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.
For those of us who are consumed by football every year brings new thrills and disappointments, a million what ifs and if onlys and ultimately a feeling of elation, satisfaction or despair, depending on where our unfailing loyalties lie. We laugh and...
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Written by BD Condell. 64 comments
Well, if reports published on elconfidencial.com are to be trusted, then Spanish champions and European powerhouse Real Madrid have signed Sergio Aguero from Atletico Madrid.
Or at least, they have reached an agreement. It has emerged...
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It is transfer time and understandably speculation on Cristiano Ronaldo has started to sprout. And understandably Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson is not very happy with the current situation.
Spanish paper El Mundo recently...
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While football success and failure is usually measured season to season, from August to May, the end of an year gives an opportunity to look back on the calender twelve months and see who we think has been worthy of appearing in this column.
Here’s...
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On Friday, we reported Cristiano Ronaldo’s frank confession of how he came close to signing for Arsenal instead of their Premier League rivals Manchester United in 2003. We now have Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger’s side of the story.
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Manchester United star midfielder and newly crowned European Player of the Year Cristiano Ronaldo has admitted that he was on the brink of signing for Premier League club Arsenal in 2003.
The 23-year old Portuguese international winger has confirmed...
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Sir Alex Ferguson today spoke of his pride in Cristiano Ronaldo for winning Ballon d’Or, which crowns him as the best player in Europe. Of course, it could have been a very different story had Ronaldo pushed for a move to Real Madrid in the summer,...
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Welcome to the Cristiano Ronaldo-free Transfer Rumor update for December 4, 2008. Today’s rumors include two big-time homecomings, a possible fire-sale at a big-name club, and a couple of in-demand players who are going nowhere… for now.
Valencia...
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Cristiano Ronaldo has won the 2008 Ballon D’Or award by an overwhelming margin. Ronaldo comfortably beat his main rivals Messi and is now the fourth Manchester United player (after Law, Charlton and Best) and the first England-based player since...
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While you wait for Football Manager 2009 (little over 2 days to go), here is today’s news in brief to keep you company (don’t worry, you’ll be saying goodbye...
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