Top goal scorers of UEFA Chaimpin League

In the soccer games, the  most exciting moment is the players shoots for goal and help their team winning the match. Now let's see the top 5 goal scorers of UEFA Chaimpin League.



NO.1 Cristiano Ronaldo    Goals: 17

Ronaldo became the world's most expensive player when he moved from Manchester United to Real Madrid in 2009 in a transfer worth £80 million (€94 million/$132 million). Ronaldo's contract with Real Madrid, under the terms of which he is paid €21 million per year (after taxes), makes him the highest-paid footballer in the world, and his buyout clause is valued at €1 billion. He is regarded by some in the sport to be currently the best player in the world,and one of the greatest of all time^[

Ronaldo began his career as a youth player for Andorinha, where he played for two years, before moving to C.D. Nacional. In 1997, he made a move to Portuguese giants Sporting CP. In 2003 he caught the attention of Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson, who signed him for £12.2 million (€15 million). In 2004, he won his first trophy, the FA Cup.

In 2007, Ronaldo was the first player in England to win all four main PFA and FWA awards. In 2008 and 2013, he won the FIFA/Ballon d'Or award for the best footballer in the world, the first Portuguese player to win the award twice.^[10][11] He was awarded the European Golden Shoe in 2008, 2011 and 2014. In 2008, he won 3 of the 4 main PFA and FWA trophies and was named the FIFA World Player of the Year, FIFPro Player of the Year,World Soccer Player of the Year, and the Onze d'Or.^[ In 2007 and 2008, Ronaldo was named FWA Footballer of the Year. He was the inaugural winner of the FIFA Puskás Award for Goal of the Year in 2009. In a 2014 UEFA poll, he was named the greatest goalscorer to play in theUEFA Champions League.^[15] With 68 goals as of September 2014, he is tied second in the competition's top scorers of all time, only trailingRaúl by three goals. He also holds the record for most goals scored in a single UEFA Champions League season, scoring 17 goals in the 2013–14 season.

 

NO.2 Zlatan Ibrahimovic    Goals: 10

 

Zlatan Ibrahimović (Swedish pronunciation: [ˈslɑːtan ɪbraˈhiːmɔvɪtɕ], Bosnian pronunciation: [zlǎtan ibraxǐːmoʋit͡ɕ]; born 3 October 1981) is a Swedish professional footballer who plays as a striker for French club Paris Saint-Germain and the Swedish national team for which he is captain.^[4]

Ibrahimović started his career at Malmö FF in the late 1990s before being signed by Ajax, where made a name for himself under Ronald Koeman. He later signed with Juventus for €16 million, and gained fame in Serie A by benefiting from his strike partnership with David Trezeguet. In 2006, Ibrahimović signed with rivals Internazionale, where he won individual awards such as the Italian Oscar del Calcio and the SwedishGuldbollen, and was named in the 2007 and 2009 UEFA Team of the Year, in addition to finishing as the league's highest scorer in 2008–09 while winning three straight Scudetti. In the summer of 2009, he transferred to Barcelona. His time at Barcelona was short-lived, however, moving back to Serie A football with A.C. Milan the following season, in a deal which made him one of the highest paid footballers in the world^[5] and cost the Italian club €24 million. He signed with Paris Saint-Germain in July 2012.

 

Tied NO.3  Diego Costa and Lionel Messi    Goals: 8

 

 

Lionel Andrés "Leo" Messi Cuccittini (Spanish pronunciation: [ljoˈnel anˈdɾes ˈmesi] ( listen); born 24 June 1987), is an Argentine professionalfootballer who plays as a forward for Spanish club FC Barcelona and captains the Argentina national team.

By the age of 21, Messi had received Ballon d'Or and FIFA World Player of the Year nominations. The following year, in 2009, he won his first Ballon d'Or and FIFA World Player of the Year awards. He followed this up by winning the inaugural FIFA Ballon d'Or in 2010, and then again in 2011 and2012. He also won the 2010–11 UEFA Best Player in Europe Award. At the age of 24, Messi became Barcelona's all-time top scorer in all official club competitions. At age 25, Messi became the youngest player to score 200 goals in La Liga. In September 2014, Messi scored his 400th senior career goal for club and country aged just 27.

Commonly ranked as the best player in the world and rated by some in the sport as the greatest of all time,^{[3][4][5][6][7][8]} Messi is the first football player in history to win four FIFA/Ballons d'Or, all of which he won consecutively, and the first to win three European Golden Shoe awards. With Barcelona, Messi has won six La Ligas, two Copas del Rey, six Supercopas de España, three UEFA Champions Leagues, two UEFA Super Cups and twoClub World Cups.

