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Fernando Torres

Fernando Torres did not get any trophies in his first two clubs, Atletico Madrid and Liverpool. He now has two titles with Chelsea. Pioneering career at Atletico and debuted as a professional at age 17, Torres had never won anything with the Spanish club. He then tried his fortune to England, received the proposal Liverpool in the summer of 2007.Purchased for 25 million pounds, a record-breaking El Nino direct transfer of the club.

Torres rapid public loved Anfield and managed to package 81 goals in all competitions for three and a half seasons, until he had spoken for Chelsea in early 2011. No half-hearted, he was rewarded 50 million pounds by the west London club. Liverpool fans are most unwilling to let go, and then feel disappointed. The players are considered disloyal mercenary or due to leave when his club needs him and drag performance.

Start a new round with Chelsea, who was born March 20, 1984 was in trouble. In the first half of the season at Stamford Bridge, he only scored one goal of a total of 18 times down to the field. Torres continued sterility of the season. Such a person never knows when he will score goals. He had “found” again when making two goals and two assists as Chelsea beat Leicester City in the FA Cup quarterfinals on March 18 last. There he withdraw his goal drought in 24 games.

Nearly a month later Torres incised first hat-trick with “The Blue”, when destroying Queens Park Rangers 6-1 at the Bridge. Five days earlier, he became the hero of Chelsea’s decisive victory in the Champions League semi-final round. Sign in as a replacement for Didier Drogba, Torres found the net in Barcelona at the Nou Camp last minute, which made the score to 2-2, and his team won 3-2 on aggregate. Torres ended his wait on May 5 last, when Chelsea beat Liverpool 2-1 in FA Cup final. It’s just that he was not removed from the bench to play against his former club join it.

Then, exactly two weeks later, a second trophy for Torres arrived at the club level. In the Champions League final against Bayern Munich on Saturday (19/05/2012) pm dawn, he was demoted in the second half, enduring to the end of the game, and come out as winners. Total he played in 46 games in all competitions this season, with a notch 11 goals. Although the goal of productivity is still low, but the fact is that Torres already has two titles with Chelsea, completing his gold medal at the international level, through the successful Spain won the European Cup in 2008 and 2010 World Cup.

Spain

Spain will train for one week at a resort in Austria. Fans who want to witness must be prepared to reach into his pocket for 10 euro. The policy was issued by the tourism authority Montafon, the area where the Spanish team will hold training camp in rural areas Schruns, in the foothills of the Alps, starting on Tuesday (22/5) future.The plan forces Vicente del Bosque will hold five training sessions during their stay in Schruns. Fans who want to take a close look squad “Matador” practice, was quoted a special ticket for 10 euros.

Squad which will take Del Bosque is a team of “reserve”, as not including players from Barcelona, ​​Chelsea, or Athletic Bilbao. List the team announced the coach three days ago. Squad “actually”, which consists of 23 players, Del Bosque will be released on May 27. Reported by Reuters, after practicing in the Spanish Schruns will berujicoba against Serbia on June 26 and South Korea four days later.Program-related training sessions open to the public, Brazil had a unpleasant experience. In preparation for the 2006 World Cup, they held a training camp in Weggis, Switzerland. Fans flooded the place and making it a sort of “festival food and drink”. Brazil performed poorly in the tournament and was eliminated in the quarterfinals.

Iker Casillas

Goalkeeper and captain of the Spanish national team, Iker Casillas, introducing the ball to be used for the Euro 2012 final match. The ball is called Adidas Tango 12 Finale. Casillas introduced a ball in a ceremony held in the city of Madrid. In his official site, UEFA said that Adidas Tango ball 12 Finale is the most awake because its quality has been tested on several things. Adidas Tango 12 Finale is also called a modern interpretation of classic design Tango balls, which are often used at the World Cup event and the European Cup in the era of the 1980s.

The ball has been developed over the past two years and is designed in accordance with the ball in previous tournaments. Having presented at last in December 2011, at the time of the draw, Adidas Tango Finale 12 directly distributed to the participant teams. For information, Adidas Tango 12 Finale will only be used on top of the game. While the other game match, Euro 2012 will use the Adidas Tango ball 12. Adidas Tango ball 12 is claimed to be better than Adidas Jabulani used in the 2010 World Cup. When Jabulani has been criticized because many of the unpredictable direction of movement.

Sebastiao Lazaroni

Qatar Football Association has just made ​​a big decision. Qatar national team have sacked their coach, Sebastiao Lazaroni, after less than five months to occupy the post. Brief statement of the Qatar Football Association (QFA) which was released on Monday night (19/12/2011), said Lazaroni has been fired after ’a series of weak performance’ andhighlighted the appearance of Qatar in the group stage at the Arab Games, where they hosted the house.

