When I was told to write a profile of Dutch footballer Anouk Hoogendijk, a defender for Ajax’s women's team, that emphasized why people would like her, I thought: impossible.
She doesn’t know her place. She has won the Dutch women’s league twice with Saestum, the Dutch cup once with FC Utrecht, and the FA cup once with the Arsenal Ladies.
Antes de que jugaran frente a miles de fanáticos que los adoraran, antes de que se ganaran los contratos multimillonarios y los patrocinios, los futbolistas famosos del mundo eran adolescentes torpes como cualquier otro en esa etapa de la vida.
Cristiano Ronaldo, Lionel Messi, Neymar, Zlatan Ibrahimovic y David Beckham son famosos por sus habilidades en el campo. A pesar de que nos gusta profundizar en lo que les hizo grandes futbolistas, sus embarazosos años de pubertad siguieron siendo en gran parte un misterio.
37-year-old Eidur Gudjohnsen will be making his international swan song for Iceland at Euro 2016. The attacking player from Reykjavik is certainly the most famous footballer to have come from Iceland. He scored 54 goals over six illustrious seasons with Chelsea. He spent three seasons with Barcelona, capturing a La Liga, Copa del Rey and Champions League treble in 2008-09.
Minnesota United FC captain and defender Justin Davis has created one of the most enviable traditions in the world of soccer. Beginning in September of last year, Davis began the custom after scoring the go-ahead goal against Indy Eleven at Minnesota’s National Sports Center.
Sprinting towards the supporters in the Budweiser Beer Garden at the North End of the stadium, Davis began motioning towards revellers in the section and asking for a sip.
Justin Davis begins the chugging tradition (skip to 4:56 for the libation):
Rachel Daly announced herself as a new star to watch as the NWSL season kicked off this past weekend. Daly, who hails from Harrogate in England, scored one and assisted one in her debut for the Houston Dash as they trounced the Chicago Red Stars 3-1 in front of a vociferous home crowd.
It was the 74th minute and Suarez had struck again. This time it was a bullet header from the penalty spot. On camera it seemed as if he had hit the ball harder with his head than Dani Alves had with his cross. Whether or not that was true, the result was stunning: Luis Suarez had scored another golazo, and the whole world hated him for it.
Diego Maradona has always been forthcoming when talking about the addiction problems that plagued his life both during and after his playing days. A cocaine addict and alcoholic from the mid-1980s until 2004, Maradona was lucky to escape with his life following overdoses in 2000 and 2004.
Michelle Lomnicki is talking about her injured back. A lingering injury, notoriously fickle, and one that played a hand in her decision to retire.
“It’s something that had always kind of been there. You knew that there was going to be an end at some point.”
Nowadays Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo dominate every single individual trophy there is, so much so that any other player has a very hard time competing with them, and rarely robs them of praise.
Only outstanding performances by Luis Suarez and Neymar, Messi’s mates at Barcelona, and Zlatan Ibrahimovic have managed to recently steal some limelight.
Chicharito es uno de los nombres más importantes del fútbol mexicano. El exjugador del Guadalajara ha tenido una carrera increíble en la que ha logrado hitos con los que la mayoría de los jugadores del mundo solo pueden soñar.
Desde ganar un título en su país de origen hasta jugar en posiblemente dos de los equipos más grandes de la historia del fútbol, Chicharito casi lo ha logrado todo. Es por eso que hoy les traemos sus mejores momentos, incluyendo las decisiones y acciones que han dado forma a la historia del delantero mexicano.