Cristiano Ronaldo
Cristiano Ronaldo is one of the most hated, respected, ridiculed and loved football stars today. He is a true icon – splitting public opinion right down the middle. A Portuguese national and a Manchester United star, the right-winger had a career-changing 2006/2007 season, when he came in off an excellent World Cup performance (although people only remembered the diving and the Rooney incident) and led Manchester United to their first Premiership title in four years.
He’s a good player, that boy Ronaldo.
El Clasico showdown, Old Firm derby and lots of Man City action in December
There’s only one more month left in 2011, and it looks like the year will go out with a real bang from a football standpoint. December features several must-see matches, with a few that will have title implications on top of deciding bragging rights between fierce rivals. Watch the best of Premier League action this…
Champions League Preview: Real and Barca the teams to beat
It seems that in almost every aspect of the game, two clubs dominate the footballing world. They are Spanish super heavyweights Real Madrid and Barcelona. Any team boasting multiple stars is said to echo Real’s Galactico era, while teams – from League Two to the K-League – are said to be a mini-Barcelona. Even the…
Cristiano Ronaldo: Tested To The Limit
In an innovative documentary, Castrol pushed Cristiano Ronaldo to the limit in a series of tests designed to measure Ronaldo’s footballing skills, strength, agility and mental toughness. It is arguably the most rigourous scientific examination of a football player ever taken as Ronaldo (a Castrol global ambassador) is literally tested to the limit – our…
Stat Attack: The Relentless Cristiano Ronaldo
Just how ‘good’ is Cristiano Ronaldo? Earlier we shared news on the ‘Cristiano Ronaldo: Tested to the Limit‘ documentary which subjects CR to a series of innovate tests to measure his performances. But that’s still lab testing, off the pitch, not a true measure of a footballer’s abilities. To measure how good Ronaldo is as…
Scoring Stats – The true value of Ronaldo and Messi
Everyone knows Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo are way ahead of the curve. Here we look at just how far they’re in front of everyone else.
Scoring Stats – European Goal Trends
When we first examined the most important marksmen in the Big Four leagues, we looked at which players in Europe were the most crucial to their teams. This was done according to Scoring Stats, a measure of a player’s combined Goals and Assists, measured as a percentage of their team’s total league goals for the…
Irina Shayk – Babe of the Month (June 2011)
It was speculated the Cristiano Ronaldo is seeing the American socialite and model Kim Kardashian when he was seen on a three day trip on a yacht with the Russian model Irina Shayk. Soon afterwards, the Cristiano Ronaldo Jr. issue exploded but Irina has been seen with CR time and time again even afterwards. Irina…
Two of Premier League’s best players missing from ‘Team of the Decade’
Selecting the best team of a decade can be a flawed approach – you miss the players who straddled the previous and current decades, you forget players who were great in the first half of the decade and you give undue importance to players of the latter half of the current decade. Still, if you…
Barcelona vs Manchester United – What has changed since 2009?
2008/2009 was all-in-all Barcelona’s season. Pep Guardiola led his childhood club to glory like no other manager had done before him. United on the other hand, weren’t too bad the whole season. They were back again in the UEFA Champions League final to defend the title that they had won last year against Chelsea. 08/09…
Has Cristiano Ronaldo evolved too far?
The debate about who is the world’s greatest player has revolved for nearly five years now around two names: Barcelona’s Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo, who now leads the line at Real Madrid after emerging as a tricksy winger at Manchester United. Only two other names are mentioned: Messi’s Barca teammates Xavi and Andres Iniesta….
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