 

Diego da Silva Costa (Spanish: [ˈdjeɣo ða ˈsilβa ˈkosta], Portuguese: [ˈdʒjeɡu dɐ ˈsiwvɐ ˈkɔstɐ]; born 7 October 1988), known earlier in his career as simply Diego,^[3][4][5] is a Spanish professional footballer who plays for English club Chelsea and the Spain national team. He plays as a striker and has been described by pundits as a player whose main attributes are his physicality, goalscoring and ability to keep possession.

 

 

 

Tied No.5 Sergio Aguero, Robert Lewandowdki and Gareth Bale

 

 

 

 

Sergio Leonel "Kun" Agüero Del Castillo (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈserxjo aˈɣweɾo]; born 2 June 1988) known professionally asSergio Agüero is an Argentine professional footballer who plays as a striker for Premier League clubManchester City and the Argentina national team. On 5 July 2003, he became the youngest player to debut in the Argentine Primera División at 15 years and 35 days, breaking the record previously established byDiego Maradona in 1976.^[5] He plays with the shirt name Kun Agüero.

 

 

Robert Lewandowski (Polish pronunciation: [ˈrɔbɛrt lɛvanˈdɔfskʲi] ( listen); born 21 August 1988) is a Polish footballer who plays asstriker for Bundesliga club Bayern Munichand the Polish national team.

After being the top scorer in the third and second tiers of Polish football withZnicz Pruszków, he moved to top-flightLech Poznań, and was the top scorer in the league as they won the 2009-10 Ekstraklasa. In 2010, he transferred to Borussia Dortmund for a reported €4.5 million, where he won honours including two consecutive Bundesliga titles.

 

Gareth Frank Bale (born 16 July 1989) is a Welsh footballer who plays for Spanish club Real Madrid and the Wales national team, as a winger.

Bale began his professional career atSouthampton, playing at left back and earning acclaim as a free kick specialist. He moved to Tottenham Hotspur in 2007, for an eventual £7 million fee. During his time at Spurs, managerial and tactical shifts saw him transform into a more offensive player. From the 2009–10 season, Bale became an integral part of the team, rising to international attention during the 2010–11 UEFA Champions League.^[3][4][5] In 2011 and 2013 he was named PFA Players' Player of the Year, and was named in the UEFA Team of the Year. In 2013 he was also named PFA Young Player of the Year and the FWA Footballer of the Year.

 

Here are the most exciting goals in the UEFA Champin League 2013-2014 season:

 



 

 

 

 

reference

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_European_Cup_and_UEFA_Champions_League_top_scorers

 

 

hope you guys enjoy

Jiarui Yang

 

 

Rabbitohs vs Bulldogs Grand Final Review

South Sydney Rabbitohs win 2014 Grand Final in 43 years defeating Canterbury Bulldogs 30-6.

At 9.58pm on Sunday night, John Sutton did what many fans thought they would never see. The Rabbitohs captain held aloft the NRL trophy. A crowd of 83,833 watched South Sydney score a bruising 30-6 win over Canterbury at ANZ Stadium.

Judging by the emotions on television, it was worth it.
His opposite, Canterbury coach Des Hasler, may have lost but he did a remarkable job guiding his side to another grand final — a fifth in eight years for him personally.
But it was all about Souths. The club was broke, kicked out of the competition and had no future. It was a rugged decider, as both teams ripped into each other mercilessly. That was never more evident than when departing Souths star Sam Burgess fractured his cheekbone in a vicious head clash with fellow Englishman James Graham. Bloodied, Burgess went on to play every minute and win the Clive Churchill Medal. That's the spirit we all love to see in sports.

“How good,” Burgess said afterwards. “What a year. It’s been a long time, let’s enjoy it.”

The Rabbitohs completed 21 of 22 sets in the first half and struck first in the 20th minute through rising winger Alex Johnston. They extended their lead to 6-0 through a 26th minute Reynolds penalty goal.
The Rabbitohs surged through the middle of the Canterbury ruck and the Dogs didn’t have a genuine tryscoring chance in the first half.
But it wasn’t all one-way traffic. Just after the break, the Bulldogs levelled up the scores through a Tony Williams try.
After a good old-fashioned arm-wrestle, George Burgess struck with a stunning solo try.
He took the ball at first receiver and steamrollered four defenders to score.
Holding a 14-6 lead late in the game, Rabbitohs centre Kirisome Auva’a scored in the 73rd minute to put the game out of Canterbury’s reach.

Well done to Souths, the much better side and a deserved win.
The highlight for me was what a gracious, gentleman Sam Burgess was in his acceptance speech of the CC Medal.

