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THE BEST STADIUMS IN THE WORLD :

Chapter Two

Old Trafford ,Theatre of Dreams (Manchester)

Home of Manchester United , the environment experienced in this stadium is unique . For most part of the teams on England , leave this stage with the 3 points is very difficult. For any team , player in the world is a dream playing here.

Architect : Archibald Leitch
Capacity :19 February 1910

Owner : Manchester United
Date of inauguration : 19 February 1910

Santiago Bernabeu (Madrid)

Real Madrid’s crown jewel of a grounds, the Bernabeu is considered one of the great stadiums in Europe. Stage of great games between european giants .

Architect : Manuel Muñoz Monasterio , Luis Alemany Soler , Antonio Lamela (Expansion)
Capacity :85,454

Owner : Real Madrid
Date of inauguration : 14 December 1947

Estádio da Luz (Lisbon)

Stadium of Sport Lisboa Benfica . This stage will recieve the final of Uefa Champions League in 2014 . In 2004 , received the game between Portugal and Greece ( final of EURO 2004)

Architect : Populous
Capacity : 65 000

Owner : Benfica
Date of inauguration : October 2003

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GAME REVIEWS

Fifa World Cup Brasil 2014 qualifying

GROUP F :

PORTUGAL

RUSSIA

Stadium: LUZHNIKI STADIUM
12TH OCTOBER 2012 - KICK OFF 16:00

REF: V KASSAI

1    - 0

Starting lineup :

Coach:
Paulo Bento Fábio Capello

Goals : Kerzhakov (5)

Subs : Aleksandr Samedov <-> Vladimir Bystrov. ; Eder <-> Helder Postiga ; Silvestre Varela <-> Ruben Micael ; Andrey Yeschenko <-> Alexander Kerzhakov ; Denis Glushakov <->Viktor Faizulin ; Miguel Lopes <->Fábio Coentrão( because of an injury.)

Brief : Portugal started this game clearly with the left foot . Kerzhakov after a bad pass from Micael

scored to Russia. Portugal responded well , with shots from Ronaldo and Bruno Alves . At twenty minutes Coentrão , had to leave because of an injury. For his place Miguel Lopes entered. Apart from a lot of possession , and some shots , without danger , Portugal never managed to break the Russian wall . Now Russia leads the group F .

Highlights & Goals

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PLAYERS CAREER REVIEW

Here we recall the stories of the greatest players in the world.

VAN PERSIE

POSITION : Striker
HEIGHT : 1.86 m
AGE : 29

Club Career

Feyenoord

In Feyenoord , Van Persie had a brief passage . Feyenoord unsuccessfully attempted to extend Van Persie's contract during the off-season, and his deteriorating relationship with van Marwijk led to his spending most of the 2003–04 season on the bench. The relationship with Van Marwkij was not the best.

He again played 28 matches, but finished with two fewer goals than the previous season. Feyenoord shopped him at the end of the campaign but found few takers due to Van Persie's past disciplinary issues. During the January transfer window, the Eredivisie ( Netherlands championship) club opened negotiations with Arsenal ( from Premier League) , who were seeking a long-term replacement for aging veteran Dennis Bergkamp, but both parties could not agree to terms. Life in Feyenoord became complicated to the international dutch.

GOALS : 22

NUMBER :?

SEASONS: 2001->2004

TITLES :Uefa Cup

GAMES : 78

ARSENAL

On 17 May 2004, Van Persie signed a four-year deal with Arsenal for £2.75 million, just over half of Feyenoord's original asking price of £5 million. By the hand of Arsène Wenger , Van Persie became a star in Arsenal , Wenger changed is position from a left winger to a centre forward. In the arsenal van played with great players like Thierry Henry , Reyes , Gallas (...) . Unfortunately he never had been champion at Arsenal. Great goals and a lot of good games marked the Arsenal fans but not only.

GOALS : 132

NUMBER : 10

SEASONS: 2004 -> 2012

TITLES : FA Cup , FA community Shield.

GAMES : 277

Manchester United

At the end of the season of 2011-2012 Van Persie showed will to exit from Arsenal. Barcelona , Man City , Milan fight to ensure Van in their squad .

But on 15 August 2012, Arsenal announced they had agreed terms with Manchester United for his transfer, but Van Persie had yet to agree personal terms with the club . On 17 August, Van Persie transferred to Manchester Unitedfor an initial £24 million, signing a four-year contract. Nobody from Arsenal accepted this change well . One of the possible reasons that take Van Persie exit from Arsenal was the fact that he never had been champion on Arsenal . In Manchester Van plays with the superstar Wayne Rooney in the attack of Red devils .

