Three Of The Best Footballers Research Paper

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Three of the Best Footballers

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Date : 18/1/2015 The Three of the Best Footballers? Well if I had to choose who to write about, it would definitely be Zidane , Ronaldo and Messi. Football requires a lot of teamwork and sportsmanship to achieve to be a great player and where those players have reached. It’s a game of many attributes and concerns a man of 11 to play this game because one man will never win a game alone. He may score goals or get the man of the match award but he got it with the team helping him
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This player is known for his elegance, vision and technique. In his club Zidane won the LaLiga title and the Uefa champions leage with Real Madrid, two Serie league championships with Juventus. His 2001 transfer from Juventus to Real Madrid set a world record with 75 million euros. On the international side with France, Zidane won the1998 world cup, scoring twice in the final against brazil, and in Uefa euro 2000 where he was named the best player in the tournament. The World Cup triumph made him a national hero in France. Zidane won the Fifa world player 3 times and this award was only achieved by Ronaldo, Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo, He was even awarded the Balon dO’r once and 1996 he was the best la ligue player{French league} , Serie A{Italian league} in 2001, La Liga best foreign player in 2002. He even received the Golden ball for best player in the 2006 world cup reaching the final and lost to Italy although that was due to the incident of head butting an Italian Marco Materazzi in the chest sadly that was his final moment internationally and he retired from …show more content…
Born 18 September 1976 Brazilian and played for the best clubs in each country PSV{Holland}, Barcelona{Spain}, Inter Milan{Italy}, Real Madrid{Spain}, Ac Milan{Italy} and Corinthians which is a club in his country Brazil. He is considered by experts and fans to be one of the greatest football players of all time. He won the Fifa World Player 3 times probably deserved more and the Balon dO’r 2 times. And yet again he is considered by many and by the football federation as one of the best strikers of all time. Ronaldo has achieved all he can an all a footballers can ask for, 2004 named in Pele’s 100 best list and 2007 the greatest starting eleven in France football magazine. Ronaldo played for Brazil 98 matches scoring 62 goals, he is the second highest top scorer for Brazil. At the Age of 17, he was a part of the Brazilian squad that won the 1994 world cup and he was part of the 1st squad in world cup 1998 which they reached 2nd place losing to France and then won them a world cup in 2002 being the top scorer and best player of the tournament. In World cup 2006 Ronaldo scored 15 goals and broke the world cup record. Ronaldo Suffered serious injuries that would end a players career and he had to go through the same procedures 4 times but still made a comeback and miracle to all the fans and football around the world. He retired February 2011, getting pain as the reasons for his

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