Roberto Mancini

Roberto ManciniRoberto Mancini (born 27 November 1964 in Jesi, Ancona) is an Italian football manager, formerly an international player and current manager of English Premier League team Manchester City.

As a player he was best known for his time at Sampdoria, where he played more than 550 league matches, and helped them win the Serie A league title, four Coppa Italias and the Cup Winners Cup, whilst being capped 36 times by Italy.

In the latter days of his playing career he was an assistant apprentice to Sven Goran Eriksson at Lazio. Read the rest of this entry »

Liverpool FC

175px Liverpool FC.svg Liverpool FCLiverpool Football Club is an English professional football club based in Anfield, Liverpool. The club currently plays in the Premier League, of which it was a founding member in 1992, and has competed in European competition every year since the 1999–2000 season. The club were founded in 1892 after Everton left Anfield after a dispute over rent. They were admitted to The Football League a year later, and first competed in Europe during the 1964–65 season. Liverpool have played at Anfield since their foundation, although the club have plans to move to a new stadium in the nearby Stanley Park.

Having won a joint-record 18 league titles, seven FA Cups and a record seven League Cups, Liverpool is is the joint most successful club in the history of English football and one of the wealthiest and most widely supported football teams in the world. They are the most successful English club in European competition, having won five European Cups and three UEFA Cups. Read the rest of this entry »

Kenny Dalglish

Kenny DalglishKenneth Mathieson Dalglish MBE (born 4 March 1951), is a former Scottish international footballer. He is most noted for his successes with the Scottish Football club Celtic, and for both his playing and managerial career at the English club Liverpool. In 2009, he was named by FourFourTwo football magazine as the greatest post-war British striker, and he was placed first in Liverpool’s list of “100 Players Who Shook The Kop”. Read the rest of this entry »

Ronaldo

RonaldoRonaldo Luís Nazário de Lima (Portuguese pronunciation: [χoˈnawdu luˈiz naˈzaɾiu dʒi ˈlimɐ]; born 22 September 1976), nicknamed Il Fenomeno but commonly known as Ronaldo, is a World Champion Brazilian footballer who currently plays for Corinthians. Ronaldo was one of the most prolific scorers in the world in the 1990s and the early 2000s. He won his first Ballon d’Or as the European Footballer of the Year in 1997 and again won the award in 2002. Additionally, he is one of only two men to have won the FIFA Player of the Year award three times, along with French footballer Zinedine Zidane. Read the rest of this entry »

Jean Pierre Papin

jean pierre papinJean-Pierre Papin (born November 5, 1963 in Boulogne-sur-Mer) is a French professional football player who was European Footballer of the Year in 1991.

Papin achieved his greatest success while playing for Olympique Marseille between 1986 and 1992. He later played for AC Milan, Bayern Munich, Bordeaux and Guingamp (1998 to 1999) then he went to JS Saint-Pierroise and spent 2 years at the club between (1999 to 2001) then he left to go to US Cap-Ferret and spent 3 years at the club between (2001 and 2004). Then in January 2009 he got out the football boots again at the age of 45 years old to play for AS Facture-Biganos Boiens where he still plays for them to this day. Papin also played 54 times for the French national team. After a short time as manager of French clubs, he joined the local amateur club AS Facture-Biganos Boïen as a player in 2009, aged 45. Read the rest of this entry »