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Record Transfers If You talk about football transfers You probably think about money like 40 to 50 millions Euros of course. But money that club managers could sacrifice on players ale much bigger. Player "price" didn't come just from his skills - it consist of popularity of this player, how known he is and also how he show himself in medias, did' he play in some tv ads. Manager tryes to calculate how much profit could club get by buying that player. Three most expensive transfers: Number 3 Gareth Bale transfer to Real Madrid. These transfer Bale had made in season 2013/14 during which he started being a star on the pitch. His popularity grown and grown so Real Madrid manager decided to pay for Bale gigantic amount of money 101 mln euros. Number 2 Paul Pogba often named as actual best central midfield player were "sold" to Manchester United by 105 mln euros. But his coast is simple proportional to his skills and style of play. He is also w...

Football Legends #2 Ronaldinho which I will write about today is known by almost everyone. History of “best player ever” ,like a lot of people call him may be showed like: from rags to riches . He was born in poor family in Porto Alegre and despite of his love to football nobody expected that he will become a giant star. At first Ronaldinho was playing in his school team and already then he showed his awesome skills and big potential – he was called “goals sniper”. After a few years he was bought by Barcelona and there spend his best years of football career, later he was playing in AC Milan where he was doing pretty well. Ronaldinho is known mostly of his insane skills and great field review. Cause of this he done well on almost every position. He won almost every one on one situation and often could win situations like 3 to 1. He was just unstoppable. You can watch some of his great actions by typing “best of Ronaldinho”.

Football Legends #1 Diego Maradona known as “El Diez” (which means ten) is one of the best soccer players ever. He is known for his incredible shoots and actions which didn’t have a chance to finished by goal but somehow by like many says “magic power” he were scoring. That is why he was famous from his “God’s feet” and also named “God” by some group of people , there is even Iglesia Maradoniana (Maradona’s church) made by his biggest fans and it counts more than 40 thousands members. But God’s feet aren’t only divine part of his body – after few matches when he unheeded (by arbiters) touched ball with his hand and especially during match with England representation on world cup (1986) when he scored goal by hand to his heavenly assortment “God’s hand” was added. Diego Maradona was also awarded with Golden Ball, King's Cup and Top Scorer (shooters king). He was voted the best soccer player of  twentieth century. 

Guinness goal record Football is a sport in which the final score is very dependent on team play level, players attitude and many other elements. So final score might be very various – starting from normal 2 to 1, 3 to 0 or even 7 -1 like in match between Brasilia and Germany. Then there are some higher wins – Poland - San Marino 10 : 0 (for Poland of course) , Australia - Tonga 22 : 0, but there aren’t the highest wins.  Inscribed to Guinness Book of world records, giant score which took place in Madagaskar’s league in match between AS Adema and SO de l'Emyrne was 149 to 0! Unfortunately these dominance didn’t came from amazing play of enemy team – players l'Emyrne were protesting against like them said “biased refereeing” and shooting own goals. Average goal fell every 36 sec and the most scoring player was Central defender of this team who scored 69 goals.

The Gold Three Today I would write about three most appreciated and prestigious awards that You can achieve as a professional soccer player. Each of them are presented by FIFA at the end of each FIFA World Cup to the best players in their field. First of them The Gold Ball was introduced by FIFA in 1982 during World Cup in Spain. First person awarded by it was Italian forward player Paolo Rossi who showed his incredible skills by shooting hattrick (three goals in one match) during match with Brazil. You might think that only forward players can win the Gold Ball. It’s not true, for them there is a dedicated award that I will write about later. Gold ball is given for incredible skills, good pitch orientation and very nice play. The Golden Glove Award is awarded to the best goalkeeper of the tournament. The award was introduced with the name  Lev Yashin  Award in 1994, in honor of Russian goalkeeper who was considered by many in the sport to be the...

First Football World Cup First international soccer match was played in 1872 year. After that association football started becoming popular very fast – before it was played only in GB. In 1908 soccer became an official summer olympic competition and during Olympic Games in 1920 was played first tournament which was attended by teams from different continents. Cause of big pupularity of football games in Olympic Games FIFA (founded in 1904) wanted to organize their own soccer world cup. In 1928 FIFA conference decided to arrange their competition in 1930 year and during meeting in 1929 they made a decision to organize world cup in Uruguay (which was also known as a leader cause of winning olimpic games in 1924 and 1928). In first FIFA World Cup 13 teems participated. There was representations of Belgium, France, Romania, Yugoslavia, 7 teams from South America and 2 From North America. The first two matches in the history of the championship took place at the same time : 13 Jul...

First soccer clubs First official soccer team named Sheffield Football Club (Sheffield F.C) was created in 1857 by two members of Sheffield cricket club. The club was founded a full 6 years before the rules of the game were codified at the first meeting of The Football Association, so they have to write the primary rules on their own, which were focusing mainly about free kicks and fouls. These rules even say about players outfit: “ Each player must provide himself with a red and dark blue flannel cap, one colour to be worn by each side.” One interesting thing is that Sheffield was only football club for three years so cause of lack of competition they have to play matches versus their teammates. They often shared on  "Married v Singles" or "Professionals v the Rest" . Hallam F.C. founded in 1860 is a second in history soccer club. It was a small amateur soccer club from Sheffield, England, but his history is significant. After being established in 1860, t...