Robert Di Carlo

The 5 Worst TV Shows 2013/2014

First post!

As the holidays are coming to a close I thought I would put together some thoughts on the 5 Worst TV shows of 2013 and 2014. During the past few months, television has given us so many reasons to ignore reality TV.

Here is a look at some of the biggest losers of 2014 so far.

1. I Wanna Marry "Harry" (Foxtel)

In the realm of reality television, Fox's I Wanna Marry Harry was a royal disaster. The premise of the show was similar to 2003's "Joe Millionaire": 12 female contestants are led to believe they are vying for the affections of Prince Harry. The catch? He is not in fact the true Prince Harry he spells out towards the girls, he is just a lookalike. This concept was controversial 11 years ago with Joe Millionaire and remains so today, spurring many to ask if reality TV has taken it too far. In retrospect, Harry was a misguided attempt to bring humor of deception and mistaken identities to a reality show.

Where the show went too far was in it's true shamelessness, it's utter lack of guilt over deceiving these women of who he really was.  The show was cancelled after just four episodes and is best summed up in the words of a scathing individual.

Unlike Joe Millionaire or The Bachelor, where there was at least ulterior motives from the male leads, Harry's impostor lacks not only the personality of someone who has spent his entire life in the public eye, but chemistry with any of his potential life mates.

The reality is that these are unreal, contrived rubbish.

2.  Surviving Jack (Fox)

Despite SVU vet Christopher Meloni's convincing performance as a strict ex-military dad, Fox comedy Surviving Jack fell flat after a mere seven episodes on television. A throwback to the golden age of sitcoms, the show simply lacked intuitive, connection and understanding.  It had potential, with a great leading actor and writer with a best selling book under his name.

But with all it's potential and nostalgic flair, Surviving Jack was, at best, unoriginal and very unappealing. You would watch it for 5 minutes and lose complete interest. It was a predictable cliché wrapped in a pool of bad jokes resting on a bed of life lessons we didn't want to hear.


3. Black Box (ABC)

The only show on this list that hasn't been cancelled - it's only a matter of time before it does. Black Box tells the story of a famous neuroscientist who discovers she has mental illness and requires treatment, a diagnosis she hides from those closest to her. Naturally, because drama she isn't the only one with skeletons in her closet, as secrets from her family and friends are revealed.

Despite being stacked with an intelligent cast, and a living legend in Vanessa Redgrave, the show is marked by cliché and manipulative melodrama that make for an unengaging viewing experience for an individual at home. And I know that when something this there is a small segment of the populous that hopes that maybe it's one of those "it's so bad it's good" projects. But no, it's really, really bad and I would not recommend it to anyone out there.


4. The 100 (The CW)

The CW's newest foray into the land of Sci-Fi followed 100 teenagers who are exiled from their spaceship back to post apocalyptic earth; hence the failed TV shows name, The 100. The concept is interesting, albeit vague with no thorough synopsis. The survivors of a nuclear war that made earth unpredictable on a giant ark in space.

100 criminal teens are sent back to earth to determine, whether it's habitable, and a rebellious "no parents, no rules mindset steps into play. The main problem with The 100 is that it had about 100 things going on at once and it was very difficult to follow. Teenagers running amok, post-apocalyptic weirdness, was raging, assignation attempts, and, of course, romance. There was also an issue of trying to keep track of the many characters on earth as well as back at the ark.

Would I recommend it? Absolutely not.

5. Believe (NBC)

Very rare to have two creative giants make something so bland and forgettable. Storyline was very strange and uncoordinated. Believe had everything going for it, except one major component: good storytelling and engagement. The one seasons and out series via cancellation was no surprise.  Believe suffered from an overemphasis on it's window dressings, reducing it's characters to anonymous ciphers while bringing on cinematic action the sequence went nowhere.

In television, a medium where stories stretch beyond two hours and require enough depth to sustain multiple episodes, a predominant big screen mentality can be cataclysmic.

Cheers,
Robert

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TV Show Review - Dr Who

So we’re in Victorian London and there’s a dinosaur on the loose. Doctor Who must be back on the telly. Where else would you expect such a confounding opening scene merging merry old England and prehistoric times?