In the third round of the World Cup qualifier, Qatar came in second place in Group E andare unbeaten. They will undergo the last party in February, with travel to pemuncak group,Iran, two points ahead of them. A draw in Iran is enough to pass into the fourth round of Qatar, although Qatar will also still qualify if they lose, because their superior goal difference from the third-ranked team,Bahrain, which left three points.

This decision includes a decision surprising. This is because the new coach Lazaroni Qatar for four months. Countries that will host the 2022 World Cup was not able to bury thedisappointment with the achievements Lazaroni. Lazaroni contract has been terminated due to poor team performance Qatar. One of the great failures Qatar team is their appearance at the Arab Games last week. Qatarexperienced a failure when they were still in the group stage.

Lazaroni is the third coach of Qatar who was fired this year. Previously he coached local clubs Qatar SC. There has been no decision of who will replace Qatar coach who took over from Serbian coach, Milovan Rajevac it. Qatar wants to develop the strength of their team. They were under pressure to improve their appearance. This is because Qatar became the first Arab country that can elect to host the World Cup.

Joachim Loew summoned some of the names of members in the World Cup s2010 quad to face Italy in a friendly match. Despite recovering from injury, Michael Ballack was not included in the team.

In Loew’s squad announced on Friday (02/04/1011) local time, players from Borussia Dortmund dominated the German national team strength. The club which now stands firmly at the top of the Bundesliga standings that contribute to the five names that Mario Goetze, Mats Hummels, Kevin Grosskreutz, Marcel Schmelzer and Sven Bender.

Bender is the only new face in the German squad. He was called thanks to the brilliant performances at club level.

For the match to be held on Wednesday (02/09/1011) future is Loew also called back a few members of the 2010 World Cup squad. Apart from Mesut Oezil, Arne Friedrich, Miroslav Klose is also Philipp Lahm, who will be entrusted with the captain’s armband because Ballack was summoned back.

Germany is actually a senior midfielder has recovered from injury. But it did not seem enough to make the former Chelsea and Bayern Munich were called Loew.

Mastering the course of action and make a lot of chances but only earned a draw in a match England VS United States. Fabio Capello has said the Three Lions just less lucky.

England in the inaugural Group C match at the Royal Bafokeng Stadium on Sunday (13/06/2010) pm dawn, well able to initiate action. Team captain Steven Gerrard has been to open the scoring in the 4th minute.

But misfortune came in the 39th minute when Robert Green blunders as you hold the kick Clint Dempsey scored for the U.S. to bear fruit. Be the score 1-1 and persisted until usainya match in which England appeared dominant with many attacks on goal Tim Howard.

Soccernet England record mastered possesion ball 57 percent to 43 percent owned by U.S.. While the number of shots, winning 18 England 12 with six points compared to the wicket while the U.S. is only fourth.

It was then assessed Capello as a disadvantage because of the victory should belong to England. Yet in general Capello praised his team the game as he expects his team better luck in the second game of counter Algeria June 19.

“We created many chances,” said Capello told Sky Sports.

“We played well but because of one mistake they can score one goal. Appearances good of the team. We hope to have better luck in the next game,” hope Capello.

In addition to a draw, Capello went back to mess around with injury problems the players. Defender Ledley King only able to play sebabak before replaced Jamie Carragher. According to The Times, King Capello certainly miss the match opponents ‘Desert Fox’.

Dances and drum thumper are coloring Soccer City Stadium. This action riveting tens of thousands of pairs of eyes that watch the World Cup in 2010, Friday (11/06/2010) evening hrs.

The names of artists like R Kelly and Shakira also African artists will perform Friday afternoon before the opening match South Africa vs. Mexico. Shakira will perform and “shake up” the audience with the song ‘Waka-Waka This Time for Africa “which is the official song of World Cup South Africa.

While the Grammy Award-winning, R Kelly, accompanied by the choir of Africa Soweto Spiritual Singers will bring ‘Sign Of A Victory’ which became Anthem 2010 FIFA World Cup. In addition, African artists also was asked to fill this event, including Amadou, Hugh Masekela and many more.

However, this opening ceremony was attended by Nelson Mandela. Mandela was grieving over the death of Zenani Mandela who is a great-grandson of the Nobel Peace Prize.

After 30 minutes, this opening ceremony was over. The event then continued with the opening match between hosts South Africa vs Mexico. Nothing can cover up these festivities.

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.