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Top 10 Wags 2010

Football wives, or shall we say, wives of football players are some of the hottest topics for the media, especially on the internet, where the availability of photos, videos and reports is almost infinite.

With the upcoming event of the FIFA World Cup 2010, not only football players like Messi, Ronaldo, Pujol, Kaka, Pato, Inzaghi, Beckham or football teams like Brazil football team, Germany football team, England football team and Italy football team, are exposed to the football news and live world cup TV channels; still, the wags, or wives, will also constitute a major part of the event that’s supposed to be seen by millions on football live TV and by thousands in the footballs stadiums during South Africa 2010.

As we gathered a team of analysts and experts in football statistics, we managed to rank the wives in terms of the hottest football wife or girlfriend or under the nomination of the top wags in the world:

1- Raica Di Oliveira :  Ronaldo’s girlfriend (Real Madrid)

2- Melanie Slade : Theo Walcott’s Girlfriend (Arsenal)

3- Alena Seredova : Gianluigi Buffon’s Girlfriend (Juventus)

4- Carl Zucker : Joe Cole’s Girlfriend

5- Michaela Henderson-Thynne :  Steward Downing’s girlfriend

6- Veronique Zidane: Zinedine Zidane’s Wife

7- Alex Curran: Steven Gerrard’s Wife

8- Fiona Barrett : Sol Campbell’s GirlFriend

9- Louise Bonsall : Michael Owen’s wife

10- Elen Rives : Frank Lampard’s wife

NFL or UFC?

In the recent past, wrestlers dominated the sport of Mixed Martial Art, an extremely physical sport where fighters battle each other for victory within an octagon shaped cage.  MMA fighters have ripped the “Modern Day Gladiator” title from football players, and for good reason.  These sometimes bloody battles are the ultimate test of one’s athletic ability, endurance, and sheer grit.  For football players, their extremely competitive nature seems to draw them to the sport of MMA.  Football players are compelled to prove themselves, and the Octagon gives them a suitable platform to test their abilities.

MMA Supplements

From Heisman Trophy winner, Herschel Walker, to Tampa Bay Buccaneer, Marcus Jones, NFL players are flocking to the sport of MMA in droves.  Are the days of retiring as a post-career sport commentator over, or are football players serious about making the transition into this physically demanding sport?

Size Matters

The current UFC Heavyweight champion, Brock Lesner, might have something to do with the current interest from football players.  The much hated Lesner has vanquished his last few opponents with relative ease, and his size and ability seem to be unmatched by the current pool of MMA heavyweight contenders.  This scenario has opened the door for many football stars, who are sizable in comparison to Lesner, and they can harness a great amount of athletic ability.

So why not bring in a big wrestler like Rulon Gardner, who on the 31st of December, 2004 fought Hidehiko Yoshida in a mixed martial arts bout for the Pride Fighting Championships.  Yoshida, who in addition to being an MMA fighter, was a former Olympic gold medalist in judo, was defeated by Gardner via unanimous decision.  It seems the pool of talented football players is far bigger than any other sport, including wrestling.  As MMA explodes in popularity, a simple supply vs. demand issue arises as fight promoters look to fill fight cards.  With demand comes money, and one night of fighting can leave an ex-football player’s pockets flush with cash; something they might not be able to do post-career if their football career was less than superlative.

Training

San Diego Chargers fullback Lorenzo Neal, for instance, has trained numerous times over the past couple years with UFC light heavyweight Chuck Liddell. Neal, who knows Liddell through their days as wrestlers in college, helps Liddell train for fights, specifically getting low to help Liddell with stronger opponents. Neal also claims the training helps him as well with balance and body control that translate well to the football field.

Although current NFL players use MMA purely for training and do not fight competitively, former Washington Redskins receiver Michael Westbrook made the transition to fighting in 2005 when he defeated another former NFL player, Jarrod Bunch, in a King of the Cage event.

Jared Allen, a defensive end with the Kansas City Chiefs, trained at Arizona Combat Sports in the offseason. “The cardio that fighters go through is just intense,” Allen said. “This offseason I didn’t do any running. I did all my intense cardio at Arizona Combat Sports. When I went off to minicamp in the spring, we were running wind sprints one day and I had more gas than I knew what to do with. The cardio level of these fighters is so intense because their life depends on them not being tired.” Allen says he lost 25 pounds training MMA this summer and has toned up in the process.

The fact are clear, football players are embracing MMA as a training method.  Additionally, they are finding the transition into actual competition to be a viable alternative to running an illegal dog fighting operation to supplement retirement income.  Hey, I couldn’t complete this article without a Ron Mexico joke.  So, it looks like we will see more football players migrating to the sport, and this is a good thing for both football and MMA.

Cricket World Cup is a prestigious event, which is organized by the International Cricket Council (ICC) every four years. So cricket fans are more interested about knowing all the things related to it. World cup live score that reaches out to fans through any means is just like a blessing to them! World cup live score is for those cricket fans that cannot travel to cheer their team but want to be informed about all that is happening during the matches. Every team needs lot of support from their crowd but it’s not possible for all the fans to travel to the country which hosts the world cup to see their favorite teams playing. Only some fans can afford to watch the matches organized in any venue in the world. World Cup live score is a great way of knowing about all the happenings during the matches.

