Thursday 25 August 2011

Zé Roberto

Zé Roberto biography
An international soccer player from Brazil, Zé Roberto was born on July 06, 1974 in Ipiranga, Sao Paulo, Brazil. At present, he plays for the Hamburger SV as a midfielder specifically at Central Midfield position in the highest soccer league in Germany, 1. Bundesliga. For Hamburger SV, Roberto wears shirt number 8. Roberto stands 5 feet and 6 inches tall, and possesses great skills to play with his left foot as left foot is his dominating foot. Roberto has represented Portuguesa, Real Madrid, Flamengo, Bayer Leverkusen, Bayern Munich, Santos and Hamburg so far in different leagues matches and friendly matches in his professional senior career. At the moment, he is legally bound to play with Hamburger SV till June 30, 2011 as per the contracts terms. The sports agency who deals with his transfers, contract and other related activities is MJF PUBLICIDADE E PROMOCOES S/C LTDA. Apart from the club soccer career, he has also performed in international matches, where he has represented Brazil national soccer team in friendly matches and tournaments where he has played 83 matches and has scored 6 goals as well. In club career, so far Zé Roberto has played 231 matches and has spent about 18126 minutes in the field. His stats include scoring 24 goals and have assisted in 50 goals. During his tenor in club soccer so far, he has received 24 yellow cards and no red cards were shown to him. 24 times he was substituted on and 76 times he was substituted off. At the mid of 2009, his market value was assessed to be €5,000,000 that is equal to £4,450,000.

Zé Roberto

Ze Roberto Show - Bayern munchen/Santos/Hamburg

Zé Roberto

Dida

Dida biography
Full name: Nelson Jesus da Silva
Date of birth: October 7th 1973.
Place of birth: Irará, Bahia
Position: Goalkeeper
Height: 1.95 m
Clubs and teams: Vitória, Cruzeiro, Lugano (Swizerland), Corinthians and Milan (Italy)
Caps: 135 (85)
Goals conceded: 65
World Cups: 1998 and 2002
Titles won: World Cup (2002); America Cup (1999), Confederations Cup (1999 and 2005), bronze medal in the Atlanta Summer Olympics(1996)

Dida was substitute of Taffarel, in 1998, and of Marcos, in 2002.
Since after the World Cup, Dida has been the principal goalkeeper of the Brazilian team.
Tall (1.95 m) and agile, Dida is an better than average penalties kicks catcher.
It is a consensus that he is the best Brazilian goalkeeper today.

Dida

Dida Penalty-killer

Brazil vs Ghana 3 - 0 World Cup 2006 - HD

Wednesday 24 August 2011

Dunga

Dunga biography
Carlos Caetano Bledorn Verri (born October 31, 1963 in Iju�, Rio Grande do Sul), commonly known as Dunga, is a Brazilian former football defensive midfielder, of Italian and German descent, and a World Champion for Brazil in the 1994 World Cup. He is now national coach of the Brazilian national team. Dunga's nickname is Portuguese for "Dopey", the smallest of the Seven Dwarfs (Dunga's uncle gave him this nickname when he believed that he would never grow to a tall stature).

Dunga

Dunga vs Ronaldinho World Cup 2010

Ronaldo : Dunga It Is Me By hosam ronaldo

Cafu

Cafu biography
Marcos Evangelista de Moraes (born June 7, 1970 in S�o Paulo), better known as Cafu, is a two-time FIFA World Cup winning Brazilian footballer. Cafu is the correct spelling of his name (as opposed to Caf�). He was given this nickname due to his speed up and down the right flank which was reminiscent of Cafuringa, a legendary Brazilian forward from the 1970s. Cafu was named by Pel� as one of the top 125 greatest living footballers in March 2004. He is best known for his tireless overlapping runs.

Cafu

Cafu....

Cafu at his young age

Zagallo

Zagallo biography

Mário Jorge Lobo Zagallo was born in Maceió, Alagoas, to a family of Lebanese and Italian heritage.

Zagallo started his footballer career in América in 1948.[1] He was the first footballer to win the World Cup as a player (1958, 1962), as a manager (1970), and as assistant coach (World Cup 1994), all with the Brazilian national team. He also coached his country to a fourth-place finish in the 1974 World Cup and to a second-place finish in the 1998 World Cup.[2]

Zagallo guided the United Arab Emirates to their first World Cup in 1990, but was dismissed from his post before the tournament. Zagallo was assistant coach (as in 1994, the main coach was Carlos Alberto Parreira) of the Brazilian team in the 2006 FIFA World Cup, which was eliminated by France.

As a player, Zagallo was the left-forward of the Brazilian teams in the Cups of 1958 and 1962; he scored goals in both tournaments, including one in the final against the Swedish team, in 1958. What he lacked in physical stature, Zagallo compensated with exquisite technique and by always being the first man back to defend if his team lost the ball.

In 1970, Zagallo assumed the national team after the previous coach João Saldanha resigned alleging that he was suffering external pressures to include players in the team. Zagallo had the task – and succeeded in performing it – of finding a place in the team for a group of outstanding players such as Pelé, Gérson, Tostão, Jairzinho and Rivelino. In his 1977 autobiography, Pelé writes that Zagallo initially restricted his team from playing their attacking game at the 1970 World Cup. Based on a chess format, Zagallo organized a sophisticated method, which he ultimately had to abandon due to player complaints. His side won all six of their matches, scoring 19 times in the process. It was the first time football had witnessed a 5-3-2 formation that could seamlessly transform itself into a 3-5-2 and back again.

On July 23, 2001 the Brazilian football team was defeated (0-2) in the quarter-final of the 2001 Copa America tournament by the low-ranked (and last minute invitee) Honduras. Zagallo, stunned, stated that he never thought to live long enough to see the powerful Brazil being defeated by Honduras.

He is famously superstitious about the number 13,[3] believing that the 1958 and 1994 World Cups were special for him (and therefore for Brazil), because 5+8=13 and 9+4=13. Regarding the 1994 victory, he used to state that the phrase Brasil Campeão ("Champions Brazil") has 13 letters.

After being introduced by Cláudio Coutinho in 1978, Zagallo was one of the managers to fully use attacking full backs, a concept he has always remained loyal to—as the importance of Cafu, Leonardo and Roberto Carlos to the Seleçao’s forward play in 1994 and 1998 stands to prove.

Zagallo