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Great article. It’s a good summary of Fran’s story of how she ended up at Chelsea

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The inside story of Fran Kirby’s move to Chelsea

Fran Kirby had been on Emma Hayes’ radar for years before arriving at Chelsea aged 22 in July 2015.

As Arsenal’s academy director, Hayes had seen a teenage Kirby strut her stuff for Reading more times than she’d care to count. Yet the chase would be ignited by one moment several years on, when Kirby, by then in Reading’s first team, came up against World Cup winner Yukari Kinga.

“She pirouetted on the ball against Kinga and blew past her,” Hayes recalls. “I thought, ‘Well — that’s unbelievable. She’s so dynamic’. I really wanted somebody to bring that type of play to our team, and Chelsea and Fran Kirby are a perfect match. She’s been instrumental in the history we have created here.”

Kirby is now Women’s Super League Player of the Year in waiting and potentially three games away from earning her first Champions League winner’s medal. She should finish this season — which may yet end in a quadruple — with a clutch of personal awards, and it is not an exaggeration to say she is among the frontrunners for the next Women’s Ballon d’Or.

Few players on the planet, other than the one with whom she has formed such a dangerous Chelsea partnership in Sam Kerr, have been able to rival Kirby’s inimitable artistry and verve over the past several months. The ease with which she and Kerr have dismantled WSL defences for sport has propelled their club to dizzying new levels.

This is the inside story of how Chelsea signed her.

Kirby’s stock had been rising for years before Chelsea finally made their move.

Her time at Reading had spawned hefty goal haul after hefty goal haul: 32 in 21 games in 2012-13, then 24 in 16 in a higher division the following season, then 11 in five in 2015. That season included all Reading’s goals in a 4-2 away win over Yeovil and five in a 7-0 swatting of London Bees.

Such prolific numbers caught England’s attention. In June 2014, Kirby became the first WSL 2 — now the Championship — player to be called up to the senior side, coming in for World Cup qualifiers against Belarus and Ukraine. She marked her debut, against Sweden two months later, with the classic debut goal.

“She’d come into the squad and people would be like, ‘Oh, she’s she’s got to be in the WSL at some point — she’s too good’,” recalls Karen Carney, Kirby’s former England and Chelsea team-mate. Two years later, Kirby represented England at the SheBelieves Cup, where Carney was approached by Carli Lloyd, the World Cup winner with whom she had played at Chicago Red Stars. “After the game, she came up to me and said, ‘Who?! Who is that kid?!’ I said, ‘It’s Fran. She’s decent. Keep an eye on her. She’s got a future’. It was just her agility that really caught me: her ability to shift from left to right just effortlessly.”

In May 2015, Kirby was named in the squad for that summer’s World Cup in Canada. England’s first goal in their 2-1 win over Mexico made her the country’s youngest World Cup goalscorer at 21.

The subsequent media frenzy saw the whole world learn Kirby’s story and she was expected to be the tournament’s breakout star.

However, they did not know of the negotiations taking place behind the scenes or the fact that Kirby was balancing her maiden World Cup — a campaign followed by more than 750 million television viewers — with a move to one of the biggest clubs in the world, and had been even before she boarded the plane.

“The atmosphere was pretty was pretty electric leading up to leading up to the World Cup,” remembers John Sorzano, who was Kirby’s agent at the time. “The interest had been there ahead of the World Cup, ahead of the announcements. It (had been) rising, bubbling under. She had interest from Arsenal, offers from Manchester City. They were willing to pay a lot more.”

In the same week Raheem Sterling moved from Liverpool to Manchester City to become the then-most expensive English footballer, Reading announced that her transfer was a British record in the women’s game — a claim Chelsea denied — with the BBC anticipating Kirby could have fetched anything in the region of £40,000-£60,000.

“The fee ended up being closer to £70,000,” says Sorzano. “What makes her transfer really, really interesting is that I remember clubs like City and Arsenal were prepared to go to £150,000-£200,000 for the player. It was different because my experience had been traditionally in the men’s game. To then to see that transition, where the women were being valued at that point — it was pretty awesome.”

Kelly Chambers jolted when news of Chelsea’s offer reached her. As manager of Reading, then a part-time side in the second tier, Chambers had never before overseen a transfer involving a fee.

“At the time, I didn’t even know she had an agent,” Chambers says. “It must have all happened so quickly for her. It was her first-ever England tournament, so she probably had so much going on in her head. It was a shock to us because it came out of the blue for me. I actually ended up getting in our academy manager, Lee Herron, to support me with the process, because he would have dealt with different stuff on the boys’ side of the game and he was involved in the first team here and there. He would have understood the negotiations and the talk that goes on in the men’s game, and with the agent.”

Kirby was Reading’s only full-time player, training with the club’s under-15s boys. Reading did not play in the top flight until the following season. Another year with the academy was all they could offer her, with Kirby continuing to supplement her football career with girls’ coaching sessions for Reading’s Community Foundation. She had been with Reading since the age of eight, enjoying not just success on the football pitch but enduring the well-documented personal battles that ensued following the death of her mother when Kirby was 14 and her subsequent hiatus from football to conserve her mental health.

“For her, it was almost like it was an opportunity where, if she didn’t take it now, would it still be available if we didn’t get promoted?” Chambers explains. “If anything, she wanted a change. She had been with us for so long, and (had) a lot of history in terms of her football, family and everything else. It was probably more for her to just have something completely different in her life that would challenge her differently.

“We did want to keep her and we did put up a bit of a fight, but we were very understanding of what was on offer for her and what we could offer. She could fulfil her dreams of being a professional footballer and it allowed us to build the club a little bit more that season.”

Amid the interest from Manchester City and Arsenal, Kirby plumped for Chelsea. Infrastructurally, there was little to separate the three: all were among the richest and best-equipped women’s teams in the country. Arsenal had the history, built on more than a decade of historical dominance. City had new money, ambitions and a training base worth more than £200 million. Chelsea had never won a major trophy — but they had the deal-breaker.

“We thought she’d be in much better hands with Emma Hayes,” says Sorzano. “She was the catalyst for all of it and still is for many players now. For personalities, she’s infectious. She just gets into you. Her ambition, attention to detail and the discipline she demands — you want to play for her.”

But it meant that Kirby would be entering negotiations with the latter stages of the World Cup looming.

The biggest move of Kirby’s life, and the most significant for an English player since Manchester City hoovered up the likes of Steph Houghton and Toni Duggan in 2013, was running concurrently with the most intense matches of her career. Knowing this coloured Sorzano’s negotiations, with the deal not signed until after the tournament but finalised while Kirby was more than 3,000 miles away in Canada.

“In most negotiations, what you really try to do, especially with a young player, is keep them away from the stress of it,” Sorzano says. “Fran just let go and said, ‘Let me know when it’s all done and what it is’. We explained to her what the process would entail and that, in the end, there would be transparency and she would know what occurred.

“We were obviously transparent, explaining to her what her personal terms were, what the clauses were and all the intricacies of her contract. For the negotiation itself, and feeding back day-to-day updates, we wouldn’t do that because that would just destabilize a player. Especially with the massive pressure of being included in the World Cup squad like that, at that age: all that exposure and all the talk of ‘Mini Messi’.”

That had been England manager Mark Sampson’s nickname for her and he giddily revealed it to the world in his post-match interviews following Kirby’s opening goal in that first group-stage win. She admitted years later that she found it burdensome: it was only reading an interview with her England team-mate Duggan, who lamented that Kirby was never allowed to be just Fran Kirby, that allowed her to see it for what it was.

“It was unfortunate that they branded her Mini Messi,” says Sorzano. “She’s Fran Kirby, and she’s amazing. (With) all that stuff, I think it was important to shield her from the day-to-day hassle of, ‘They’re not accepting this, and the club has spoken’. Really, players don’t need to get involved in that, and neither does the agent. Once the club started speaking, we were just bystanders, rather than inundating her with information that would essentially stress her out.”