GOALS : 7

NUMBER : 31

SEASONS: 2012 -> until now

TITLES : (-)

GAMES : 9

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THE BEST STADIUMS IN THE WORLD :

Chapter One

CAMP NOU, SPAIN

Stage of memorable matches...

Architect : Francesc Mitjans (1909-2006)
Capacity : 99.500
Owner : FC Barcelona
Date inauguration : 27 September 1957
UEFA : Five stars

ALLIANZ ARENA - GERMANY
The stadium of FC Bayern Munich is one of the most modern stadiums in the world...

Architect :Herzog & de Meuron
Capacity : 71.000
Owner : Allianz Arena München Stadion GmbH
Date of inauguration : May 30, 2005

MARACANÃ - BRASIL

Stories lived in Maracana? Are endless, finals of Brazilian Championshiop, carioca, interclub world, the list is vast .Great players like Pelé had played in this field .

Architect : Miguel Feldman, Waldir Ramos, Oscar Waldetaro, Rafael Galvão, Orlando Azevedo, Antônio Dias Carneiro e Pedro Paulo Bernardes Bastos.
Capacity : 78 838
Owner :State Government of Rio de Janeiro
Date of inauguration : June 16 , 1950

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Preview

FIFA World Cup qualifiers

RUSSIA VS PORTUGAL

16:00
12/10/2012

Great game in the GROUP F .The best teams of this group will measure forces in Russia. Portugal after beat Azerbaijan by 3-0 in Braga , will have a lot more difficult game. Who win this game will take the firts place in this group.

TEAMS

RUSSIA :

Goalkeepers

-> Gabulov,Shunin, Akinfeev

Defenders

-> Berezutsky, Aniukov, Yanbaev, Ignashevich, Granat , Yeschenkoe

Midfielders

-> Shirokov , Denisov , Samedov , Kombarov , Tarasov , Glushakov , Bystrov , Dzagoev , Faitzulin , Bilyaletdinov

Forwards

-> Kokorin , Kerzhakov , Grigorev , Dzjuba

LAST GAMES

Israel 0 - 4 Russia

Russia 2 - 0 North Ireland

Russia 1 - 1 Ivory Coast

PORTUGAL :

Goalkeepers

-> Eduardo , Patrício , Beto

Defenders

-> Fábio Coentrão , Bruno Alves , Pepe , João Pereira , Ricardo Costa , Rolando , MIguel Lopes

Midfielders

-> Miguel Veloso , Raul Meireles ? , João Moutinho , Custódio , Rubén Micael , Hugo Viana , Rubén Amorim

Forwards

-> Nani , Ronaldo , Nelsón Olivieira , Éder , Hélder Postiga

LAST GAMES :

Luxembourg 1 - 2 Portugal

Portugal 3 - 0 Azerbaijan

GROUP CLASSIFICATION :

1º Russia 6 points

2º Portugal 6 points

3º Luxembourg 1 point

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PLAYERS CAREER REVIEW

Here we recall the stories of the greatest players in the world.

PABLO AIMAR : EL MAGO

Club career

RIVER PLATE

Born in Rio Cuarto , Córdoba , Pablo Aimar began his football career in Club Atlético River Plate. In 1997-98 Pablo joined for the first team. In River Aimar , played with Saviola , el conejo.
Many argentines still await the return of El MAGO.

GOALS : 22

NUMBER : 10

SEASONS: 96/97 -> 2000/2001

TITLES :Primera División (4x) , Copa Libertadores , Supercopa Sul Americana

GAMES : 87

Valencia

Valencia of Spain signed Aimar in January 2001, at a price of €24 million.

The purchase proved justified, as Aimar helped lead the team to a first-place finish in La Liga in 2001-2002. In Spain Aimar will always be marked by his magic on the field . Probably he was the best player that played in Valencia on the mid. Scored a lot of goals in the Spanish league and in Europe. Unfortunately a lot of injuries had marked his career in Valencia taking him some space in the team .

GOALS : 34

NUMBER : 10

SEASONS: 2000/2001 -> 2006

TITLES :La Liga (2x) , UEFA Cup , UEFA Super Cup

GAMES : 196

Zaragoza

During the summer of 2006, Aimar joined fellow top flight club Real Zaragoza for €12 million.

