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Neymar

It’s been three years Neymar become a professional footballer. On the day of the 20thanniversary recently, Brazil‘s young star has to fulfill its achievement with 100 goals. In the Brazilian league match on Sunday (05/02/2012) evening local time, on the day Neymar birthday, he scored one goal for his team, Santos, who competed as a host. He makes itwith a header on 66 minutes, grabbed the ball free kick from Henrique Ganso.

But the goal of winning so he was not Santos, for his opponent, Palmeiras, capable of making two goals in the last minute and come out as winners with a score of 2-1. Neymar,which is forecast to be a future star of Brazil, retracing the professional level when divingdebut with Santos on March 7, 2009, when he was only 17 years old.

Since then and until now, the teen’s full name? Neymar da Silva Santos Junior hasproduced 100 goals in Brazil. Thus quoted Yahoosport of AP. Neymar, who won the FIFA Puskas Award as the best goal of the year 2011, is believed to be awaiting the right time to move to Europe, playing for the club’s top blue continent. Currently he is under contractat Santos until the summer of 2014.

Messi

Three candidates for the Ballon d’Or winner of the FIFA 2011 has been officially announced. Barcelona duo Lionel Messi and Xavi will compete with the star Cristiano Ronaldo to Real Madrid won the title of world’s best players. All three nominees have been shortlisted from a list of candidates consisting of 23 persons. Messi won the award last year by beating Xavi and Andres Iniesta who this time did not make the big three.

Messi again a favorite to steal this award for the third time. Argentine footballer that displays brilliant performance in last season where he scored 53 goals in all competitions. While Xavi become creators of goals as his team’s co. Spanish midfielder is proving itself as one of the best midfielders in the world. The combination of Messi and Xavi took Barca managed to retain the La Liga title and Champions League. Ronaldo’s performance also is no less severe with the two rival it. Although only able to present the Copa del Rey title, the owner of the nickname CR7 was successfully struck 53 goals last season.

Special for Messi, he managed again to win this award in order to he became the third person who successfully won three awards of the world’s best players after Zinedine Zidane and Ronaldo Luis Nazario da Lima. While the world’s best trainer award will be contested by Josep Guardiola (Barcelona), Jose Mourinho (Real Madrid) and Sir Alex Ferguson (Manchester United).

Messi likely picked up two awards after his goal against Arsenal managed to enter as candidates for the award or the prettiest goal Puskas Award along with Neymar and Wayne Rooney.

The best footballer category will be contested by daughter Marta (Brazil), Homare Sawa (Japan) and Abby Wambach (United States). While the daughter’s best coach award will be contested by Bruno Bini (France), Norio Sasaki (Japan) and Pia Sundhage (Sweden). The entire award will be given in FIFA Ballon d’Or Gala will be held at the Kongresshaus in Zurich, Switzerland on January 9, 2012.

Arsene Wenger joined disappointment over the failure of England to host 2018 World Cup. Arsenal manager was even called the bidding process by FIFA to be outdated.

Wenger participate actively campaigning for the UK as a candidate host 2018 World Cup. But as soon as FIFA announced that the winner of bidding is Russian, he immediately turned off the television that was watched without waiting for the announcement of bidding the host the 2022 World Cup, which was won by Qatar.

Wenger has criticized the methods used to determine the winner of the FIFA bidding. According to him, this way is outdated and no longer suitable for use in the present.

“I think the way to decide (winner), in fairness, as derived from medieval times. It seems not appropriate in modern life, where people should go, lobby, and then say ‘trust us’. To be honest, it looks like you should seducing them first to get the World Cup, “said the man was 61 years.

“I think it’s not true. You want to have more than technical criteria (criteria) of human. It’s hard to explain to the audience that the technical bids of the England which produced only two sound perfect. That does not make sense,” he continued.

Looking ahead, Wenger wants FIFA bidding system be addressed so that each countries judged on a number of predetermined criteria.

“You can imagine that you have 100 criteria with different weights and you put it into the computer and then the best exit. The fact that the country has never hosted the World Cup so it could just be one of the criteria. But it can not be the only consideration, “he said.

“Russia is certainly a great candidate and congratulations to them. But we do not know why the British failed and on what criteria. In the modern world, you have to work hard to eliminate all suspicions. Is it true or false suspicion? I do not know, but You do not want to be a material one voice suspicions, “added Wenger.

The action of the president of Nigeria to prohibits the football team responded to compete for two years by FIFA. The highest body of world football that will give punishment to the ‘Super Eagles’.

Nigeria a bad achievement at the 2010 World Cup victory that eliminated without making Goodluck Jonatahan wrath. Nigeria’s number one man in Nigeria was also banned to appear in any football competition for 24 months.

It’s also got a strong reaction from FIFA who considered the move as a form of government intervention. And in the rules that FIFA and FIFA also banned from giving a deadline until Monday (5 / 7) to revoke its ban Nigeria’s president,

If not done so get ready just Nigerians suffer the same fate as Iraq and Brunei Darussalam some time ago that received FIFA sanction.

“FIFA today will send a letter to the Nigerian soccer federation, whose contents give time to the government of Nigeria till Monday at 6 pm (16:00 GMT) to revoke the decision prohibits the participation of Nigeria in FIFA and CAF competitions,” said FIFA spokesman Nicolas Maingot at Reuters.

“Punishment will be valid for the entire national team and also freeze the financial assistance. And not a single Nigerian referee who participate in international competition,” said Maingot.

FIFA also will not approve any management committee formed by the Nigerian government. And FIFA also plans to send members of their executive to conduct mediation with the Nigerian government to find solutions.

The discourse use of technology in football seems to avoid controversial incidents will not happen, because FIFA confirms will close the door tightly to it.

It was announced immediately through the secretary general of FIFA, Jerome Valcke said after a meeting with the International Football Association Board (IFAB), Saturday (06/03/2010) local time. Meetings are scheduled over the use of technology in the field of football.

“Any decision made is that no use of technology. This is the end of the debate about the potential of the use of technology in football,” said Valcke as reported by Reuters.

In the meeting demonstrated two technologies, namely the use of the chip inside the ball or called Cairos. And also who has sounded before, Hawk Eye, which is used in tennis and cricket.

Of course it is made in respect to minimize the occurrence of incidents that smells like a ball controversy that has passed the goal line or an example handsball Frenchman Thierry Henry, who passed the time against the Republic of Ireland in the last World Cup playoff.

However, during the two years of hard work, finally it should disappear because FIFA have said improper to use the two technologies at the top in a football game.