Showing posts with label Spain. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Spain. Show all posts

Thursday, 11 August 2011

Enrique Iglesias

Enrique Iglesias
Enrique Miguel Iglesias Preysler (born May 8, 1975), better known as Enrique Iglesias is a Spanish pop singer. Iglesias started his musical career in Mexico Fonovisa. This has helped make it one of the most popular artists in Latin America and the Spanish-American market in the United States and the largest seller of Spanish-language albums in the 1990s. Before the turn of the millennium he made a crossover in the dominant English language market, signing a unique multi-album deal with Universal Music Group for an unprecedented U.S. $ 48 million, with Universal Music Latino Spanish release of their albums and Interscope to release English albums. In 2010, he left Interscope and signed with another group of the label Universal Music, Universal Republic.

Iglesias has sold over 61.5 million albums and 40 million singles, with a total of over 100 million records had worldwide.Iglesias Five Billboard Hot 100 singles top five, including two # 1s, and holds the record for the production of 22 number one singles on the Spanish Billboard Hot Latin Tracks. He also had nine No. 1 songs on the Billboard dance charts, more than any other single male artist. In total, the total Iglesias 53 # 1 hits on the Billboard charts variety. He has sold over 12 million albums in the United States.

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.

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.

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.

Wednesday, 10 August 2011

David Ferrer

David Ferrer
David Ferrer Ern (born April 2, 1982 in Xabia, Alicante, Spain) is a Spanish tennis player who lives in Valencia, Spain, currently ranked number 6 in the ATP and the second-highest ranked Spaniard behind World No. 2 Rafael Nadal . He turned professional in 2000. Ferrer, known as a clay court specialist, even if it was successful for the clay courts and, as evidenced by his semi-final appearances in the 2007 U.S. Open and Australian Open 2011. He was part of the Spanish Davis Cup team, who won the final in 2008 and 2009. It 'was also a finalist at the Masters Cup Tennis in 2007.He has been achieved top-10 in 2006 and reached a career high No. 4 place

Rafael Nadal

Rafael Nadal
Rafael "Rafa" Nadal Parera (Catalan pronunciation: [rəfɛɫ nəðaɫ pəɾeɾə], Spanish pronunciation: [Rafael Nadal paɾeɾa], born June 3, 1986) is a Spanish former world number one tennis player World Of August 8, 2011, was ranked No. 2 for the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP). And 'as one of the greatest players of all time, his success on clay has been dubbed the "King of Clay", and has led many experts to keep the most clay court player of all time.

Nadal has won ten Grand Slam titles, including six French Open titles, the 2008 Olympic gold medal in singles, a record 19 Masters 1000 ATP World Tour and was also part of Spain's team that won the Davis Cup final in 2004, 2008 and 2009. He completed the Grand Slam by winning the U.S. Open 2010 is the seventh player in history, and the youngest in the Open Era, to get there. It is the second male player to complete a career Golden Slam (winning all four Grand Slam and Olympic gold medal), just after Andre Agassi.

Nadal had a background of 32 straight games in 2008, from 2008 Masters Series Hamburg 2008 Western and Southern Financial Group Masters and Open Women, which included titles in Hamburg, the French (Open, where he has not lost a set), Club of the Queen, his first title at Wimbledon and Rogers Cup. In 2011, winning the Monte Carlo Masters, he was the only player won seven editions of the tournament in a row at the ATP. Nadal has been ranked World No. 2 behind Roger Federer for a week of record 160 in a row before getting the top spot he held from August 18, 2008 to July 5, 2009. [8] He took over the No. 1 world ranking on June 7, 2010, after winning his fifth French Open title. He served until July 3, 2011, when Novak Djokovic was replaced as world number 1

Monday, 8 August 2011

Penelope Cruz

Penelope Cruz
Penelope Cruz (Penelope Cruz Sanchez was born on April 28, 1974) is a Spanish actress. Signed by an official at the age of 15 years, made his acting debut at 16 years in television and film debut the following year in Jamón, jamón (1992), acclaimed by critics. The following features in 1990 and 2000 includes Open Your Eyes (1997), The Hi-Lo Country (1999), The Girl of Your Dreams (2000) and Woman on Top (2000). Cruz was recognized for its leadership role in Vanilla Sky and Blow. Both films were released in 2001 and was a commercial success worldwide.

In 2000 she appeared in films of different genres like comedy to wake up in Reno (2002), the thriller Gothika (2003), the Christmas movie Noel (2004), the action adventure Sahara (2005), an animated G-Force drama and musical Nine. His most important films to date Volver (2006), who won a Golden Globe and Oscar ® nominations, and Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008), for which she received an Oscar. It 'was the first Spanish actor to receive an Oscar for the story and the first Spanish actor to Star in Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Cruz is modeled after companies such as Mango, Ralph Lauren and L'Oreal. Cruz and her younger sister, Monica Cruz, is designed for articles Mango. He donated both his time and money to charity. Cruz is a volunteer in Uganda and India, where he spent a week at work, Mother Teresa, has donated his salary Hi-Lo Country to help fund the mission of the deceased nun.