Rationale behind crazy Transfer fee of English Soccer Players England had a disastrous Football world cup in South Africa. English players are deemed as over-rated and perennial under achievers. But when it comes to the transfer fees‚ English players are able to command a premium. Liverpool paid £35 million for Andy Carroll‚ £16 million for Jordan Henderson and £20 million for Stewart Downing. Manchester City paid £26 million for James Milner and Manchester United paid £17 million for Ashley Young
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COMMITTEE ON GOVERNANCE OF WEST INDIES CRICKET FINAL REPORT October 2007 Most Hon. P. J. Patterson‚ ON‚ PC‚ QC: Chairman Sir Alister McIntyre‚ OM‚ OCC Dr. Ian McDonald. Kingston‚ Jamaica 1 Copyright © 2007 Committee on Governance of West Indies Cricket All rights reserved. Permission is granted to copy or reprint portions for any noncommercial use‚ except they may not be posted online without permission. Edited by Carol Collins Cover Design by Debra Hamilton Printed by Lithographic Printers
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shining life. Now he has received FIFA World Player of the Year nomination in 2009 at the age of 21. This incident gives me a full understanding of the fact that how unbelievable results sports may bring to people. In addition‚ sports guide people to respect rivals regardless of the results. Also‚ no matter how strong you are and maybe your opponent has no chance to win at all‚ respecting opponents still remains its essential place. In 2010 Africa FIFA World Cup‚ when North Korea which at the bottom
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billion believers‚ ranks second among the major religions of the world. Soccer is first. FIFA‚ the guardians of the faith‚ calculated that a cumulative television audience of 28.8 billion people tuned in to watch the 2002 World Cup tournament. Keep in mind that the world’s total population is only 6.6 billion Hello I am one of the biggest football fan in the world. And I am here to show you how football is synonyms to any religion in the world. I will be telling you about the customs‚ rituals‚ the gods
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economic advantages of the 2002 World Cup by using the repetition of the word "more". "More viewers‚ more hype‚ more television money" these series of words and effective use of commas create an image of overwhelmingness‚ an effect of a surge of endless growth. The next paragraph starts off with the figurative sentence‚ "Just because it’s big doesn’t mean it’s beautiful." The writer’s showing the negative effects of football although it’s a well known sport around the world‚ it won’t have the same sentimental
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end all of all sports. Hockey‚ time and again has shown features of atavism. This so called National Sport of India has shown the most inconsistent progress‚ if it can actually be called progress. There was a time when India did win the Hockey World Cup in 1975 and people showed a keen interest in the sport‚ but not so anymore. The sport has died a natural death from lack of leadership and sponsorship. (Rather‚ it would be more apt to say due to a diversion of sponsors to cricket) We do have
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region‚ which would not only generate income for the sporting bodies but also for a number of other industries such as the hotel‚ airline and food sectors. This can be witnessed from the amount of tourism that was generated during the 2007 Cricket World Cup‚ which brought thousands of people to the region and generated a significant amount of business for locals. Sporting activity can also be used as an avenue to a higher education‚ as a number of well-known Caribbean sportspersons have obtained full
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Draft In Simon Kuper’s book Football against the Enemy‚ Kuper explores how soccer has become convoluted in social‚ economic‚ and political views of society. This essay addresses the subconscious effects of soccer and nationalism on fans of the 1988 World Cup game between West-Germany and the Netherlands as well as how they use imagination to relive history through games and how they have all intertwined to prove soccer is a parallel to life. What we can gather from Benedict Anderson’s Imagined Communities
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national team and use to be call as the ‘tiger squad’ by other team in international matches. The ‘tiger squad’ is one of the best team in South East Asia but not in Asia or world class level. Long time ago‚ in the year of Mokhtar Dahari or also known as the ’Super Mokh’‚ our football team was well known in all over the world and can be classified as one of the best team in Asia. Nowadays‚ our football teams have lost the touch and not being afraid by other team. Football is one of the country’s
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INDIES ZIMBABWE Host SA 3 Tests‚ 5 ODIs‚ 2 T20 To Zimb tri-series SL Jun-10 Jul-10 Aug-10 BANGLADESH To Eng 2 Tests To Zimb tri-series Ind Host Ind‚ SL tri-series 4/5 ODIs (Additional) Asia Cup 3-4 matches 4/5 ODIs (Additional) Asia Cup 3-4 matches 4/5 ODIs Host NZ Host NZ (resch. From Postponed to June Host Aus 5ODI To Scotland 1 ODI (Host WI Cancelled) To England 5 ODIs (Additional) To Zimbabwe 2T‚ Postponed to June v SL in USA 2 T20Is
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