David Beckham full name David
Robert Joseph Beckham former England skipper, born at 2 May 1975. Perhaps he is
most stylish player in the history of
soccer. He plays as a midfielder. He has played for Manchester United, Preston
North End, Real Madrid, Milan and most recently Los Angeles Galaxy. His
professional career began with Manchester United in 1992. He debuted for
England on 1st September 1996, at the age of 21. Beckham was the
first British footballer to play 100 champions league matches. He has ha great name in glamour's world.
Friday, March 29, 2013
Friday, March 22, 2013
Roger
Federer, a Swiss professional tennis player is considered the greatest tennis
player of all time. He possesses several men’s world records of the Open Era:
holding the world No. 1 position for 302 weeks; a 237 consecutive week stretch
at the top from 2004- 2008. He won 17 Grand Slam single titles, including seven
times Wimbledon Open, six times US Open, four times Australian Open and once
French open title. Federer has appeared in 24 men’s Grand Slam finals, with ten
in a row, both record, and appeared in 18 of 19 finals from the 2005 Wimbledon
Championships through to the Australian Open. He also won the Olympic Gold
Medal in doubles at the 2008 Summer Olympics Games and silver medal in singles
in 2012 Olympics games
Wimbledon Gentlemen’s Singles Champions of Open Era
Wednesday, March 13, 2013
Rafael "Rafa" Nadal Parera born 3 June 1986) is a Spanish professional tennis player and a former world no. 1. As of 11 March 2013, he is ranked no. 5 by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP). He is regarded as one of the greatest players of all time; also his success on clay has earned him the nickname "The King of Clay", and has prompted many experts to regard him as the greatest clay court player in history.
Nadal has won eleven Grand Slam singles titles, including an all-time record seven French Open titles, the 2008 Olympic gold medal in singles, a record 21 ATP World Tour Masters 1000 tournaments (tied with Roger Federer), and was also part of the Spain Davis Cup team that won the finals in 2004, 2008, 2009 and 2011. He completed the Career Grand Slam by winning the 2010 US Open, being the seventh player in history, and the youngest of four in the Open Era, to achieve it. He is the second male player to complete the Career Golden Slam (winner of the Career Grand Slam and the Olympic gold medal) after Andre Agassi. Nadal has at least two Grand Slam titles on each of the three surfaces (hard court, grass, and clay), the second player to achieve this feat after Mats Wilander. By winning the 2012 French Open, he became the second male player and is one of three to win any Grand Slam tournament seven times (Pete Sampras's and Federer's seven Wimbledon titles).
Nadal had a 32-match winning streak in 2008, starting at the 2008 Masters Series Hamburg to the 2008 Western & Southern Financial Group Masters and Women's Open, which included titles at Hamburg, the French Open (where he did not drop a set), Queen's Club, his first title at Wimbledon, and the Rogers Cup. In 2012, by winning the Monte-Carlo Masters, he became the only player to have won eight consecutive editions in any tournament during the history of tennis, and only the second player to win a single tournament for a total of eight times during Open Era. Nadal is the first (and only player to date) to win three consecutive Grand Slam titles on three different surfaces. And for that matter, he is also the only male player in history to have won three Grand Slam titles on three different surfaces in the same calendar year (Don Budge and Rod Laver completed their Grand Slam on grass and clay, but none on hard court). Nadal was ranked world no. 2, behind Federer, for a record 160 consecutive weeks before earning the top spot, which he held from 18 August 2008 to 5 July 2009.
