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Jose Mario dos Santos Felix Mourinho is a Portuguese name very familiar in the football world. Mourinho born in 1963 was the son of portuguese footballer and started his career as a football player. But later switched his profession to managing clubs and now one of the most envied managers in the world. He is got a nick name “The Special One“, self proclaimed.Mourinho started his new passion as an assistant coach under the veteran Sir Bobby Robson in the portuguese club FC Porto.This was in early 90’s. In the …
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Yet another fabulous tournament came to end with sunday’s grand finale and soccer city witnessed a fine competition between Spain and Netherlands. It was suspense till 116th minute when Andres Iniesta scored the winning goal for spain. Till then the expectation was a penalty shoot out or even a sudden death as both Iker Casillas & Maarten Stekelenberg where doing perfect job. The game witnessed as much as 12 yellow cards and a red card as a result of 2 yellows to John Heitinga. If you would have watched the game you surely have felt the tension in the air and it produced 3 yellows card within first ten to fifteen minutes. The climax gave a feel like Spain was destined to win. Both teams missed a handfull of chances. Remarkable ones among them are Sergio Ramo’s header, Arjen Robbens’ was blocked by Casillas twice, Villa also lost a few chances. After the Spain squad kissed the cup, there came the golden fifa awards. Golden shoe, ball, glove where awarded to Thomas Muellar, Diego Forlan, Iker Casillas respectively. Muellar also got the Best Young player of the tournament award.
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Round of 16 started and a leg is over which means 4 teams got eliminated and 4 waiting for there quarter final matches preparing strategies.The other leg of Round 16 will be finished in 2 days.This world cup turns out to be nightmare for a few big names like, England, France & Italy. One other big name will be eliminated by end of pre- quarters, Spain or Portugal. For Brazil, Portugal and Spain it was almost sure that anyone of them will be eliminated in the round of 16 itself. Brazil became comparatively safe with Chile, but the Spaniards and Portuguese will be fighting for glory.
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The Jabulani started rolling and vuvuzela almost deafens the players and the fight is fierce.Major title contenders like Argentina, Germany started with a win. Brazil,Spain and Italy are yet to play their first matches. England fall into a draw which witnessed a goal keeping howler from the English keeper. Last world cup’s best player is not playing this time, but the player who scored most goals last time, scored one goal this time also, seems the German is in good touch. Klose, the 2006 Golden boot winner is near a …
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akumi the official mascot will dance infront of a huge audiance in a couple of days. Teams are on there way, some of them started warm ups to adjust to the conditions. Adidas Jabulani will roll in South Africa on June 11th officially. 2010 FIFA worldcup is the 19th of its kind. The event started in August 2007 when the qualifiers started, 204 teams participated. And 32 nation qualified, and South Africa became the first African nation to host the event. This is the first world cup which has no …
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