World Cup Stars

Full Name: Michael Ballack Date of Birth: 26th September, 1976 Position: Midfielder Current Club: Chelsea (England) 2009/2010 Apps/Goals: 32-4 International Appearances: 98 International Goals: 42 International Accolades: 2008 UEFA European Championship; Runner-up. 2006 FIFA World Cup; Third-Place.   Recently a Premier League and FA Cup winner with Chelsea, Germany’s Michael Ballack will be aiming to [...]

  Full Name: Franck Bilal Ribery Date of Birth: 7th April, 1983 Position: Midfielder (Winger) Current Club: Bayern Munich (Germany) 2009/2010 Apps/Goals: 29-6 International Appearances: 42 International Goals: 7   Described as the ‘jewel in French football’ by arguably the greatest French football to have ever lived, Zinedine Zidane, Franck Ribery will look to steer [...]

  Full Name: Wayne Mark Rooney Date of Birth: 24th October, 1985 Position: Striker Current Club: Manchester United (England) 2009/2010 Apps/Goals: 43-33 International Appearances: 58 International Goals: 25 International Accolades: Finished World Cup qualifying as England’s top goalscorer with 9 goals.   Sometimes fiery and temperamental, often out-of-this-world and brilliant… There is only one Wayne [...]

  Full Name: Robin Van Persie Date of Birth: 6th August, 1983 Position: Forward (Winger) Current Club: Arsenal 2009/2010 Apps/Goals: 20-10 International Appearances: 41 International Goals: 14   Silky, swift, and sometimes a sheer delight to watch… It’s Arsenal’s Dutch supremo, Robin Van Persie. It’s been a difficult season for Van Persie, who spent several [...]

  Full Name: Marek Hamsik Date of Birth: 27th July, 1987 Position: Midfield Current Club: Napoli (Italy) 2009-2010 Apps/Goals: 33-12 International Appearances: 35 International Goals: 12   We will be the first to express our honesty by saying we don’t know a lot about the Slovakia national set up, and that we are somewhat in [...]

Full Name: Thomas Lovendahl Sorenson Date of Birth: 12th June, 1976 Position: Goalkeeper Current Club: Stoke City (England) International Appearances: 89   For some of the lesser nations, those who don’t have the potent of strike forces, the burden of pressure falls onto the defence and Denmark fans have a reliable pair of hands between [...]

      Full Name: Landon Timothy Donovan Date of Birth: 4th March, 1982 Position: Striker Current Club: LA Galaxy (USA) International Appearances: 121 International Goals: 42 International Accolades: Most capped USA player; 121, All-time leading scorer; 42   For the part-time punter, or ‘Armchair Punters’ as we like to call them, only a select [...]

Full Name: David Villa Sanchez Date of Birth: 3rd December, 1981 (28) Position: Striker Current Club: Valencia (Spain) 2009/2010 Apps/Goals: 39/27 International Appearances: 55 International Goals: 37   International Accolades: 2008 European Championship Golden Boot. 2009 Confederations Cup Bronze Shoe (Both awarded for the highest amount of goals scored in the tournament) Interesting Fact: Based [...]