Everland Football Magazine

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Many people say that this is the biggest sport in the world. With an fantastic history and legends like Pele, Maradona its hard to disagree.Today the game of Football is maybe bigger than ever. The game is played all over the world at many different levels. Children, grown ups and pros, every one plays the game.Almost every country in the world has its one pro league. The biggest of these leagues are located in Europe. Here you can find leagues like Premier league (England), Serie A ( Italy)La liga (spain). These three are the biggest in the world. Almost every top player has either played here ore are playing here at the moment.Media’s interests in the game are enormous. Almost every big game played is watched buy hundred of thousands people across the world. They make television programs witch only interest is football. The newspapers have their pages filled with results and roomers about teams and players every day. It doesn’t matter were you look football is every where in today’s society.Football players have an enormous status today they have the status of a super hero.This makes the pressure on the players enormous. They are being watched both of and on the field. But they get paid pretty well too. Today’s salary’s is really big and most of the players earn so much money they don’t know what to do with them all.The thing that makes football so big is that it is the people’s game. Every one can play it the only thing you need is a ball and a mate. That’s why the game of football is the biggest game in the world.

Its nothing bigger than wining the world cup. Every football player dreams about it.The world Cup is the biggest cup for international teams. Thru out history many legends has come and go in this tournament, but still today winning the World Cup is the biggest thing a football player can do.1930 was the first year the tournament took place. After that it has been played every four year accept durin the world war two 1942, 1946 when the tournament got cancelled.The qualification to the tournaments is different depending on witch part of the world the country is from. The different zones are: Africa, Asia, North and Central America and Caribbean, South America, Oceania, Europe. So the countries in Asia qualifies buy playing each other and so on. Before each tournament FIFA decides how many world cup spotsEvery zone will get.The qualification round starts about three years before the main tournament. Out of all this countries participating only 32 will go to the main event the World Cup.The 32 teams that manage to go to the main event gets divided in to 8 groups with 4 teams in each one of them. The place for the main event is different from time to time. Eight years before the tournament, FIFA decides witch country the tournament will be held in.At the main event hundreds of thousand people gather. They have travelled from all over the world just to show their team and country support.Every team jn the group meet each other one time. The two first teams qualifies to the playoffs. Sixteen teams qualifies to the play offs. And after that one by one teams starts to disappear. The rounds are, second round(16 teams left), Quarterfinal(8 teams left)Semi finals(four teams left) Final(two teams left).

Kaka

A Ricardo Izecson do Santos Leite, also known as Kaka is one of the new generation players.He is born 1982 in Brasilia, Brazil. Even his young age Kaka has already won a World Cup and that was in 2002.He made his début in the Brazilian team São Paulo FC as an 18 year old. Kaka made success their and was later on drafted to the Italian team Milan in 2003. With Milan he has won both the champion’s league and the Italian league. He is one of the big factors to Milan’s recently big wins. He has also won many individual prices like, the best foreigner in the Italian league 2004. He was also given the spectacular price as Europe’s best footballer in 2007.This young man has the world under his feet’s and theirs no limit to his capacity.

Lionel Messi

He is only twenty years old and is already one of the best players in the world.Lionel Messi has done something that every young kid dreams about; he has gone from a talent youngster to a world-class player in no time.He was born in 1987, argentine and started to play football at a very early stage.When he was 13 year old a Barcelona talent scout spotted him. He moved to Spain where he soon started to develop his skills even more. When he was sixteen he made his debut in Barcelona’s A team. After a while Messi was regular in the team and people started to compare him with the great Maradona. Because of this he has been given the nicknameMessidona. Today Messi is one of the best players in the world. He has won both the champions league and Spanish league with his Barcelona. He is also great in the Argentine national team witch he led to a final in the Copa America.