He regained the world no.1 ranking on 7 June 2010, after winning his fifth French Open title. He held it until 3 July 2011, when Novak Djokovic replaced him as world no. 1. Nadal has held the no. 2 ranking for an ATP record 241 weeks. (Wikipedia)
Finals: 16
(11 titles, 5 runners-up)
Outcome
|
Year
|
Championship
|
Surface
|
Opponent
|
Score
|
Winner
|
2005
|
French Open
|
Clay
|
Mariano Puerta
|
6–7, 6–3, 6–1, 7–5
|
Winner
|
2006
|
French Open
|
Clay
|
Roger Federer
|
1–6, 6–1, 6–4, 7–6
|
Winner
|
2007
|
French Open
|
Clay
|
Roger Federer
|
6–3, 4–6, 6–3, 6–4
|
Winner
|
2008
|
French Open
|
Clay
|
Roger Federer
|
6–1, 6–3, 6–0
|
Winner
|
2010
|
French Open
|
Clay
|
Robin Söderling
|
6–4, 6–2, 6–4
|
Winner
|
2011
|
French Open
|
Clay
|
Roger Federer
|
7–5, 7–6, 5–7, 6–1
|
Winner
|
2012
|
French Open
|
Clay
|
Novak Djokovic
|
6–4, 6–3, 2–6, 7–5
|
Runner-up
|
2006
|
Wimbledon
|
Grass
|
Roger Federer
|
0–6, 6–7, 7–6, 3–6
|
Winner
|
2008
|
Wimbledon
|
Grass
|
Roger Federer
|
6–4, 6–4, 6–7, 6–7, 9–7
|
Winner
|
2010
|
Wimbledon
|
Grass
|
Tomáš Berdych
|
6–3, 7–5, 6–4
|
Runner-up
|
2007
|
Wimbledon
|
Grass
|
Roger Federer
|
6–7, 6–4, 6–7, 6–2, 2–6
|
Runner-up
|
2011
|
Wimbledon
|
Grass
|
Novak Djokovic
|
4–6, 1–6, 6–1, 3–6
|
Winner
|
2009
|
Australian Open
|
Hard
|
Roger Federer
|
7–5, 3–6, 7–6, 3–6, 6–2
|
Runner-up
|
2012
|
Australian Open
|
Hard
|
Novak Djokovic
|
7–5, 4–6, 2–6, 7–6, 5–7
|
Runner-up
|
2011
|
US Open
|
Hard
|
Novak Djokovic
|
2–6, 4–6, 7–6, 1–6
|
Winner
|
2010
|
US Open
|
Hard
|
Novak Djokovic
|
6–4, 5–7, 6–4, 6–2
|
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (born Ferdinand Lewis Alcindor, Jr., April 16, 1947) is a retired American professional basketball player. He is the NBA’s all-time leading scorer, with 38,387 points. During his career with the NBA’s Milwaukee Bucks and Los Angeles Lakers from 1969 to 1989, Abdul-Jabbar won six NBA championships and a record six regular season MVP Awards. In college at UCLA, he played on three consecutive national championship teams, and his high school team won 71 consecutive games. At the time of his retirement, Abdul-Jabbar was the NBA’s all-time leader in points scored, games played, minutes played, field goals made, field goal attempts, blocked shots, defensive rebounds, and personal fouls. Abdul-Jabbar also has
been an actor, a basketball coach, and an author. In 2012, he was selected as a U.S. cultural ambassador. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar left the game in 1989 at age 42, no NBA player had ever scored more points, blocked more shots, won more Most Valuable Player Awards, played in more All-Star Games or logged more seasons. His list of personal and team accomplishments is perhaps the most awesome in league history: Rookie of the Year, member of six NBA championship teams, six-time NBA MVP, two-time NBA Finals MVP, 19-time All-Star, two-time scoring champion, and a member of the NBA 35th and 50th Anniversary All-Time Teams. He also owned eight playoff records and seven All-Star records. No player achieved as much individual and team success as did Abdul-Jabbar.(Wikipedia)
been an actor, a basketball coach, and an author. In 2012, he was selected as a U.S. cultural ambassador. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar left the game in 1989 at age 42, no NBA player had ever scored more points, blocked more shots, won more Most Valuable Player Awards, played in more All-Star Games or logged more seasons. His list of personal and team accomplishments is perhaps the most awesome in league history: Rookie of the Year, member of six NBA championship teams, six-time NBA MVP, two-time NBA Finals MVP, 19-time All-Star, two-time scoring champion, and a member of the NBA 35th and 50th Anniversary All-Time Teams. He also owned eight playoff records and seven All-Star records. No player achieved as much individual and team success as did Abdul-Jabbar.(Wikipedia)
Tuesday, March 12, 2013
Cricket a summer sport played in England and some other Commonwealth countries between two teams of 11 players on a grass pitch.
In England, it is played between April and September
at many levels, from informal games on the beach to matches between schools,
villages and professional sides representing a county. In professional cricket the length
of a game ranges from 20 overs of six bowling
deliveries per side to test cricket played over five days.
