Name Zinedine Yazid Zidane
Born June 23, 1972 (Marseille, France )
Position Midfielder
Caps 108 (35 goals)
Clubs Cannes AS, Girondins Bordeaux, Juventus, Real Madrid
Trophies France1x World Champion (1998)
1x European Champion (2000)
Real Madrid 1x Intercontinental Cup ( 2002)
1x European Super Cup ( 2002)
1x European Cup (2002)
1x Spanish Champion (2003)
2x Spanish Super Cup (2001, 2003) Juventus
1x Intercontinental Cup (1996)
1x European Super Cup (1996)
2x Italian Champion (1997, 1998)
1x Italian Super Cup (1997)
Honours 3x FIFA World Player of the Year (1998, 2000, 2003)
1x European Footballer of the Year (1998)
2x French Footballer of the Year (1998, 2002)
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- Biography -
The outstanding player of his generation, Zinedine Zidane led France to World Cup glory in 1998 and to the European Championship in 2000. He was a superb passer of the ball first and foremost, an outstanding playmaker that fed his forwards with great passes.
But Zidane could produce goals himself as well, most notably the winning goals in the 1998 World Cup Final and the 2002 Champion’s League Final. Zidane was named European Footballer of the Year in 1998, and FIFA World Footballer of the Year in 1998, 2000, and 2003.
-------------------------------------------------
Author http://www.football-history.net/who-is-who/z/zinedine-zidane.htm
วันอังคารที่ 17 พฤศจิกายน พ.ศ. 2552
Johan Cruyff
Name Johan Hendrikus Cruijff
Born 25 april 1947 (Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
Position Forward, Attacking Midfielder
Caps 48 (33 goals)
Clubs Ajax, FC Barcelona, Los Angeles Aztecs, Washington Diplomats, Levante, Feyenoord As a manager Johan Cruyff was active for Ajax and Barcelona
Trophies Ajax 1x Intercontinental Cup (1972)
3x European Cup (1971, 1972, 1973)
2x European Super Cup (1972, 1973)
8x Dutch Championship (1966, '67, '68, '70, '72, '73, '82, '83)
4x Dutch Cup (1967, 1971, 1972, 1983)
Barcelona 1x Spanish Championship (1974)
1x Spanish Cup (1978)
Feyenoord1x Dutch Championship (1984)
1x Dutch Cup (1984)
As a manager Johan Cruyff won the European Cup (1992),
the European Cup Winners Cup (1989),
four Spanish Championships (1991, '92, '93, '94),
and the Spanish Cup (1992) with Barcelona, and the European Cup Winners Cup (1987) and two Dutch Cups (1986, 1987) with Ajax
Honours 3x European Footballer of the Year (1971, 1973, 1974)1x IFFHS European Player of the Century
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- Biography -
Johan Cruyff, or Cruijff as the name is actualy spelt, was the star of the exciting 1974 Dutch "Total Football" World Cup team and the Ajax Amsterdam team that won a hat-trick of European Cups in the early Seventies. Three times European footballer of the year, Cruyff was the most gifted European player of his generation, and probably of all time.
His supreme technical skills, speed and acceleration, and his tactical insights made Cruyff virtually impossible to defend against. Wearing his trademark Nr.14 jersey, he usually played the centre forward position, but would often drop deep or move to the wing to confuse and draw out his markers. The tremendous tactical insight he had displayed as a player, enabled Cruyff to go on to become a world class coach after hanging up his boots in 1984.
Building on the legacy of his mentor Rinus Michels, Cruyff proved himself the most unrelenting apostle of attacking football in the history of the game. Possession of the ball played a crucial part in his football philosophy. Cruyff abhorred the overly physical game that was dominant in the 1980's. He instructed his players not to go running mindlessly up and down the pitch, but to concentrate on combination play and let the ball do the work instead.
He began his coaching career at Ajax, but it was at Barcelona that his revolutionary vision of a free flowing attacking style of football came to real fruition when he assembled a team that included Michael Laudrup, Hristo Stoichkov, Ronald Koeman and Josep Guardiola. Fondly remembered by Catalonians as the 'Dream Team', they succeeded in winning a host of domestic trophies as well as the 1992 European Cup.
