Real Madrid

While James Rodriguez has been struggling to assert himself into Real Madrid manager Zinedine Zidane’s preferred starting eleven, there’s no doubting the quality of the Colombian midfielder. His penchant for spectacular goals has left many viewers wondering just how good the talented attacker could ultimately be. 

Well that didn’t last very long. 

Real Madrid were supposed to have turned their season around after winning el Clasico, or at least, that’s what they would have hoped. Hopes, it seems, don’t count for much in the Champions League. 

Real Madrid lost to VfB Wolfsburg 2-0, and it was exactly the kind of frustrating loss that Real Madrid needed least. They looked lost on defense, something made all the more apparent by Wolfsburg’s counterattacks.

It’s been over eight years since David Beckham last sported the white of Real Madrid. You can forget a lot in the space of nearly a decade. Couple that time with Beckham’s constant appearances in advertisements, ambassador projects and tabloids, and it’s easy to forget that the man was one hell of a footballer back in the day.

Imagine you are a fan of Cristiano Ronaldo, and you are sitting behind a goal at which he is about to shoot a penalty. Because you are a fan, you know that penalties are his jam, there is arguably no better penalty taker in the world. So a Cristiano Ronaldo penalty should be as sure a bet as there is to see your hero succeed; you are almost guaranteed to get the classic Ronaldo jump-spin celebration. You are probably stoked. 

And then, in the case of this fan, you are really not. In this case, you get hit in the face by that Cristiano Ronaldo penalty.

Having one of the worst seasons in his young career, Eden Hazard could be looking to trade that deep blue kit for an all-white kit in the Spanish capital. Before this season, Hazard was one of the top young talents in all of Europe, especially the summer of his big move to Chelsea.  

Racking up 49 goals in 162 games as well as a few trophies his first couple of seasons, Hazard was the new face of Chelsea FC. Unfortunately, a poor season for Hazard has taken all that from the young Belgian.

Karim Benzema has 20 goals for Real Madrid so far this season, but that's not what everyone has been talking about in regards to the French striker.

Instead, Benzema has mostly been in the news for various run-ins witht the law and various appearances in various courtrooms.

We thought everything was on its way to settling itself, but we were wrong. Benzema finds himself banned from the French National Team until his legal troubles sort themselves out, putting his Euro 2016 in doubt.

Sometimes clubs and player do things that make you realize that they do still have things in perspective, and they don’t see the world through a Lamborghini kaleidoscope lens (although that sounds really cool, not gonna lie). 

Palestinian five-year-old Ahmed Dawabcheh lost his parents and baby brother in a firebombing carried out by Jewish extremists. This tragedy led to Dawabcheh suffering injuries as well, and he has spent the last 8 months of his life recovering.

It was only a matter of time before we featured Cristiano Ronaldo in our “18 Seconds of” series. With the advent of social media, his good looks and incredible skills, Ronaldo is arguably the biggest celebrity to ever grace the world of soccer. We don’t focus too much on that celebrity in the following video, but it is the subject of two out the three articles we have selected below in order to teach you more about the Portuguese star.