Website on Xavi Hernandez

On this website by capsula you can find more info on different spanish sport stars. One of them is Xavi hernandez, look trough to site for pictures and comments on him. If you wanna know more about famous spanish sportstars in general, this website is a good start.

Messi remains one of Barca's 11

For the ones who like Lionel Messi, one of barca's top players, below a video with some of his good moments. People say he reminds of Diego Maradonna, this rumor started in april 2007 when he passed 5 opponents and the keeper to finish with a perfect goal against Getafe CF.


Some stats on Messi at FC Barcelona (from wikipedia)

Messi 2008 - By deco
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Real Madrid still the Richest Football Club

Football is more than sports, its a business.
For the last decennia now, football has become a money generating machine. Players are bought and sold and tremendous amounts of money and clubs are pimping their stadions and image all with the money of their loyal supporters. Offcourse this loyalty is bought trough advertising, another powerful instrument.
Real Madrid made about 450 million dollars last year, that is without expenses, which makes them still the leading richest football club in the world.
Also Manchester United is aiming for this position, so it could get exciting there. With their lasts year revenue of 410 million dollars you never know...

source cnn

Vidigal sends Ronaldo home

While Pirlo scored a goal against Milan, Ronaldo got carried off the field after a nice hit with Vidigal from Livorno.
Ronaldo's knee is screwed and will need some serious revalidation. He will be out for at least the rest of the season, and some even fear his carreer is over. This incident equaled the score for Livorno to 1-1
details on the match here

Pele, the first real football star

At the age of 15 Pele started playing for Santos. By the time he was 17 he played for the Brazil's World Cup. He showed some football the world had never seen before. He got injured several times due to unfair competition from some rivals who didn't appriciate this new football wonder, but he made several comebacks and kept on amazing the world. These days he is making his money in advertising, but he will never be forgotten as the first real football star.

Robinho in line with Kaka and Messi

Robinho is getting more and more important for Madrid and is compared with players like Kaka and Messi. There is still some work to do to become one of the worlds number one players, but with 15 productive seasons and a load of fans behind him, he is at least going in the right direction...
More on the Robinho Matter here

Ronaldinho, a football star of gold