-------------------------------------------------------
author http://www.football-history.net/who-is-who/c/johan-cruyff.htm
Born 25 april 1947 (Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
Position Forward, Attacking Midfielder
Caps 48 (33 goals)
Clubs Ajax, FC Barcelona, Los Angeles Aztecs, Washington Diplomats, Levante, Feyenoord As a manager Johan Cruyff was active for Ajax and Barcelona
Trophies Ajax 1x Intercontinental Cup (1972)
3x European Cup (1971, 1972, 1973)
2x European Super Cup (1972, 1973)
8x Dutch Championship (1966, '67, '68, '70, '72, '73, '82, '83)
4x Dutch Cup (1967, 1971, 1972, 1983)
Barcelona 1x Spanish Championship (1974)
1x Spanish Cup (1978)
Feyenoord1x Dutch Championship (1984)
1x Dutch Cup (1984)
As a manager Johan Cruyff won the European Cup (1992),
the European Cup Winners Cup (1989),
four Spanish Championships (1991, '92, '93, '94),
and the Spanish Cup (1992) with Barcelona, and the European Cup Winners Cup (1987) and two Dutch Cups (1986, 1987) with Ajax
Honours 3x European Footballer of the Year (1971, 1973, 1974)1x IFFHS European Player of the Century
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- Biography -
Johan Cruyff, or Cruijff as the name is actualy spelt, was the star of the exciting 1974 Dutch "Total Football" World Cup team and the Ajax Amsterdam team that won a hat-trick of European Cups in the early Seventies. Three times European footballer of the year, Cruyff was the most gifted European player of his generation, and probably of all time.
His supreme technical skills, speed and acceleration, and his tactical insights made Cruyff virtually impossible to defend against. Wearing his trademark Nr.14 jersey, he usually played the centre forward position, but would often drop deep or move to the wing to confuse and draw out his markers. The tremendous tactical insight he had displayed as a player, enabled Cruyff to go on to become a world class coach after hanging up his boots in 1984.
Building on the legacy of his mentor Rinus Michels, Cruyff proved himself the most unrelenting apostle of attacking football in the history of the game. Possession of the ball played a crucial part in his football philosophy. Cruyff abhorred the overly physical game that was dominant in the 1980's. He instructed his players not to go running mindlessly up and down the pitch, but to concentrate on combination play and let the ball do the work instead.
He began his coaching career at Ajax, but it was at Barcelona that his revolutionary vision of a free flowing attacking style of football came to real fruition when he assembled a team that included Michael Laudrup, Hristo Stoichkov, Ronald Koeman and Josep Guardiola. Fondly remembered by Catalonians as the 'Dream Team', they succeeded in winning a host of domestic trophies as well as the 1992 European Cup.
-------------------------------------------------------
author http://www.football-history.net/who-is-who/c/johan-cruyff.htm
วันจันทร์ที่ 16 พฤศจิกายน พ.ศ. 2552
Pele'
Name Edson Arantes do Nascimento (1)
Born 23 october 1940 (1) (São Paulo, Brazil)
Position Striker
Caps 91 (77 goals)
Clubs Santos, New York Cosmos
Trophies Brazil 3x World Champion (1958, 1962, 1970)
Santos2x Intercontinental Cup (1962, 1963)
2x Copa Libertadores (1962, 1963)
6x Brazilian Champion (1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1968)
New York Cosmos1x U.S. Champion (1977)
Honours 1x IFFHS Player of the Century
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- Biography -
Ask football fans to name the best ever footballer, and chances are they will come up with the name Pelé, even if they are too young to have ever seen him play. It speaks volumes about the strength of the legend that has sprung up around the famous Brazilian forward. Does that mean the choice is unfounded? Not really. With three World Cups to his name, and a total career tally of more than twelve hundred goals, there can be no doubting Pelé's pedigree.
