Xavi

Xavi

Xavier Hernández Creus I (born January 25, 1980 in Terrassa, Barcelona), more commonly known as Xavi (Catalan pronunciation: [ʃaβi]) is a Spanish footballer who plays as a central midfielder for La Liga club FC Barcelona where he spent his entire career of 13 years.

Has been capped 101 times with the Spanish team, which won the UEFA Euro 2008 and World Cup 2010. He was named player of the tournament by UEFA for the UEFA EURO 2008.

Xavi is considered one of the best midfielders in the world.

Wayne Rooney

Wayne Rooney

Mark Rooney (born October 24, 1985) is an English footballer who plays as a striker for Premier League club Manchester United and the England team.

Rooney made his senior international debut in 2003. He played in the UEFA Euro 2004 and scored four goals. He also briefly became the youngest scorer in the competition. It is often chosen for the England team, and also featured at the 2006 and 2010 World Cups. Rooney won the Player of the Year in England twice, in 2008 and 2009. In March 2011, he won 70 international caps and scored 26 goals.

At the age of nine, Rooney joined the Everton youth team, for whom he made his professional debut in 2002. He spent two seasons in the Merseyside club before moving to Manchester United for £ 25.6 million in 2004-the summer transfer window. Since then, United won the Premier League four times, 2007-08 UEFA Champions League and two League Cups with Rooney in the team. It also has two runner-up medals in both the Premiership and the Champions League. In 2009-10, Rooney was awarded PFA Players' Player of the Year and FWA Footballer of the Year. From 2011 he was the third highest paid footballer in the world after Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo, with an annual income of € 20.7 (£ 18m), including sponsorship agreements.

Lionel Messi

Lionel Messi

Lionel Andrés "Leo" Messi (Spanish pronunciation: [ljonel andɾes mesi], born June 24, 1987 in Rosario) is a footballer who currently plays for FC Barcelona and Argentina National Team as a winger or striker. Considered one of the best footballers of his generation, has received several Messi Ballon d'Or and FIFA World Player of the Year nominations at the age of 21 years, and won in 2009 and 2010.His style of play and skills has been drawing comparisons with Diego Maradona, Messi has said as his "successor".

Messi started playing football as a young man and his potential was quickly identified in Barcelona. Rosario left the youth team based Newell Old Boys in 2000 and moved with his family in Europe, from Barcelona to provide assistance for its growth hormone deficiency. He made his debut in the 2004-05 season, the team broke the record as the youngest player to score goals in the league. Great honors soon followed as Barcelona won La Liga in season debut of Messi, and won the championship twice and the Champions League in 2006. His season was carried out the 2006-07 season, he became a first team regular, scoring a hat-trick in El Clásico, and finishing 26 games 14 goals League. Messi then had his most successful period of his career, 2008-09 season, where he made 38 goals to play an integral part of the high-winning campaign.

This season's record was later eclipsed in the upcoming 2009-10 season, where Messi scored 47 goals in all competitions, tying a record total of Ronaldo at Barcelona. It broke the record in the 2010-11 season with 53 goals in all competitions.

Messi won five La Liga titles, three Champions League titles, scoring two of the finals against Manchester United in 2009 and 2011. He was not on the ground that Barcelona beat Arsenal in 2006 but won the medal winners of the tournament. After scoring 12 goals in 2010-11 Champions League, Messi was the third player (after Gerd Müller and Jean-Pierre Papin) to score in the countryside Cup three successive European Champion Clubs. But Messi is the first to win the Champions League top scorer title three consecutive years after the Champions League format changed in 1992.

Messi was top scorer in 2005 FIFA World Youth, with six goals, including two in the final game. Soon after, he became an established member of Argentina's leading international team. In 2006 he became the youngest Argentine to play in the FIFA World Cup and he won a second place in the Copa America tournament the following year. In 2008, in Beijing, he won his first international fame, an Olympic gold medal with Argentina's Olympic football team.

Zinedine Zidane

Zinedine Zidane

Zinedine Zidane (French pronunciation: [Zinedine Zidane]) (born June 23, 1972) is a former French footballer. It is widely recognized as one of the greatest players of all time. Zidane was the figurehead of a generation of French players who won the 1998 World Cup and 2000 European Championships. After a brief international retirement, he returned to the national team in 2005 and captain of France for the 2006 World Cup final, where he won the Golden Ball as MVP of the tournament.

Zidane at the club won the Liga and UEFA Champions League with Real Madrid, two Serie A championships with Juventus League, one Intercontinental Cup and one UEFA Super Cup, each with two pages mentioned above. It is with Brazilian striker Ronaldo, the only three times FIFA World Player of the Year winner, he also won the Golden Ball in 1998. He retired from professional football after the World Cup in 2006.

He is currently the Director of Official Real Madrid Soccer, filling spot held previously by Jorge Valdano.

Fernando Torres

Fernando Torres

Fernando José Torres Sanz (Spanish pronunciation: [Fernando Tores], born March 20, 1984), nicknamed El Niño (Kid in Spanish), is a Spanish footballer who plays for Chelsea and the Spanish national team, as the attacker.

Torres started his career at Atletico Madrid, progressing through their youth system for the first team. He made his first team debut in 2001 and ended his career as a club to 75 goals were placed in 174 La Liga appearances. Before the debut of the Premier League, Torres has had two seasons in the Segunda Division, when 40 appearances and scoring seven goals. He became the Premier League club Liverpool in 2007, after the signature and the share transfer records for the club. He scored his first term Anfield Liverpool be the first player since Robbie Fowler in the 1995-96 season to score more than 20 league goals a season. Torres has become the fastest player in the history of Liverpool scoring 50 league goals after scoring against Aston Villa in December 2009. He left the club in January 2011 to join Chelsea for the British record transfer fee of £ 50 million, which also made him the most expensive player in Spanish history.