Kirby’s move was announced on July 8, joining Chelsea on a three and a half year deal. She went on to her become the PFA Women’s Players’ Player of the Year and the Football Writers’ Association Women’s Footballer of the Year in April 2018. There have followed four league titles, two FA Cups, a League Cup and a Community Shield (she did not play in Chelsea’s League Cup win last year). Last December, she became Chelsea Women’s record goalscorer.

“It gives you hope that you’ve got someone that can dig you out of a hole, at any point and any time,” says Carney, recalling the four seasons she spent playing alongside Kirby before retiring and moving into a punditry career for BT Sport and the BBC. “That’s a sign of a big player. Even as the game’s going really fast or really frantic, when you give them the ball, or you watch them when you’re on the same pitch, it’s like slow-mo. Everything slows down and it’s just implicit trust: you give them the ball and you just know that they can make something happen.”

It does not always pay to make comparisons between men’s and women’s football but one cannot help but feel, to paraphrase Bill Shankly, that Kirby was made for Chelsea and Chelsea for her; even more so, perhaps, given her circuitous route to get there.

Kirby dropped out of the England system at under-17 level. She did not represent her country again until the under-23s. Her club career reads as a run of relentless successes but there have been umpteen injuries in there too: in 2018 alone, her ankle, a hamstring and a knee all betrayed her.

Worse still was to come the following season, with the diagnosis of pericarditis, a heart infection, that ruled her out for more than six months from November 2019. She collapsed at the home she shared with team-mates Bethany England and Maren Mjelde. Cardiologists told her she might never play again, while Hayes reassured her two-time Ballon d’Or nominee Kerr had been signed to play alongside her, despite England having been voted WSL Player of the Year and the PFA Women’s Players’ Player of the Year.

Despite the huge setback, Kirby was not finished.

“This season is probably, for me, her proudest achievement,” Hayes says. “To recover, after what she went through, and to produce even better performances… You have to have unbelievable character to do that.”

Bayern Munich will be the latest opponents tasked with stopping a side containing Kirby and Kerr, in the best form of their careers, plus the world’s most expensive women’s player in Pernille Harder from scoring in the first leg of a Champions League semi-final today (Sunday). To do so would be a first — no one has kept a clean sheet against Chelsea all season — but it is a stake fitting for a competition that will crown new champions this year. For Kirby and Kerr to see their unfaltering excellence rewarded would be equally so.

“Sam will stretch the play; if she doesn’t, there are no spaces for Fran or Pernille,” says Carney. “If someone gets tight to Harder, the space is there for somebody else. When Sam Kerr does that movement in behind, Fran gets that free space to roam and do what she does best. It’s just fluid. The way Emma trains a team is just repetition, repetition, repetition, but there’s definitely a relationship that isn’t actually trainable between Sam and Fran. That’s very rare.

“When she first came onto the scene, Fran was an out-and-out No 9 and I still argue that is her best position. She would sit in between and just spin and run in behind. But she’s evolved, become more of a No 10. She can play off the flanks a little bit more and I still think she can keep improving. She’s in third gear and there’s much more to come, but it’s about not putting pressure on her. When she’s smiling and happy, she’ll go into fourth gear and fifth gear. It’s a process, but she’s improving all the time.

“She’s been through a rough period and has come through it. A lot of people have had to be patient, wait for her star to shine and give her a little bit of respite to recover and be in a happy place. She’s there. She’s a great soul. It’s such a joy to watch her and see her be happy and healthy. That’s the most important thing.”

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Miedema Volkskrant interview

Interesting interview with Vivianne Miedema in the Dutch paper De Volkskrant, December 29th 2020.

She is the socially-minded top shooter among women's soccer players. Vivianne Miedema (24) has been an ambassador for War Child, which cares about the suffering of children in war zones, for a year now.

Vivianne Miedema is the top marksman in the English women's league with an average of one goal per game: 53 goals in 52 duels. The striker of Arsenal and Oranje is the face of the English league. These days in London they recognize her on the street. 'If I turn on the TV, there's a good chance I'll see myself within five minutes.' With a laugh: 'That's why the TV is off now. But I also enjoy it and I'm in a position to make women's soccer bigger. I take that opportunity.'

Miedema is a self-confident, young woman with self-mockery and ability to put things into perspective. 'We are also frustrated that no one can come to our matches, that I can't go home for Christmas, but that's all part of it. We have to set the right example.'

What is it, one time not going to Holland, compared to the situation of teammate Jennifer Beattie, who was recently diagnosed with breast cancer? She had surgery and immediately said she wanted to play soccer again. 'We are supporting her as best we can.'

Miedema let the year 2020 come to mind. In the beginning, when corona had just broken out, you saw solidarity everywhere, fighting for a better world. Now it's more me me me again. It's just a difficult situation for everyone.'

Black Lives Matter While soccer lay dormant for a time, sport raised its voice against injustice. 'Black Lives Matter, for example, in which America and the United Kingdom are leading the way. We still kneel before games. Soccer is a great example where everything and everyone can come together. You see that in our team as well.'

She knows that men's soccer is more diverse. 'Women's soccer is several years behind. In youth leagues you see more and more mixed, dark teams. That development is positive. At Arsenal we don't have any dark-skinned players at the moment. Ten years ago it was unthinkable for many black families to allow their daughters to play soccer. In the next ten years that's going to change.'

A lot has changed since Miedema made her entrance into professional life as a girl. 'Nobody expected the growth of women's soccer to be so great. That also has to do with developments in the world, with women power. That movement is also helping us. At the same time, the level is rising, while we still have 100,000 steps to take. As for myself, I have an excellent income and can save easily. Girls in the Netherlands, and also in England, don't earn much yet and often have to do something on the side.

That is going to change, she thinks. It continues to grow, especially with three consecutive tournaments three years in a row: Olympic Games, European Championship and World Championship. That's great. Becoming more visible. Take the Champions League: the NOS broadcasted it for the first time via a live stream. Until recently it was nowhere to be seen. If that changes, it's easier for sponsors to get on board, to get recognition.'

Matches in the English league can be seen on the app FA Player, on BT, commercial TV, and sometimes on the BBC. 'We have world stars running around in the Dutch national team these days. That's inspiring for young girls. It's up to us routiniers to bring youngsters in and make them feel comfortable to be able to give as many players a good future as possible. I don't play soccer for money. I also pass that on to young girls. If you base your choices on that, you have forgotten who you are and what you are playing soccer for. Money should never be the driving force.'

Fit and hungry The 24-year-old Miedema remains fit and hungry, no matter how hypothermic she celebrates her goals. Six months without soccer, from March to September, has done her good, after all those double years with club soccer and internationals. With friend and teammate Lisa Evans, she took the car to Scotland, where Evans is from.

We spent four or five months there. Switching off from soccer for a while. I've never enjoyed exercises in the gym and running so much. That says it all. I play soccer because I like the game. Tactically I just want to be good enough that you don't have to run alone. But during the lockdown it was the only option, to not have to sit inside.

'Lisa was my pt, my personal trainer. We were super fit for the new season. In Scotland we had so much freedom. We went hiking, walking. Soccer, tennis, padel. For six months it was a normal human life.'

She started studying: for the Uefa B trainer's diploma, plus a master's in Football Business. That's the first time since she left for Germany as a 17-year-old to play soccer at Bayern. 'I never had the energy, the will and the time to study again. Now I do, and it's fun.'

Constantly broadening her horizons is one of her goals. For example, she has been an ambassador for War Child for a year now, which cares about the suffering of children in war zones. She already noticed during the World Cup in France (2019) that children were following her. I already loved War Child as a child. My mother was an assistant mother at school. Of course I could play a little sport. At every charity run it was up to me whether we raised enough money.

My mother made me aware of the fact that we in the Netherlands, I in any case, have a good position, and that in the rest of the world it is not so easy. During the World Cup I was in my bubble, but after that I saw pictures and movies. Sport is a distraction for many children, which allows them to eliminate suffering and have fun.'

