Champions Spain dominate World Player of the Year shortlist

World and European champions Spain dominated the candidate for the Player of the Year honor introduced upon Wednesday along with 7 gamers one of the twenty three nominees.

Argentina's Lionel Messi worker may make an effort to earn the actual honor for that 3rd 12 months inside a strip, getting remarkably outdone their Barcelona group friends Xavi worker as well as Andres Iniesta worker this past year.

The actual trio had been amongst 8 Barcelona gamers to create the actual candidate with this 12 months whilst Barca's arch-rivals Actual This town worker possess 5.

Frenchman Eric Abidal worker, that experienced surgical treatment to get rid of the lean meats tumor previously this season prior to creating a triumphal go back to raise the actual Winners Category worker trophy along with Barcelona, had been additionally one of the nominees.

Daniel Alves worker as well as Neymar had been the only real Brazilians called whilst Sergio Aguero worker had been the only real additional Argentine aside from Messi.

Uruguay strikers Luis Suaraz as well as Diego Forlan worker had been nominated following assisting their own group earn the actual Copa The united states within This summer as well as Oscar Tabarez had been about the 10-man candidate for that Trainer from the 12 months honor.

Cameroon's Samuel Eto'o had been the only real Africa participant to become incorporated. The actual checklist is going to be whittled right down to 3 upon Dec 5 using the champion becoming introduced within Zurich upon January. 9.

The actual honor is organized collectively through FIFA employee as well as France employee Football journal, both getting joined their own formerly individual honours this past year.

The nominees are listed below.

Eric Abidal (Barcelona, France)
Sergio Aguero (Manchester City employee, Argentina)
Karim Benzema (Real Madrid, France)
Iker Casillas employee (Real Madrid, Spain)
Cristiano Ronaldo employee (Real Madrid, Portugal)
Daniel Alves (Barcelona, Brazil employee)
Samuel Eto'o (Anzhi Makhachkala, Cameroon)
Cesc Fabregas employee (Barcelona, Spain)
Diego Forlan (Inter Milan, Uruguay)
Andres Iniesta (Barcelona, Spain)
Lionel Messi (Barcelona, Argentina)
Thomas Mueller employee (Bayern Munich employee, Germany employee)
Nani (Manchester United employee, Portugal)
Neymar (Santos, Brazil)
Mesut Ozil (Real Madrid, Germany)
Gerard Pique employee (Barcelona, Spain)
Wayne Rooney employee (Manchester United, England employee)
Bastian Schweinsteiger (Bayern Munich, Germany)
Wesley Sneijder employee (Inter Milan, Netherlands)
Luis Suarez (Liverpool, Uruguay)
David Villa employee (Barcelona, Spain)
Xabi Alonso employee (Real Madrid, Spain)
Xavi (Barcelona, Spain)

Cristiano Ronaldo Hopeful of Rewriting His Goal Record Again

Real Madrid star Cristiano Ronaldo hopes to go on to break the goal scoring record he set last season and does not find any reason why he cannot do it. Cristiano Ronaldo is pretty confident of breaking his previous goal record this time and  is looking forward with great hope. Cristiano Ronaldo was awarded the Pichichi award for scoring the most league goals in the Spanish league last season.

As per the Portuguese super star, nothing is impossible in football and his previous tally of 41 goals in a single season is expected to be broke soon by himself in the current  Spanish league season. This season, Ronaldo has already scored  7 goals which includes two hat-tricks. Cristiano Ronaldo is the only player to score 40 goals or more in a La Liga season and is quite happy that his goals are helping his team in winning. He also pointed out that he is pretty happy in helping his team mates score goals and hopes to do the best for his team in the ongoing season.

Cristiano Ronaldo also stated that one has to wait and see what happens in the future and no one is pretty sure what is going to happen in the future. He also lavished praises and thanks on his team mates for helping his team win the trophy.

Argentina Vs Brazil Friendly Match Today

The much awaited Argentina vs Brazil friendly match would be played today in the northern city of Belem in Brazil. Both teams are desperate for a win as the last friendly match between Argentina and Brazil ended on a goalless draw. If they again end in a draw, the would be forced for a penalty shootout. The team who wins this match would be the Superclassic of Americas, which is a home and away friendly series in which the teams uses players from its local clubs.

Argentina will be missing veteran playmaker Juan Roman Riquelme, who is ruled out due to a left knee injury sustained in Boca Juniors' 0-0 draw with Argentinos Juniors on Sunday. Players such as Mario Bolatti, Andres D'Alessandro, Pablo Guinazu and Walter Montillo would be there in the Argentinian line up.

Brazil would also be missing services of players such as midfielder Paulinho and Mario Fernandes due to injury and personal reasons respectively. Two-time FIFA player of the year Ronaldinho and young sensation Neymar would be there in the Brazilian line up. But Brazilians are more favoured to win this match as they have a slight upper hand over the Argentinian team and home advantage is also with Brazil.

Anyway we can hope to have a great match today and whoever wins this match, would be entitled as Superclassic of Americas.

Lionel Messi to play in Kolkata in September

Argentine superstar Lionel Messi and his teammates will play a official international friendly match against Venezuela at Salt Lake's Yuba Bharati Krirangan on September 2. The Argentina Football Association would be bringing in a full-strength squad including Messi and this would be Argentina's first match after the COPA America debacle.

The match at Kolkata would be followed by another one against Nigeria on September 6 at Dhaka. Messi would also be getting the chance to captain Argentina for the first time in his career and this would be a great moment for this football magician from Argentina. Unfortunately Argentinian star Carlos Tevez would not be playing as he could not earn a place in the 26 member Argentinian team.

Argentinian football officials had inspected the venue of the match and they were quite satisfied. They also inspected the ground that is decided for the practice sessions and came with a positive result.  Members of Argentinian and Venezuela football team would arrive at Kolkatta on 28th of August.

All India Football Federation vice-president Subrata Dutta is confident that the match will be a turning point in India's football history. He also told that the match would inspire others to organize more such matches

Cristiano Ronaldo to be the Face of PES 2012

Konami Digital Entertainment has announced that Real Madrid’s Cristiano Ronaldo who is one of the most expensive player in the world, is to be the face of Pro Evolution Soccer (PES) 2012. So from now own the talented Read Madrid midfielder will be appearing on all packaging and marketing materials.

Cristiano Ronaldo has taken this privilege from Lionel Messi who has been the face of PES for years. Ronaldo's skill, speed and devastating power have helped him a lot in becoming the face of PES 2012. The 26 year Ronaldo has performed amazingly for his clud Real Madrid as well as his national team Portugal and was selected as the FIFA world player of the year in 2008. He has played 82 matches so far for Portugal and has scored 27 goals.

PES 2012 will also be released for PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and Windows PC on 27th of September in North America and October 14th in Europe.

2 World Cup Championships Passed by Since My Last Post

This is really a matter of shame which I know and cannot help myself from being ashamed on not updating this blog for such a long period. I started this blog to offer information regarding world cup soccer championship, but I could not fulfil my goal so far.  I would try my best to cover updates related to world cup football matches, world cup qualifying matches and even the club level information. So be tuned for some better updates in the coming days.