Top 10 richest Football clubs in the world !!

Recently the list of top 10 richest club was released and the only factor for the basis of the ranking was the value of the club, that is the price of there assets. The list is as follows,

S.No./rank	Club/Team	Location	Value (in $million)
1	Manchester United	England	1,835
2	Real MAdrid	Spain	1,323
3	Arsenal	England	1,181
4	Barcelona	Spain	1,000
5	Bayern Munich	Germany	990
6	Liverpool	England	822
7	AC Milan	Italy	800
8	Juventus	Italy	656
9	Chelsea	England	646
10	Inter Milan	Italy	413

Note: All the numbers in the column 4, that in the Value column are approximated, they are not absolute. :)

You could see Manchester United leads the table and its value is more than $500 million than its competitor. And England has 4 clubs in the top 10, then comes Italy which has 3 clubs in the top 10 list and then Spain (The world champions) which has 2 clubs !

Spain wins the FIFA World cup 2010 & Paul,the octopus gets it right again !

The 19th edition of the FIFA world cup is concluded, and Spain wins it !!
The final, 64th match of the tournament was played between Spain (presently at World No.2 in FIFA rankings) & Netherlands (presently at World No.4 in FIFA rankings), that is you can say Holland or Dutch and Spain won the match with a score line of 1-0. Both teams played more cautiously in the 1st half  and then Spain started attacking from the word go in the 2nd half and at the end of 2nd half the score-line was 0-0. The result of the match was decided in extra time.

I must say Netherlands were bit more defensive and I observed that at an average of 15 minutes they were passing the ball to there goalkeeper, that is atleast for 6 times they passed the ball to there goalkeeper, and I think it is very cautious and defensive approach from them.

This is the first time the team losing its opening match, Spain lost to Switzerland in there opening encounter, and then winning the world cup. And at last but not the least, Paul, the octopus predicted the result accurately and that takes his tally to 8 out 8, that is his prediction are 100% correct until now. Paul predicted result of 8 matches (including semifinal and final) and they all went in the same way. Though Mani parrot lost the battle against Paul octopus, it has nothing to loose, as it has already gained popularity in Singapore ! :)

The snapshot showing Spain team with the world cup,

Highlights:

• Spain's goalkeeper,  Iker Casillas wins the Adidas golden glove award.
• Germany's Midfielder, Thomas Mueller wins Golden boot/shoe & best young player award.
• Uruguay's Diego Forlan wind Golden ball award.
• Spain's Midfielder, Andres Iniesta wins Man of the Match (MoM) award in the finals.
• Spain, as team won FIFA fair play award.
• The highest number of goals scored by any player in this world cup is 5, and there are 4 player who achieved this, they are Thomas Muller of Germany scoring at an average of 0.8 goals in each game, David Villa of Spain, Diego Forlan of Uruguay & Wesley Sneijder of Netherlands scoring at an average of 0.7 goals in each game

The final tournament rankings are, as follows (in that order),

1. Spain
2. Netherlands
3. Germany
4. Uruguay

Stay tuned for next edition of the world cup which will be held in Brazil in the year 2014 .
have fun.. :)

And the winner is...

As Spain and Netherlands are preparing for the final combat, we know the winners, that is even before the final of football world cup is started we know the winners, thanks to Paul octopus (also knwn as paul baba), predicting Spain as the winner and Mani parrot( known as tota, in Hindi), predicting Netherlands as the winner. They are two genius in predicting the winners of the match in football world cup 2010 and this time they differ in there prediction. So, it is now Paul v/s Mani.. Paul is eight legged aquatic animal, presently located in Germany and Mani is from Singapore.

Paul octopus whose record is 100% with respect to predictions about the winners of the football matches, that is octopus has till now predicted 6 out of 6 correct prediction, the latest correct prediction was Spain winning over Germany in Semifinals. Now the same Paul has predicted that Spain will win the finals and Germany will win the play-off match, that is Germany will be third, Netherlands (or Holland) will be second and Spain will be on top. See the video showing Paul predicting the winner.

On the other hand, Mani-the parrot has chosen Netherlands over Spain to win the Soccer world cup 2010. Mani has predicted correctly the winners of all the quarter final final till now. See the video below to know how did Mani choses Netherlands.

Now the match is not only between Netherlands and Spain, but also between Paul-the octopus and Mani-the parrot. Let's see whose prediction comes true and who looses the game !!

FIFA world cup 2010 -- Semi finals

What happened in Quarter finals was really hearting and dramatic !!
Motivated and spirited Netherlands (or Holland or Dutch) defeated World No.1 team Brazil in 57th match of the tournament and the 1st match of the quarterfinals. And in the next quarter final match, on the same day, Uruguay defeated Ghana (the lone country from Africa continent to reach Quarterfinals) in the penalty shootout,  in the match Uruguay's Luis Suarez stopped the ball with the hand (could have been the winning goal for Ghana) in the dying moments of the match, known as Hand of GOD by Uruguay team supporters and Hand of DEVIL by Ghana team supporters, and that sealed the fate of Ghana to reach semifinals... And debate continues, should a FOOTball player, other than goalkeeper, be allowed to stop the ball in a FOOTball match in such tense moments or any other moment with hand?

You can see how Luis Suarez stopped the ball with hands in different views,

How does it look from backside of the net ?

How does it look from the back side at an angle more than 30 degrees ?