Today there are many companies, which are in the business of providing cricket news and live scores of the matches so, knowing about world cup live score has become very simple. The main reason behind it is that people have their tight work schedules and they cannot afford to watch a whole match live or people have a heavy work load and could not manage time for the match or may be that the timing of the match telecast is not convenient.

Of course people have the option of watching the recorded match highlights the next day. But you cannot feel the thrill and excitement of a live match in the highlights, specially the Indian premier league. And you have already seen the clips of how the wickets have fallen, who hit a six or a four, who has taken a catch and who has taken a wicket, hundred times on various news channels.

There are some sources available to know live cricket scores like mobile SMS score alerts. But the best source for cricket fans to access world cup live scores is through Internet web sites. There are many sites that are only for cricket and you can easily know about the live score of match there.

What is a sensible total of pounds for a pop warner football player to drop for the coming year? The only way to compete along with the elite squads that you will be facing, on your upcoming football schedule, then you will want to obtain the oldest, most gifted children from the age tier you are getting ready to coach. The real world shows us that the teams with the oldest, largest and fastest children will have an immense advantage over their opposing teams. Thus, it makes sense to hold on to as many of these type of players on your team as you can.

Currently, there is a right fashion and a wrong fashion to attain this goal. I refuse to make a general argument such as “use your common sense”, since over my many years I have witnessed complete jerks think they can “diet and exercise” twenty pounds out of a youngster in a calendar month. Banned for life is the only action that justifies any coach with this belief. Every single coach should have the best interests, and well being, of the children as their topmost priority.

I would not under any reasons urge any child to eliminate more than ten pounds or ten percent of his body structure (weight), whichever is the littler amount. I believe only children that weigh over one hundred pounds can even be considered as a candidate to shed the 10 pounds. I do not care if the youngster weighs 200 pounds, ten is the maximum amount I will consider. The next factor, and this one is big, is the actual interest for the kid. If by dropping four or five pounds this will let him to play with his own grade level, or be a ball carrier? These are two outstanding reasons for a child to try and eliminate a few pounds.

The next important issue is the mature level of the player and the parents. Do not argue or fight with any parents or players who do not want to try and lose the weight. Many parents will not let their kid to lose any weight , period. Please respect their opinions and wish the player well as he goes up to the next weight class.

In concluding, try to retain as many of the older fast players, with experience, on your roster, but only by using reasonable methods show in this posting.

The list of the greatest footballers has been made after research of number of internet websites related to football. One of the ways how to find out the answer was the survey!

So here they are – the greatest of the greatest.

1. Pele

Edson Arantes Do Nascimento (Pele)

Brazil

1940 – Present day

Clubs: Santos, New York Cosmos

Major Honours:

World Cup (1958, 62, 70)

World Club Championship (1962, 63)

Sao Paulo State Championship (1958, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1964, 1965, 1967, 1968, 1969 and 1973)

FIFA World Cup Golden Ball (Best Player) 1970

2. Diego Maradona

Diego Armando Maradona

Argentina

1960 – Present day

Clubs: Argentinos Juniors, Boca Juniors, Barcelona, Napoli, Seville, Newell’s Old Boys

Major Honours:

Argentine championship, 1981

Spanish Cup, 1983

Italian championship, 1987, 90

Italian Cup, 1987

UEFA Cup, 1989

FIFA World Youth Championship, 1979

FIFA World Cup, 1986

South American Footballer of the Year, 1979, 86, 89, 90, 92

European Footballer of the Year, 1986

Argentine Sports Writers’ Sportsman of the Century, 1999

3. Johan Cruyff

Johann Cruyff

Holland

1947 – Present day

Clubs: Ajax, Barcelona, Los Angeles Aztecs, Washington Diplomats, Levante, Feyenoord

Major Honours:

World Club Championship (1972)

European Cup (1971, 72, 73)

Dutch Championship (1966, 67, 68, 72, 73, 82, 84)

Dutch Cup (1967, 70, 71, 72, 83)

Spanish Championship (1974)

Spanish Cup (1978)

European Footballer of the Year (1971, 73, 74)

4. Franz Beckenbauer

Franz Beckenbauer

Germany

1945 – Present day

Clubs:Bayern Munich, New York Cosmos, SV Hamburg

Major Honours:

World Cup: 1974

European Championship: 1972

European Cup: 1974, 75, 76

Cup Winners: Cup: 1967

World Club Championships: 1976

Bundersliga: 1969, 72, 73, 74.

West German Cup: 1966, 67, 69, 71.

European Footballer of the Year: 1972, 76

5. Zinedine Zidane

Zinedine Yazid Zidane

France

1972 – Present Day

Clubs :Cannes, Bordeaux, Juventus, Real Madrid

Major Honours:

UEFA Intertoto Cup: 1995,1999

European Super Cup: 1996,2002

Intercontinental Cup: 1996, 2002

Italian Super Cup: 1997

Italia Serie A: 1996-97, 1997-98

UEFA Champions League: 2001-02

Spanish La Liga: 2002-03

Spanish Super Cup: 2001, 2003

FIFA World Cup: 1998,

UEFA European Championship: 2000

UEFA Champions League Best Midfielder – 1998

UEFA Euro Player of the Tournament – 2000

Serie A Foreign Footballer of the Year – 1997, 2001

Serie A Footballer of the Year – 2001

French Player of the Year – 1998, 2002

FIFA World Player of the Year – 1998, 2000, 2003

FIFA World Cup Golden Ball – 2006

Full list is in Ivoland/10 greatest football players