She was previously with the Dutch national team in South Africa, where the team visited townships in Cape Town. 'When you see how much fun you can give children with sport, you want to do it as often as possible. I will never forget how two girls of about 9 years old ran up to me afterwards and wanted to hug me, as a thank you. That was so special, they didn't have to think about danger or violence. With War Child I hope to make a nice trip.

Gigantic response By necessity, in 2020 she was an ambassador who stayed inside. 'Online I was able to do a lot. Movies, videos with examples of exercises. I get a huge response from all over the world. Not only from children, also from parents, from people who like what I do. For me, recording a video like this is a small thing and I can make a lot of people happy with it. Stretching, moving, playing soccer, playing sports. And sometimes get to interact by putting everyone else to work.'Children also take initiatives by raising money. 'It's nice to see kids showing social agility, especially now that we have to keep today's youth somewhat in check and steer them in the right direction.'She laughs a little at that term, youth of today. 'If you are a part of something, you are all in it together. That's why I play soccer and I don't play tennis. Kids push each other to do the best they can for other kids.'Now the season is back in full swing. She is top marksman of all time in the English Premier League and was recently chosen again in Fifa's team of the year. European champion, second in the world. And then she still has a soccer life ahead of her. 'I would like to say that I will continue for another ten years, but you never know. I would prefer to stop at my peak.'Again with a laugh: 'I've broken quite a few records, so maybe I'm already at my peak. But I'm definitely not someone who wants to continue at the highest level if I can't take it anymore. I also hope that people around me will then say: Viv, it's not sitting out anymore, please, stop it.'Miedema bettered Nikita Parris' British goalscoring record in October, with the difference that her predecessor scored about one goal every two games, while Miedema needs one game for a goal. 'I can only run out, but above all I want to help the team. One hundred goals for the national team would be very nice.' She is on 70 and is the all-time record holder. Most of the goals I can still remember. They are all in my head.'

https://www.volkskrant.nl/sport/topschutter-vivianne-miedema-voetbal-niet-voor-het-geld-leer-ik-jonge-meiden~b27b2994/

#vivianne miedema #miedema #fawsl #arsenal wfc #arsenal women #woso #women's soccer #women's football #football

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[25 Jun 2021 🇫🇷🌟] reading GQ 🎍

Antoine Griezmann (アントワーヌ・グリーズマン born 21 March 1991) is a French professional footballer who plays as a forward for Spanish club Barcelona and the France national team.

#AntoineGriezmann was born in the commune of Mâcon in the département of #SaôneEtLoire. His father Alain, a town councillor, is of a family who originated from #Münster, #Germany, hence the Germanic surname. His surname was originally spelled as "Griesmann", before changing to "Griezmann" for social purposes. His mother Isabelle, a former hospital staff supervising the cleaning team, is of #Portuguese descent, and her father Amaro Lopes was a Portuguese footballer for Paços de Ferreira.

Griezmann began his senior club career playing for Real Sociedad, and won the Segunda División title in his first season. In 2014, Griezmann moved to Atlético Madrid for a then-club record €30 million, where he won the #UEFAEuropaLeague, the UEFA Super Cup, the Supercopa de España, and La Liga Best Player. He was nominated for both the Ballon d'Or and Best FIFA Men's Player in 2016 and 2018, and also ranks as the club's fifth-highest all-time top goalscorer. In 2019, Griezmann was the subject of a record association football transfer when signed for rivals Barcelona in a transfer worth €120 million, becoming the fifth-most expensive player of all time.

At international level, Griezmann won the 2010 UEFA European Under-19 Championship, made his senior debut for France in 2014 at age 23, and has since appeared in four major tournaments. He finished as top goalscorer and was voted Player of the Tournament as France finished runner-up at UEFA Euro 2016. Griezmann won the Silver Boot as the second highest goalscorer as France won the 2018 FIFA #WorldCup; he also won the Bronze Ball as the tournament's third best player, and was named Man of the Match in the final.

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Gary Fixter - Soccer Player

Cristiano Ronaldo is 35 years old, still with absurd numbers in front of goal, but he has long since risen to the top of the game. He has played at the highest level of his career in recent years and despite his age is still playing at a high level.

One of his greatest achievements was winning the prestigious Golden Boot award, cementing him as one of the best footballers in the world. This award is not only the most prestigious in football, but also marks the culmination of a long and successful career in football.

Gary Fixter - Messi's game has improved over the years and he is now one of the most unstoppable, with a goal-per-game ratio that is more than double that of Cristiano Ronaldo. Messi was also one of the most dominant players in the world in 2013, finishing second behind Manchester United's Cristiano Ronaldo. Ronaldo is the only player to have scored a hat-trick in four different World Cup finals in one tournament. Lionel Messi still holds the record for most goals in a single international tournament, despite being broken by Ronaldo's Brazil at the 2006 World Cup.

Rangers fans don't seem to mind if they elect Maradona as the best footballer in history. Although he has lost much of his advantage in the second half of his career, he has not lost any points in his career.

There are not many people who can come close to stopping legends like Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi but Van Dijk is sure he can do well for his money. Messi's stature as a goalscorer is undisputed, for his 627 goals for Barcelona are more than any other player in the club's history, and he has led them to an astonishing 10 La Liga crowns in 16 seasons.

He has already scored more goals than Messi and Ronaldo at the same stage of their careers. At 21, Messi has had the most goals in a season of any footballer in Europe's top five leagues, scoring as many in 2018 as he has in his entire career. Although he was very good before the end of his career, we have no doubt that he is still the best player on the planet at the moment.

Gary Fixter - Some people use injuries as an opportunity to improve the weakest aspects of their game but Suarez has made it his mission to improve his mentality as he has risen to become one of the best players in the world, if not the best player in Europe.

Football is one of the highest paid sports and one of the most popular in the world. It is estimated that there are more than 1.5 million professional footballers in Europe, many of whom play other forms of football. Getting into football in every way is the true way to become the best footballer you can be, whether you're a pro, a college player or even a high school player.

Many of these athletes play for elite teams in football, and some of them are already legends, including Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo. Neymar da Silva Santos Junior is the third highest paid footballer at $96 million. When he moved from Manchester United to Real Madrid, he was the most expensive footballer.

In 2017, he was one of 20 athletes selected for the U.S. men's national team at the World Cup. He could earn a football salary that is often higher than Ronaldo's but not quite as high as Messi and Ronaldo's.

So there seems to be a strong correlation between age and performance at the highest levels of professional football. From an athletic perspective, a recent study from the University of California, San Diego School of Public Health provides useful information about the age at which footballers are likely to play at a high level.

The study involved more than 1,000 aging professionals from around the world, including players from the United States, Germany, Spain, France, Italy and Spain. It included players aged 30 to 70, as well as players from other sports such as football, baseball, basketball, hockey, tennis, football, golf, gymnastics, athletics and tennis.

Gary Fixter - Let's look at the list of the "best footballers in the world" and see what they can do. The youngest player to top the list, Neymar, has lived in Brazil for more than three years and is 35 in total.

At the 2018 FIFA World Cup, goalkeeper El Hadary became the oldest footballer to play at a World Cup at 45. He has scored more than 500 career goals at club and international level and won the Ballon d'Or. Pele was also named FIFA Player of the Year for the 2004 European Championship and the Football Writers' Choice Award in 2005.

Not only is he the best footballer, he also holds the Guinness World Record for the most goals scored and the highest paid player in the world. The player has been living in Brazil for over three years, the longest of any player on the list, with a total of four years.

