ronaldo return to old trafford

It was precisely 19:13 GMT on Tuesday when Cristiano Ronaldo stepped on to the Old Trafford turf.

He was back at the ground for the first time in nearly four years; it was 1,406 days since he was last here for a Champions League game when he wore the famous red, white and black of Manchester United.

This time he was wearing the real madrid kit for his homecoming.

Ronaldo waved, thumped his chest, waved again. His head bowed for a respectful moment before putting his hand back on to his chest. Just for a moment, those emotions must have threatened to run away from him.

And the Manchester United support welcomed him back with a standing ovation which lasted until after referee Cuneyt Cakir started the match.

The final whistle brought agony for United and mixed emotions for Ronaldo, who hugged Nemanja Vidic and Wayne Rooney before receiving another rapturous ovation from the United supporters near the players' tunnel.

This was Ronaldo's 18th Champions League match at Old Trafford. He has only been on the losing side once, but this victorious return ended with mixed emotions. 

"It was emotional, it was unbelievable. I don't have words to explain what I feel" said ronaldo.

So whether he is returning or not to old trafford the fans still adore him and showed him great respect. 

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Rooney leaving...

wayne rooney to leave united

The England striker, 27, was dropped by Ferguson for Tuesday's round of 16 tie second leg against real madrid, with Danny Welbeck preferred.

so this instantly led to a craze within the media that wayne rooney would be sold by this summer. Just because a manager chooses one player over another doesnt mean they are getting rid of them.

sometimes you need to change the formation and players to put the other team off.

"He'll be here next year," Ferguson said. "You can have my word on that."

"There is no issue between myself and Wayne Rooney. To suggest we don't talk is nonsense.

"He understood the reasons completely. Tactically we got it right. We don't always but we did then.

"Welbeck is the best player we have in terms of operating a double role. We had to chalk out Xabi Alonso's ability to control the game, which he did, and also his ability to go further forward as an attacking player.

so as fergie put it put ur pens down or laptops from wherever you are repoting nonsense and wait for the summer transfer window to actually open and then we can see whose really leaving and staying.

Bradford going to wembley!!

Bradford vs swansea city....the final



Robbie Savage -

"Swansea are showing Bradford the utmost respect, they are not taking the mickey, they are still trying to get another goal and fair play to both sides. They have both worked hard but at the end of the day Bradford have been outclassed."

This pretty much somes up the wembley match that took place on 24th february. The match being  the most one-sided final in Wembley’s history. Swansea City are the most emphatic winners of a major domestic cup competition since Bury defeated Derby County 6-0 at Crystal Palace in the FA Cup final in 1903. 

Bradford City were out of their class from the start. It was a pity, certainly for their fans, who waving their flags in a forlorn gesture of defiance for much of the second half. The odds conspired and continued mounting up against the fourth-tier team.

As if this was not enough,  Bradford goalkeeper Matt Duke was sent off in the 56th minute — correctly — for a foul on Jonathan de Guzman, whose resulting  penalty took Swansea’s lead to 4-0.

Not that it made much difference. Bradford were as ineffectual with 11 players as with 10, indeed their only shot of the game, on 87 minutes.

This was Swansea’s first major trophy in 101 years and the first to be won by a Welsh club since  Cardiff City defeated Arsenal in the 1927 FA Cup final.

I believe even though bradford lost the final they deserve alot of credit for getting there as they worked hard so we will see next year how far they will go.

An introduction three posts late.....

Hello everyone that may be reading this blog.....
As u can probably tell I'm a football fan or fan of any sports to be exact.
As I'm new to this blogging stuff I thought I'd start out in territory known to me which is football.
Of course I'd like to move on to discussing other things too but I guess one step at a time.

I jus want to post simple stuff that people like me can get their head round.
Not just spew up a whole lot of statistics that don't make sense!
Of course feel free to comment and leave me ideas on how to improve this blog or anything you want me to post about or discuss.
I'm happy to oblige....

Messi vs ronaldo

Now that we have read and gone through both profiles I'm gonna ask the million dollar question?

Who is the worlds best player?

When Barcelona meet real Madrid The biggest subplot is The battle of Lionel messi vs Cristiano ronaldo.

They are the two highest paid football players in the game. Each has won world player of the year and has scored in a champions league.