In Zaragoza Aimar will be remembered by his injuries . Appeared in 22 games , without any goal . Roberto Ayala ,teamed up with Aimar in this campaign.

GOALS : 5

TITLES: (-)

GAMES:57

NUMBER: 8

SEASONS: 2006->2008

SPORT LISBOA BENFICA

On 17 July 2008 , by the hand of Rui Costa , after a period of intense negotiations, Aimar signed a four-year contract with Portuguese side S L Benfica for a fee of €6.5 million.

After a difficult first half of the season, he managed to overcome his constant injuries and finished it in good shape. Quique Flores never managed obtain the maximum performance of Aimar.

In the next year(2009-2010), with Jorge Jesus in the place of Quique Flores , Aimar was in better physical conditions, and displayed a good offensive chemistry with countryman , Javier Saviola (played together in River) , newly signed, with benfica shirt had the best offensive record of the competition, eventually winning the league after a five-year wait. Aimar said that he never seen fans like benfica fans. Today Aimar had earned the love of the benfica fans being a reference of the club.

GOALS : 17

NUMBER : 10

SEASONS: 2008->until now

TITLES : Portuguese League , Cup League (4x)

GAMES : 159

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PLAYERS CAREER REVIEW
Here we recall the stories of the greatest players in the world.

RONALDO
-> Journey as a player (CLUBS):

Sporting Club Portugal

Ronaldo joined the other young players of Sporting Clube de Portugal and managed to become the only player to have played in Sporting Under-16, Under-17, Under-18, B, and in the first team, all within one season Ronaldo scored twice for Sporting Clube de Portugal on his debut for the first team against Moreirense. Ronaldo was approached first by Arsenal, but manager Arsene Wenger, however, did not agree with the direction of Sporting Clube de Portugal. However, he called the attention of Sir Alex Ferguson manager of Manchester United in the summer of 2003, when Sporting Clube de Portugal defeated Manchester United 3-1 in the inauguration of the Alvalade XXI stadium in Lisbon. Ronaldo's performance impressed even the Manchester United players, who on the flight back to England, asked Sir Alex Ferguson to hire to replace David Beckham (currently in the U.S.), who had moved to Real Madrid. It was the last game with ronaldo sporting shirt.

SEASONS :2001/2002, 2002/2003

GAMES : 31

GOALS : 5

NUMBER : 28

TITLES : Portugal League,Portugal Cup , Candido de Oliveira Super Cup.

Manchester United Football Club

Manchester United signed him in 2003 for 15 million euros, and renewed the bond on April 13, 2007 until 2012.

After the departure of David Beckham, arrived Cr7 to try to forget his departure from the club.

Ronaldo scored Manchester United. The adaptation of Ronaldo was very quick and soon began to earn his place. Even today many fans dream of Manchester gamesof Cristiano Ronaldo. Gained enviable titles, was the best in the world, won everything there was to win with the shirt of manchester united.

At the end of 2008, many have talked about the possible departure of Ronaldo, for perhaps the greatest club ever, Real Madrid.

GOALS :61

TITLES: FA Cup , Premier League(3x) , Carling Cup (2x) , FA community Shield (2x), Champions League, FIFA World cup of club.

GAMES:118

NUMBER: 7

SEASONS: 2003/2004->2008/2009

Real Madrid Club de Fútbol

After much speculation, the Real Madrid reached an agreement with Manchester United for the transfer of the then world's best player in 2009, announced by the amount of 94 million euros at June 11, 2009. So far the highest amount paid for a football player. Spain fans in Madrid received this news as a bomb, the best player in the world living in Madrid. But in england not all well accepted this change of Ronaldo. When Ronaldo moved to Real, Raul held the shirt number 7. Ronaldo had to wear a shirt number 9, CR9.
In the first year Ronaldo won easily a lot of supporters of Real Madrid. Great games, great goals and plenty of magic. In the Spanish League Ronaldo hold a fight with another great player Leonel Messi. Whenever these two get together in the field the magic is infinite.

SEASONS :2009->until now

GAMES : 269

GOALS : 97

TITLES : Copa del Rey , Spanish Cup , Santiago Bernabéu Trophy ,Spanish Supercopa.

NUMBER : 7

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Di Natale: Ronaldo deserves the golden ball

Antonio Di Natale, Udinese's captain, argued that the 2012 golden ball should be given to Cristiano Ronaldo, Real Madrid's Portuguese forward.