Ronaldo Luís Nazário is like so many others great players born in Brazil.He has been compared like legends like Pele and Maradona. He has won the world cup and has been awarded as the best player in the world at three times.Ronaldo Luís Nazário was born in 1976 in Brazil. Like so many others Ronaldo came from a poor family and started to play soccer on the streets of Rio.He started his career as a pro in the Brazilian team Cruzeiro. He made himself famous there for a striker with an enormous speed. He later on moved to the Nederland’s to lay with the club Psv Eindhoven. After some good years there he later moved to the great club Barcelona.He participated in his first world cup 1994. Ronaldo was only eighteen years old then and he spent most of his time on the bench. Brazil won that tournament and that was the first world cup victory for Ronaldo. Four years later Ronaldo was 21 and the world cup in French took place. Now Ronaldo was the one ho was suppose to lead Brazil to victory. He didn’t manage to do that and brazil lost the final against the home nation France. But Brazil and Ronaldo would get their revenge four years later they won the World Cup. Ronaldo made eight goals and was one of the best players at the whole tournament. The world cup after that Brazil didn’t win but Ronaldo won the goal league and went in the history books as the best scorer in the world cups history. He has scored fifteen goals in nineteen matches in the world cup.Today Ronaldo plays in the Italian team Milan. Before that he has played in many of god teams like Real Madrid, Inter and Barcelona.

Ronaldo de Assis Moreira is one of these many great Brazilian Football players.Old players like Pele Zico and so one has named Ronaldinho as the best football players of all time.He was born in 1980, Porto Brazil. He made his debut in the Brazilian national team as an eighteen year old. He was then a great talent with the world under his feat at the age of twenty one he moved to France and the big club Paris-SG. Ronaldinhos big break came at the world cup 2002. He played a great tournament and scored an historical goal at the semi-finals against England. Brazil won the tournament and after this Ronaldinho was hunted buy clubs like Manchester United and Inter. 2003 after three years in Paris he decides to do as so many other great Brazilian football players done before him, to join Barcelona. Barcelona paid about 250 million c crones for the Brazilian. You can say that he paid back the money pretty soon. At his first year at Barcelona he led the team to victory in the Spanish league.2004 he was announced as the best player in the world he also got the price the year after that in 2005. He has won the Spanish division with Barcelona two times and the Champions league one time.At the world cup 2006 everybody thought he would be the king of the tournament. Brazil and Ronaldinho didn’t play well and they left the tournament in the quarterfinals after a defeat against France. Otherwise Ronaldinhos carer is a fairytale with many victories and glories goals.

He is named as the best Football players of all time. He won his first world cup at the age of 17 years old Pele ore as his real name Edson Arantes do Nascimento is probably the greatest player the world has ever seen.Edson Arantes do Nascimento was born 1940 in Três Corações, Brazil. Pele started his great carer as a pro in the Brazilian club team Santos FC 1956. The same year he participated in the world cup in Sweden. He was only seventeen years at the time but he already shown his capacity as a great football player. Pele Scored six goals in the tournament and two of those goals he scored in the Finals against the home team Sweden. Brazil won the tournament and Pele was a world champion as a seventeen year old.After this he fast became one of the big ones when it comes to soccer. Home in Brazil he was glorified as a good. Every team in Europe wanted to buy him but he refused and stayed in his home and birth team Santos.Pele won the world Cup two times more, both in 1962 and 1970. He was famous for his abilities to score goals and his enormous technique and speed. Totally Pele won the world cup three times. No other player has ever won the world cup so many times. Only that makes him a historical football player. His last world cup was the one 1970 he later decided to end his carer at age of 30. He got offers from club all over the world but Pele stayed loyal to his club Santos Fc.1974 he decided to make an comeback as a football player. He started to play in the American League with the club New York Cosmos. He played there for three years until 1977 when he decided to retire for good.After his carer as a football player Pele has done many of things. His been activate in politics in his home country and has also worked as an Ambassador for football all over the world.

1958, Sweden World cup

Pele is only seventeen years old and scores two goals in the finals against Sweden.This was the beginning of something special the world’s best football player of all time has showed his self for the world.

1986, Mexico World Cup

Maradona makes an historical game against England in the quarterfinal. This game was going to make Maradona historical for two reasons, one of the most beautiful and spectacular goals ever seen, and one of the biggest cheat goals the world has ever seen. This game was all about Maradona and nobody will ever forget this game especially not the Englishmen.

