Christiano Ronaldo??

The only poster that I would like to hang in my room is of Christiano Ronaldo because I dislike him more than any other footballers in the world. I would probably stick his picture in my dart board or add moustache and beard in his face. People say that, in Manchester United’s victory Ronaldo had a lot to his credit, but I don’t see his role there. Had he not been in Manchester United, there certainly would be another one who would score goals. Have you ever noticed the number of goals he scored from the penalty spot and free kicks. Every time Manchest United got a penalty or a free kick near the D area, it was Ronaldo who took the chance.

Ok! I admit that he has some pace but he has no any kind of other special techniques. Look at Rooney, he has everything that a footballer needs to have. He defends, attacks and assists as well. But Ronaldo, he just waits in the goal line to score a goal. Another disgusting character of Ronaldo is that, he is lighter than a feather and the slightest of body contacts gets his grounded.

Finally there is a rumor of Ronaldo moving to Real Madrid and that’s very good news. With the line up of such good names in the world of football like Rooney, Van Der Sar, Scholes, Giggs, Ferdinand and Tevez, Ronaldo doesn’t fit in the line up.

Whatever and however the world looks at Ronaldo, I don’t see any good qualities in him which a football player got to have.

A Glance At Euro 2008

Sixteen teams qualified for the Euro 2008 finals. They were divided into four groups. Group A consisted Czech, Portugal, Turkey and the host Switzerland from which Portugal and Turkey qualified for the quarterfinals. From Group B, Croatia and Germany moved to the next round. The group termed as the group of death had France, Netherlands, Italy and Romania. France and Romania were eliminated from the preliminary round and from Group D, Spain and Russia advanced to the next round forcing the defending champion Greece an early exit.

In the quarter final matches, Portugal played against Germany and was beaten. The second quarter final was the most dramatic match of the tournament which featured Croatia and Turkey. Both the teams could not score any goals in the regular time and thus the match was elongated for thirty more minutes. Just when the final whistle was going to be blown Croatia scored a goal and it seemed as if they booked a place in the semifinal. Not to happen though, Turkey pulled one back just in the edge of the second half of the stipulated added time. No one would have ever thought of this kind of dramatic come back. Eventually, Turkey went on to win the match in a tie breaker. The third quarter final match was also a shocking one for one of the favorites of the tournament. Netherlands were kicked off of the tournament by Russia, the team which has been coached by Guss Hiddink who has already taken Netherlands to the semifinal in the 1998 world cup and again took Korea to the semifinals in 2004. In the last quarter final, it was Spain who defeated the reigning world cup champions Italy in a tie breaker.

The semifinal featured Spain against Russia and Turkey against Germany. Spain thrashed Russia 3-0 in the same manner as they have done in the preliminary round. Germany narrowly defeated Turkey with a score of 3-2 , thanks to Lahm with the winning goal just before the final whistle.

The final showdown was now between Spain and Germany. The lone goal scored by Fernando Torres in the thirty third minute which was enough for Spain to be the champion. The final match was quite disappointing one from Germany’s point of view. The young, talented and well balanced Spain deserved to be the champions and after a couple of decades they finally won a big title.

The highest scorer of the tournament was David Villa of Spain with four goals which include a hat trick against Russia. The first goal scored in the tournament was the one scored by Mordich of Croatia against Austria via penalty and the last goal of the tournament went to Fernando Torres of Spain. Xavi Hernandez was the player who scored the 500^th goal in the Euro Championship.

Brock Lesnar

I am a big fan of WWE and Brock Lesnar was my favorite. All of a sudden Brock vanished from WWE and I heard that he is into some other sports. Yesterday, I was simply searching for MMA images and luckily I found Brock's video. I never knew that he went to the mixed marital arts and yes, that's the perfect sport he should be doing. WWE is not what Brock is all about. He is a real fighter and has been dominating the world of mixed marital arts scene at present.

Below is a video and I couldn't stay away from embedding the video in my blog.

K-1 Dynamite USA: Brock Lesnar vs Min Soo Kim