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Harchester United Football Club

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In April 1895 at the Dragon Leather Tannery in Harchester, a group of men, led by tannery owner Sean Creamer, got together to form a football club in the hope of rivalling the other local club, Harchester St. Augustine. The club was named Harchester United. There may have been friendly rivalry between United and St. Augustine, but good sportsmanship remained throughout as St. Augustine offered United the chance to play their home matches at their own Palmerston Road sports ground. United gratefully accepted. Between 1895 and 1898, the club had such a fantastic record in the FA Cup for an amateur side that they managed to get together funds to turn professional. The record was so great that upon an application to join the football league, they were instantly elected to do so by the other clubs. The first season in the football league division two saw Harchester United win it by a fair distance and they were promoted to the the first division. After a brief yoyo period of several ups and downs in the next few years, they won promotion back to the First Division in 1907. However, at the end of the 1907–08 season, Palmerston Road owners Harchester St. Augustine were suffering badly and ordered United to find a new place to play so that they could sell off their ground. United moved into the new Addison Road Stadium and obtained a 100-year lease for the ground. In 1908, London businessman Ian Mayes brought the club from owner Robert Ball, who by this time had closed down the Tannery. Mayes decided to follow the example of other football clubs and bring in a new manager who had not been involved with the club before. That man was Joseph Peterson.

Peterson's involvement never went down well with local supporters and in 1920 he resigned from the club following back to back relegations. This is where David Cooper came in to repair damage and finally won promotion from the division three north in 1926–27. In 1932–33, Harchester United regained top flight status under the reins of new manager Edward Evans. Evans left the club in 1939 following the abandonment of the league due to the Second World War and was never contacted again. After the War came new changes. First, Trevor Chamberlain became the new owner of the club in 1945 and appointed his friend Arthur Charlton as manager. Charlton had previously played for Portsmouth before the war and was a part of their FA Cup winning team. Charlton's reign got off to the worst possible of starts with relegation in 1947. However, in a very successful 1957–58 campaign, a Division Two title was in the bag and Harchester United were promoted again. Tragedy would end Charlton's era as boss in March 1965 as the longest serving manager in Dragons history died following a heart attack during a league game with Blackburn at Addison Road. Arthur Charlton's assistant Jim Stephenson instantly became the manager following the tragedy but disasters on the pitch were to follow with relegation in 1966–67.

By 1970, Harchester United were back in the top flight under the managerial guidance of the first non-English manager – the Scotsman, Robert McClaren. He won the side promotion in 1968–69 and in 1973–74 the club finished 4th – their highest ever! McClaren left at the end of that season to join German club Hamburg. Former West Ham manager Harry Sidwell then took over as manager and had nearly 11 years in charge of the Dragons. There were a couple of decent Cup runs during his time, but nothing really materialised than mid-table positions and he left the club by mutual consent in May 1985. In June 1985, Kenny Bruce became the new manager and really revolutionised the club. He made young talent Terry Glover captain and built a team around young sensation Kevin Nelson. The revolution was a success and following a home win over Man City in May 1986, Harchester United were crowned Champions for the first time in the club's history. More good news followed the next month with Kevin Nelson becoming the first Dragon to play for England in the World Cup.

Steve Tomkins took over as boss and was responsible for the club's relegation at the end of 1989–90. In November 1992, former Youth Team player and die-hard Dragon Michael Jacobs took over control of the club. In December 1992, he decided to replace Tomkins as boss with the more experienced Ron Atkinson who'd left Aston Villa to take over. Big Ron made big changes, so much so that the reward paid off with promotion to the Premiership for the first time in 1993–94. Survival was then they key for the Dragons, and after doing so in their first season, they were relegated following a defeat to QPR at the end of the 1995–96 season. The following year, Harchester United reached the Semi Finals of the FA Cup and were also promoted back to the Premiership thanks to the fantastic goalscoring abilities of Karl Fletcher. Due to a lack of numbers in the squad Big Ron promotes youth team captain and son of Harchester United legend Ken Hocknell to the first team which pays off considerably. Big Ron wanted to improve the squad this time, but wasn't allowed funds by chairman Michael Jacobs, so he resigned from his job. Atkinson was replaced by former PSV Eindhoven boss Ian Coates who helped keep the club in the Premiership at the end of 1997–98 buying Dean Sturridge from Derby County helped save the club from the drop. Tragedy struck during that season however as chairman Michael Jacobs died of a heart attack during a training session in which he joined in with the squad. At the end of the season Dean Hocknell is sold to Galatasaray for 5 million and Dean Sturridge makes his way back to Derby for 500k.

In 1998–99 saw new changes to the club. Millionaire building supplies tycoon Jerry Block became the new chairman and was prepared to plough millions into the club. He signed Argentine sensation Luis Amor Rodriguez and together they'd bring the FA Cup to Harchester. However, in May 1999, following an FA Cup Final victory over Man Utd at Wembley stadium, an unknown hitman attempted to shoot Jerry Block's wife Lynda Block but shot club captain John Black dead instead. That summer seen the departure of Karl Fletcher after 7 years of service to Real Mallorca for 3.5 million. Tragedy followed that September too following the club's first European adventure. After knocking Ajax Amsterdam out of the UEFA Cup, four first team members were killed, Sean Hocknell, Gary Blackburn, Leon Richards and Vicktor Tankiev in a plane crash just off the coast of Dover on the way home from the game. Luis Amor Rodriguez quit as player/manager of Harchester United in March 2000 but stuck around as a player long enough to ensure the club fought off relegation before leaving for Boca Juniors. In Harchester United's first European adventure, they went out at the Quarter Final stage to Spanish side Real Mallorca where former hero Karl Fletcher was playing. He returned as a Dragon less than 24 hours after that match!

In 2000–01, Ray Wyatt brought in Nigerian striking sensation Monday Bandele from French side Paris St. Germain, just after Christmas in a massive coup for the club. The deal paid off as the signing turned the club around and a 3rd Place finish was enough to ensure UEFA Champions league football next term. The Champions League dream was short lived with defeat to the old adversary RCD Mallorca in the 3rd Qualifying Round. Under the later guidance of Patrick Doyle, European dreams were made with the Dragons first ever appearance in a European final. It was a 1–0 defeat to AC Milan in the UEFA Cup Final.

The Dragons were severely weakened for that game though following a coach crash whilst travelling to that game in which three players were killed. Following the accident, manager Patrick Doyle promised to bring success to the club but it was later revealed that he had another motive of attempting to relegate the club. When all this information came to light, it was revealed that goalkeeper Jamie Parker had been in on the plan and the Dragons were thrown out of the FA Cup which meant they lost their final place. They were allowed to replay their final Premiership game with Everton though which had previously been abandoned at Half Time as a now-mentally-ill Jamie Parker took the team hostage during the interval. He was killed by armed police following that incident. Harchester United did survive relegation after a Clyde Connelly goal and Tommy Moore penalty save but Doyle didn't as he was found dead, allegedly killed by the betting syndicate he had been working for.

In 2003–04, there was an ongoing court case taking place to decide just who should own the club following a raffle by former owner Phil Wallis. Whilst this was going on, it was damaging the club's reputation with sponsors and following a £28million transfer of Luke Davenport at the start of the year, ongoing financial trouble saw Harchester United cease trading in March 2004. This was not the choice of the club, but more the choice of Coopers Bank who were funding Harchester United's loans at the time. Following campaigning from players, staff, fans and other Premiership clubs, Coopers Bank gave Harchester United a reprieve until the end of the season. The signing of Davenport also brought about the second departure of club legend Karl Fletcher, in a move that was unpopular with players and fans alike. At the end of that season, qualification for the Champions league was achieved after a 3–2 win at home to Manchester United on the final day of the season. with goals from Danny Sullivan, Danny Mills and a late Lee Presley header. This was also the first time in their history Harchester had scored from three set pieces in the same match. However, the club were relegated on grounds of match fixing by UEFA following revelations by former Chief Executive Pilar Hernandez and former manager Stuart Naysmith. 2004–05 saw Harchester United in the Champions League and the newly formed Championship. The Dragons were brave in their European adventure reaching the Quarter Finals where they were knocked out by Arsenal. In the league, a Play Off Final victory over West Ham at the Millennium stadium in Cardiff secured promotion back to the Premiership at the first attempt.

