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Siphiwe Tshabalala

by: admin - June 13th, 2010 Filed under: Football, south africa Add Comment

Siphiwe Tshabalala (born 25 September 1984) is a South African professional footballer. Tshabalala plays as a winger for Kaizer Chiefs in the Premier Soccer League. Tshabalala is also a member of the South African national team.

He hails from Phiri, Soweto.

He made his national team debut in a friendly against Egypt on 14 January 2006.

Tshabalala was part of the South African squad at 2006 African Nations Cup, 2008 African Nations Cup and the 2009 FIFA Confederations Cup.

On 11 June 2010, gaining his 50th cap for South Africa, he scored the first goal of the 2010 FIFA World Cup against Mexico in the 55th minute, followed by an elaborately rehearsed celebration.

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Samuel Eto'o

by: admin - June 3rd, 2010 Filed under: Football Add Comment

$Eto\o$ Samuel Eto’o Fils (French pronunciation: ; born 10 March 1981) is a Cameroonian Professional footballer who plays as a striker for Italian Serie A clubInternazionale and is currently captain of the Cameroon national team.

Eto’o scored over 100 goals in five seasons with FC Barcelona, and is also the record holder in number of appearances by an African player in La Liga.In 2010, he became the first player to win two European Continental Trebles following his back-to-back achievements with Barcelona and Internazionale. He is the second player to have ever scored in two separate UEFA Champions League finals and the fourth player, after Marcel Desailly, Paulo Sousa and Gerard Piqué, to have won the UEFA Champions League two years in a row with different teams.. He is also as of 22 May 2010, the most decorated African player of all time.

Didier Drogba

by: admin - June 3rd, 2010 Filed under: Football Add Comment

Didier Yves Drogba Tébily (French pronunciation: [didje dʁɔɡba]; born 11 March 1978) is an Ivorian 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.

Didier Drogba was born in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, and at the age of five was sent to France by his parents to live with his uncle, Michel Goba, a professional footballer. However, Drogba soon became homesick and returned to Abidjan after three years. His mother nicknamed him “Tito”, after president Josip Broz Tito of Yugoslavia whom she admired greatly.He played football every day in a car park in the city but his return to Côte d’Ivoire was short lived. Both of his parents lost their jobs and he again returned to live with his uncle. In 1991, his parents also travelled to France, first to Vannes and then settling in 1993 at Antony in theParis suburbs, at which point the 15-year-old Drogba returned to live with them and his siblings.It was here that he began playing team football more frequently, joining a local youth side. Drogba began his career as a junior player at the semi-professional club Levallois, gaining a reputation as a prolific scorer in the youth team and impressing the coach with his professional attitude. His performances earned him a place in the senior squad but, despite scoring on his debut, the 18-year-old Ivorian failed to make an impression on Jacques Loncar, the first team coach

Mohamed Kallon

by: admin - October 16th, 2008 Filed under: Football 2 Comments

Mohamed Kallon (born October 6, 1979 in Kenema, Sierra Leone) is a Sierra Leonean professional footballer, and is the captain for the Leone Stars, Sierra Leone national football team, and the most famous Sierra Leonean footballer. He is the younger brother of fellow Sierra Leonean international Kemokai Kallon, and former Sierra Leonean international Musa Kallon. When he first made his international debut for his country, Kallon was given the nickname Small Kallon by Sierra Leonean football fans because he was the youngest of the three Kallon brothers in the national team.
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