Steven Gerrard makes Pure Football noticeable
Apparently this ‘making of’ trailer featuring Liverpool FC and England midfielder Steven Gerrard, heralds the release of a new football game, Pure Football, out this week.

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With the approach of 2010 Fifa World Cup, many passionate football fans are now starting to predicate which team will be the dark horse and who are to be the most shining stars this year. Here is a list of the most promising 10 guys selected by the public.

Top10: Eto’o
Cameroon forward Samuel Eto’o Fils, one of the finest strikers ever to have come out of Africa, currently plays in Inter Milan, has participated in two World Cups and five African Nations Cups (being champion twice), and is the all-time leading scorer in the history of the African Nations Cup, with 18 goals.

Top9: Villa
David Villa plays as a Spanish international. He scored three goals at the 2006 World Cup and was top scorer at Euro 2008 with four goals. He is the second top scorer of all time for Spain behind only Raul Gonzalez.

Top8: Gerrard
Steven Gerrard is an English footballer who plays for English Premier League club Liverpool and the England national team. He represented England in the UEFA European Championships in 2000 and 2004 as well as the 2006 FIFA World Cup, where he was the team’s top goalscorer with two goals.

Top7: Ribery
Franck Ribery is a French football player who currently plays for Bundesliga club Bayern Munich. He is a two-time winner of the French Player of the Year award and has also been named to the UEFA Team of the Year once.

Top6: Kaka
Kaka is a Brazilian football midfielder who currently plays for Real Madrid C.F. and the Brazilian national team. While at Milan, Kaka won the Ballon d’Or and FIFA World Player of the Year awards in 2007.

Top5: Rooney
Wayne Mark Rooney is an English footballer who currently plays as a striker for English Premier League club Manchester United and the England national team. Before the start of the 2004-05 seasons, he moved to Manchester United for £25.6 million and became a key member of the first team.

Top4: Xavier
Xavier Hernandez Creus is a Spanish footballer who currently plays as a central midfielder for La Liga club Barcelona. Widely considered among the finest playmakers in world football, Xavi was named the official Man of the match of the 2009 Champions League Final as he helped Barcelona defeat Manchester United to win their third Champions League-title.

Top3: Drogba
Didier Drogba comes from west Africa, who is a professional footballer who plays in the centre forward position. He currently plays for Chelsea in the Premier League and is the captain and all-time top scorer of the Ivory Coast national football team. He has scored more goals for Chelsea than any other foreign player and is currently Chelsea’s 7th highest goal scorer of all time.

Top2: C Ronaldo
Cristiano Ronaldo, is a Portuguese footballer who plays as a winger for Spanish club Real Madrid and serves as captain of the Portuguese national team. Three-time Ballon d’Or winner Johan Cruyff said in an interview on 2 April 2008, “Ronaldo is better than George Best and Denis Law, who were two brilliant and great players in the history of United.

Top1: Messi
Lionel Messi is an Argentine footballer who currently plays for La Liga team Barcelona and the Argentine national team. Considered one of the best footballers of his generation and frequently cited as the world’s best contemporary player, Messi received FIFA World Player of the Year by the age of 23. His playing style and ability have drawn comparisons to football legend Diego Maradona, who himself declared Messi his successor.

For more information about the ten guys, you can view this YouTube video which I made with the help of PowerPoint and PowerPoint to video converter Acoolsoft PPT to Video Pro. If you are interested in making one video presentation for your favorite football players, you can also do it easily with the two tools I mentioned.

Besides the guys mentioned above, who else do you think is going to be the most shining star in this contest? Well, just look forward to their brilliant performances in World Cup 2010.

A documentary that was on Sky one following Steven Gerrard around for a year, talking about the champions league campaign of 2005, istanbul etc…

interview before CL final

Fabio Capello is expected to field a full strength side against Ukraine giving spread bettors and armchair fans – not to mention Croatia manager Slaven Bilic – the hope of seeing a competitive game in England’s penultimate World Cup Qualifier. Although effectively a dead-rubber for the visitors the partisan home following will ensure a lively encounter at the 31,000-capacity Dnipro Arena, in the country’s third-largest city, Dnipropetrovsk. The newly built stadium may not have the tradition of Ukraine’s regular home, the Olympic Stadium in Kiev – which fits over 80,000 and is currently being renovated to host the 2012 European Championships final – but it is sure to provide an intimidating atmosphere for the Three Lions’ first trip to the country, and a new challenge for Sporting Index’s football spread punters.

Buyers of England’s win index spread will know these sides have met three times since Ukraine’s independence in 1991 – in friendlies at Wembley in 2000 and St James’ Park in 2004, and in the reverse Group 6 qualifier back in April – and that England have won each encounter. One man from either side has played in the previous three fixtures, Steven Gerrard for England and Andriy Shevchenko for Ukraine, and both men are likely to be uppermost in spread bettors’ minds. Liverpool captain Gerrard has netted 16 times for his country and, while sellers of his goal minutes spread will note none have come against the eastern Europeans in his three starts against them, buyers of his individual player performance spread will remember the brace he netted last time out against the Croats.

Sporting Index traders were first introduced to Shevchenko as a speedy striker with Dynamo Kiev. He would become one of the continent’s most feared marksmen in the early days of the Champions League before a move to AC Milan brought continued individual and team success with the Italians. He’s since lost more than half a yard of pace and may not be too fondly remembered in Blighty after his unsuccessful stint at Chelsea. However, while spread buyers of his goal minutes might recall his miserly return for the Blues, they also will remember he’s the only Ukrainian to ever score against England and is his nation’s most capped player, leading scorer and captain. Having gone full circle, he’s now back at Dynamo and still playing in Europe’s premier club competition. He’ll be hoping to prove his detractors wrong and defy spread sellers of his country’s goal minutes by adding to the one he scored in the fixture six months ago.

With England already South Africa-bound, Ukraine are hoping to pip Croatia to the runners-up spot, but spread buyers of England’s supremacy will be pleased to know that Capello regulars such as John Terry, Frank Lampard, Wayne Rooney and Gerrard are all, injury permitting, among those expected to be on the plane to Ukraine. Manchester United star Rooney has been in prolific form for his country of late and will be a leading Golden Boot contender at the World Cup. Spread buyers of the game’s total goals, as well as his individual goal minutes, will hope he shows the sort of potency he did in previous qualifiers against Belarus and Andorra where he poached two in each game.