How does it look from the front of the net ? (The Ghana team players view)

Next day Germany thrashed Argentine by 4-0 and ensured that they go into semifinals comfortably and they will  meet World No.2,Spain (defeated Paraguay with a scoreline of 1-0 in quarterfinals, that is 60th match of the tournament) in the Semi-finals.

The four teams qualified for the semifinal's are,

1. Uruguay 
2. Germany 
3. Netherlands 
4. Spain 

The Semifinal matches will be held in two days, that is on 6th July and 7th July.  And then there will be match for the 3rd place on 10th July. In the match for 3rd place, the teams losing in the semifinal match will be facing each other !
The fixtures for the semifinals are as follows,


Uruguay    v/s Netherlands  , on 6th July,2010 at Cape Town
Germany  v/s Spain , on 7th July,2010 at Durban


And at last on 11th July, the judgement day, the world will come to know  who is the World Champions in the field of football !!

FIFA world cup 2010 -- Quarter finals

Finally the Round-2 was complete with some controversies, and now there is another knock-out round that is Quarter finals, in which 8 teams qualified after winning there respective matches in round-2 of  FIFA world cup 2010, also known as football world cup. The teams which qualified for the Quarter final stage are,

1. Netherlands 
2. Uruguay 
3. Argentina 
4. Paraguay 
5. Brazil 
6. Ghana 
7. Germany 
8. Spain 

The matches of this stage will be completed in the span of 2 days,that is on 2nd and 3rd July, with two matches every day. The fixtures are as follows,

Netherlands   v/s Brazil     , on 2nd July,2010 -->57th match of tournament

Uruguay       v/s Ghana     , on 2nd July,2010 -->58th match of tournament

Argentina     v/s Germany , on 3rd July,2010 -->59th match of tournament

Paraguay     v/s Spain       , on 3rd July,2010 -->60th match of tournament

After this round total of 60 matches will be complete and then there will semifinals, match for the 3rd place and then the Finals.

Lets see how the tournament progresses and who is going to be world champions this time !!

The Goal of the Century!

But for the Argentines, Maradona’s second goal against England in the 1986 World Cup was far more than just a goal. It was the revenge of a nation.






Just four minutes after the infamous ‘Hand of God’ goal in the 1986 World Cup quarter-final match between Argentina and England, when Diego Maradona punched the ball into the English goal, he dribbled past five English players to put the ball in the net again. England were knocked out of the tournament. In a poll conducted by Fifa in 2002, this goal was voted the Goal of the Century by football fans around the world. It is widely considered Maradona’s magnum opus.
But Maradona’s feat was much more than just a goal for the Argentine public. They saw it as revenge for losing the Falklands War in 1982 to Britain. Indeed, the footballing rivalry between the two countries had been equally bitter for 40 years. In a quarter-final of the 1966 World Cup, a game that Argentines refer to as “the theft of the century”, England won 1-0 thanks to a goal by Geoff Hurst which the Argentines thought was an offside. However, things turned really ugly when Argentina captain Antonio Rattín was “unfairly” sent off, and Rattín had to be escorted off the pitch by cops.
In Argentina, there were reports that the German referee said he had sent Rattín off because he disliked the way he had looked at him. British newspapers, meanwhile, cited the referee ascribing the send-off to the player’s ‘violence of the tongue’; but since the German knew no Spanish, this seemed outrageous to Argentines. What did Rattín do? He’d wanted to speak with the German referee on rulings that seemed overly favourable to the English. Rattín made a visible signal, indicating his captain’s armband and need for a translator.
After the match, England manager Alf Ramsey refused to allow his players to swap shirts with the Argentines as is traditional after the conclusion of a football match and later described the South Americans as "animals” in the press.
Maradona wrote in his autobiography: ‘I sometimes think I preferred the one with my hand… It was a bit like stealing the wallet of the English.’ He also wrote that ‘it was as if we had beaten a country, not just a football team… Although we had said before the game that football had nothing to do with the Malvinas war, we knew they had killed a lot of Argentine boys there…And this was revenge.’

FIFA world cup 2010--Round 2

Till yesterday all the teams played at-least 3 matches each, that is 25th June,2010 was the last day of round 1 and from today round matches are played in South Africa. 16 teams qualified for round 2 (knock out round) and after this round quarter final round will be there, in which you can see 8 teams will be playing.
Also, till now 48 football matches are completed, that is in round 1 total number of matches played is 48.

The 16 teams which cleared 1st round are as follows,

1. Uruguay 
2. USA 
3. Germany 
4. Argentina 
5. Netherlands 
6. Brazil 
7. Paraguay 
8. Spain 
9. Korea Republic, that is South Korea 
10. Ghana 
11. England 
12. Mexico 
13. Slovakia 
14. Chile 
15. Japan 
16. Portugal 

The fixtures are as follows (the number is with respect to the numbers which I gave above),
1 v/s 9,   that is  v/s  on 26th June,2010

2 v/s 10, that is  v/s  on 26th June,2010

3 v/s 11, that is  v/s  on 27th June,2010

4 v/s 12, that is  v/s  on 27th June,2010

5 v/s 13, that is  v/s  on 28th June,2010

6 v/s 14, that is  v/s  on 28th June,2010

7 v/s 15, that is  v/s  on 29th June,2010

8 v/s 16, that is  v/s  on 29th June,2010

Now, what happened for the first time in this world cup ?
This is the first time when both the finalist of previous world cup are knocked out in the 1st round itself, that Italy and France failed to qualify for the 2nd round.

We will keep updating you, keep checking this blog !!