However, tragedy struck when deranged ex-manager Don Barker, who had killed Harchester icon Karl Fletcher hours earlier, drove his auto into the team coach, with all but four members of the Harchester United party dying in the crash or the ensuing fire. The survivors Danny Sullivan, Darren Tyson and Ryan Naysmith, Viv Wright also survived the blaze but was never found, as for the other three survivors had to deal with the aftermath. This led to new owners, Dragons Corporation. It was later revealed that new striker Casper Rose was actually the owner of that company and ultimately Harchester United. This turn of events was only revealed after Rose had been killed. Before then however, Harchester United reached the League cup final for the first time where they lost out to Chelsea. The Dragons won the FA Cup for the second time in their history later that season with a 2–1 win over Arsenal thanks to a Darren Tyson double.

The 2006–07 season has started interestingly for the Dragons. Last season's success has paved the way for winger Ryan Naysmith to join Villarreal CF for 12 Million pounds and playmaker Hector to move to Bsyern Munich for 10 Million. Eugene Rose also sold his half of the club to Alex Rose and moved to Australia to play for Sydney FC. To replace these departures the club signed Miguel Lopez from Atlètico Madrid for an undisclosed fee and Pavel Kovac from AC Milan on a free transfer. The club also gave 19-year-old midfielder Jason Porter a one-month trial as he impressed Rose during a pre season friendly which he was later offered a professional contract. Despite this promise there was the usual dark cloud over the dragon's lair. The police made Lynda Block their prime suspect in the Casper Rose murder investigation and suspect Alex Rose in assisting in the crime. Because of this Block had fled Harchester leaving Alex Rose to confess to the killing of his half brother. This was done after he ensured that the club was in the right hands as he handed the manager's job to his former teammate Jimmy Craig and the chairman's role to head of the supporters club, Terry Harrison. Jimmy Craig had to deal with the loss of Kovac as he was diagnosed with testicular cancer and could face never playing again, and that the chairman wanted a high-profile manager. Despite these problems Craig has been able to guide the dragons to a (so far) unbeaten season. He has also promoted youth and reserve team stars such as Bradley Summers, Laurent Dioup, Jamie Cheeseman and Jason Porter to the first team who have impressed. He also signed midfielder Sean Campbell from Southend United to form a midfield partnership with new captain Liam MaKay. However the team lost defender Danny Sullivan to injury which forced him to retire. As the club could see how valuable his contribution to the club has been they offered him a coaching role.

Harchester United go on to win the premier league with Jason Porter scoring the winning goal against Chelsea, whilst celebrating the first league title in 21 years the Dragons Lair stadium engulfed in flames luckily nobody was killed and everybody was evacuated in time, Manager Jimmy Craig was found in the stadium and had suffered severe head injuries. Team coach and Dragons legend Danny Sullivan had a breakdown and handed himself into the police admitting the arson and also admitting to being the infamous Dragon slayer who had been terrorising the club staff for the majority of the season, he was later sectioned under the mental health act and took in for psychiatric treatment.

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Barcelona 5-0 Real Madrid, 2010: Where are they now?

On Nov. 29, 2010, Pep Guardiola’s Barcelona subjected Jose Mourinho and his Real Madrid side to a record 5-0 defeat in El Clasico. The build-up to the game was dominated by the subplot of the world’s two best players, Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo, facing off against each other, but in the end it was incredibly one-sided.

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Real Madrid were top of La Liga, seven games unbeaten, and they had just handed out a 6-1 defeat to Racing Santander. After two years of watching Barcelona crowned champions, there was a growing excitement that Madrid could topple their rivals on home soil and become the dominant force in Spain once more.

Instead, they came up against Guardiola’s men in inspired form, with Messi at the forefront of everything. Barcelona had already hit the post when they opened the scoring after just 10 minutes when Xavi was on hand to poke in Andres Iniesta‘s deflected shot. Pedro made it 2-0 after 18 minutes, following David Villa‘s cross, and Messi teed up Villa for Barcelona’s third and fourth goals in the second half. The humiliation was compounded when Jeffren scored Barcelona’s fifth in the 91st minute and there was still time for Sergio Ramos to see red for a rash tackle on Messi.

It was Guardiola’s fifth Clasico triumph in a row, as well as the first time in his professional career that Mourinho had lost a game 5-0, and helped Barcelona to the 2010-11 La Liga title. Here’s how the teams lined up on that day, as we look at what has happened to both sets of players since.

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GK, Victor Valdes: He played an incredible 536 games for Barcelona, winning six La Liga titles and three Champions Leagues, before moving to Manchester United on a free transfer in 2015. Valdes spent just one year there, making two appearances, before moving to Standard Liege on loan and then permanently to Middlesbrough in July 2016. The goalkeeper made 28 appearances for Boro before retiring in August 2017. Now he has embarked on a coaching career, spending time with amateur side Moratalaz and the Barcelona U19 team (where he was sacked after just 80 days), and is currently boss of Spanish fourth division side UA Horta.

RB, Dani Alves: The great Brazilian made 391 appearances for Barca and scored 21 goals from 2008 to 2016, when he moved to Juventus on a free transfer. After a season in Turin, where he won the domestic double, he signed for Paris Saint-Germain, picking up two Ligue 1 titles. He’s now back in Brazil, playing for Sao Paulo, but his legacy at Camp Nou encouraged USMNT star Sergino Dest to follow in his idol’s footsteps. In 2019, he became the most decorated player in football, having won his 43rd trophy.

CB, Carles Puyol: He spent his entire career at Barcelona and made 593 appearances in 15 years, while winning 100 caps for Spain. Puyol was the club’s longest serving captain and in his time at Camp Nou, he won six La Liga titles, two Copa del Reys, three Champions Leagues and two Club World Cup titles. Having retired in 2014, he now spends his time as a charity and UEFA ambassador, having previously explored the agency world.

CB, Gerard Pique: The 33-year-old defender is still running out for Barcelona, adding to his impressive tally of over 500 appearances, and just signed a new contract until 2024. He formed the bedrock of Barcelona’s defence with Puyol and won 102 caps for Spain from 2009 to 2018, but has had to evolve in recent years. Outside of football, he founded Kosmos Holding — a sports and media group — which is transforming tennis’ Davis Cup, married pop star Shakira in 2011, and purchased third-tier side FC Andorra, while he also has a majority stake in one of Catalonia’s strongest youth academies: Gimnastic Manresa.

– Messi and Barcelona: How everything fell apart, and what’s next – Lowe: Could Pique be a future club president?

LB, Eric Abidal: At Barcelona from 2007 to 2013, he was forced to take a spell away from the game in 2011 when he was diagnosed with a tumour on his liver, but returned later that season after surgery. In 2012 it was announced Abidal was undergoing a liver transplant but remarkably returned to the field in December that same year. He joined Monaco in 2013 and spent a year at Greek side Olympiakos before retiring in January 2015. He started his own foundation but returned to Barcelona as sporting director in June 2018. However, he was sacked in August 2020 amid a public war of words with Messi.

Eric Abidal’s time back at the club after his retirement was full of controversy. Xavier Bonilla/NurPhoto via Getty Images

DM, Sergio Busquets: Still at the heart of the Barcelona midfield, the 32-year-old Busquets has spent his whole career at Camp Nou and is seventh in the club’s all-time league appearances list. The defensive midfielder has won eight La Liga titles and three Champions Leagues at Barca, and also won the 2010 World Cup and Euro 2012 with Spain.

CM, Xavi: The brilliant midfielder holds the record for Barcelona appearances with 767 from 1998 to 2015. He won everything at Camp Nou, but was also the heartbeat of the Spain side that won two European Championships (2008 and 2012) and the 2010 World Cup. He left Barca in 2015 for Qatari side Al-Sadd SC, where he made 90 appearances and scored 24 goals. In 2019 he became Al-Sadd SC manager and has led the side to the Super Cup and Qatar Cup, while he is frequently linked with a return to Barcelona at some stage as a future boss.