But the Doctor doesn’t recognise his companion Clara Oswald (Jenna Coleman) nor the lizardy Madame Vastra (Neve McIntosh), her wife Jenny (Catrin Stewart) or butler Strax (Dan Starkey), aka the Paternoster gang, before fainting on the banks of the Thames.
“I don’t understand. Who is he?” asks Jenny.
“That’s him,” says Clara. “That’s the Doctor.”
“Well then. Here we go again,” Madame Vastra replies.
Indeed. With that we barrel headlong into the opening title sequence, marking the next chapter in the life of this 5-decade sci-fi.
Having left the youthful 11th Doctor, our hero is struggling to come to terms with his surroundings. He’s also translating the feelings of the lonely dinosaur, trapped and roaming in London. There’s no ominous crack in the wall to mark his arrival, but he chalks on the floor with all manner of equations, only distracted by the T-Rex in need. However the dino bursting into flames propels him into the plot of Deep Breath.
At the centre of this first episode are cyborgs and a ‘dino-murder,’ although they feel like two separate tales.
One of the best scenes was a two-hander between the Doctor, dressed in a bedraggled nightgown and a tramp in an alleyway. Here we learn he’s confounded by his new appearance. He’s aged, he’s grey and -and he speaks Scottish (David Tennant must be jealous).
“Look at the eyebrows. These are attack eyebrows. You could take bottle-tops off with these!” he gasps.
A restaurant scene with Clara and the Doctor sparkles with the chemistry between Capaldi and Coleman as they bicker over a newspaper ad that has drawn them to lunch. But this is a most deceptive of restaurants where the guests are all robots who don’t breath.
“Anything we can do?” she asks.
“How long can you hold your breath?” he replies. In typical Steven Moffat-style, it’s a line that will become more relevant as the plot unfolds.
The restaurant hides a lair of robots turning themselves into humans with body parts, where Clara is left in jeopardy and an action scene ensues. How can one not mention the score that brims with adventure and heightens emotion across the episode? It helps elevate this 80 minute premiere into the realm of the big screen.
The most touching part of the episode involves a nod from past to present that is an inspiring fusion of time travel and sentiment. This has always been a show that messes with our hearts as well as our heads, and why we remain longtime fans.
And is it just me? This new Doctor is also momentarily rude (to the tramp and to the “planet of the pudding brains”) and even leaves Clara in jeopardy with the cyborgs before coming to her rescue. It perhaps makes him more flawed and irascible than his recent predecessors.
Capaldi’s Doctor is a return to “classic” Doctors, putting the relative youth of David Tennant, Christopher Ecclestone and, especially, Matt Smith, behind us. He’s seemingly wiser and definitely paternal. Put all thoughts of any romance between Doctor and companion to one side. I’m happy about that. It always felt to me like Doctor Who was chasing a younger audience with hints of unresolved sexual tension amongst recent cast.
After all these years Doctor Who still brings out the child in us all. With Capaldi, a former child fan himself, its legacy is in good hands.

Would highly recommend it to all.

Robert Di Carlo

English Premier League - As it stands

The Premier League is in full swing and fans across the country will have firm opinions on the best and worst performers so far this season.

Courtesy of the EA Sports Player Performance Index we have the statistics that show who is top dog of the EPL.

 

TOP TEN PLAYERS

EA PPI Ranking	Player	Team	EA PPI Score
1	Diego Costa	Chelsea	287
2	Eden Hazard	Chelsea	188
3	Cesc Fàbregas	Chelsea	176
4	Raheem Sterling	Liverpool	172
5	Gylfi Sigurdsson	Swansea City	168
6	Sergio Agüero	Manchester City	166
7	Graziano Pellè	Southampton	161
8	Saido Berahino	West Bromwich Albion	161
9	Morgan Schneiderlin	Southampton	159
10	Leonardo Ulloa	Leicester City	158
As expected, it is Chelsea - currently top of the Premier League with six wins from their opening seven fixtures and three of their players hold the top positions in the Player Performance Index rankings. Top goalscorer Diego Costa, who has netted nine times already since his summer arrival from Atletico Madrid, tops the charts followed by team-mates Eden Hazard and Cesc Fabregas who has assisted his Spain colleague four times.

 

Raheem Sterling, the young English prodigy, is fourth in the rankings with a PPI score of 172, that reflects his sharp and nifty movement. Closely followed by Swansea midfielder Gylfi Sigurdsson on 168 and Manchester City frontman Sergio Aguero on 166,  who both have had a knack for scoring goals for their respective teams.

 

Southampton's Graziano Pelle, who arrived at St Mary's in the summer at a time when Saints' team-mate Morgan Schneiderlin wanted to leave the South Coast sit seventh and ninth respectively.

 

Young West Brom striker Saido Berahino, currently the highest English goalscorer, is eighth on the list following an impressive start as he burst on the first team scene last year.

Leicester attacker Leonardo Ulloa, who has scored against Man United, Arsenal and Everton already this season, completes the top 10. He shows impressive form for the newly promoted Leicester City as he completed a record transfer deal.

 

Robert Di Carlo