Such is messi's skill that the ball can appear glued to his feet as he manoeuvres himself out of tight situations and finds teammates when it seems he is surrounded.

Ronaldo is more of a showman than messi and can take your breath away with his array of stepovers and flicks. But in some matches when the stepovers are taking him nowhere he stands accused of producing style substance.

One of the reasons messi is a successful player is his chemistry with his teammates where they all agree he is a hard working And combines well with them all.

Ronaldo is a player almost beyond reproach but one of the gripes some teammates have had with him is that he can be selfish and too obsessed with making a difference on his own. 

In conclusion both players have the talent and skill to playa good game and entertain the audience.

So if it's entertainment you want then ronaldo is the player to watch as his skills can leave you breathless

But if you want results then messi is ur better option. A team player who gets the results

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The worlds best player.... I think ronaldo and messi are gonna have to Share the accolade for now...

Cristiano ronaldo dos santos Aveiro

Cristiano ronaldo dos santos Aveiro born 5th February 1985 is a Portuguese footballer Who plays as a forward For the Spanish side real Madrid.He began his professional career with Sporting Lisbon in Portugal but his talent was soon recognised by many of Europe's elite clubs all wanting to capture his signature.As a junior, Ronaldo played for Andorinha for two years and soon made a move to more competitive football when he was snapped up by CD Nacional. In 1997, his move to a much higher level was confirmed when Sporting Lisbon captured his signature. His progression with the Portuguese team was rapid and in 2003, Ronaldo's rise to fame was meteoric. Sporting were opening a new stadium and to mark the event, hosted Manchester United in a friendly match. The players of Manchester United were reportedly so impressed by Cristiano's talent, they urged manager Alex Ferguson to swoop for him.

This soon became a reality and Manchester United came to an agreement with the Portuguese side to lure their promising talent to England for 15 million EUROS, or 12.24 million pounds. Ronaldo was eased into English football, much more physical than in other European countries, and it wasn't long before Ronaldo (or CR7 as he was known after taking David Beckham's famous number 7 shirt) became a household name.

Ronaldo's first honour with Manchester United was the FA Cup in his second season. Ronaldo's career with Manchester United was sensational and his partnership with Wayne Rooney had other clubs in Europe fearing the prospect of facing the Red Devils.Cristiano made no secret of the fact that he wanted to play in Spain and soon his dream move would be realised after Real Madrid made their intentions to sign the world's best player clear. The move happened in 2009 for a world-record transfer fee of 80 million pounds (94 million EUROS).

Cristiano reportedly earns 12 million EUROS a year with the Spanish giants and has won several major personal and team accolades including the Golden Boot and La Liga.
    

Lionel Messi World Best Footballer Biography & Images

Lionel Messi was born Luis Lionel Andres Messi on June 24, 1987, in Rosario, Argentina. As an adolescent kid, he tagged along when his two more seasoned siblings played soccer with their companions, unintimidated by the greater young men. At the age of 8, he was enrolled to unite the young arrangement of Newell's Old Boys, a Rosario-based club. Unmistakably littler than the greater part of the children in his age aggregation, Messi was in the long run diagnosed by specialists as experiencing a hormone inadequacy that confined his development. 

Messi was the top scorer of the 2005 FIFA World Youth Championship with six objectives. In 2006, he came to be the youngest Argentine to play in the FIFA World Cup and he won a runners-up decoration at the Copa América competition the accompanying year, in which he was chosen adolescent player of the competition. 

Messi left on a full scale attack on the record books in 2012. He came to be the first player to score five objectives in a Champions League match in promptly March, and a couple weeks later he surpassed Cesar Rodriguez's club-record 232 objectives to come to be Barcelona's unsurpassed heading scorer. Toward the conclusion of 2012, Messi had collected a dumbfounding 91 objectives in club and worldwide play, overshadowing the 85 netted in a specific timetable year by Gerd Muller in 1972. Fittingly, he broke one more record when he was named the FIFA Ballon d'Or champ for the fourth time in January 2013. 

Lionel Messi published the conception of his first youngster, Thiago. His longtime sweetheart Antonella Roccuzzo, conveyed their child at the Dexeus healing center which is around 700 metres from the Barcelona's Camp Nou stadium. 

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