CM, Andres Iniesta: There’s a theme here, but the outstanding Spanish midfielder — like Busquets and Xavi — is regarded as one of the best players of his generation. He won nine La Liga titles at Barcelona, and four Champions Leagues, while winning 131 caps for Spain and was runner-up to Messi for the Ballon d’Or in 2010. He was given a contract for life by Barcelona in 2017, but left a year later for Japan’s Vissel Kobe, where he has captained them to Emperor’s Cup and Japanese Super Cup success. In his hometown of Albacete, a nude statue of him scoring the winning goal in the 2010 World Cup went viral recently, before it was amended.

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FW, Pedro: Another to have come through the club’s La Masia academy, the winger made 321 appearances for Barcelona and scored 99 goals, before leaving for Chelsea in 2015 for €30m. He made 206 appearances for Chelsea, where he won the Premier League and FA Cup, but it was his Europa League success in 2019 that saw him become the first player to win the Champions League, World Cup, European Championship and Premier League in their career. He joined Roma on a free transfer in the summer.

FW, David Villa: The striker spent three years at Barcelona and scored 48 goals in 119 games, before joining Atletico Madrid in 2013 for a bargain €5.1m. After a season there he joined MLS side New York City FC in 2014 on a free transfer and stayed at the club until 2019 — apart from a brief spell on loan at A-League side Melbourne City — scoring 80 goals in 126 appearances. He then had a final year playing with Iniesta at Vissel Kobe, before retiring in February 2020.

FW, Lionel Messi: Arguably the greatest player to have ever played the game, Messi is still at Barcelona despite a turbulent summer, when he requested to leave only to end up staying because he didn’t want to take them to court. Since his debut in 2004, he has won the Ballon d’Or six times, and the FIFA Best Award in 2019. With Barcelona he has 10 La Liga titles, six Copa del Reys and four Champions Leagues, though hasn’t been able to stop an international trophy drought that began for Argentina in 1993, missing out on the 2014 World Cup and both the 2015 and 2017 Copa America despite reaching the final.

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GK, Jose Manuel Pinto: The experienced goalkeeper joined Barca in 2008 on a free from Celta Vigo and stayed through to his retirement in 2014. He made 90 appearances for Barca across his seven seasons and, having been responsible for the music in the dressing room, is now a producer. He was behind the music on the Barcelona documentary “Take the Ball Pass the Ball,” and also had songs featured on blockbuster films “Ride Along 2” and “The Fate of the Furious.”

LB, Adriano: The Brazilian full-back was at Barca for six years through to 2016, before he signed for Besiktas for €2.3m. He spent three years there before joining Brazilian club Athletico-PR in July 2019 and he’s currently at KAS Eupen in the Belgian Pro League.

RB, Maxwell: The Brazilian’s trophy haul is astonishing — he has 37 titles to his name across a career that saw him play for Ajax, Empoli, Inter Milan, Barcelona and Paris Saint-Germain. He was at Barca from 2009 to 2012 and played for PSG until 2017, where he made 214 appearances, before retiring. He spent time with PSG as assistant sporting director but left in June 2019.

CM, Seydou Keita: The Mali midfielder was Guardiola’s first signing as Barca boss and he played 188 times from 2008 to 2012, before leaving for Chinese side Dalian Professional F.C. in 2012. He had spells with Valencia, Roma and Qatar’s El-Jaish before retiring in 2017. He recently made a generous $50,000 food donation to help families in Mali during the COVID-19 pandemic.

CB, Javier Mascherano: After a career at River Plate, Corinthians, West Ham and Liverpool, the midfielder-turned-centre back played for eight years at Barcelona before leaving for China and Hebei China Fortune in January 2018. He enjoyed a remarkable time at Camp Nou, making 334 appearances and winning five La Liga titles. He’s now 36 and has just retired after playing for Estudiantes in the Argentine top flight.

Bojan Krkic is now playing in MLS with Montreal Impact. Photo by David Kirouac/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images

FW, Bojan Krkic: Always tipped to take on the Messi mantle, the forward made 163 appearances for Barcelona and scored 41 goals before leaving for Roma in 2011. After two seasons in Italy, including one on loan at AC Milan, he was re-signed by Barca but joined Ajax on loan in 2013 and then Stoke City on a permanent deal in 2014. Further loans at Mainz and Alaves followed, before landing in MLS with Montreal Impact to lead them to the Canadian Championship in 2019.

FW, Jeffren: The Venezuela international made 34 appearances at Barcelona from 2008 to 2011 and spent time with Sporting CP, Valladolid, Eupen, Grasshoppers and AEK Larnaca before joining Croatian club NK Slaven Belupo. He told Marca in 2018: “You leave the biggest clubs in the world and see the reality of football. Barcelona is a bubble where you don’t want for anything, you have it all and when you leave everything changes.”

Manager, Pep Guardiola: Guardiola is still spoken of with immense reverence in the Camp Nou corridors having won three La Liga titles, two Copa del Reys and two Champions Leagues during his four-season spell as manager. He took a sabbatical in 2012-13 before joining Bayern Munich and guided them to three consecutive Bundesliga titles and two DFB-Pokal triumphs in three seasons. Guardiola accepted the Manchester City job ahead of the 2016-17 season and has won two Premier Leagues, one FA Cup and three Carabao Cups, but has yet to win the Champions League since 2011 and his days at Barcelona.

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GK, Iker Casillas: The legendary Spain goalkeeper played for Real Madrid from 1999 to 2015, while winning an incredible 167 caps for his country. At Madrid, he won five La Liga titles and three Champions Leagues, and made a total of 725 appearances. He left the club to join FC Porto in 2015 but his career was put on hold after suffering a heart attack in training. He recovered and took on a player-coach role at Porto as he trained, but announced his retirement in August 2020. Now he spearheads his own Foundation and plans to run for presidency of the Spanish Football Federation.

– Marcotti: Casillas proves Rocky correct over 21-year career – Hunter: Ramos’ longevity is the stuff of legend

RB, Sergio Ramos: Still Real Madrid’s key man at the back, having joined the club from Sevilla in 2005, he has over 650 appearances and has contributed a century of goals. Ramos has won six La Liga titles, two Copa del Reys and four Champions Leagues and even had a documentary made about his career. The Spaniard is also within touching distance of Egyptian Ahmed Hassan’s international cap record of 184.

CB, Ricardo Carvalho: The Portuguese joined Real Madrid from Chelsea in 2010 for a cut-price €7.9m. He made 77 appearances for Real and left in 2013 on a free for Monaco. He played for three seasons there and finished his career at Shanghai SIPG in China, retiring in August 2018. He’s currently assistant to Andre Villas-Boas at Marseille.

CB, Pepe: The towering centre-back made 334 appearances for Real Madrid before joining Besiktas on a free in 2017. He left in December 2018 by mutual agreement and was soon picked up by FC Porto in January 2019 where he still plays and has just signed a new three-year contract to continue until he is 40. He helped Portugal to the 2016 European Championship crown and has made 113 appearances for the national side.

LB, Marcelo: The left-back is still rampaging down the flank for Real Madrid. Having joined in 2007 from Fluminese, he’s made over 500 appearances and has won four Champions Leagues and five La Ligas at the club. He’s also still running out for Brazil at the age of 32.

Xabi Alonso has taken steps into coaching with his boyhood team Real Sociedad. Kazuhiro Nogi/AFP/Getty Images

CM, Xabi Alonso: The midfielder joined Real Madrid in 2009 from Liverpool for €35m and made 236 appearances before leaving for Bayern Munich in 2014 for a bargain €9m. After three seasons, he retired in July 2017 and spent time coaching in the Real Madrid youth setup before joining Real Sociedad as their B Team manager in 2019.

CM, Sami Khedira: He made 161 appearances across five seasons for Real Madrid and, after winning the 2014 World Cup with Germany, left to join Juventus on a free transfer in 2015. The midfielder is still at Juve and has won five Serie A titles and three Coppa Italias, though his future is in doubt after he was left out of the club’s Champions League squad.