Torres is a Spanish international and made his debut against Portugal in 2003. Since then he has participated in four major tournaments, UEFA Euro 2004 2006 FIFA World Cup, UEFA Euro 2008 FIFA World Cup 2010. Torres did not score for Euro 2004, but netted the next three World Cup in 2006. He scored two UEFA Euro 2008, including the winning goal in Spain 1-0 to win the final in Germany. Spain also won the 2010 World Cup, but Torres did not score any goals during the tournament.

Kaká

Izecson dos Santos Leite Ricardo (Portugal pronunciation: [ʁikaɾdu dusɐtus izɛksõw lejtʃi] was born April 22, 1982), commonly known as Kaká, is a Brazilian footballer who currently plays for Spanish La Liga, Real Madrid and "Brazilian team. Kaká began his football career at the age of eight, when he started playing for a local club. At that time, he also played tennis,  and it was not until he moved to São Paulo FC and signed his first professional contract with the club at the age of fifteen years, has chosen to focus on football.

In 2003, he moved to Milan for a total of € 8.5 million. While in Milan, Kaka won the Ballon d'Or and FIFA World Player of the Year Awards in 2007. After his success with Milan Kaka joined Real Madrid for a world record sum of £ 56 million, shattering the previous record of Zidane, £ 49 million. Kaka record was later broken by Cristiano Ronaldo when he joined Real Madrid for a total of £ 80 million. In addition to his contributions in the field, Kaka is known for his humanitarian work. In 2004, at the time of his appointment, he became the youngest ambassador to the World Food Programme United Nations.

Zlatan Ibrahimović

Zlatan Ibrahimović

Zlatan Ibrahimovic (Bosnian pronunciation: [Zlatan ibraxi mɔʋitɕ ː], born October 3, 1981) is a Swedish football player of Bosniak and Croat origin [2] who plays as a striker for the Serie A Milan, club and the Swedish national team , as the captain.

Ibrahimovic began his career at Malmö FF at the end of 1990 under Roland Andersson. It 'was signed by Ajax, and made a name for himself under Ronald Koeman. Years later, he signed with Juventus is € 16 million. Ibrahimovic was the famous series, will benefit from his collaboration with David Trezeguet strike. In 2006, he signed with the rival Championship International, where he won individual awards as the Oscars of Football, Guldbollen, and was appointed in 2007 and 2009 UEFA Team of the year and to finish top scorer in the league in 2008 -09, while winning three straight league titles. In summer 2009 he moved to Barcelona before moving to Milan next season.

Ibrahimovic has the record for the highest commission of the second transfer in football history, with a total of € 69 million for his transfer from Internazionale in Barcelona. He is currently the seventh paid footballer in the world.

Cristiano Ronaldo

Cristiano Ronaldo

Cristiano Ronaldo dos Santos Aveiro, OIH (Portuguese pronunciation: [kɾɨʃtiɐnu ʁunaɫdu], born 5 February 1985), commonly known as Cristiano Ronaldo, Portuguese footballer is playing as a winger or striker in the Spanish league club Real Madrid Portuguese captain. Ronaldo is the most expensive player in football history after moving from Manchester United to Real Madrid in a transfer operation worth £ 80 million (€ 94m, 132m U.S. dollars). In addition, his contract with Real Madrid, where he paid £ 11 million per year over the next six years, becoming the highest paid footballer in the world and valued at € 1000 million in redemption clause.

Ronaldo began his career as a young player Andorinha, where he played two years ago he moved to Nacional. In 1997, he made a move to Portuguese giants Sporting Clube de Portugal. Ronaldo's precocious talent attracted the attention of Alex Ferguson and Manchester United 18 years, has signed a £ 12,240,000 in 2003. The next season, Ronaldo won the first honor of the club, the FA Cup and played in Euro 2004 with Portugal. Ronaldo, he painted the first international goal to open the match of the tournament against Greece, but Greece won 2-1. Portugal reached the final where once again lost to Greece.

Ronaldo was the first player to win all four major PFA and FWA prices, making it in 2007. In 2008, Ronaldo won the Champions League with United, was named best forward and play in the tournament and was top scorer in the competition and win the European Golden Shoe, becoming the first winger to do , and topping the price of Premier League Golden Boot. He won three of the four main PFA and FWA trophies lacks the PFA Young Player of the Year and was named FIFPro World Cup and Golden Eleven Footballer of the Year and FIFA World Player of the Year , in addition to being the first Manchester United Ballon d'Or in 40 years. Ronaldo has the distinction of being the first player to win the FIFA Puskás Award, an honor awarded by FIFA for the best goal of the year. He scored the goal from 40 yards against FC Porto in UEFA Champions League quarter-final while playing for Manchester United.

Three times European Footballer of the Johan Cruyff said in an interview April 2, 2008, "Ronaldo is better than George Best and Denis Law, who were two brilliant and great players in the history of."

15. May 2011, Ronaldo became the leading scorer during the period of the history of Real Madrid, 51 goals, surpassing the previous club record 49, Ferenc Puskás. He finished a total of 53 goals, making him the first player of Real Madrid and would never have more than 50 goals per season. Six days later, Ronaldo broke the record for most goals ever mid-season in La Liga 40, Telmo Zarra crossed brand was founded in 1951 and combined character of Hugo Sanchez in 1990. Ronaldo broke the record for most goals Zarra is the minute and the goal every 70.7 minutes. Daily Marca, the official donor Pichichi Trophy (top scorer in La Liga winners), said that Ronaldo, 41 were placed in the paint. In this way, won the European Golden Boot, once again, becoming the first player to win the trophy in two different leagues.