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Many eyebrows were raised when Manchester United signed striker Antony towards the end of the summer transfer window. The Brazilian international forward had shown promise in his time with Ajax, but was he really worth a reported transfer fee of £82 million? Very few players have been able to replicate their Eredivisie form in the English Premier League, but early signs have been promising. At that size of fee, it has to be said that Antony represented a gamble but it’s one that appears to be paying off. Making the Transition Former Manchester United player Ruud van Nistelrooy is one …

Having lost the productive striker Sadio Mane to Bayern Munich, Liverpool have been scouring the world’s top leagues for an effective replacement. The man charged with covering for the departing Senegalese forward is Benfica’s Darwin Nunez but have the Reds made the right choice? It had been rumoured that manager Jurgen Klopp had been scouting his former player Robert Lewandowski. The two had previously been together at Borussia Dortmund but the Polish international chose to switch to Barcelona instead. Lewandowski was a more proven and prolific striker so, can the more inexperienced Nunez fill the gap? Darwin’s Evolution Darwin Nunez joins …

Every year young, promising players emerge and set the football scene on fire! Who are the young wonderkids to look out for? Messi and Ronaldo have dominated the football scene for a while now. But, as they reach the twilight years of their successful careers, it’s time for the next generation of footballers to take over. If you are a regular visitor at https://bonuscodeindia.com/betting-apps-india/, you must have come across some of these names as you analyze games. Here are the budding stars to keep an eye on: Erling Haaland Age: 21 Club: Manchester City Nationality: Norway Position: Striker Erling Haaland is …

Football, which is also known as ‘association football’ or ‘soccer’ is a sport in which two teams of eleven players on each team attempt to score goals by kicking a ball into the goal of the opponent team. Football is a sport that is played in more than two hundred countries and dependencies around the world with an estimated total of more than 250 million players playing the game. This makes it the most popularly played sport in the entire world! Winning football is fairly simple. The objective, as mentioned earlier, of football is to kick the ball into the …

The unpredictability of football is an okay–known fact that there is absolutely no reason to question. You can find thousands of cases when the favourites of individual matches are lost to the seediest outsiders. History knows more memorable sensations that took place in the most significant tournaments. But now it’s not about them. Therefore, we will not brush off the dust of history from them and extract the white light – let them remain in the historical annals. We want to talk about something that will never happen in football under any circumstances. They identified not the most fantastic events …

More than a year has passed since Wayne Rooney’s coaching career. Even though he is younger than his former attacking partner Cristiano Ronaldo, Rooney is already working at Derby as a head coach. At the same time, the experience there is more than just the first experience of a legendary player in a new status. Rooney is close to a historic success at the start of his coaching career. In 2019, Wayne signed a contract with Derby as both a player and a playing coach. However, the club needed him much more on the field for a long time. In …

Manchester United’s Portuguese striker Cristiano Ronaldo has become the top scorer in the history of world football, the club’s press service reports. Ronaldo scored a hat-trick in the match against Tottenham Hotspur on Saturday and brought his team a victory with a score of 3:2. The Portuguese scored in the 12th, 38th and 82nd minutes. Although Harry Kane scored from the penalty spot for the visitors (35), another ball was cut into his own goal by the captain of the MU, Harry Maguire (72). The 37-year-old Ronaldo scored 807 goals at club level, and for the national team, he beat …

Lionel Messi is the greatest player of modern football. His perseverance, unique ability to overcome the opponents’ defence and amazing feints at the beginning of his career continue to delight fans. Titles, achievements and titles have been secured for him, but the striker himself claims that individual awards are in second place for him; the main thing is the team’s success. Childhood and youth The athlete was born on June 24, 1987, in the Argentine city of Rosario. His nationality is mixed, and his zodiac sign is Cancer. He grew up with two older brothers, Mathias and Rodrigo, and his sister …

The performance of the strikers is discussed every season. They are often the leading contenders for the Golden Ball, Golden Boot and other prestigious awards. At the same time, people who help them achieve high-performance indicators fade into the background. We will pay due to attention to them now. Next, let’s take a closer look at the best assistants from the top leagues in the current season. Premier League The best assistants of the current Premier League season are Liverpool players. This list is headed by defender Trent Alexander-Arnold, who has ten assists. Next to him is Mohamed Salah, who …

History knows many great Brazilian footballers. Some are talked about even many years after their departure. However, someone is delighting viewers from all over the world right now. Edmundo’s story begins as standard: in the slums of Rio. Teixeira de Freitas Street was only 30 kilometres from Ipanema, but for the locals, there was no difference: that 30, that 3000. Reynaldo de Souza was not thinking about football but about raising a family. Like his father, he was a barber, but the salary was not enough. While his wife was moonlighting as a cleaner, he was thinking about providing his children, …

The English Premier Football League leadership has tightened the rules for postponing matches against the background of the COVID-19 pandemic, the official website of the league reports. According to the innovations, the clubs of the English championship can apply for a postponement of the match if there are at least four confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the team. The clubs’ applications will be considered on an individual basis. The rules will come into force before the next match of the championship of England “Burnley” — “Watford” on February 5. As Sky Sports notes, the change is due to a series …

Dani Alves put the medal on top of his head and stuck out his tongue — the usual behaviour of a 38-year-old football player who is still a teenager at heart. Then, finally, he achieved his goal: Brazil beat Spain in the Olympic final in Yokohama, and Alves added another trophy to his collection. While he was celebrating, Alves still understood that he would soon return to Brazil, where journalists would no longer ask about the Japanese triumph. There is something else on the schedule here. There were heated discussions on television and in newspapers about what was happening with …

Being the owner of a football club is not so easy. Here is Ronaldo Luis Nazario di Lima sitting in the stands of Jose Sorrilla and watching the game of Valladolid, which he purchased for 30 million euros two and a half years ago. It shows that old habits have not gone away. No longer a football player, Ronaldo now wears a jacket, not T‑shirt. “The results depend on who is on the field and who is coaching. Hence the source of all my suffering. I’m still not used to not running out on the lawn to resolve everything. But this …

Before us is a team from the Championship, which Wayne Rooney coaches. In the past, it was managed by Philip Koku and Frank Lampard. The white T‑shirt has been tried on by Rooney himself, Mason Mount, Ashley Cole and Fikayo Timori. The Rams became champions of England twice. It’s a proud club, and it’s going through a crisis. Look from the side, and it seems that everything is not so wrong. The standings are not so frustrating — 12th place, right in the middle. Two wins and four draws. But dig a little deeper, and problems begin. Derby can be deprived …

Football France has demonstrated a significant shift in the positive direction in terms of education and development of young talents over the past couple of decades. In the vast expanses of this country, the most authoritative academics are the Fernand Sastre National Technical Center, better known as Clairfontaine, and the Le Havre School. In the first, such famous characters as Thierry Henry, Nicolas Anelka, William Gallas, Kylian Mbappe, and Olivier Giroud took steps towards a glorious career, in the second – Paul Pogba, Riyad Marez, Dimitri Payet and Benjamin Mendy. However, one cannot ignore another very reputable youth football school …

At the end of 2019, Josh Kroenke, the son of Arsenal owner Stan Kroenke, urged the fans of the London club to be patient. The team was led by a young and promising Mikel Arteta, who needed time. Ex-player of the “gunners”, a student of Josep Guardiola — from the very beginning, they began to expect a lot from the Spaniard. The specialist raised the bar for himself by heading a big club and having no head coach experience. He became the second Arsenal manager after the Arsene Wenger era. Unai Emery, under whose leadership the Gunners reached the final …