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AM, Mesut Ozil: The German’s three years in Madrid saw him finish as La Liga’s assists leader each year, but he joined Arsenal in 2013 for €50m and was a key figure under Arsene Wenger. However, since 2018 he found his game time more limited under Unai Emery and is now out of the picture completely under Mikel Arteta after being omitted from their Premier League and Europa League squads. Away from the pitch has been a turbulent time as well, as he quit Germany in 2018 after alleging racial discrimination, was the victim of an attempted carjacking with teammate Sead Kolasinac a year later, and regularly speaks out over global political issues on social media — as well as things closer to home. A philanthropist, he has also recently set up his own companies in eSports (M10Esports) and another called Unity Performance Lab.

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FW, Angel Di Maria: The Argentine forward left Real Madrid for Manchester United in 2014 for €75m. But after just one season at Old Trafford, he joined PSG for €63m. He has remained an integral part of their squad and has helped them to four Ligue 1 titles and four Coupe de France trophies. He started the Champions League final last season and continues to play for Argentina too.

FW, Cristiano Ronaldo: Now 35 and regarded by some as the greatest player to ever kick a football, Ronaldo scored 450 goals in 438 games at Real Madrid and won two La Liga titles and four Champions Leagues before leaving for Juventus in 2018 for €100m. His incredible scoring record has continued in Italy and he has won two Serie A titles. He captained Portugal to their 2016 European Championship win and has just broken the 100-goal mark at international level, though his last major personal honour (the Ballon d’Or) came in 2017.

ST, Karim Benzema: The French striker is still in remarkable form for Real Madrid, having finished second behind top scorer Messi in La Liga last season with 21 goals. Now in his 12th season at Madrid, Benzema has won three La Liga titles, two Copa del Reys and four Champions Leagues. But his international career was tarnished in 2015 when he was placed under investigation over an attempt to blackmail France teammate Mathieu Valbuena, and he has not played for France since.

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GK, Jerzy Dudek: The Poland goalkeeper joined Real Madrid in 2007 on a free transfer and made just 12 appearances before retiring in 2011. He competed in motorsports, racing in the 2014 Volkswagen Castrol Cup, and also works as a UEFA ambassador.

CB, Raul Albiol: The Spain international spent four seasons at Real Madrid through to 2013 when he left for Napoli. He spent six seasons there, winning the Copa Italia in 2014, and at the age of 33 joined Villarreal in 2019.

RB, Alvaro Arbeloa: The full-back spent seven years at Real Madrid before joining West Ham in August 2016. He played for one season and then retired in 2017. At 37, he’s now part of Real Madrid’s academy staff.

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CM, Mahamadou Diarra: The Malian midfielder left Real Madrid for Monaco in 2011 and signed for Fulham in 2012. He had two seasons at Craven Cottage and went into the football wilderness after struggling with a knee injury until he popped up at Brentford in 2016, where he trained throughout the season, making an appearance for their development team.

CM, Lassana Diarra: The French midfielder had a nomadic career. After three seasons at Real Madrid, he left in 2012 for Anzhi Makhachkala and had one season at Lokomotiv Moscow before joining Marseille in 2015. He left for Al Jazira in 2017 and had another stint back in Ligue 1 with PSG in the 2018-19 campaign, retiring in February 2019. He now runs drinks company Heroic.

FW, Pedro Leon: The Spanish midfielder was tipped for the top, but made just 14 appearances at Real Madrid in the 2010-11 season under Jose Mourinho and spent the next two seasons on loan at Getafe. He joined them permanently in 2013 and is now at Eibar, having signed in 2016.

ST, Gonzalo Higuain: Higuain scored 121 goals in a seven-year spell at Real Madrid that saw him win three La Liga titles and a Copa del Rey, but he moved to Napoli in 2013 for €40m. Three years later he was on the move again, this time to Juventus for €90m where he played for just two seasons before joining AC Milan on loan. He spent the latter half of the 2018-19 campaign on loan at Chelsea and, after another season at Juventus, he eventually signed for David Beckham‘s MLS side Inter Miami CF in September 2020.

Manager, Jose Mourinho. Mourinho won the 2012 La Liga title at Real Madrid before leaving in 2013 for a return to Chelsea. He spent two-and-a-half years there, helping them to the 2015 Premier League title, before departing in December 2015. He replaced Louis van Gaal as Manchester United boss in 2016, and won the Europa League and Carabao Cup, but was sacked in December 2018. He’s now boss of Tottenham Hotspur, having taken up the reins from Mauricio Pochettino in October 2019.

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Aston Villa 1-6 Manchester City: Sergio Aguero becomes highest overseas scorer in Premier League history

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Aston Villa 1-6 Manchester City: Sergio Aguero becomes highest overseas scorer in Premier League history

Manchester City have scored 94 goals in 33 league and cup games this season

Sergio Aguero scored his 12th hat-trick to become the highest overseas goalscorer in Premier League history in rampant Manchester City’s six-goal hammering of struggling Aston Villa.

The Argentine moved level – and then past – Thierry Henry, before joining Frank Lampard on 177 goals in England’s top flight.

Only three men – Alan Shearer, Wayne Rooney and Andy Cole – are still ahead of him on the all-time Premier League list. Aguero’s number of hat-tricks is a Premier League record.

It was part of a merciless City performance as they took apart a Villa side who were suffering their worst defeat since Liverpool beat them at 6-0 at Villa Park in February 2016 and have dropped into the relegation zone.

Riyad Mahrez scored the first two, with Gabriel Jesus splitting Aguero’s double just before half-time.

The result leaves City second, the highest position they have occupied following a full round of matches since the beginning of November, although they remain 14 points behind leaders Liverpool, having played a game more.

Villa’s season not defined by City defeat – Smith

Football Daily: Desperate times for Villa and Bournemouth

Relentless Aguero

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Pep Guardiola congratulates Aguero on ‘incredible achievement’

It is scarcely believable now but there were some people who thought City had wasted their money when they spent £40m to buy Aguero from Atletico Madrid in 2011.

He scored twice against Swansea on his debut and it feels like he has not stopped finding the net since.

Aguero’s most famous goal came at the end of that first season, against QPR to win the title, but for City fans his impact goes way beyond that single strike.

The 31-year-old is the club’s record scorer and now needs only one more to reach 250 for the Blues in all competitions.

His first was a ferocious effort, the third a clinical strike after he had been given a clean sight of goal.

But maybe the best indication of the relentlessness with which Aguero goes about his job came from the long conversation he had with Mahrez after the half-time whistle had gone, when he demanded to know why his team-mate had not set him up about five minutes earlier.

City were 4-0 up at the time.

Can you name the highest-scoring foreign players in the Premier League?

‘Aguero is a legend and will die scoring goals’ – Guardiola

Sobering return for Drinkwater

It was a sobering return to action for Danny Drinkwater, who joined Villa on loan from Chelsea in midweek after a similar stint with Burnley came to an end.

This was Drinkwater’s fourth appearance since March 2018 and remarkably meant four of the last five games he had played were against City – for three different clubs – all of which have ended in defeat.

Drinkwater started quite well, with a couple of simple touches.

But it wasn’t long before he was showing clear signs of rustiness after being deprived of match action for such an extended period of time.

Aston Villa have lost five out of 11 home league games this season

Drinkwater would have known Mahrez’s strengths – he shared a dressing room with him as Leicester won the title. But he was powerless to stop the Algerian stepping around him, before darting into the area to put the visitors in front.

Six minutes later, Drinkwater unwisely decided to control and assess his options as the ball broke to him off Aguero deep inside his own box.

David Silva afforded no time, biting into the challenge and providing Mahrez with the opportunity to crash home his second.

After that it was an exercise in chasing shadows for the former England man, who needs to find his form quickly if he is to help Villa out of the problems they find themselves in.

Problems mounting for Villa

Watching from the stands, goalkeeping duo Tom Heaton and Pepe Reina were powerless to stop the first-half carnage.