The Laws of Cricket are maintained by the International
Cricket council (ICC) and the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) with additional Standard Playing
Conditions for Test matches and One Day Internationals. Players traditionally
play wearing white, although this is now being replaced in some competitions by
colored clothing. Cricket is a complicated game played with wooden bats and a
leather ball. Each team bats (= hits the ball) for an innings, trying to score
runs, while the other team bowls (= throws the ball) and fields (= tries to
catch or stop the ball after it has been hit). Their aim is to get the batsman
out for as few runs as possible.
Two batsmen are in (= on the pitch) at the
same time, each defending a wicket (= three upright wooden posts with two short
pieces of wood resting on top of them) which the bowler tries to hit. Each
bowler in turn bowls an over (= throws the ball six times from the
same end of
the pitch). The two wickets are 22 yards apart and runs are scored when the
batsmen run between them after they have hit the ball. A batsman can also score
four runs if he hits the ball over the boundary (= a line round the edge of the
pitch) or six runs if it goes over the boundary before it hits the ground. A
batsman can be out for a variety of reasons and an innings usually ends when
all but
one of the batting team are out. Matches may last for several days,
though one-day and limited-over matches are popular. In England and Wales, 18
counties compete each year in two divisions in the county championship. They
also compete in the Twenty20 Cup, a series of limited-over matches in which
each team bowls 20 overs, which started in 2003. The English national team
plays test matches against other national
sides including Australia, New
Zealand, South Africa, India, Pakistan and the West Indies and in the Cricket
World Cup which takes place every four years. England and Australia also
compete for the Ashes, a series of 5-day test matches. Asia cup is also played
among India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh every year.
Monday, March 11, 2013
Cristiano Ronaldo dos Santos Aveiro, known as Cristiano Ronaldo born 5 February 1985), is a Portuguese footballer who plays as a forward for Spanish La Liga club Real Madrid and is the captain of the Portuguese national team. Ronaldo became the most expensive footballer in history after moving from Manchester United to Real Madrid in a transfer worth £80 million (€93.9 million/$131.6 million). In addition, his contract with Real Madrid, in which he is paid €12 million per year, makes him one of the highest-paid footballers in the world, and his buyout clause is valued at €1 billion as per his contract.
Ronaldo began his career as a youth player for Andorinha, where he played for two years, before moving to C.D. Nacional. In 1997, he made a move to Portuguese giants Sporting Clube de Portugal. Ronaldo caught the attention of Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson, who signed him for £12.24 million (€15 million) in 2003. The following season, Ronaldo won his first club honour, the FA Cup.
Ronaldo was the first player to win all four main PFA and FWA awards, doing so in 2007. In 2008, Ronaldo won the Ballon d'Or. He placed second in the Ballon d'Or in 2007, 2009, 2011 and 2012. He was awarded the European Golden Shoe in both 2008 and 2011. In 2008, he won three of the four main PFA and FWA trophies and was named the FIFPro Player of the Year, World Soccer Player of the Year, Onze d'Or, and the FIFA World Player of the Year. In 2007 and 2008, Ronaldo was named FWA Footballer of the Year. Ronaldo was the inaugural winner of the FIFA Puskás Award in 2009.
Ronaldo holds numerous former and current scoring records, including records for most goals scored in a season for Real Madrid, most goals scored per minute in La Liga, first top European league player to reach 40 goals in a single season in two consecutive years, fastest Real Madrid player to reach one hundred league goals, and the first player ever to score against every team in a single season in La Liga.
Ronaldo is a Portuguese international and made his debut against Kazakhstan in August 2003. He has since participated in five major tournaments; UEFA Euro 2004, the 2006 FIFA World Cup, UEFA Euro 2008, the 2010 FIFA World Cup and UEFA Euro 2012. He scored his first international goal in the opening game of the Euro 2004 against Greece, in addition to helping Portugal reach the final. He took over the captaincy of the side in July 2008 and went on to captain Portugal to the semi-finals at the Euro 2012 and finished the competition as the joint best scorer with three goals. On 16 October 2012, Ronaldo won his 100th cap against Northern Ireland, making him the third highest capped player for Portugal and became the third youngest European to reach a century of international appearances. In October 2012, he became the first sportsperson to reach 50 million followers on Facebook. (Wikipedia.)
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