Pelé(2) was born under the name Edson Arantes do Nascimento in the village Três Corações, the son of a footballer known as Dondinho, who's career was thwarted by a bad knee. He grew up in poverty in the town of Bauru in the province of São Paulo. As a boy Pelé helped alleviate the family's financials woes by cleaning shoes at the local train station.(3) He started playing football in the streets, using a stocking stuffed with rags and paper as a ball. In 1954 Pelé was picked to play in the newly founded youth team of the club his father had played for, Bauru Athletic Club. Things were handled professionally, Pelé received a playing fee and the team was coached by the former Brazilian international Waldemar de Brito, who played for Brazil during the 1934 World Cup.(4)
In school Pelé performed abysmally, and was held back three times, but on the football field his star was rising. It wasn't long before clubs started to show an interest in the talented young striker. Following the advice of Waldemar de Brito, Pelé opted to join Santos CF, a successful football club from the coastal town of the same name. Santos played in the Paulista, the league centred around São Paulo. Pelé played his first official for Santos at the age of sixteen.(5) That year he immediately made his mark, scoring 36 goals in 29 matches. The next season Pelé was even more impressive, scoring 58 goals in 38 matches.
His overwhelming debut as a professional footballer quickly resulted in a place in the Brazilian national team and a spot in the seleção for the 1958 World Cup. A knee injury prevented him form participating in the first two games of the tournament, but in the final match of the group stage, against the Soviet Union, Pelé made his World Cup debut. He failed to score a goal in that game, but in the matches that followed the young forward asserted himself. He scored the only goal in the quarter final match against Wales, a hat-trick in the semi final against France, and two more goals in the final against Sweden. Aged seventeen, he was (and is) the youngest World Cup winner in history.
Pelé was quick, strong, a good header and dribbler of the ball, but above all, he possessed a powerful and accurate strike in both legs. The avalanche of goals he produced for Santos, where he teamed up with fellow internationals like Zito and Carlos Alberto, helped the club win a string of trophies. They won the Brazilian national championship, the Taça Brasil, five times in a row, from 1961 to 1965. In 1962 and 1963 the club won the Copa Libertadores, followed both times by victory in the Intercontinental Cup, beating Eusebio's Benfica and Gianni Rivera's AC Milan respectively.
There was little joy for Pelé at World Cups in the 1960's. In 1962 he was injured out of the tournament early on, and had to watch as a spectator how his team-mates successfully defended their title, with Garincha playing the starring role in his absence. In 1966 the World Cup ended in a bitter disappointment, as the reigning champions crashed out in the group stage of the tournament. Bitterly disappointed, Pelé decided to end his international career. His retirement from the intentional stage would last for two years, but as the 1970 Wold Cup drew nearer, Pelé, who scored his thousandth goal as a footballer in 1969(6) , changed his mind and returned to the seleção.(7)
He would not live to regret his decision. The 1970 Brazilian national team is regarded by many as the best ever national team. Playing a swinging and attack-minded form of samba-football, they captured Brazil's third World Cup. Starring roles were played by the likes of Carlos Alberto, Gerson, Jairzinho, Tostão, Rivelino, and of course Pelé. In the final of the tournament Italy were hopelessly outclassed and had to concede four goals, in spite of their defensive approach to the game. The emphatic 1970 World Cup triumph gave Pelé to end his international career on a high note. He played his last game for Brazil in the summer of 1971, against Yugoslavia in Rio's Maracanã stadium.
In 1974, at the age of 34 years old, Pelé decided that the time had come to hang up his boots all together. But his retirement from football would prove to be short lived. A year later Pelé, motivated in part by financial problems he found himself in at the time, decided to come out of retirement. He accepted an offer to join New York Cosmos, one of the clubs that formed the famous North American Soccer League.(8) In the NASL Pelé earned a salary that could only have dreamed about during his years with Santos. He repaid the league by playing the role of goodwill ambassador for football in the United States to perfection.
On October 1st, 1977, in front of a 75,000 strong crowd(9) , Pelé played his last match, a game between New York Cosmos and Santos, with the great man playing a half for each team. This time his retirement as a player would prove permanent. New York Cosmos had won the NASL that year, so that 'O Rei' could leave the club scene just as he had left the international scene, with his head held high. It was the end of a career that, if friendlies are included, saw him score 1283 goals in 1367 matches.(10) After his retirement Pelé has continued playing the role of goodwill ambassador for football. He was also Brazilian minister for Sport for a while.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
#01: In the Brazilian birth register, Pelé's date of birth is October 21, 1940. His given name is listed as Edison. Both are the result of sloppiness by the civil servant involved, according to Pelé. Pelé, My Live (Dutch Translation: Amsterdam 2006), 10-12.