With Heaton on crutches as a legacy of the season-ending knee injury he suffered at Burnley on 1 January, and Reina not registered in time to feature as he is about to complete a loan move from AC Milan, Orjan Nyland was handed his Premier League debut.

It proved to be a torrid afternoon for the 29-year-old Norwegian, who became the first goalkeeper in Premier League history to concede six goals on his first start in the competition.

Nyland was beaten at his near-post for the opener and Aguero’s historic effort seemed to go straight through his hands.

Anwar El Ghazi scores Aston Villa’s consolation from the penalty spot

Reina will surely start at Brighton next Saturday, knowing Villa must improve on their record of two top flight clean sheets since 16 September.

Villa now have a worse goal difference than Southampton, and they suffered that 9-0 home defeat by Leicester on 25 October.

A few fans headed for the stairs with their side 3-0 down after half an hour but the majority stayed with their team to the end and cheered loudly when Anwar el Ghazi scored their injury-time consolation from the penalty stop.

But, with a Financial Fair Play issue hanging over them if they return to the Championship after a single season in the top flight, it looks like being a busy couple of weeks for Villa as they try to bolster Dean Smith’s squad.

Man of the match – Sergio Aguero (Manchester City)

There were man of the match displays all over the pitch for Manchester City but this was a historic day for Sergio Aguero, who has been lighting up the Premier League for nine seasons.

‘We gave City too much respect’ – what they said

Aston Villa boss Dean Smith:“It’s tough when you come up against world-class teams.

“There’s a professional pride as a coach and a team, and the third goal summed it up – they had about 20 passes without us laying a glove on them.

“We gave them too much respect.

“Our season is not going to be defined by defeats by Man City and Liverpool. You have to learn from this.

“We have to ask why weren’t we competitive and why we gave them too much respect.”

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Goals, goals, goals – the stats

Since the start of the 2016-17 season, Manchester City have scored 343 Premier League goals – 42 more than any other team.

This was Pep Guardiola’s 300th top-flight league win as a manager – he has reached that tally in just 390 games with Barcelona, Bayern Munich and City.

City’s David Silva has assisted 21 Premier League goals for team-mate Sergio Aguero – the only player to assist another more in the competition is Frank Lampard for Didier Drogba (24 goals).

City’s Riyad Mahrez is the only Premier League player to both score and assist 20 goals since the start of last season in all competitions (21 goals, 23 assists).

In all competitions, City’s Kevin de Bruyne has assisted 15 goals this season – five more than any other Premier League player.

Gabriel Jesus has started 76 matches for City in all competitions – he has been directly involved in 71 goals in those matches (54 goals, 17 assists).

What’s next?

Villa need to regroup quickly before their game at Brighton next Saturday (15:00 GMT), while Manchester City host Crystal Palace at the same time.

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Manchester derby: Man City Women’s Ellen White on Man Utd Women WSL match | Football | Sport

Manchester City Women are excited that Manchester United Women were promoted into the top flight last season, as it means the players can look forward to big occasions in the Barclays Women’s Super League (WSL), revealed City and England Lionesses’ Ellen White.

City host their rivals United in the first ever professional women’s Manchester derby on Saturday afternoon (3pm) at the Etihad Stadium.

United won the Women’s Championship last season by nine points, losing just once in their 20 matches. They conceded just seven league goals all season, finishing with a goal difference of +91.

But a trip to title-chasing City will be a tough introduction to WSL life for United boss Casey Stoney, and the Citizens are relishing the first ever Manchester derby.

We know from the men’s game how big the derby is, so we’re excited that Man Utd are in the top flight

Ellen White

“We’re excited,” White told Express Sport. “We obviously know from the men’s game how big the derby is, so we’re excited that Man Utd are in the top flight and we can have these occasions.

“The fact that it’s at the Etihad makes it even more special to be honest. Hopefully we can get a big crowd, and a big backing, and everyone’s supporting women’s football.”

After a highly-publicised World Cup, City are hoping for an attendance of around 25,000 fans for the derby. White admits that playing in front of that many fans inside the Etihad Stadium would be “incredible”.

“I think it’ll be a big crowd, and everyone there will be backing us and supporting City,” she said. “Hopefully there will be a big United support as well.

“It’ll be a great game and a great atmosphere, and I think it’ll be great for the women’s game.”

Manchester derby: Man City Women’s Ellen White on Man Utd Women WSL match (Image: GETTY Images)

Man City Women aren’t the only team to play in their respective men’s stadiums for the opening WSL clash. Stamford Bridge will host a cross-London derby as newly-promoted Tottenham take on Chelsea. Meanwhile, Bristol City take on Brighton and Hove Albion at Ashton Gate. (even though women’s in their team names, think by this point in the point it’s established it’s about the women’s game so doesn’t need it in)

These huge clashes in the top flight can help to showcase women’s football, and White is hoping that fans will continue to come back and watch WSL matches thereafter, especially after matches like the Manchester derby.

“It’s a massive derby, and in a city that loves sport,” she said. “The fact it’s being played at the Etihad shows just how big the women’s game is coming on. For the WSL we really want to build that fanbase, and really build the attendances as well.

“Man City are fantastic in terms of getting on board and supporting the women’s team. The fact that we’re playing at the Etihad shows that, and hopefully we can get a good 25,000 there – that would be incredible.

“It would really back the game and showcase what women’s football is really about, and hopefully we can build on those attendances and hopefully they keep coming to games there after.”

Manchester derby: United won the Women’s Championship last season and were promoted to the WSL (Image: GETTY Images)

But, for City, they know that their match against United is “the big one”, and they’re keen to lay a marker down for the upcoming season.

They have the aim of winning trophies consistently throughout the season, with four trophies up for grabs; the WSL, the FA Cup, the Continental Cup, and the Champions League.

This season’s WSL is sure to be the most competitive in its nine-year history, but City are mentally prepared for the challenge, and are eager to get started, said White.

They’ll have to go through the season without their star player, Nikita Parris, however. The England star was sold to Lyon this summer, and White was recruited as her replacement by City manager Nick Cushing.

“Nikita did great things for City, and she’s gone on and left to go to Lyon,” said White. “But we’re completely different players to be honest, and I just want to focus on what I can bring to City, and hopefully prove why Nick brought me to the club for what I can do – workmate, passion and desire.

Manchester derby: White was the joint-top goalscorer at the summer’s World Cup (Image: GETTY Images)

“I want to contribute to goals as well so I’ll be doing everything I can to prove that. I’m excited, and I’m looking forward to making my debut for City.”

White starred for the England Lionesses at the World Cup this summer, ending the tournament as joint-top goalscorer. She also became England Women’s all-time top World Cup goalscorer.

But, she’ll be missing Saturday’s derby against United having picked up a knee injury after from the World Cup.

She had surgery on her knee more than two weeks ago, and she’s well into her rehab and recovery schedule.

“I’m itching to be out there playing and training,” she said. “But it seems to be going pretty well so far, and I’m just excited to be wearing City colours now.”

Ellen White was speaking at the Manchester City Stadium store where kit sponsor PUMA and the Club invited fans of the club to meet their heroes ahead of the first ever Manchester women’s derby.

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Open main menu Wikipedia Search Cristiano Ronaldo Read in another language Watch this page Edit This name uses Portuguese naming customs. The first or maternal family name is Santos and the second or paternal family name is Aveiro. Cristiano Ronaldo dos Santos Aveiro GOIH ComM (European Portuguese: [kɾiʃˈtjɐnu ʁoˈnaɫdu]; born 5 February 1985) is a Portuguese professional footballer who plays as a forward for Italian club Juventus and captains the Portugal national team. Often considered the best player in the world and widely regarded as one of the greatest players of all time,[4][5][6] Ronaldo has a record-tying five Ballon d’Or awards,[note 2] the most for a European player, and is the first player to win four European Golden Shoes. He has won 28 trophies in his career, including six league titles, five UEFA Champions League titles and one UEFA European Championship. 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