Soccerati.net - The World Cup

Cristiano Ronaldo is a scoring rage as he is the first player this season for Manchester United to score two goals in a game as he helped Manchester to the top spot in the league.

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There is no smooth road to power and every now and then bumps and bruises has to be endured to reach and stay in power. That is the saga runs across Owen Hargreaves, Alex Ferguson and Steve McClaren.

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West Ham takes their contract with Carlos Tevez a little too far. The guy obviously doesn’t want to play with them and his agent Kia Joorabchian insists there is no enforceable contract of employment. The case is now passed on to FIFA which has not given a time table on how long it would take them to come up with a decision.

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The video shows that Zinedine Zidane is playing football with his kids. How sweet! I hope his kids are so much into playing football that they become professional players following their dad. The kids got talent man!

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L.A. Galaxy may have forgotten they have recruited David Beckham for their footballing need; maybe, they never really care about his footballing contributions.

David & Victoria Beckham ate the entertainment world for themselves. Yesterday, the convenient store I was buying from had David Beckham on their magazine stand. When I arrived home, David & Victoria Beckham filled entertainment aggregation sites. When I opened the television, the entertainment channel kept on showing David and Victoria bits and pieces throughout the end of the show. During commercials, David & Victoria were shown.

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Brazil won the Copa America sans Ronaldinho and Kaka who asked to be rested during the tournament. Dunga who has been widely criticized on his capacity to bring Brazil back to glory has a lot of thanks to his team which gave him his first title in only 11 months with them. Brazil won convincingly against Argentina on the score of 3 - 0 with Julio Baptista and Daniel Alves filling in on the scoring chart.

Dunga is clear that even Ronaldinho and Kaka would have to fight their place in the national team in future selections which lead to FIFA World Cup 2010. In his comments:

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England won against Andorra in their Uefa Euro 2008 qualifier match because of sheer coincidence and not because of Steve’s strategy and tactical formation.

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It was too convenient for Steve McLaren to please the media by cutting off David Beckham and placing Lampard and Gerrard in the starting XI.

The England fans were delighted because they wanted to see changes after their country’s exit in FIFA World Cup 2006 and the brave moves made by Steve made him popular to deliver them to the promised land.

The fantasy is over and more than England fans care to admit, Steve’s decision backfired against them as they move closer to elimination.

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Romario scored his 999th goal with Vasco de Gama against Flamengo in their 3-0 win at Maracana stadium.

Romario’s goal came on the 79th minute and was supposed to score his 1000th goal on the 87th count if not for the heroic save of Flamengos goalkeeper.

Good for Romario as he only needs one goal for a historic; not so good because he wished he could score that goal at Maracana. His next game would be against Americano at Sao Januario stadium on Wednesday.

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The tandem of Ronaldo and Rooney gets better everytime they step on the pitch. Individually, Rooney seems to have finally learned the offside rule while Ronaldo learned the horizontal movement and passing skills.

On a combined note, Ronaldo and Rooney are dancing the tango together ensuring better chemistry as time goes by.

Rooney’s second goal against Bolton Wanderers (includes video)

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