#02: There is much discussion about the origin and meaning of the name Pelé. The word has no obvious meaning. According to Pelé, he picked it up as a result of him mispronouncing, as a child, the name of a goalkeeper called Bilé, whom he admired and often imitated. His family nicknamed him Dico as child. Pelé, Mijn leven (Amsterdam 2006), 33-35.
#03: Pelé, Mijn leven (Amsterdam 2006), 9-17.
#04: Pelé, Mijn leven (Amsterdam 2006), 41-43.
#05: Pelé, Mijn leven (Amsterdam 2006), 45-48.
#06 Pelé, Mijn leven (Amsterdam 2006), 130-134.
#07 Pelé, Mijn leven (Amsterdam 2006), 135-136.
#08 Pelé found himself on the brink of bankruptcy after having lost the money he had earned as a player due to bad investments, a fate that had befallen him once before in the 1960's. Pelé, Mijn leven (Amsterdam 2006), 111-112 en 167-169.
#09 Pelé, Mijn leven (Amsterdam 2006), 180.
#10 Pelé, Mijn leven (Amsterdam 2006), 275.
author -- http://www.football-history.net/who-is-who/p/pele.htm
Born 23 october 1940 (1) (São Paulo, Brazil)
Position Striker
Caps 91 (77 goals)
Clubs Santos, New York Cosmos
Trophies Brazil 3x World Champion (1958, 1962, 1970)
Santos2x Intercontinental Cup (1962, 1963)
2x Copa Libertadores (1962, 1963)
6x Brazilian Champion (1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1968)
New York Cosmos1x U.S. Champion (1977)
Honours 1x IFFHS Player of the Century
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- Biography -
Ask football fans to name the best ever footballer, and chances are they will come up with the name Pelé, even if they are too young to have ever seen him play. It speaks volumes about the strength of the legend that has sprung up around the famous Brazilian forward. Does that mean the choice is unfounded? Not really. With three World Cups to his name, and a total career tally of more than twelve hundred goals, there can be no doubting Pelé's pedigree.
Pelé(2) was born under the name Edson Arantes do Nascimento in the village Três Corações, the son of a footballer known as Dondinho, who's career was thwarted by a bad knee. He grew up in poverty in the town of Bauru in the province of São Paulo. As a boy Pelé helped alleviate the family's financials woes by cleaning shoes at the local train station.(3) He started playing football in the streets, using a stocking stuffed with rags and paper as a ball. In 1954 Pelé was picked to play in the newly founded youth team of the club his father had played for, Bauru Athletic Club. Things were handled professionally, Pelé received a playing fee and the team was coached by the former Brazilian international Waldemar de Brito, who played for Brazil during the 1934 World Cup.(4)
In school Pelé performed abysmally, and was held back three times, but on the football field his star was rising. It wasn't long before clubs started to show an interest in the talented young striker. Following the advice of Waldemar de Brito, Pelé opted to join Santos CF, a successful football club from the coastal town of the same name. Santos played in the Paulista, the league centred around São Paulo. Pelé played his first official for Santos at the age of sixteen.(5) That year he immediately made his mark, scoring 36 goals in 29 matches. The next season Pelé was even more impressive, scoring 58 goals in 38 matches.
His overwhelming debut as a professional footballer quickly resulted in a place in the Brazilian national team and a spot in the seleção for the 1958 World Cup. A knee injury prevented him form participating in the first two games of the tournament, but in the final match of the group stage, against the Soviet Union, Pelé made his World Cup debut. He failed to score a goal in that game, but in the matches that followed the young forward asserted himself. He scored the only goal in the quarter final match against Wales, a hat-trick in the semi final against France, and two more goals in the final against Sweden. Aged seventeen, he was (and is) the youngest World Cup winner in history.
