai scored for MMC to utilize a superb pass from Anil Gurung to make 1-0 up. MMC was gifted with an own goal from Cambodians in the 8th minute when Moul Daravron scored an own goal to make MMC 2-0 up. In the 13th minute Sulav Maskey gave a pass to Anil Gurung and Gurung again gave to Maskey but Cambodian custodian was smart enough to deny Maskey.  SRC wasted a good chance in the 14th minute when MMC’s custodian Bishal Shrestha did his best to deny Cambodian in one VS one situation. MMC triple their lead in the 24th minute when Biraj Maharjan’s superb free kick was well touched by Shaeed Aziz to make MMC 3-0 up. SRC cut the deficit in the 36th when MMC’s captain Sagar Thapa handled the ball and free kick was awarded to SRC and Soum Veasna’s brilliant free kick kissed the net to make 1-3. SRC almost scored another goal in the 38th minute but MMC’s custodian Bishal Shresha did his best to deny Prak Money.