1994, USA World cup

Maradona does an amazing game in the first group stage with his argentine. After the game the American police arrest the star for finding traces of drugs in his blood. This was a big scandal the world maybe greatest player of all time has been arrested during a World cup.

1994, USA World cup

it’s the final of the world cup its Italy versus Brazil and penalty shooting. Roberto Baggio is about to shot Italy to the victory with his penalty. Roberto maybe the most loved and best Italian football player of all time misses the penalty buy shooting meters over the bar. Brazil wins the game. Baggio and all of Italy will always remember that missed penalty shot.

1998, France World cup

It’s the final at the world cup in France. Brazil the team every body depends on is shaken buy a great rumor before the match. The teams star and best footballer Ronaldo is not going to play. Every body is chocked and cant get any answers but when the match begins he is on the field. Ronaldo plays his worst game in the tournament and Brazil lost the game 3 to 1 against France. Later its reviled that Ronaldo was very sick but played the game anyway.

2006, Germany World cup

It’s France against Italy in the world cup finals. France is up one goal when Zidane does something he will regret for the rest of his life. After an incident in the Italian penalty area Marco Materazzi and Zidane starts to argue with each order, some words are sad and Zidane turns around and knocks Materazzi with his head. Materazzi falls down to the ground and Zidane the captain of the French team gets a red card and leaves the field. Italy won the game later on Penalties.

La liga- Primera Division

Country: SpainTeams:19La liga is divided in to two divisions.Division segunda and Primera Divisione.Primera Divisione is the biggest and best of these two. In this league you find teams like Barcelona, Real Madrid and Sevilla. Here you can se some of the best players in the world play every weekend. Players like Ronaldinho, Raul and Robinho are some of them.Real Madrid has won the league 30 times. With those stats they have won the title more times than any other club in Spain. Behind them you can find Barcelona with 18 titles.

Seria A

Country ItalyTeams:20Italy are one of the most football fanatic countries in the world. Here it isn’t a sport it’s aReligion. The Italian league is named Serie A. It’s the highest division och football in Italy.20 teams compete about the Scudetto each year. When you win the league you win the Scudetto. Scudetto is a mark that the team ho wins gets to wear on their club outfit the next season. In the league you can find famous teams like Inter, Juventus and Milan. All of these teams are very successful both in the league and out in Europe. Players like Adriano, Luis Figo, and Delpiero plays here.Premier LeagueCountry EngandTeams:20In this county its all about football. Every where you look in the papers, the Tv ore at the local bar. Everyone loves to talk about football. The Premier league is the highest divison and the teams here are very god. Almost every team keeps a high class, not only at the field they also keeps high class when it comes too arenas and big audiences. Football is the thing here.Big teams like Manchester United, Arsenal and Chelsea plays here every week.

The amount of football players is very big. Almost every body either plays football ore have sometime played it. Here is one of the best football players of all time.This wonder child was born in 1960 in Buenos Aries Argentine. You could fast se that trhis wasn’t any ordinary kid. He started playing football at a very early stage and his talent was enormous. When he was about 20 years old he was sold from his town team Boca Juniors to the big Spanish team Barcelona. Barcelona paid Boca Juniors 50 millions crones witch is a really big amount back at that time. 1982 he participated in his first world cup for Argentina.They didn’t win that year but four years later Argentina and Maradona would make history.1986 they won the World cup. Many say that Maradona was the main reason they won that world Cup. Maradona did five goals in the tournament two of them he made in the quarter finals against England. Now he was the best player in the world and one of the best of all time. Now Maradona played in the Italian club Napoli and was almost holy to the supporters.Everybody loved him and he made shore the team won the Italian league serie A two times.Maradonas carrier ended pretty bad. It was in the world cup 1994 when he got disqualified for positive dope values in his blood.But he is still remembered today as one of the best Football players the world has ever seen.Today he lives in his home town in Buenos Aries, Argentine. He works as a club chief for Boca Juniors the team were his great carrier ones started.