(Di Natale) For me, this year is Cristiano Ronaldo deserves to win the award for best player, because Messi has won many times. But we have to wait and see, defended the Italian international striker in declarations to the site Udinese. The Golden Bar will be disputed by Messi , Ronaldo and André Iniesta. Curiously , Iniesta won the prize of best player in Uefa Champions League 2011-2012. One prize that Ronaldo was especting to win.

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Belarus-Spain only in the RADIO ?

The game between Belarus-Spain on Friday, for the World Cup 2014 qualifying , will be the first ever official game of the Spanish team without the TV rights. Never such thing had happened.

No channel, until now , acquired those rights, even seeing that i this is the current World Champion and twice champion of Europe. None of generalist channels showed interest in paying the amount requested by the company that sells the rights, German Sport Five.

The amount initially requested was 1.5 million, but, according to AS (spanish newspaper), the numbers have dropped to 1.1 million, while the Sport Five bought the rights to the Belarusian Federation for a million euros.

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Pepe and Ronaldo ?

In the last game of Real Madrid the duo were injured

The portuguese team has landed in Moscow ahead of the match against Russia that pits together the two outright favourites to win World Cup qualifying group F. Injuries remain a concern for Paulo Bento

The Real Madrid pair both picked up knocks in last Sunday’s El Clasico in Barcelona. The loss of either player would be a big blow to Portugal. Captain Ronaldo has been in phenomenal form of late, scoring eight goals in his last three matches, while Pepe was many people’s choice as Portugal’s player of the tournament at Euro 2012.

As for the opposition, the towering centre-back expects nothing other than a tough match against Portugal’s main rivals for top spot in the group and the only automatic qualifying berth.

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2012 World Cup Qualifying - UEFA Fixtures and Results

Next week we will have another round of qualifying matches for the 2014 World Cup. Here are the games this week. Reference to the great game of this round in the group F , Russia - Portugal . Enjoy !

http://soccernet.espn.go.com/fixtures/_/league/fifa.worldq.uefa/world-cup-qualifying---uefa?cc=5739

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World Cup Qualifiers

GROUP STAGES

Group A

Team v t e	Pld	Pts
Serbia	2	4
Belgium	2	4
Croatia	2	4
Scotland	2	2
Macedonia	2	1
Wales	2	0

Group B

Team v t e	Pld	Pts
Italy	2	4
Bulgaria	2	4
Armenia	2	3
Czech Republic	1	1
Denmark	1	1
Malta	2	0

Group C

Team v t e	Pld	Pts
Germany	2	6
Sweden	1	3
Republic of Ireland	1	3
Austria	1	0
Kazakhstan	2	0
Faroe Islands	1	0

Group D

Team v t e	Pld	Pts
Romania	2	6
Netherlands	2	6
Hungary	2	3
Turkey	2	3
Estonia	2	0
Andorra	2	0

Group E

Team v t e	Pld	Pts
Switzerland	2	6
Iceland	2	3
Albania	2	3
Cyprus	2	3
Norway	2	3
Slovenia	2	0

Group F

Team v t e	Pld	Pts
Russia	2	6
Portugal	2	6
Luxembourg	2	1
Northern Ireland	2	1
Azerbaijan	2	1
Israel	2	1

Group G

Team v t e	Pld	Pts
Bosnia and Herzegovina	2	6
Greece	2	6
Slovakia	2	4
Lithuania	2	1
Latvia	2	0
Liechtenstein	2	0

Group H

Team v t e	Pld	Pts
Montenegro	2	4
England	2	4
Poland	2	4
Ukraine	1	1
San Marino	1	0
Moldova	2	0

Group I

Team v t e	Pld	Pts
France	2	6
Spain	1	3
Georgia	2	3
Finland	1	0
Belarus	2	0

25 ZONE

Old Trafford ,Theatre of Dreams (Manchester)

Estádio da Luz (Lisbon)

Highlights & Goals

Feyenoord

Goalkeepers

Defenders

Midfielders

Forwards

Goalkeepers

Defenders

Midfielders

Forwards

Valencia

Zaragoza

Manchester United Football Club

Real Madrid Club de Fútbol

Di Natale: Ronaldo deserves the golden ball

Belarus-Spain only in the RADIO ?

Pepe and Ronaldo ?

In the last game of Real Madrid the duo were injured

2012 World Cup Qualifying - UEFA Fixtures and Results

World Cup Qualifiers

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