Pelé was quick, strong, a good header and dribbler of the ball, but above all, he possessed a powerful and accurate strike in both legs. The avalanche of goals he produced for Santos, where he teamed up with fellow internationals like Zito and Carlos Alberto, helped the club win a string of trophies. They won the Brazilian national championship, the Taça Brasil, five times in a row, from 1961 to 1965. In 1962 and 1963 the club won the Copa Libertadores, followed both times by victory in the Intercontinental Cup, beating Eusebio's Benfica and Gianni Rivera's AC Milan respectively.
There was little joy for Pelé at World Cups in the 1960's. In 1962 he was injured out of the tournament early on, and had to watch as a spectator how his team-mates successfully defended their title, with Garincha playing the starring role in his absence. In 1966 the World Cup ended in a bitter disappointment, as the reigning champions crashed out in the group stage of the tournament. Bitterly disappointed, Pelé decided to end his international career. His retirement from the intentional stage would last for two years, but as the 1970 Wold Cup drew nearer, Pelé, who scored his thousandth goal as a footballer in 1969(6) , changed his mind and returned to the seleção.(7)
He would not live to regret his decision. The 1970 Brazilian national team is regarded by many as the best ever national team. Playing a swinging and attack-minded form of samba-football, they captured Brazil's third World Cup. Starring roles were played by the likes of Carlos Alberto, Gerson, Jairzinho, Tostão, Rivelino, and of course Pelé. In the final of the tournament Italy were hopelessly outclassed and had to concede four goals, in spite of their defensive approach to the game. The emphatic 1970 World Cup triumph gave Pelé to end his international career on a high note. He played his last game for Brazil in the summer of 1971, against Yugoslavia in Rio's Maracanã stadium.
In 1974, at the age of 34 years old, Pelé decided that the time had come to hang up his boots all together. But his retirement from football would prove to be short lived. A year later Pelé, motivated in part by financial problems he found himself in at the time, decided to come out of retirement. He accepted an offer to join New York Cosmos, one of the clubs that formed the famous North American Soccer League.(8) In the NASL Pelé earned a salary that could only have dreamed about during his years with Santos. He repaid the league by playing the role of goodwill ambassador for football in the United States to perfection.
On October 1st, 1977, in front of a 75,000 strong crowd(9) , Pelé played his last match, a game between New York Cosmos and Santos, with the great man playing a half for each team. This time his retirement as a player would prove permanent. New York Cosmos had won the NASL that year, so that 'O Rei' could leave the club scene just as he had left the international scene, with his head held high. It was the end of a career that, if friendlies are included, saw him score 1283 goals in 1367 matches.(10) After his retirement Pelé has continued playing the role of goodwill ambassador for football. He was also Brazilian minister for Sport for a while.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
#01: In the Brazilian birth register, Pelé's date of birth is October 21, 1940. His given name is listed as Edison. Both are the result of sloppiness by the civil servant involved, according to Pelé. Pelé, My Live (Dutch Translation: Amsterdam 2006), 10-12.
#02: There is much discussion about the origin and meaning of the name Pelé. The word has no obvious meaning. According to Pelé, he picked it up as a result of him mispronouncing, as a child, the name of a goalkeeper called Bilé, whom he admired and often imitated. His family nicknamed him Dico as child. Pelé, Mijn leven (Amsterdam 2006), 33-35.
#03: Pelé, Mijn leven (Amsterdam 2006), 9-17.
#04: Pelé, Mijn leven (Amsterdam 2006), 41-43.
#05: Pelé, Mijn leven (Amsterdam 2006), 45-48.
#06 Pelé, Mijn leven (Amsterdam 2006), 130-134.
#07 Pelé, Mijn leven (Amsterdam 2006), 135-136.
#08 Pelé found himself on the brink of bankruptcy after having lost the money he had earned as a player due to bad investments, a fate that had befallen him once before in the 1960's. Pelé, Mijn leven (Amsterdam 2006), 111-112 en 167-169.
#09 Pelé, Mijn leven (Amsterdam 2006), 180.
#10 Pelé, Mijn leven (Amsterdam 2006), 275.
author -- http://www.football-history.net/who-is-who/p/pele.htm
สมัครสมาชิก:
บทความ (Atom)
