FIFA World Player Of The Year Shortlist did get shorter. Fabio Cannavaro, Zinedine Zidane, Ronaldinho are the only remaining for the 2006 FIFA World Player of the Year Award.
Who will be the last man standing? Cannavaro, the fresh winner of the 2006 Ballon d’Or? Zizou, one of the best players ever? Ronaldinho the magician also known as the best player on the planet?
Germany’s World Cup 2006 organizing committee announced that the World Cup 2006 tournament brought in a net profit of 56.5 million euros which will go to the DFB and DFL.
The committee had total earnings of 140 million euros from the tournament but turned over 40 million euros directly to world governing body FIFA and another 44 million euros for taxes.
How will you remember the 2006 World Cup? Will you remember the favorites that fell out of favor, or the aging French who barely made it out of their group alive, only to become the favorites. What about the hosts, who lost only one game, but never lost the love and admiration of their country. Undoubtedly you will remember the champs, who allowed only one goal by opposition…
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Real Madrid defender Fabio Cannavaro, who captained Italy to soccer’s World Cup 2006 title, won the 51st annual Ballon d’Or trophy - 2006 Europe’s top footballer award. Cannavaro, previously voted the second-best player at the World Cup 2006 after Zinedine Zidane, finished in front of his Italy teammate Gianlugi Buffon and Arsenal’s Thierry Henry.
Here is the final lineup and votes:
The 25-year-old, Cameroon’s Samuel Eto’o was named FifPro’s African Footballer of the Year. At an awards ceremony in Algeria the FC Barcelona forward picked up the award in front of a crowd of 800:
“It’s a great honour to be here and to receive this prize,” said Eto’o after receiving the award.
The big surprise at the awards was Morocco’s Mustapha El Haddaou, who won the African Footballer of the Century award. To me unknown midfielder, played 46 internationals for Morocco and was playing in for St Etienne, Nice and Lens during his European carrier.
Hungary and Real Madrid legend Ferenc Puskas died on Friday at the age of 79.
‘The Galloping Major’ scored 512 goals for Real Madrid in 528 matches. Puskas also scored 83 goals in 84 games for Hungary from 1945 to 1956 and later played for Spain in the 1962 World Cup.
According to The Offside, the following players are the ones most likely to win the Europe’s Best Dressed Footballers Award:
MLS has passed a new rule that will allow its teams to sign a limited number of international world-class players to join MLS. The Designated Player Rule (previously known as the Beckham Rule) will allow each of the league’s 13 teams to sign one player whose salary is not limited in any way by the league’s $1.9-million-per-team salary cap.
Under the new rule, each Designated Player will count for $400,000 against a team’s salary cap. All of the player’s salary beyond $400,000 will be paid for by the team owners. Each team will be allowed to have two Designated Players but the second Designated Player will have a cap of only $325,000.
Brazil won the FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup 2006 after defeating Uruguay 4-1 last Sunday on Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro. This is already Brazil’s 10th Beach Soccer World Cup title in the tournament’s 12 year history.
But as I heard soccer players soccer players were not the main attraction of the tournament. The real catch for the eyes were blondes, brunettes, red-heads,… talented cheerleaders, each with their own style.
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